RE: King Midas in reverse9 Mar 2020 08:02
Rhjoyes: I've been investing for 30 years and to be brutally honest, overall I am well down. The stock market appeals to the intelligent, mostly, the lure of beating the system. But, the reality is , apart from one or two lucky guesses most people fail. Virtually all of us have access to the same information, except the city boys who can whisper to each other in a wine bar. It is the information that pops out of nowhere that makes or breaks your investment not your strategy or research. How many would have changed tack knowing Gina wasn't going to add or that CF was talking to AA a while back, because he was desperate. How much was made by people with a couple of those snippets. Yes research can help but who has the time. Luck is the biggest factor, you may as well try the horses, casino or lottery. I followed The Flowgroup story for a good while a mCHP boiler that created electricity from waste heat. Since condensing boilers are already very efficient I doubted if any electricity could be created and didn't invest. But, 50 million was fleeced from investors and they never saw a boiler in action. Inspirit energy are now touting a boiler that produces 15 kW of heat and simultaneously 6.4 kW of electricity from the boiler waste heat using a Stirling engine but the rub is it only has 20 kW of heat going in. A perpetual energy machine! Investors are still investing in this loser, it's been ' in development for years' many posters are simply shouted down as derampers by the fanatical followers of a share, take more heed of the derampers and less of the tampers if you want to make some money.