Reply to: FTSE Again

[lukemg]

Got a few k in ISA waiting to be allocated. Thinking initial sum in low cost US tracker and a Pacific Tracker with monthly additions from now.
It's not exciting but I am becoming increasingly presuaded that a fair chunk should just be in lowest cost possible trackers....

[scooby]

Barclays now at £1.85 & Lloyds at 29p, still dropping.

Aquarius Platinum now at 98 down 3.5p. Bit annoying as I bought 2k worth at 101.5p. Now dropped over 70% in the last few months.

The good thing about increases in Divvy is that theory says its a good sign for the future, and that companies only increase div if confident it can be sustained and be consistent. In the same breath, reducing a div payout is not a good sign!

However, I wish i knew more than theory and could put it in to practice... I may need to take a few £k and give it a go, altho the last time I did that, I lost £2.5k on NR after the government raped it.

[MarillionFan]

Barclays at £1.90 excellent level.

Standard Life at 2.07, gives a divvy of over 6.5%, which rose 6% last time.

Some nice prices beginning to appear.

Barclays now at £1.85 & Lloyds at 29p, still dropping.

Aquarius Platinum now at 98 down 3.5p. Bit annoying as I bought 2k worth at 101.5p. Now dropped over 70% in the last few months.

[Jog On]

I'm still short EURO and silver from last week. This Greek stuff is starting to kick off...

[MarillionFan]

iirc it was you that was scrabbling around trying to find credit.

Cheap credit. Borrow it low & invest it high. It's like trying to explain business to a bunch of IT geeks.

[SupremeSpod]

Sorry, you're correct. I need to tailor my posts for some of you. Cause you aint even got a...

iirc it was you that was scrabbling around trying to find credit.

[MarillionFan]

Sorry, you're correct. I need to tailor my posts for some of you. Cause you aint even got a...

[AtW]

Standard Life at 2.07, gives a divvy of over 6.5%, which rose 6% last time.

[d000hg]

I'd like to day trade on this but don't have the funds available to gamble with until end July.

What about £10 you made at £4000/hr?
AtW.

[BlasterBates]

agreed ....doom overdone, the crash was yesteryear, fill yer boots.

[MarillionFan]

Barclays at £1.90 excellent level.

Standard Life at 2.07, gives a divvy of over 6.5%, which rose 6% last time.

Some nice prices beginning to appear.

[sirja]

Short the Euro, short the CAC do that from now till Sept and you should make a good bit of dosh. All railes should be sold

[suityou01]

Suitys prediction : The euro is currently at 1.2866 against the dollar. I don't think it will drop much lower, and will probably trade sideways all week around that level. Once Greece kick the can down the road again on Thursday I expect to buy a few hundred pips on the EUR/USD.

[BlasterBates]

Good 100 points drop this morning and presently down to 5470.

Pattern looks remarkably similar to last year. Sell in May, come back on St Legers day.

Absolutely ......

Take note people....you have a stock market paved with gold, all you need to do is go in there and pick it up.

Making money on the stock market is as simple as "ABC".

It'll rocket up again when the Greeks have swallowed their very untasty medicine. If not it will crash further so being paved with even more gold. Can't lose really. Whatever you do though don't invest in banks. Invest in things that won't go bust like mining, oil, telecomms companies. These co's have mountains and mountains of cash. Do note, that the gold miners have been crashing recently.

[MarillionFan]

I could have given you a heads-up on Yell. Mrs D was working for them (4 years) and was laid off when they shifted most of the operation to India.

Yell launch their new eMarket product this week. It's the final throw to become a major Internet player. I applied to work for them last year as I quite like the company but they'd filled the role I was looking at. They will either fly or die this year.