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Hi Rai, an important tip; For years now the FCA has forced any purveyors of investments to plaster their publicity with the slogan, "Past performance is not a guide to future performance." The industry goes along with this, but in fact its' utter rubbish.
I've been a PI for over 55 years & one of the most important lessons I've learnt is to keep a very beady eye on a company, or fund's, management. If management has a good track record of generating profits, then the likelihood is they will continue to generate them, unless the whole economic basis for their industry goes whoopee; like crude oil going from $60 to $20 almost overnight, as it did recently.
Most fund managers are timeserving hacks, making a very good living by nickelling & dimeing their investors out of 1% pa for funds that fail to outperform their benchmark index. It's a great way to make a million a year - just find a few thousand mugs to give you £200 million which you stuff into an index tracker (though you call it your "High Alpha Income Fund" and it's sister is your "High Alpha Capital Fund") filled with BP, HSBC, RDSB, RBS, Lloyds, GSK, DGE, and other FTSE 100 worthies.
So if you look at funds, begin by filtering out all those who've been outside the first-quartile for performance, for the last 5 &, possibly, 10 years. That eliminates the dogs. My experience has been that good managers remain profitable over the medium to long term, But, but, but, but, but, there is always the occasional exception to break that rule. Neil Woodford has been the classic recent example. For reasons unknown, except to himself, he decided to pep up the performance of his once well-performing funds, that had hit flat patches, with some unquoted biomedical & bio-technology companies and kept increasing the bet.
So, keep a sharp eye open, when formerly outperforming managers hit flat patches and start to toy with their portfolios. Find well-run companies & funds with good track records. Avoid outright speculation. Gold mining promoters, for example, are famous for promising the moon & it can get you very excited at "Getting in on the ground floor". I paid a few thousand in fees to the University of Hard Knocks before I learned that for every junior public company worldwide that sets out to go mining, precisely one company in 10,000 lands up with a working mine. So the bet you're being asked to take has odds of 10,000 to 1 against. Far worse than the most spavined donkey in the Grand National at 250-1.
Management changes over time. We all eventually retire. Watch out for new CEO's & fund managers.
Maybe find four or five funds and then sit back. You're in for the long haul. My wife was left £1,500 in 1983 in a Will. She got advice & put it into M&G North American fund (now North American Dividend) at £1.67 per unit. Today one unit is worth £31.73, so even allowing for a maybe 10x increase in the cost-of-living, it's done her right.
Good luck and enjoy yourself!
Unbelievable!!!
Just another tip, never trust sites like the Motley Fool, they also have their own agendas and paymasters. It's also usually too late when they reocmmend something.
The amount of times these so called sites recommend a share that does the opposite or vice versa.
Sounds like you are on the right path, I wish I got into shares when I was your age. 43 myself and wishing I started doing it earlier, doing busy burning my money on things like cars.
Learn and read, when you are ready you will do very well and DYOR (Do Your Own Research), best o fluck and hope it all works ou for you.
Hi sw10000,
Thanks for the response, I didn't even think about people trying to enforce their agendas through here or articles too. I always see sites, like the motley fool, pop up and say Share 'X' is a perfect buy right now or if I had x amount, I would invest in this. I'll definitely try and read a few of those books to get an understanding of markets.
Hopefully when I do have enough money, I will make the right choices. Just wanted to learn because I haven't done any finance or economics studies since GCSEs, but seeing what is going on right now and seeing how people have been able to stay afloat and make money does interest me. Whenever the time comes, hopefully I won't make the silly mistakes and can capitalise on the right moment. Right now my focus is to finish my degree and secure a decent job in this current market.
Again, many thanks for the response.
Hi,
I've been doing this for a couple of years now so no way an expert but have learnt a lot in these two years, what I would recommend is not to put your 10K into one company, I did this when I started on what I thought was a dead cert (metro bank) when it was low and it kept going down.
Spread the risk and also learn about the market, it's very uncertain times at the moment and there is good potential to make money but also to lose.
Stay away from AIM to start with it's high risk,learn about shorting/bots and how they can control a share. Try and stay away from anything with high shorts.
Read some books i.e. Naked Trader, Warren Buffet Way, Benjamin Graham etc , learn all the different acronyms etc
There are a lot of very good people on these forums that you can learn a lot from, just remember everyone has their own agenda and they will ramp/deramp shares for their own gain.
Best of luck
Hi all, hope everyone is doing well during these times. I was looking researching about Taylor Wimpey when I found this site. I'm 21 and as someone who is learning about investing in the future, what would you do if you had 10k right now and why? I've looked at various different sites and they all seem to be opposing opinions. Some say it's a perfect time to buy up, whereas others say there will be another fall sometime soon. I think if someone had the money and they had a safe job, they should invest now. However, I don't understand how some companies like easyjet has gone up by 71% in the past month, when flights haven't reopened yet and they plan to cut 4500 jobs. If you know any resources or have any other advice, please reply.
It's called the " disconnect",why it's not reacting has got investors stumped.Let's leave it a while to settle down.Wouldn't buy anything at the moment,and I don't care if it goes up a bit more.
They can stick it,not investing a dime in these uncertain times.
Still do not get it!!!
All non essential businesses about to lay off between 1/4 and 1/3 of their staff and apparently the markets think businesses are booming.
The bigger they come the harder they fall !?!?
Looks as if everyones looking at each other to see who will blink first.Market seems to be looking for direction.
Drifting sideways,You'd think with all the trouble going on in USA it would fall.Perhaps they are burning off all the shorters,before the big boys step in for real ?,and really sink it.
WAITING FOR THE DELIBERATE MISTAKE( really)
Rely funny. they can throw as much money at this market it is still going to go down.
Yes very interesting.I see you are doing it in fine detail.They are desperately trying to restart the economy and disregard the R number.Large chart says resistance here,and needs to punch on up to go up higher.
But I cannot see how it can't go down.A lot of commentators talk of a disconnect between the stock market and the real world.Personally if it was the start of a new Bull market,it would make a joke of the upcoming recession (ridiculously hard for it not to actually happen),and possible further problems.When you look at the USA unemployment rate,up from 3% to 14..7%,its hard to see how carnage can not be avoided.
Getting back to your original point,everything Technical Analysis wise points to a fall.If it doesn't you would have to conclude that the stock market was totally disconnected to everything!!!.
Hi Folks, Would appreciate if someone can advise me on my analysis. I make the FTSE breaking out to the downside of a ending diagonal pattern. Looking for retest of triangle to go open a sell order. Also bearish divergence on RSI. Any advice you can offer would be greatly appreciated, my chart can be seen by following link: https://ibb.co/02CvQTR
Total nonsense. Trump will do whatever is needed to boost the markets long term. It's his 'trump' card...the soaring stock market over the past 4 years (apart from covid etc recently) is about the only thing that has been keeping him afloat and he's absolutely relying on it for re-election.
Trump will absolutely do whatever the worst possible thing is for the markets!
In the last tumble,gold sold off, reasons given were a cash raising exercise,and the possible difficulty with the mines as to getting it out of the ground if the workers got sick.That has happened in South America,with varying reports from other countries as to workers being ill.Difficult ,as distancing being very difficult in a small area working at the bottom!.
So it's a very confusing picture.
I saw Bond appraiser on CNBC,saying that he found it strange that some US government Bonds were being snapped up,even though the return was nil!!!,paid nothing.Very odd.
I'm not into Bonds and know little about them.But observers report that they are "mystified" as what's happening.
Many investors also find the share market rally strange,as nothing much as changed.The rally though has been purely technical,given a boost as well by the stimulus.
If the Markets start to fall late on after Trumps intended speech on China,they will cite his speech as a reason for the fall.
As we know,"the news follows the Stock Market,the Stock Market doesn't follow the news".
So plenty of reasons if they look ,to rationalise a fall.I wonder what Trump is going to say?.He could even declare war on China,well actually that would be a joke.But knowing Trump,anythings possible!!!.Surely he won't do a foot in mouth moment again will he?.Surely not?,i mean...…...
Gold will soar, but the big question is will it initially be pulled down in the looming crash!
All technical indicators show that as from Monday,all indicies will start to fall. The start of the really big down move.
All technical Analysis points to it.Even at this late moment in time, share prices have spiked,leading to a trap.
The Dow suddenly went into reverse tonight and patently didn't want to go much above 25500,same with the S&P 3030,circa 6200 on Footsie.
(see my calculations on the Centrica chat site).
Get ready for a very bumpy ride!!!.As usual it's an opinion based on Charts etc,open to be wrong as well as right.
We shall see.
midlandboy.
Forgive my grammar but dont you agree you cant build a strong economy on debt. (apart from America ) welcome to the casino
Markets can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent.
I have, don't you worry. I've used red pen too. There's at least one capital letter missing and one full stop. Tut tut. Nice message of doom though....
the markets will drop again mark my words
Unbelievable debt, unbelievable recovery.
I still don’t get it!! At what point will the penny drop? Or will it?
you for got all the debt were in ?????
recovery continues....