Recent content by johnh77

I’ve only made 2 trades. Tesla while it’s down but I know it’s going to fly as legacy manufacturers have soo much stock they’re going to have to sell at a loss. And BYD I’m up, I don’t know how to read it to be honest I’ll post a picture. But again I know it will do well for the same reason as...

Can anyone help with this trade on etoro. It’s showing orders received. Does that mean my trades have been placed or am I doing something wrong?

Ahhh okay thanks. I need to wait for my driving licence to get back for the photo ID to make an account.

Hi all, I’m new so please bare with me if this is a stupid question… I’ve so far tried 3 platforms to buy BYD CO LTD shares!! Vanguard, Interactive Brokers and IG (Google makes it look like they sell these shares but I opened an account and they don’t). They’ve offered me a CFD account but...

Hi all, I’m trying to buy BYD stock on Interactive Broker, it’s a Pink trade so I was told that was penny stocks. I’ve gone into trade permissions and I get this dialogue box. Can anyone help, what would I need to change to get this to work?

Thanks Tim appreciate your views. I’m at a Samual Leeds property investment course tomorrow so I’ll see what the options are there. I might be able to free up money in the house I own outright and buy another. I’m unsure as the compound interest after using a lump sum is attractive even at 8%...

Agreed I definitely need to make a move on the cars and get that stable. I’ve been out of the game for so long even that will be like starting again. I’m still hoping to learn stocks alongside. For the long haul the S&P500 and Total US market look fairly reliable when looking at decades...

That’s 5 significant dips in 20 years!! So I can see it can be volatile. So even though the recent average has been 12% is this what drags it down to 8%?

Hi Tim, I own the rental outright. I live in the one I still pay a mortgage on. I was thinking re-mortgage the rental to free up a lump sum and the rent would cover the re-mortgage payments. Again this could be pie in the sky it’s not something I’ve looked into yet. My thoughts were along...

I think it was a few hundred, but that’s enough to him he’s still at uni. My son did asked his mate to teach him at some point, but I think this has stung him and put him off tbh. He’s going to finish his LPC/masters at uni first and come back to this when he’s earning more.

I’ve told him to steer clear. He thought he was getting actual stocks. One of his friends trades forex and is making a few thousand a month so I think his mate made it out to be simple.

Well after watch loads of YouTube vids about graphing and cross price engulfing candlesticks I thought the same tbh. With AI being so good nowadays wouldn’t the market just be run by feeding an AI all trading from forever data and letting a bot trade? But then again that would have happened by...

I’m renting another house out so I’d be thinking about using that to borrow against. However the thought does flip my stomach!! My current situation is financially terrible after getting short changed in a redundancy and my own company not surviving lockdown. Freeing up money in that house seems...

Ahhh okay yes that makes sense, I found the average was 10% since inception so I thought 12% might be a pretty realistic bet but 8% is still okay. I’ve just looked at drawdowns? Is that 50% an average over drawdowns over a specific time period or do you mean 1 offs when it dips that low...