RE: Buying op1 May 2020 10:46
There are lots of trading stock to play with at the moment, great fun when they go up, not so great when they go down. So a sensible approach is to play with some of your capital and also note the Companies that are going to grow in the long term (Investments).
Lockdown has given us the next dotcom boom, plenty of people thinking they are trading geniuses, it isn't too hard to pick a stock and ride the wave, but there will be some almighty falls, where some will lose their shirts as they over extend as the SP's rise.
We haven't been long into this crisis, but we have already seen ventilator manufacturers be told their product isn't up to scratch or is no longer needed. Testing has now become the new goldmine, but just like ventilators, many tests won't get approval and once the big boys get their tests and vaccines in the market the smaller companies will find they are sidelined. Collaborations may help, but nothing is certain.
If and when a vaccine is produced then tests for COVID19 will cease to be needed in any large number. In the meantime some of these smaller companies are neglecting their other products, R&D, sales and marketing. So there will be positive and negative balances and only the ones who successfully monetise any COVID offering will have the positives to balance and hopefully outweigh the negatives....