The latest Investing Matters Podcast episode featuring Jeremy Skillington, CEO of Poolbeg Pharma has just been released. Listen here.
Restaurant Group (RTN)
Marston's (MARS)
JD Wetherspoon (JDW)
Sig (SHI)
Boohoo (BOO)
ASOS (ASC)
John Wood Group (WG)
McBride (MCB)
N.Brown Group (BWNG)
SAE Simec Atlantis Energy
BMN Bushveld Minerals
OPG OPG Power Ventures
MATD Petro Matad
FOX Fox Marble holdings
EQT Eqtec
CPX Cap-XX
FA Fireangel Safety Technology Group
MSYS Microsaic Systems
WPHO Windar Photonics
*AO World = FTSE 250
The following may represent good short term trading opportunities - please feel free to add to this list!
SN. Smith and Nephew FTSE 100
LLOY Lloyds Banking group FTSE 100
HSBA HSBC Holdings FTSE 100
SGC Stagecoach FTSE all share
FRES Fresnillo FTSE 100
CEY Centamin FTSE 250
RKT Reckitt Benckiser Group FTSE 100
AO AO World FTSE 100
Rotala (ROL)
Gulf Marine Services (GMS)
OPG Power Ventures (OPG)
Please feel free to add to this list!
DX Group (DX.)
Rolls Royce (RR)
SIG (SHI)
Capita (CPI)
Bab**** (BAB)
Hiscox (HSX)
Hammerson (HMSO)
Here's a lower risk approach to potentially making 5% to 10% or more on a fairly regular basis..
By following this plan, I believe it may be possible to potentially make 25% to 50% (or more) gains per year.
Rule number one: forget high risk shares and forget penny stocks. If you want to make an overnight AIM fortune and are prepared to risk it all to get there, this plan isn't for you. If you lack patience and aren't prepared to hold a stock for several months if necessary, then again this plan isn't for you.
Rule number two: ALWAYS sell at a profit, however small, and ALWAYS reinvest 100% of that money into your next investment in order to keep your investment money growing.
Rule number three: Remember to take your profit. Remember the saying "Greed is the enemy of profit"
Step 1: Google "FTSE 100 components" or "FTSE 100 list of companies"
Step 2: On your smartphone, open a new window for every company on the FTSE 100.
Google the share price for each company - this plan is about trading the dips so analyse the share price movement over the last day, week, month, year etc for each company and identify any short term trading opportunities.
Consider downloading a share tracker app to help keep track of share price movement and notify you automatically when a share price hits your target buy-in price.
Consider setting a sell order for your investments - ie when your target sell price is reached, the sell order activates
Even on the FTSE 100 there are regular short term trading opportunities to be had. This approach is about making regular 5% to 10% gains. It's about ALWAYS reinvesting your money each time so that your investment money keeps growing. It's about sticking ONLY to the biggest, most financially resilient, lowest risk companies in the UK - those listed on the FTSE 100. It's about staying away as much as possible from unnecessary risk. It's about taking a different approach - winning long term by making hundreds of small gains and always reinvesting 100% of your money each time to keep it growing.
You could, if you wish, choose to focus on the FTSE 350 however there are always trading opportunities on the FTSE 100
Good luck to all whatever your investment strategy and here's wishing us all a happy and prosperous 2021
If you've spotted what you believe may be great buying opportunites, please feel free to add them here!
Here's a few that are on my watchlist...
Marston's (MARS) JV with Carlsberg currently due to complete end of October
Stagecoach (SGC) green revolution should see more usage of public transport?
BP
National Express (NEX)
Lloyd's Bank (LLOY)
First Group (FGP)
Go ahead group (GOG)
AA
Cineworld (CINE)
Mitchell's and Butlers (MAB)
SIG (SHI)
Costain (COST)
Mears (MER)
SSP Group (SSPG)
Coronavirus, biggest fallers cont'd
U and I Group (UAI)
Arrow Global Group (ARW)
Georgia Healthcare Group (GHG)
Microfocus International (MCRO)
SSP Group (SSPG)
C&C Group (CCR)
Coronavirus, Biggest Fallers cont'd
Investec (INVP)
Town centre securities (TOWN)
Provident Financial (PFG)
Stagecoach (SGC)
Dignity (DTY)
Redefine International (RDF)
Hi Adam,
My advice would be to stick to the larger ftse companies. On general chat I have a post "coronavirus biggest fallers" you might see some good buying opportunities amongst those? Google their share prices and look at the charts to see the daily and historic share price movement. To maximise profit you need to always time entry and exit as well as you can so that you always buy low and sell high. You mentioned tlw - oil industry can be especially volatile so upto you but I'd say not ideal for a beginner tbh. Most investors use an ISA share dealing account - barclays, halifax etc. It typically costs about £10 or so to buy and to sell - the cost is deducted automatically when you buy or sell. They're simple to use and you don't pay tax with a shares ISA.
If you wanted to do your own research, you could Google "ftse 350 companies list" and go through every company on the ftse 350 - Google them and look at the charts to see daily and historic share price movement and identify any buying opportunities. You can download a stock tracker app for free on Google play and use it to keep track of your favourite shares - you can also set an alarm for when a share price hits a particular figure you had in mind.
When you buy a share, you buy at the "ask" price
When you sell you do so at the "bid" price
Example - the share price is currently £5.00 / the ask price is £5.10 and the bid price is £4.90
The difference between the share price and the bid/ask price is known as the "spread" - the spread is the broker's profit, the wider the % spread the more profit the broker makes (essentially the more expensive the stock is to buy or sell) so best to buy when the % spread is tighter as it changes throughout the day and varies from share to share. All these figures are displayed on this site on the chat board of the share you're interested in.
Market capitalisation (MCAP) is the value of the company placed on it by the market
Market capitalisation = share price x number of shares in issue
Number or shares in issue = market capitalisation (divided by) share price
You will see market capitalisation when you Google a share price (its on the right of screen)
Share price = market capitalisation (divided by) number of shares in issue
On this site, go to chat board of your choice & click on fundamentals to see figures such as total liabilities, total assets & NAV.
Net asset value (NAV) = total assets - total liabilities
Net asset value per share (NPS) = net asset value (divided by) number of shares in issue
Market capitalisation = NAV + "the market decides" (NAV represents the true asset value of the company, market capitalisation represents how much investors believe the company is worth taking NAV into account as well as future growth potential etc)
Other advice, read up on Warren Buffett and maybe consider buying a book on investing, the naked trader is the one I bought when I first started. The rest you'll pick up as you go tbh.
Coronovirus Biggest Fallers, cont'd
G4S (GFS)
NEW RIVER REIT (NRR)
Coronavirus, Biggest Fallers cont'd
John Wood Group (WG.)
Hammerson (HMSO)
More big fallers;
RPS Group (RPS)
Revolution Bars Group (RBG)
Coronavirus biggest fallers, cont'd...
Bakkavor Group (BAKK)
Aston Martin Lagonda Global Holdings (AML)
Senior (SNR)
Pittards (PTD)
Costain (COST)
John Menzies (MNZS)
French Connection (FCCN)
Oil industry companies that are off the radar and have fallen off a cliff :
Gulf Marine Services (GMS)
Lamprell (LAM)
Here's a couple more that have fallen massively..
SIG (SHI)
N Brown Group (BWNG)
All of the following have fallen hard and, assuming they survive the crisis, have the potential to multi bag once the recovery starts. Please feel free to add your own...
AA.
Cineworld
Marstons
Mitchell and Butler
Carnival
Lloyds
Barclays
Mccarthy and Stone
First Group
National Express
Capita
Restaurant Group
Hollywood Bowl
Ryanair
EasyJet
IAG
TUI
Centrica
JD Sports
Melrose
ITV
Koovs annual results are due tomorrow, Wednesday 17th July - plus possible news of the funding agreement? Once news is released that the funding has been recieved (could be tomorrow with annual results?) the blended share price will be 15p a share representing a 100% or so premium on current share price! So today could be the last day to buy in before the expected jump to 15p or so per share?.....
KOOVS
Current share price = 6p (all time low!)
At today's general meeting (5th June 2019) all resolutions were passed. The proposed £6.8m investment from FLFL which was dependent on 75% shareholder vote at today's general meeting - will therefore go ahead and KOOVS will announce in due course When they recieve the investment. Upon receipt of the £6.8m the blended share price will be 15p per koovs share - an increase of well over 100% on today's share price!
KOOVS was founded by and is managed by Lord waheed Alli - the retail supremo who also founded ASOS. He's also a multi millionaire and owns a large percentage of koovs shares.