RE: Another duff Tom Winnifrith share tip2 Aug 2025 14:02
@Sam, Motley Fool has enough members that a recommendation can move a company SP, that in turn sometimes attracts other investors and short term traders looking for a quick profit. The trick with Motley is to pay the permanently on offer discount price, get in as early as possible after a recommendation, don’t be greedy and take a quick profit. Oh and always remember the Financial Times research….. 70% of AIM/Penny Shares investors who invest for longer than three months lose on average 90% of their investment.
So I’m in a little investment club, 6 members, we share the cost of one discounted Motley Fool subscription, we take in turns to subscribe so always get the discount, and do reasonably well buying on their recommendations and then getting out again usually within a few days to a couple of weeks. Doesn’t always work, but we have substantially more wins than losses.
I can remember my granddad doing the pools with Horace Batchelor the guy from Keynsham. His pay to join pools syndicates did something like 5000 entries a week, so he could always report back each week with multiple wins, that’s how Motley Fool works, recommend enough shares and some will come good. A reasonable percentage comes good in the short term before crashing back down as some people take their profit or it was just another duff tip and people swallow their losses. Get in fast, get out fast. Yes WBI at the time was a good example of that.