Stock market dealing

[foxhole]

I’m with Hargreaves Lansdowne .
Used AI to give me top performers in the various fields and then put £500 in 10 of them .
Not sure how often I should be checking them , looking for mid to long term growth.

 

[Justin Passing]

HL is ok. A bit expensive on the holding fee at 0.45% but it's soon reducing to 0.35.

What you did is sensible.
The only variation I would have suggested, but probably not actually bothered to do (!) is to buy half of each to start with, in case one goes ti tsup.
Let me know what you have and I can squeal If I see something.

There will be lots of wrinkles to learn.
One is that you have to order by 8 a.m if you want to buy or sell something that day. Sometimes they "submit" before thea 8am, sometimes a bit later. After that time you can't cancel.
One thing you may not have found yet is the Portfolio analysis tool. It's very good and my other platforms don't have it.
You can easily add another fund tp the graph to see what would have happened, etc.

Two you might want to compare with, if you don't have them in your 5, are
Artemis Global Income
Barings South Korea
For the tech sector the one I found best is Polar Capital Glocal Tech Hedged. It's an "offshore" fund, Ireland. Lots are.

HL's screener is pretty useless, because it only goes down to 3 months. Yry the one at AJ Bell. The main funds are at HL as well.

Silver and Gold took a hit today when Scott Bessant said something minor - their prices are fragile, so I got out of most of them. Everyone's waiting for a sizeable pullback, though they may well go back up after. Kept some gold.

Silver IS in short supply, but AI thought 20% of the price was speculator's effect, so it's fickle.

 

[foxhole]

Currently have these.

 

[JohnD]

I’m with Hargreaves Lansdowne .
Used AI to give me top performers in the various fields and then put £500 in 10 of them .
Not sure how often I should be checking them , looking for mid to long term growth.

Investing is not the same as dealing,

For a long term investment in a pooled fund, once a year is plenty. If you don't trust the fund enough to do do that, find one you do trust.

Some people say you should not look at them for 20 years.

Though last years top performer is unlikely to be top performer in ten years time.

You can be sure that an investment with high charges will do worse than a similar one with low charges.

Investments tend to revert to the mean. Short term fluctuations make people look like stars by sheer chance. If you ever want to win a competition for imaginary investment performance, pick lots of high-risk off the wall ideas. Most of them will crash and burn. One might rise like a rocket. You won't find out which until too late. This trick is often used by people who aren't investing their own money, but take a big slice off the mug punters. If you did that with your own money, chances are you would end up penniless.