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ZAC, I think I read somewhere that 1% of companies have accounted for all share value gains, so unless you are lucky enough to hold one of those 1% companies then holding for the long term is not a wise move.
Investment funds are probably a good idea but I don't like paying others to make my investments for me. I like picking my own shares, it must be the inherent gambler in me.
Having said that I have opened a JISA for my granddaughter and that is all invested in a global ETF.
ZAC,
I hold my shares for a year and then sell. My data tells me that this is the optimum time to hold shares.
This stops me holding on to shares that have fallen in the hope that they recover (they rarely do) or selling too early.
Obviously it doesn't always work but it works often enough to give me an average return of 12% per year.
SPIGHTS,
I'm good ta just not much to say about BP at the moment.
Concentrating on my horse racing at the moment, much more fun than shares.
I probably spend 90% of my time on the horses and 10% on my shares, even though shares provide 90% of my income and 10% from the horses.
SlickM,
By buying back shares the company has less cash to pay dividends therefore ultimately the shareholder is neither better nor worse off. I see no benefit in it, I would rather they invested the cash or increased the dividend.
Effix is the laughing stock of the DRX board, stating it will never reach £3 before it then rose to £8.46.
You could have bought these at any time over the last 8 years and made a profit.
It must be terrible for anybody shorting.
Tried to book a service online but keep getting the message "booking system unavailable, please try again later".
Given up after 3 goes on different days and will go to quickfit instead. Also £20 cheaper.
That's probably my custome gone.
I won't be investing either.
What an optimistic bunch we are !
14 expect the share price to be higher, 2 to be lower.
A similar contest was run on HBR. I submitted a price just blow the current price, the other 20 or so expected the price to increase. I won 2 of the 3 competitions before the guy running it had had enough and sold up.
"Great to see a board where short term trading is applauded ....not demonised, well done ...atb"
Probably because most short term traders lose money. It's the dealing costs that makes it so difficult as well as all the noise in the short term. Best to hold for a year.
Always a surprise or a shock with FXPO !