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All supported the last week thank you very much. Think we are all focused on the new idea. Will not happen this side of Christamas I think but lets put the 1kclub out there on TE02 in the meantime
Ramp is good!! The 1k club needs to show we are out there. Marketing is a big thing but needs to be slow and consistant . We are ramping between 20 people. So DOR who is invested I am not personally dont do oil I hold RRL prob explains why.
You will see 0.72 before Christmas again. I like the way ACP held 0.25 all last week had a top up order at 0.21 all week but good volume and some large buys has sustained the price. longer it trades above 0.20 the more consolidated it will be. Seems most of us are tied up with the family dipping in and out all weekend. Panda Google hangout has a max of 10 in a vid chat at a time i believe may have to be a instant message meeting if we have more than that. Good call though as easy to set up and free by the look of it. Tried to find a simple communication platform like LSE today but must be unique LSE works due to its simplicity.
Thank you. Chilling now with a glass of red. ACP tonight is a classic example why we all need somewhere else to escape to. Will never combat the negative comments but you can choose when to turn them off and rest on fundementals. You never loose money until you sell I was at one point 90% down on ECR but research, patients and lots of top ups as I made profit from other shares paid off. I have a 4m holding in ACP at a healthy profit and will be topping up tomorrow if she falls. But thats the AIM for you.
I looked at Trading Investment Club platforms for most of today and I am going to give my opinion as to how this could work for us. I have searched lots of platforms and most are accountancy based for record keeping and most have research and charting facilities as well. The best one I have come accross is here and the video explains the platform and https://www.timetotrade.eu/investment_club_software.php. It has a free private online forum for members as well. It details how to set it all up and is a very informative site. The pro version is £199 per year it looks good but Topcat how does it look from an accountants point of view? Most platforms works on an average unit basis per user in relation to the amount each individual invests. I think this would work on a fixed investment of 1k each as tabled then decide on the investment and agree an initial strategy on the investment which all members would need to agree on. We could have proportion monies to any amount we wanted to. I have searched high and low for a platform where you do not need a seperate broker and that has the facility to pay funds directly into platform and you can trade from it also but I am struggling to find one. The protocol seems to be that you need to source your own club bank account and then find a broker. Although options are listed on the site. Barclays do do one but limited to 20 members. If anyone knows of one please let us know. We will need to appoint various individuals from the member base to carry out official roles within the club and would suggest thats by experience but everyone can play a role supporting to each other. Different members could work on different investments depending on experience also. I think the benefit of a website as well could be a seperate income generator at a later date for the initial investors also you never know depends on how sucessful we are. Lots of food for thought. Need a action list next to take this forward. Eyes going square now. Enough research for one day but will be around to discuss thoughts further.
Many hands make light work and my initial thoughts was to share knowledge, research and agree with other members to invest in a small cap company with a low number of shares in issue. Then focus on the investment through a sociial platform as thought it would be interesting and a good way to identify and invest with people that all have the same goal and focus. Plus make some money of course. It for me was all about buying power plus if you are successfull followers and potential to maybe have different oppertunities avaliable but entry strickly agreed by all members. How we bring all that together will depend on how many people would like to get involved. I will say I am no expert on this method of investing but do know if you have a number of people focused on a goal its generally more exciting and you have buying power which also means Company Directors are more likely to speak to you and keep you close to the investment. Then we all started talking about it and have had to do some research as the legal aspect to irradicate the concerns and comments regarding scams. I have been doing some research this morning on starting an investment club seems a pretty simple process and their seems to be a few websites out there with information to review. I have found a couple of sites below with information on general set up. It seems we dont need a large group to start and the legalities seem simple but no expert so good you and Topcat have a better understanding than myself. Check out the links below let me know your thoughts. http://wiki.timetotrade.eu/index.php/Investment_Club_Constitution_&_Rules http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/cgt/investment_clubsfaqs.htm The setting up of a private discussion platform is important this could be in the form of a forum, chat room (Yahoo Messenger), Wordpress Website. Anything where all the group could meet and agree investments and strategy. These are my thoughts.
Thank you to those who joined the 1kclub facebook page so far nice to put a face to a name. Facebook is not ideal I agree but thought best get somthing out there to keep momentum going. Its a starting point and agree we do need a more private formal platform to communicate on going foward. A wordpress blog has been suggested and any other ideas for the platform are welcome. Have a domain name to use and a hosting account so just needs the set up. The idea has attacted a few people and it would be good to take this forward. We do need to approach this professionally though as Topcat and Castaway have stated as otherwise we will have no credability and it will not happen so it may take a little more time to organise than origionally thought to put all suggestions into practice. It would be good to put a working party together and get some structure as well. I have been trawling the net to try and find a similar project for polocies, aims and goals etc but so far had no luck as its a little unique but will look again today. Arsenal I totally agree do not want some of the idiots out there as members would totally ruin the concept. To be honest thats why I limit posting on LSE as so negative at times. Nice to see you popping in appreciated. We will also need a formal structure of administrators for any website put together. The current people who have expresses interest below. Devilhawk Topcat 14 Castaway Mick123 THEX19MAN daza66 Chris2kmac KeyserSosse x 2 thepanda TheCobbler67 SultanMerchant RobRoy007 mikemm vbeckers Markymarkman Dude101 Howardjardine
Looking at options at the moment. thepanda offered to assist with an online set up waiting to hear back from him. Also have a friend in the states that will be up soon and he builds forum websites. All we need is a private discussion platform should be able to get something set up fairly quickly.
Think a private communication platform in blog format is a good place to start. I am looking into this today. I bought the domain name 1kclub last night in the spur of the moment when we were throwing the idea about. Like the placing idea as you say would have to look into the legals surrounding setting something like that up. One for the future deifinately. This seems to be something people may well be interested in. I will do some digging and see if there is anything else like this already set up.
Morning all Just catching up from last night. Would like to pick this up again and throw the idea around a bit more with people. Thx vbeckers for the communication idea maybe thepanda could advise further. indeed same here! Guys perhaps we could do a wordpress blog which can be made private but everyone would need to create an account and if you all have smartphones we could use bb messenger or whatsapp I have listed the current people who have expresses interest below. Devilhawk Topcat 14 Castaway Mick THEX19MAN daza66 Chris2kmac KeyserSosse x 2 thepanda TheCobbler67 Sultan Merchant RobRoy007 mikemm vbeckers Please if you like the concept of this crazy idea add yourself to the above list when responding.
To be honest if I list my portfolio of RRL, Solo, Ecr, Edl, Xtr, Otc and Ore all invested at over three years ago and been averaging down since to see a good holding but no profit made me think. This week was in the blue on ECR thought about selling a few times then the drop today had no guidance or structure or dicipline. Not able to control people or their principles but think if we keep values small and invest in small cap companies we should be able to make a few quid. Key is we keep to an agreed selling % stated 100% earlier now thinking we sell between 70 and 100% profit on investment point to make the mm's think.
Hi Mikemm something different for me thinking i have to reply to eveyone now still lots of work to be done to get the concept to reallity. I still do not know if its a silly idea or a great one. Thats why asking the board for advice. Thx for the post though