Reply to: 10 warning signs for investors 2016

[FatLazyContractor]

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

[LucidDementia]

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

Silver +1

[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.

[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.

[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.

[sirja]

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

Good point!!

[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.

[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.

[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?

[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.

[Martin Scroatman]

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

[PurpleGorilla]

If house prices keep doubling, wgas!

Says the baby boomer.

[DimPrawn]

If house prices keep doubling, wgas!

[LucidDementia]

It's all down to Nixon.

FTFY

[PurpleGorilla]

Not to worry. We'll soon have Trump in the White House, Le Pen in the Élysée Palace and Comrade Corbyn in No 10. What could go wrong??

Nothing to do with them, but C'est la vie if they get the blame. This bubble is the last 30 years of failed policy culmination in QE ZIRP. Regan & Thatcher. Maybe even as far back as Nixon.