RE: Advice23 Feb 2026 10:50
There’s a lot of people on here claiming to be experts and are frankly full of 5hit.
Up to blocking him, Dusty was always on about NASDAQ health shares (plus others) where he was doubling, tripling his money. Had never mentioned them until they went up.
My advice:
*Doubling your money is not easy, if you put in £20k and make 50% profit, that’s really good going. You’ll have beaten most financial experts who do this for a living. People who bang on about ‘5 bagging’ or 10 bags’ (not a fan of the word bagging or bag – often used by Chavs and Chancers). It is of course possible and HUI has done very well for me. Longer term investments more so.
*Remember AIM is full of hundreds of start ups that haven’t sold anything and aren’t commercial. They survive on regular fund raising to keep going. Look at the max chart of PHE as a classic example, 25 years ago it was £6.
*Don’t be greedy, something might be heading up and up, but will often plateau and probably drop, sometimes like a stone. I learnt this years ago on a share that steadily went from 15p to 75p, then quickly to 10p. I should have sold and taken a huge profit, but I was greedy and felt it would hit £1.
*Research is key – understanding RNS’s, more so. These are written by PR teams to sound uber positive, but often they’re overly optimistic bits of news that don’t change the fundamentals / financials of a company which are poor.
*Consider buying and taking profits on the RNS news, as many will go back to where they were very quickly.
*If something is dropping to your breakeven, seriously look at selling; there’s probably a fundamental reason. If there isn’t, you’ve not lost anything, and you can always buy back in if there was a genuine reason for a short-term drop. Broker fees aren’t as high as what they used to, so trading is a lot cheap if the spread isn’t too bad. But at least you won’t have lost money.
*If the above happens and you’re down, don’t wait too long to act, as it’s probably more likely to get worse before it gets better. Your money should be making a return, leaving it sat dwindling is the worst thing you can do, as you might as well have put it in a FSTE ISA.
*I thought I’d timed PHE right at 0.95p, but I didn’t expect the fund raise, if I had, I would have had to be a total idiot to not have waited and buy lower. I sold at a 50% loss (£12k), but the remain money has made excellent returns elsewhere, including AFC, BHP, EEE, HUI in the UK.
*Diversify. I only have a few AIM stocks, as they’re high risk. I’ve done very well with Crypto, Crypto Mining and tech hardware, particularly chip set manufactures, which I invested in years ago.
*Ignore the wannabe experts on chat forums and use more than one provider. Most people want the price to go up and will clutch at every straw to ‘try’ and make that happen, or get others to buy more or put you off selling because of FOMO. There’s plenty on here.
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