Share Investment, Discussion & Tips

[MarillionFan]

The QE announced yesterday seems to have pushed share prices up and FTSE is now back ver 6800, do people think the bounce is just temp or that over the next few weeks /months share prices would keep rising or the share prices already factored it in ? Not sure whether to ditch now or hold on a bit longer ?

Well it was only 6300 last week or so and hit 6100s a few weeks earlier. I'm surprised at 6800 to be honest as I think it was going to bubble between 6300 and 6500 for a few months before a slow rise to 6800/6900 at the end of the year.

So I didn't buy in and for now I wouldn't.

[d000hg]

I sold my AAPL shares recently - at a record high (after which they then jumped another 10% )

I was really tempted to buy Microsoft after seeing the preview of W10 but instead went for a high-tech fund in who the biggest contributors include AAPL, GOOG and MSFT.

[tomtomagain]

Seems to me that it's just within it's normal trading range. It's been between 6100 - 6800 for a long time.

I'm still buying-in regularly.

[BlasterBates]

Enjoying the current rally, 10% up in a week...

Hail ECB

[ELBBUBKUNPS]

Im enjoying the rally too, finally I'm at a point where my portfolio is at the same value it was 3 years ago when I started lol . I need the funds though within the next 3-6 months to finance something else so I just need to time it well and sell.

[SimonMac]

All you short term thinkers, I was never worried as I still have another twenty years to iron out the parks and troughs.

Although I sold some of my stake in Aviva as it was getting a bit top heavy, still holding on for dear life to my Lloyds until I finally get a dividend then will scale that back too

[BlasterBates]

Im enjoying the rally too, finally I'm at a point where my portfolio is at the same value it was 3 years ago when I started lol . I need the funds though within the next 3-6 months to finance something else so I just need to time it well and sell.

That is normal.....I've heard that so often.

Everyone who starts to invest does it during the good times when everything looks rosy and then comes "big correction" and knocks your portfolio for six, after a few years you're back to where you started.

Happened to me twice. invested some money, halved in value within a year or so but recovered, then after about 8 years noticed "in the long run" it had done well, so waded in big time and the exact same thing happened

Any road several years later nicely up

Definitely need a long term view on shares.

[ELBBUBKUNPS]

That is normal.....I've heard that so often.

Everyone who starts to invest does it during the good times when everything looks rosy and then comes "big correction" and knocks your portfolio for six, after a few years you're back to where you started.

Happened to me twice. invested some money, halved in value within a year or so but recovered, then after about 8 years noticed "in the long run" it had done well, so waded in big time and the exact same thing happened

Any road several years later nicely up

Definitely need a long term view on shares.

Yeah agreed, this was first time having ago and its been an eye opener, I lost big time on one and lost my nerve and sold it crystalising my losses now its back close to what I paid . I didn't want make big £ but just beat inflation and crappy savings rates.

[BlasterBates]

Yeah agreed, this was first time having ago and its been an eye opener, I lost big time on one and lost my nerve and sold it crystalising my losses now its back close to what I paid . I didn't want make big £ but just beat inflation and crappy savings rates.

Your experience is worth a lot of money the next time you wade in

Sometimes stocks recover other times they don't.....definitely need some good analysis to find out whether it's on the road to oblivion or just dipping down temporarily.

Had a great experience wading in at the bottom on one stock, but on another it just went down and down and down and then one day I noticed the bank had booked it out completely with a small note "worthless".

The only way to learn how to make money in shares is to lose money

[fullyautomatix]

I have always held shares long term but the only mining share I invested in lost so much I cut my losses.