10 warning signs for investors 2016

[PurpleGorilla]

If house prices keep doubling, wgas!

Says the baby boomer.

[Martin Scroatman]

I put £5k into gold 3 months ago thinking we were at the bottom of the market .

[sirja]

I put £5k into gold 3 months ago thinking we were at the bottom of the market .

If you can affrord to leave it there, I think in about 2-3 years time you'll be having a very good laugh. I put about £1000 into gold 18 months ago. Not at all concerned. Just be patient.

[DimPrawn]

I put £5k into gold 3 months ago thinking we were at the bottom of the market .

Is this the first time you made a bad entry into a soft bottom?

[DimPrawn]

5. The Treasury yield curve, which measures the spread between 2 and 10 year notes, is narrowing.

https://www.newyorkfed.org/medialibr...s/Prob_Rec.pdf

Can't see it myself.

[OwlHoot]

If you can affrord to leave it there, I think in about 2-3 years time you'll be having a very good laugh. I put about £1000 into gold 18 months ago. Not at all concerned. Just be patient.

WHS, assuming the Government doesn't confiscate it all by then.

[sirja]

WHS, assuming the Government doesn't confiscate it all by then.

Good point!!

[barrydidit]

This isn't the USA.

There was a lorry driver on R4 talking about the immigrants getting more aggressive trying to get a ride across the pond. He now carried a self defence weapon... A cricket bat! Love it.

I heard that too. I thought to myself 'I bet he's armed with a lot more than a fecking bat and he's not going to fess up about it on the BBC either'. Tazer would be my guess.

[ELBBUBKUNPS]

Dogs of footies didn't do to well this year Dogs of The Footsie 2015 portfolio | Money Observer I had Direct Line but sold way, way to early god damn it, after 3 years investing in shares (and not small amounts) I'm out thank of it and lucky to come out flat. As a small private investor its all down to luck imo, the market makers can still move the markets they way they want at the cost of the smaller investors.

[DimPrawn]

Dogs of footies didn't do to well this year Dogs of The Footsie 2015 portfolio | Money Observer I had Direct Line but sold way, way to early god damn it, after 3 years investing in shares (and not small amounts) I'm out thank of it and lucky to come out flat. As a small private investor its all down to luck imo, the market makers can still move the markets they way they want at the cost of the smaller investors.

I can see why:

BHP Billiton (BLT) 69 £14.43 £510.19 -485.48 (-48.76%)
BP (BP.) 236 £4.245 £821.75 -180.07 (-17.97%)
Centrica (CNA) 340 £2.938 £691.90 -307.02 (-30.74%)
Direct Line Insurance (DLG) 320 £3.125 £1,298.56 +298.56 (+29.86%)
GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) 68 £14.67 £898.96 -98.60 (-9.88%)
HSBC Holdings (HSBA) 164 £6.096 £840.99 -158.75 (-15.88%)
Morrison (WM) Supermarkets (MRW) 556 £1.799 £788.41 -211.84 (-21.18%)
Royal Dutch Shell B (RDSB) 48 £21.045 £735.84 -274.32 (-27.16%)
SSE (SSE) 62 £16.09 £893.42 -104.16 (-10.44%)
Standard Chartered (STAN) 113 £8.877 £579.58 -423.52 (-42.22%)

Mining, Utilities and Energy heavy, these are seriously fooked market segments.

And Morrisons hammered by Aldi and Lidl.