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Better leave it to mrs Nosenout. She is obviously the brains of Nosenout’s independent traders.
How’s your luck with shares these days?
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Sounds more like a MIF.MILF
The nanny state in action.
Stocks starting to rebound according to Bloomberg.
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My brother now lives off income from dividends, he says he couldn't care less what the share price does as long as they are a good divi payer.
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are you having a misoverestimation of your ability to understand?
Post was made around the vertical dotted line. I don't remember where I came out. Probably the shorter one, may have re-entered.
What's ur problem?
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Entirely sensible. It does take some motivation - you know, like greed, or a desire to fight from a chair.
It's not hard as such, it's very very easy to get too nervous/emotional about it and take bad decisions
There's a ton of eduimificational youtubes now, but you'd need to practice. Not for everyone.
Actually my motvation was to earn enough to pay for care in old age. That's done, but I'm stuck mobility-wise so there's not a lot I can do.
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No prob, yes one does need to check all those clever-soundng phrases and aphorisms which turn out to be not soooo reliable.
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That's become quite popular, with good reason. Some smaller companies give huge divis, but the share price drops by the same % every year, so it does matter! Something like HSBC has been great. Fporm 12 months ago it went up 50%, though it's only up 20% now, AND gives something near 9% div iirc. There's lots of online advice about those because everyone has much the same aim.
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Bonkers day to be trading. There was one point where there was some fake nooz about trump delaying the tariffs. The market was moving up so everyone was long. Then it got a turbo boost. I was in Nasdaq futures, which is very popular. It shot up $700 (on about 19k). So for every share you owned or had borrowed, you won $700. Keen amateurs might with leverage have say 50 (would need a 50k pot). Whoop whoops when the rise stopped and everyone closed, but then it turned south, so everyone went short, for the same amount. It was making W patterns all day, but not as big as that one. Quite tiring, in its way.
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I guess it has a lot to do with skill and knowledge and also some amount of luck?
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My pensions have all taken a hit.
Looks like even the experts have caught a cold
Looks like even the experts have caught a cold
Corporal Jones!!!
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Money worshipper, probably guilty, but the intention isn't to brag, more to say this is how it works and anyone - on here, say - should be able to do it.
It doesn't always work if you're imprudent.
I was quite LONG in gold. I said so here. ie I had too much. I sized up too late, and it dropped. It's down, like 5 figures. I sold some because it could go much further, and held some hoping for a rise. If I sold today it would be the biggest loss I've ever made. Have to "put it in perpective" though. As a percentage overall, and so on. Then it's mostly annoying... Quite annoying.
Now may NOT be a good time to buy the dip. We couuld have another 20-40% drop care of the Orange one, followed by a period of stagflation.
Then a bigger war with Russia, and China, and Iran.
