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Billy, honestly no mate. Obviously with the benefit of Harry Hindsight who's the best investor in the world I would say yes. But instinct told me not to risk everything, at times I went in with trades over 100k, but I wasn't in them for long and rarely overnight, as you've seen with screenshots I've posted in the past... but I wouldn't do that now. The higher the price the easier it is for the stock to take a big hit on totally unexpected news, that goes for any stock in my humble experience. I keep an eye on big fallers to see their causes even if I don't hold the stocks. But hats of to you for having the balls and making the return you did. But your older than me, and I know you've been doing this for a while.... you know yourself that's not typical. Tesco for example. All the things with Glen added up, the only issue was the debt. It just so happens that Glen's CEO is a superb deal maker, and he moves fast when he's focused. So when he finally accepted that the city wasn't happy with the debt he started paying it off and selling stuff. But I've seen stocks doing well for ages, then bang one bad RNS and bye bye 30+%. I don;t have the psychology to accept that because if it's all in one stock there's a chance that it never recovers. Not saying that will be Glen, it will probably do far higher than it is now. With an investment fund, if one or two stocks die completely... it's usually no more than 5% the fund, typically 2 - 3%. You don;t get the same rapid gains, but over time you tend to beat the market substantially if you go into small caps and even in a big market crash you know most of the stocks in the fund will be solid companies. So next time there's a big drop I'll be going in big. And leaving it. I'm 34 got plenty of time to make some serious money just buying and holding. Not blowing my own trumpet, I'm a reasonable good trader when I put my mind to it. But if I was being completely honest... buying and holding UK smaller companies investment trusts over 10+ years I've got no doubt I'd have made a lot more, and spent less time doing it.

With all that said anything can happen, it might take 5 years just to break even if there's a big crash, but by 7 years you have 100%+ that's just how it works.

Pete, If you're looking to invest and forget... best thing to do is buy a few UK Smaller Companies investment trusts. I will be doing so shortly. Why? 1. Growth rates on average 14 to 19% a year. That might sound rubbish, but a 100% compounded return within 5 years is not unusual, and even the lower performing ones usually hit 70 - 80% return within 5 years. 2. They're diversified, so you don't need to worry about buying one rubbish stock and losing your shirt. 3. Investment trusts are low cost, you don't get charged a percentage of their value like you do with Unit Trusts. With Hargreaves Lansdown for example you could have �1 Million in one but the charge is never more than �200 a year. That's just an example, I know you don't have �1Million. Trust me, apart from getting lucky on one stock once in a blue moon. It's extremely unlikely you or anyone else will hit 100% within 5 years and certainly not consistently over their entire funds. Yes Billy for example did it with Glen... but it's not normal, I'm sure Billy will agree. Glen was a unique example, the odds of sticking all your money in one stock and doubling or tripling it slim, and it leads to bad mistakes later when people try to repeat it on another stock and lose a lot. Some people might get 100% or even double, triple getting lucky on a small cap... but most people won't put all their money in one, because often they fail completely and people lose everything. You seem to want quite big returns, fairly quickly but are coming to the conclusion that trying to trade stocks constantly is hard work. That's about as good as it gets with UK smaller companies investment trusts. Other decent sectors are Biotech and occasional real estate trusts REITS. But from the research I've done, UK smaller caps are more reliable. Now that's the good part... the bad part is, if you buy one of these trusts in a market crash on paper you will lose a hell of a lot at least temporarily. In 2008 the top performing UK Smaller companies Investment Trusts lost up to 70% of their value. Fast forward 10 years and they've made 450%+ a smart investor would be buying more of the fund as it dropped, and all the way to the bottom, reinvesting dividends and be sitting with a big sum now. My son has Autism, and is becoming harder work as he gets older. So I'll be buying these investment trusts on the next big correction and leaving them there. With what we've saved between ISA's and Sipp's I've got zero doubt within 20 years we'll have several Million if I just buy them and hold them. The compounded gains over 5, 10 or more years is very big.

Not a single one of my posts stated a single race. Surely I'd need to at least identify someone's race in order to be racist. If you don't like what I've got to say put me on ignore instead of telling lies and not being able to back it up.

Come on QZ, I'm waiting on your backing your accusation up. The R word is a dodgy word to call someone without any evidence. What race did I insult?

I think you mean right wing, it's the left wingers who label people racist with no justification. What race did I insult? The last time there was a global trade war was due to the Smoot-Hawley tariff 1930, The Great Depression ensued as did WW2. No idea if that will happen again, like it's already did in the past. But the ingredients are there.

Who you aiming that at Qz... why say "some people", just say what you think.

Honestly I couldn't care less about the economic reasons for staying in the EU. We're the 5th biggest economy in the world, we'll find a way after Brexit. The EU wants to flood itself with migrants that have nothing in common with our culture. It's more forced multiculturalism, forced Cultural Marxism. That alone is enough for me to leave. Second to that is the fact that over 90% of the UK's laws are now made in Brussels mainly by people we didn't elect. I'd rather be poor than be forced to accept the ridiculous levels of immigration this country has been subjected to, and to give our sovereignty away to people we didn't elect. As usual the politicians taking major decisions without consulting us first. Our country was never consulted on the level of immigration

Agreed and Mexico, if the average American had seen with their own eyes what's just over the border from them... there would be millions volunteering their services to build the wall free of charge. I'm not a sadist, but I've seen all the videos the cartel stick on the internet... that is one messed up country. Mexico is mainly in North America, but quarter of it is in Central America after that is the South... with the South having the highest murder rates on the planet. Mexico might be in North America, but it behaves like a South American country.

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So Trump/Tredeau have had a little tiff... with Trump calling Tredeau dishonest and weak. This video will give you a laugh... https://youtu.be/aMw-Y9hQULM

Good post Shareminator. My guess... is the same a Bottled, the EU is going to collapse. I don;t know exactly when but it's coming. And you're right it's not working out financially for the countries you mentioned, some might say the EU was there to bail Greece and Italy out, but in reality all that's done is give the EU more control over these countries because they are not in perpetual debt to the EU and the EU calls the shots on their spending in return for the bailouts. It's a no brainer that the EU will eventually fail. I hope this trade war escalates... that should do it. That dictator Jean-Claude Juncker is hell bent on going toe to toe with Trump. The market clearly thinks it will blow over, that Trump might change his mind. I'm not so sure, if he does he risks looking weak. If there's a bad global downturn voters will probably turn on the EU hopefully that gets the dominoes falling one by one.

Yeah it's just another attempt by the re-moaners to try and circumvent the democratic result. So far we've had... 1. �70k over spend being the reason 17 Million people voted out. 2. Gina Miller pretending to care about procedure and not trying to stop Brexit by putting the vote into Parliament on any deal made, in the hope that enough Cultural Marxist MP's will vote against any deal and stop Brexit. 3. The Lords rejecting 15 bills in the hope that we leave the EU only in name. 4. Now we have the fake Russian narrative. If I was a conspiracy theorist I might think that the Skripal weren't really poisoned by a the military grade nerve agent Novichok that pretty much no one has a hope in hell of surviving, and that false flags are flying to get the British public angry with Russia. Then bang... the Russians fixed the Brexit vote. Nah I must be wrong, silly me we live in a Democracy lol

Chlorinated chicken and a privatised NHS is the least of our worries. The really worry is what most people don't realise. People belonging to a certain religion have a fertility rate of 2.9 in the UK, and everyone else 1.8. The replacement rate for a culture/race is 2.1. We're decreasing and they're growing 61% faster. Do you honestly think the same tolerance we show now will be reciprocal when we're out numbered? The EU is basically border-less, total Free movement of people, Merkel has let over 1.5 Million in... everyday hundreds "had been" arriving in Italy, although the new Italian government is trying to stop that today. But they will land somewhere in the EU. Rapes going through the roof and on multiple occasions some of the terrorists have been migrants. At least 20,000 people had some courage to do something at the weekend. Hopefully that's just the start, eventually this will be the main reason for voting. It was in the EU referendum, but it's not openly discussed yet.

The Yanks aren't stupid, some of them yes... as we have in the UK too. But they're not dumb, they're the most powerful nation on earth. I frequent Gab.Ai a freedom of speech social media platform where you can say almost anything. There of course some clowns, some Nazi's etc... but there's also a lot of clued up people. And the number one thing said of the British at the moment by the American's is "We are cowards". They can't believe what we're allowing to happen in our country whilst doing nothing about it. At least 20,000 people had the balls to do something at the weekend, even if there was some clowns in the crowd making Nazi symbols. With time that 20,000 will probably look like a drop in the ocean, the strength of feeling is growing.

The trade war looks like it's going to kick off anyway after the G7. That clown Justin Trudeau sat like a little lamb with Trump, then the minute Trump was gone he was saying well will impose tarrifs equal to the USA we will not be pushed around, despite the reason for the tariffs being Canada's unwillingness to negotiate on the 270% dairy tariffs against the USA. Trudeau is a rat... his government imposed "Compelled speech legislation on Canadians"... to put that in simple terms. If someone says something deemed as hate speech, even if you agree with that so called hate speech you by law have to voice an opinion against it or you could be jailed. Or you could be sent to jail for not using the correct Gender pronouns... even though scientifically and biologically there are only two sex's Male and Female. And no I'm not kidding, this literally is written into Canadian Law. That's what happens when you allow radical far left idiots to rule your country... Corbyn looks like he has no chance now, but if he had to win, no doubt some of the looney tunes in his party membership would want this too. Austria, Hungary, Poland, Slovenia and Italy have all voted right wing, we want out of the EU and Trump got voted in. The whole world is one big powderkeg waiting to explode.

They could hold another 30 referendum's I'd vote leave till my fingers bled. And I suspect there are more remainers who would now do the same after witnessing the denial of democracy. If they can do that to leave voters, they can do it with other politics too.

Theresa May is worse than useless, she's achieved nothing but delaying Brexit. How on earth they could appoint a remain supporter as PM to take the UK out of the EU I have no idea, it makes no sense. Everything she's doing so far smacks of trying to keep the UK in the EU by the back door. If her government isn't denying the country the democratic vote, they're taking freedom of speech away against a certain religion.

Wish I was a fool with $3.1 Billion net worth, and leader of the most powerful country on the planet. :-D

Just took a quick look at it, it looks *very* good. That's me got a tonne of videos to work through now ;-)