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Big Jeff said:
Shares are great if you are called Bezos or Gates but for the average employed punter dreaming of a Sunseeker or a Citation I’m afraid it’s just a dream that’s unlikely to be realised. You can also lose a great deal of money. The world is volatile and so is finance.
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two of my mates have lost about 10k each in sirius minerals :lol:
 

Never bothered to get into shares ...seemed a sure fire way of losing a lot of money if you didn’t know what you were doing.
Bricks n mortar still takes some beating . Commercial property averaging over 15% net yield.
Golds doing decent aswell £1422 Troy ounce .
 
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Big Jeff said:
Shares are great if you are called Bezos or Gates but for the average employed punter dreaming of a Sunseeker or a Citation I’m afraid it’s just a dream that’s unlikely to be realised. You can also lose a great deal of money. The world is volatile and so is finance.
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You've got the wrong idea,you need patience.

I do / did very well out of Kellogg's shares,I liked the idea that people wake up and have Cornflakes and other cereals for breakfast.

Very difficult to lose money.You buy shares in Kellogg's today and it is 50/50 whether they go up or down tomorrow.If you think they will still be selling Cornflakes ( and Pringles) in 30 years time then there you go.

They've never missed paying a dividend in the 30 years I have owned them.Anytime you want you can sell them.You have total control over how much you lose

To give you an idea then 40 years ago Kellogg's were around $2.50 a share,they are now around $64.I like buying things like that and just being patient.
 
Hoyahamma said:
You've got the wrong idea,you need patience.

I do / did very well out of Kellogg's shares,I liked the idea that people wake up and have Cornflakes and other cereals for breakfast.

Very difficult to lose money.You buy shares in Kellogg's today and it is 50/50 whether they go up or down tomorrow.If you think they will still be selling Cornflakes ( and Pringles) in 30 years time then there you go.

They've never missed paying a dividend in the 30 years I have owned them.Anytime you want you can sell them.You have total control over how much you lose

To give you an idea then 40 years ago Kellogg's were around $2.50 a share,they are now around $64.I like buying things like that and just being patient.
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I like the fact that people, after their cornflakes, get into a car and use petrol to get to work.


Haway the oil
 
monkeytassle said:
Unless you're a seed investor index is best. Not being funny but our firm had the finest minds from all over the world working out what is a but and what is a sell. Some chump from Boldon isn't going to beat that research. You light be lucky making 11% in a week but if you're stock picking as a retail investor bottom line is you'll lose
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Chump ? , I quite like a 1960’s sort of insult thrown my way .

Carry on.
 
JJH said:
Never bothered to get into shares ...seemed a sure fire way of losing a lot of money if you didn’t know what you were doing.
Bricks n mortar still takes some beating . Commercial property averaging over 15% net yield.
Golds doing decent aswell £1422 Troy ounce .
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Now that the genie is out of the bottle with regards to home working, investors are going to lose a fortune in commercial property over next few years. Once leases are up, a lot of businesses will be downsizing office space.

As MT says individual shares I wouldn't bother with, need to do lots of research etc, but global index trackers are a good long term investment.
 
Hoyahamma said:
You've got the wrong idea,you need patience.

I do / did very well out of Kellogg's shares,I liked the idea that people wake up and have Cornflakes and other cereals for breakfast.

Very difficult to lose money.You buy shares in Kellogg's today and it is 50/50 whether they go up or down tomorrow.If you think they will still be selling Cornflakes ( and Pringles) in 30 years time then there you go.

They've never missed paying a dividend in the 30 years I have owned them.Anytime you want you can sell them.You have total control over how much you lose

To give you an idea then 40 years ago Kellogg's were around $2.50 a share,they are now around $64.I like buying things like that and just being patient.
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You're right in the sense that it is 50/50 (although fees would eat into that a bit).

A simplistic way of doing it is buying into companies whose products you like. Still a punt but probably less so than trying to be clever and buy bargains in fields you know nothing about - needs a lot of reading to make any success of that.
 
42 said:
Now that the genie is out of the bottle with regards to home working, investors are going to lose a fortune in commercial property over next few years. Once leases are up, a lot of businesses will be downsizing office space.

As MT says individual shares I wouldn't bother with, need to do lots of research etc, but global index trackers are a good long term investment.
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I’m not on about large office space . More small retail / open space / multi class use type of city center location.
Demand seems to be constant aslong as you keep rents attractive and work with the tenant. Can be rewarding not just financially but morally helping someone on startup can have its own rewards.
 
JJH said:
I’m not on about large office space . More small retail / open space / multi class use type of city center location.
Demand seems to be constant aslong as you keep rents attractive and work with the tenant. Can be rewarding not just financially but morally helping someone on startup can have its own rewards.
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Think demend for them is going to be down anarl
 
toxic tracksuit said:
They were bought out, so lost forever.

Can I reiterate Open Orphan as a gamble. Could double by this time next week.
De La Rue is very undervalued. down to 41p, was 300p this time last year, defo worth a punt.
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De la rue looks like a disaster to me, how much longer are we going to be printing bank notes in big quantities? Think they were already losing contracts.
 
Select coaches said:
De la rue looks like a disaster to me, how much longer are we going to be printing bank notes in big quantities? Think they were already losing contracts.
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Only light at the end of the tunnel is they get so cheap they'll get snapped up. They rejected an offer from a French firm in 2011 I think in the region of 935p a share. They are now trading at 42p.
 
Flared Hicks said:
Only light at the end of the tunnel is they get so cheap they'll get snapped up. They rejected an offer from a French firm in 2011 I think in the region of 935p a share. They are now trading at 42p.
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This.
Their capital value is worth ~£150M so in theory there is x2 or x3 value. Their annual report is out early next month which Im sure will show they have cut costs / hit their sales targets which will see a jump.
The passport thing is old news - that brought the price down over a year ago.
Banknote usage was still growing before Covid19 with many counties improving security levels, which is DLR's bag. However they may now rethink with the sudden surge in contactless
 
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