Share Investment, Discussion & Tips

[AtW]

No, putting cash to work.

Ok, in this case you are not a dirty spekulant.












... just a mug whose cash that puts bottles of Crystal onto tables of dirty spekulants

[pjclarke]

Are you using any leverage in buying those shares, ie marginal trade?

Never have, never will. Even at today's rates I concur with W. Buffett.

We don't do debt. If you're smart you don't need it, if you're dumb its dangerous.

(Or something like that)

[MarillionFan]

And I'm blue on Glencore

[Andy2]

And I'm blue on Glencore

Lucky me, I bought glencore few years ago when they were 500+

[SimonMac]

And I'm blue on Glencore

Now the question is was it luck or skill?

Or do you not differentiate

[Andy2]

And I'm blue on Glencore

Do you think they could go under due to huge debt levels ?

[DimPrawn]

Do you think they could go under due to huge debt levels ?

Not with the global money printing. Run out of money, just borrow some freshly printed trillions. Nothing can fail with the magic money press.

Zombie companies that should have died, but cost of borrowing is so low and so easy, they persist forever.

Japan counts ‘zombie’ cost of easy money - FT.com

[Andy2]

FTSE has formed a green weekly candle.
is it safe to go back in the water?
any good ftse etf ?

[SimonMac]

Do you think they could go under due to huge debt levels ?

Mining companies always have a high debt to equity ration, but Gelncore's is higher than most of ots industry peers (GLEN 1.11, RIO 0.59, AA 0.86) which is why they are screwing their shareholders by diluting the share value to pay down some of the debt, hoping long term saved interest repayments will stop them getting in to further debt while the commodity price is low.

[BigRed]

It seems most people on here have a buy and hold, HYP style of strategy and I suspect several are strongly influenced by the Motley Fool. This seems a good approach so far and I suspect I will stick with it. I put all of my odds & sods of pension funds into a SIPP at the end of 2013 which came to £140k and I'm currently sitting on £152k with a couple of small drawdowns. It's definitely the dividends that make the difference, £5.7k this year so far.

It is important to look at diversifying across sectors. Looking at my shares that have done badly this year they are all related to the oil price collapse, Shell, Weir, ITE, and United Utilities have all suffered from it and yet 12 months ago I was confident the only way was up for prices of a finite resource.

Most of my big gains are related to the housing market, Berkley, Rightmove, Persimmon. As the UK population is forcast to grow via immigration etc up to 2020 and housebuilding never keeping up with demand because government never give the builders a free rein I can only see prices going up in the short to medium term.

My most stupid buy was Tesco, I knew Aldi and Lidl were having a big impact but I was looking for a solid dividend payer in the sector and Tesco looked cheap. They have steadily dropped since I bought them and drastically reduced the dividend.

Anyone having success with a different strategy? looking at the first two posts Oil and Tesco were popular in 2012