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Hi Lily Thanks for answering after all these years! :) I guess by the way your post begins with 'unfortunately' it was not a happy period in your life. Hope all is better for you and your parents now. But how comes you are on this site? Are you dabbling in a bit of trading yourself...

I knew it wasn't THAT simple ! The 'divisor' is the spanner in the works. So my original theoretical situation IS possible (?) where the constituents of the index and their individual share prices are the same as several months ago but the index is a different figure.........yes? Another way...

Thanks for the answer Bramble.

If that is right then the index would go from 4700 to 5000 literally overnight, on the day the old stocks are reintroduced. Is that correct? Still doesn't seem right......

I really feel as if I should know the answer to this (seemingly?) simple question but no-one else has ever been able to give me a satisfactory answer...... :confused: In this theoretical scenario lets say the FTSE100 index is at 5000. The technology stocks are all the rage and at the next...

Hi Ivorm i had a similar(ish) problem when trying to simply put more memory into my Dell a while ago. After trying 4 different Memory SIMMS from different companies and being advised by several 'experts' of dozens of possible solutions (including getting a whole new motherboard) after several...

I'm always surprised by how most people have the contrast and brightness set SO high, whether on CRT or flatties. If it's on lower contrast/brightness i can happily sit in front of the screens for hours....(often have to, to try and claw back those losses....)....and I think it helps extend the...

Hi Stevet and Mma Just wanted to say, as a fellow full time trader, how quite impressed I am that you manage to find the time and energy to argue the toss about these matters. I couldn't do it. But both of you are right, both of you are wrong. There are as many ways of looking at the market...

Hi folks That must surely go in the "Not to be Touched with your Neighbour's Barge Pole" category. Better than 100% return after 1 year? :eek: Banks happily take in money at 1% and lend it out at 5% (on a mortgage). No way are they going to pay out 100%+ There are no magical, mysterious...

I was not banned exactly but IG refused to do my size (only £50/pt). Over the course of a fortnight i had put on 6 or 7 daily ftse bets for £50/pt. I put these on at around 7/8pm so got a larger bid/offer spread but was happy to accept this. I let them all expire on the next days close. After...

Hi all, its been a while since I checked t2w as i've been on hols spending my ill-gotten trading gains(!) but for what it's (not) worth my thoughts on the original questions by 'Enchanter' are thus: The question is much simpler than everybody is making out so it deserves a simple answer: 'As...

If you're losing money, you're losing money, how ever much you start with. But which would you rather do, which would be easier, of these two?: a) try to make 100% per year starting with 5k b) try to make 10% per year starting with 100k There is absolutely nothing wrong with starting out...

I presently use 2 computers connected by a 'Linksys Etherfast 5-port workgroup hub' and BT ADSL Broadband. The modem (BT supplied Alcatel speedtouch USB) goes into the first 'main' computer -USB connection - and the second computer gets its internet connection through the first. (I don't know...

Does anybody know what happened to John Urbanek, the day-trader who wrote a weekly column in the Sunday Times for a year or so? He gave up his job in insurance, sold his house, moved his family into a smaller place and used the resulting £100k-odd to trade full time for a living. He wrote...

Options - thanks for the welcome. "The only dreams worth having are those which are attainable." ? I believe I already wrote something very similar further up this thread - addressing FTSE-B. I would still like to know your rationale behind your belief that doubling 10k is easier than...