Non AMP
Sky Blues Talk
  • Home
  • Forums
  • General Discussion
  • Off Topic Chat
This is a mobile optimized page that loads fast, if you want to load the real page, click this text.

Your Portfolio (4 Viewers)

  • Thread starter Greggs
  • Start date May 16, 2020
Forums New posts
Prev
  • 1
  • …
  • 11
  • 12
  • 13
  • 14
  • 15
  • …
  • 24
Next
First Prev 13 of 24 Next Last
W

wingy

Well-Known Member
  • Feb 18, 2021
  • #421

'Roaring Kitty' GameStop investor hit with lawsuit - BBC News

Keith Gill is being sued over claims he duped fellow investors into buying its shares last month.
www.bbc.co.uk
 
D

Deleted member 4439

Guest
  • Feb 18, 2021
  • #422
Have you been mis-sold gme? We at ambulance chases dot com can help you get back that furlough payment you spunked on a product you were mis-sold....etc
 
Reactions: mark82 and wingy
C

CCFCSteve

Well-Known Member
  • Feb 19, 2021
  • #423
Might be a big tech wobble on the way. Australia stance (with FB/Google etc) is likely to be followed by other countries. The Uber ruling today which I’m guessing is likely to impact Amazon delivery drivers etc. Social media not addressing racism/abuse

About time some of them got taken down a peg or two and started properly paying their way. Will be interesting to see what happens to share values etc in coming days/weeks/months but could be a ripple especially in US

ps Uber ruling is not without its knock on negative impact to drivers etc though
 
Reactions: Greggs

Mr Panda

Well-Known Member
  • Mar 4, 2021
  • #424
Funds dropping again today. Baillie Gifford American -6% or so

Deleting my trading app until the Summer.
 
W

wingy

Well-Known Member
  • Mar 4, 2021
  • #425
Mr Panda said:
Funds dropping again today. Baillie Gifford American -6% or so

Deleting my trading app until the Summer.
Click to expand...
Have they any exposure on big government projects ?
 

dutchman

Well-Known Member
  • Mar 4, 2021
  • #426
dubed said:
The problem with buying physical silver is that it attracts VAT, so that's 20% (including that on the premium) that you have to make up right from the start.
Click to expand...

The 50% markup I mentioned was before VAT is added.

There's no VAT on second-hand silver but that is even more expensive at around £38 for a coin containing around £19 of silver.
 

Mr Panda

Well-Known Member
  • Mar 4, 2021
  • #427
wingy said:
Have they any exposure on big government projects ?
Click to expand...

I dont think so, could be wrong. Has 40ish holdings, biggest ones being Tesla, Amazon, Wayfair etc.

It recently slashed it's Tesla holding so could be playing a part.
 
Reactions: wingy

Corrado

Well-Known Member
  • Mar 8, 2021
  • #428
If anybody wants to make a quick earner take a look at OCGN (makers of COVAXIN)- I bought in at $16.20 which in hindsight wasn't the best move as its dropped to $8.74 but when their phase 3 results were published last week it quickly rose 35%, again it has dropped off a bit since then but FDA approval is looming in the next couple of weeks and talks of it rising to $15-20. To the moon and all that. I'm all in at $9!
 
Reactions: shmmeee
W

wingy

Well-Known Member
  • Mar 8, 2021
  • #429

Fans left irate at Football Index after share prices crash

The gambling platform drastically altered its terms for dividend payments, leading to an extreme crash in share prices with most users heavily down
www.independent.co.uk
 

shmmeee

Well-Known Member
  • Mar 8, 2021
  • #430
Corrado said:
If anybody wants to make a quick earner take a look at OCGN (makers of COVAXIN)- I bought in at $16.20 which in hindsight wasn't the best move as its dropped to $8.74 but when their phase 3 results were published last week it quickly rose 35%, again it has dropped off a bit since then but FDA approval is looming in the next couple of weeks and talks of it rising to $15-20. To the moon and all that. I'm all in at $9!
Click to expand...

Boo not on Revolut. Was going to be this months fun stock.

Random aside:

Was looking into RPA (robotic process automation) last night. Huge growth market, just automating boring business tasks. Apparently really grown quietly over the pandemic. Few big companies involved Databricks (who I’ve used at work and have investment from the big tech companies) and UiPath both supposed to be having an IPO this year. I was thinking about buying in. Decided part of my strategy is making bets on new industries because I read a lot about new tech anyway.

Anyone know a service you can set to send alerts when certain words come up in the news?
 
S

SBT

Well-Known Member
  • Mar 10, 2021
  • #431
Ccfcisparks said:
Fuck it, going in £1000 on GME when the market opens
Click to expand...

Still waiting for an answer on whether this trade ever got made (GME just went through its all-time high!)
 

shmmeee

Well-Known Member
  • Mar 10, 2021
  • #432
SBT said:
Still waiting for an answer on whether this trade ever got made (GME just went through its all-time high!)
Click to expand...

Hey! It’s coming back!


(Yes that plus is me buying in !!!1!)
 
Reactions: Marty

shmmeee

Well-Known Member
  • Mar 10, 2021
  • #433
Never mind

 
Reactions: Marty

Corrado

Well-Known Member
  • Mar 11, 2021
  • #434
Corrado said:
If anybody wants to make a quick earner take a look at OCGN (makers of COVAXIN)- I bought in at $16.20 which in hindsight wasn't the best move as its dropped to $8.74 but when their phase 3 results were published last week it quickly rose 35%, again it has dropped off a bit since then but FDA approval is looming in the next couple of weeks and talks of it rising to $15-20. To the moon and all that. I'm all in at $9!
Click to expand...
Here we go... up 22% and rising!
 

Marty

Well-Known Member
  • Mar 11, 2021
  • #435
shmmeee said:
Never mind

View attachment 19114
Click to expand...

It happens to us all....
 
D

Deleted member 4439

Guest
  • Mar 16, 2021
  • #436
shmmeee said:
Boo not on Revolut. Was going to be this months fun stock.

Random aside:

Was looking into RPA (robotic process automation) last night. Huge growth market, just automating boring business tasks. Apparently really grown quietly over the pandemic. Few big companies involved Databricks (who I’ve used at work and have investment from the big tech companies) and UiPath both supposed to be having an IPO this year. I was thinking about buying in. Decided part of my strategy is making bets on new industries because I read a lot about new tech anyway.

Anyone know a service you can set to send alerts when certain words come up in the news?
Click to expand...

If you are simply looking to trawl news then a very basic tool is google alerts. For LSE IPOs then you can monitor these here

London Stock Exchange | London Stock Exchange

null
www.londonstockexchange.com

You can also create an account and sign-up for alerts, though I'm not sure what sort of alerts (i.e., for what).
 
Reactions: shmmeee

Nick

Administrator
  • Apr 4, 2021
  • #437
Having a look at trying a bit with Crypto, any tips?
 

Frank Sidebottom

Well-Known Member
  • Apr 5, 2021
  • #438
Nick said:
Having a look at trying a bit with Crypto, any tips?
Click to expand...
Buy some Ethereum 12 months ago.... depends how much you're willing to play with. Bitcoin and Ethereum are the (relatively) safe bets. But the whole crypto market is absolutely batshit crazy rise and falls. Best advice I can offer is, If whatever you buy drops loads just hold onto it.
I first 'invested' around £500 @ around £150 per Coin in Litecoin in 2018 post peak and the watched it lose 80% of its value, I bought more when it dropped to around £20-30 bringing total spend to around £800 which is now at about £3000.
For comparison If I'd have spent that extra £300 on Ethereum that would now be worth about £4500.
I also have a few hundred of some smaller/cheaper coins in the blind hope that they make massive gains. (All up around 80-100% at the minute)
 

mrtrench

Well-Known Member
  • Apr 6, 2021
  • #439
shmmeee said:
Was looking into RPA (robotic process automation) last night. Huge growth market, just automating boring business tasks. Apparently really grown quietly over the pandemic. Few big companies involved Databricks (who I’ve used at work and have investment from the big tech companies) and UiPath both supposed to be having an IPO this year. I was thinking about buying in. Decided part of my strategy is making bets on new industries because I read a lot about new tech anyway.
Click to expand...

Robotics is going to be huge, IMO, over the next decade. A good way to hedge your bets is to buy a fund. There are two exchange traded funds, RBOT and RBTX which, despite the odd blip, have been rising steadily since they started. They are currently not at peaks so if I had some money I'd buy some more.

I don't get the automation through Robotics of administrative tasks. They were doing it in the company I last worked for and had a team of people getting the Robot to enter data from one system to another (there is nothing physical, there is a program which interacts with a computer screen). It took a long time and was expensive to build and it's quite slow for the robot to complete the entry. I just kept thinking why don't they just build a feed from system A to system B? I think it was just a fad... seen it many times before.
 
Reactions: Greggs
W

wingy

Well-Known Member
  • Apr 7, 2021
  • #440
Who's in on deliveroo ?
 

shmmeee

Well-Known Member
  • Apr 7, 2021
  • #441
wingy said:
Who's in on deliveroo ?
Click to expand...

They’ve managed to not turn a profit during a year where everyone is stuck at home, I don’t fancy their chances. Looks like employment law is finally going to catch up with a few of these companies, I wouldn’t be investing in any of them personally.
 
W

wingy

Well-Known Member
  • Apr 7, 2021
  • #442
shmmeee said:
They’ve managed to not turn a profit during a year where everyone is stuck at home, I don’t fancy their chances. Looks like employment law is finally going to catch up with a few of these companies, I wouldn’t be investing in any of them personally.
Click to expand...
No,and they're striking today apparently although I imagine that is probably more like some ( a percentage may be withholding labour).
 

shmmeee

Well-Known Member
  • Apr 7, 2021
  • #443
wingy said:
No,and they're striking today apparently although I imagine that is probably more like some ( a percentage may be withholding labour).
Click to expand...

I heard something like 300 out of several thousand workers. Not sure how you strike from a gig job anyway TBH, seems a very strange tactic. Better to go the legal route like Uber and Amazon workers seem to be.
 
Reactions: wingy

Nick

Administrator
  • Apr 7, 2021
  • #444
If its a gig job why not just leave
 

mrtrench

Well-Known Member
  • Apr 7, 2021
  • #445
Nick said:
If its a gig job why not just leave
Click to expand...

Most people who work in the gig economy are happy with it. If you Google you can see surveys showing 80% + satisfaction with the work.

That's why they don't leave.
 

shmmeee

Well-Known Member
  • Apr 7, 2021
  • #446
mrtrench said:
Most people who work in the gig economy are happy with it. If you Google you can see surveys showing 80% + satisfaction with the work.

That's why they don't leave.
Click to expand...

53% here: https://assets.publishing.service.g...aracteristics_of_those_in_the_gig_economy.pdf
 
W

wingy

Well-Known Member
  • Apr 7, 2021
  • #447
One question in this particular case ,are these employees likely to surpass the tax threshold be that paye or SE .
Does this resemble in any way ,say my weekend Cash in hand job on the farm or milk round ?
More extensive Hours involved obviously ?
 

Wyken Sky Blue

Well-Known Member
  • Apr 8, 2021
  • #448
skyblue1991 said:
6.5 months later, as of this morning I now have over £1800 in my MoneyBox S&S ISA. Not changed anything from above other than daily roundups. currently up by 6.13%!

Look after the pennies and the pounds will look after themselves...

Would reccomend this method if you don't fancy spending too much time on researching other companies and you're happy letting the bank do the work.
Click to expand...
As of this morning, my MoneyBox S&S ISA now sits at £2715.26 making 9.05%! I've kept the deposit at £50+ round ups and the saving setting as Adventurous

Really happy with that!

Be interesting what the value is on the 6th June when I started

Sent from my I3113 using Tapatalk
 
Reactions: Greggs, shmmeee, Marty and 1 other person
S

skybluesam66

Well-Known Member
  • Apr 8, 2021
  • #449
Please be careful. Markets are up around 30 percent since the bottom last March
This won’t repeat over the next 12 months
Unless you know what you are doing only use spare cash or let an expert do it for you .
 

shmmeee

Well-Known Member
  • Apr 8, 2021
  • #450
skybluesam66 said:
Please be careful. Markets are up around 30 percent since the bottom last March
This won’t repeat over the next 12 months
Unless you know what you are doing only use spare cash or let an expert do it for you .
Click to expand...

But Financial TikTok says stocks only go up!

A 19 year old with access to a high rise flat and a Ferrari wouldn’t lie!
 

Wyken Sky Blue

Well-Known Member
  • Apr 9, 2021
  • #451
skybluesam66 said:
Please be careful. Markets are up around 30 percent since the bottom last March
This won’t repeat over the next 12 months
Unless you know what you are doing only use spare cash or let an expert do it for you .
Click to expand...
I started my S&S ISA in June last year after the markets dropped so shares were bought at a low price. I'm not surprised it's making a decent return but would be surprised if the gains were as high the same time next year.

I'm sure you would make more if you knew what you are looking for in the market, however as I don't without spending time on research I'd rather let the MoneyBox gurus handle it!

Sent from my I3113 using Tapatalk
 

shmmeee

Well-Known Member
  • Apr 9, 2021
  • #452
skyblue1991 said:
I started my S&S ISA in June last year after the markets dropped so shares were bought at a low price. I'm not surprised it's making a decent return but would be surprised if the gains were as high the same time next year.

I'm sure you would make more if you knew what you are looking for in the market, however as I don't without spending time on research I'd rather let the MoneyBox gurus handle it!

Sent from my I3113 using Tapatalk
Click to expand...

Im not sure you would actually Can Monkeys Pick Stocks Better than Experts? - Automatic Finances
 

clint van damme

Well-Known Member
  • Apr 9, 2021
  • #453
shmmeee said:
Im not sure you would actually Can Monkeys Pick Stocks Better than Experts? - Automatic Finances
Click to expand...

I'm off to Twycross with my life savings
 
Reactions: MusicDating and shmmeee

MusicDating

Euro 2016 Prediction League Champion!!
  • Apr 9, 2021
  • #454
clint van damme said:
I'm off to Twycross with my life savings
Click to expand...
It was the best of times, it was the, "blurst", of times?! You stupid monkey!
 
Reactions: Bertola

Greggs

Well-Known Member
  • Apr 10, 2021
  • #455
mrtrench said:
Robotics is going to be huge, IMO, over the next decade. A good way to hedge your bets is to buy a fund. There are two exchange traded funds, RBOT and RBTX which, despite the odd blip, have been rising steadily since they started. They are currently not at peaks so if I had some money I'd buy some more.

I don't get the automation through Robotics of administrative tasks. They were doing it in the company I last worked for and had a team of people getting the Robot to enter data from one system to another (there is nothing physical, there is a program which interacts with a computer screen). It took a long time and was expensive to build and it's quite slow for the robot to complete the entry. I just kept thinking why don't they just build a feed from system A to system B? I think it was just a fad... seen it many times before.
Click to expand...
Something i'm certainly interested in. No Robotics in my Portfolio so it's a nice chance to diversify. Will have a read. Am i correct in thinking RBTX is a fund on the LSE and RBOT is the NYSE version?
 
Prev
  • 1
  • …
  • 11
  • 12
  • 13
  • 14
  • 15
  • …
  • 24
Next
First Prev 13 of 24 Next Last
You must log in or register to reply here.

Users who are viewing this thread

Total: 4 (members: 0, guests: 4)
Share:
Facebook Twitter Reddit Pinterest Tumblr WhatsApp Email
  • Home
  • Forums
  • General Discussion
  • Off Topic Chat
  • Default Style
  • Contact us
  • Terms and rules
  • Privacy policy
  • Help
  • Home
Community platform by XenForo® © 2010-2021 XenForo Ltd.
Menu
Log in

Register

  • Home
  • Forums
    • New posts
    • Search forums
  • What's new
    • New posts
    • Latest activity
  • Members
    • Current visitors
  • Donate to the Season Ticket Fund
X

Privacy & Transparency

We use cookies and similar technologies for the following purposes:

  • Personalized ads and content
  • Content measurement and audience insights

Do you accept cookies and these technologies?

X

Privacy & Transparency

We use cookies and similar technologies for the following purposes:

  • Personalized ads and content
  • Content measurement and audience insights

Do you accept cookies and these technologies?