My US shares

[Tommy Tainant]

I am doing all right this year but the stocks doing better have shifted from last year. I did well with tech last year but this year I am doing well with dull income shares. Sachem Capital being my best performer.

Overall my UK holdings are doing better than the US with Europe doing better than both. There seems to be more optimism around these days.

 

[Mac1958]

I am doing all right this year but the stocks doing better have shifted from last year. I did well with tech last year but this year I am doing well with dull income shares. Sachem Capital being my best performer.

Overall my UK holdings are doing better than the US with Europe doing better than both. There seems to be more optimism around these days.

It's boring value stocks' turn. If interest rates go up, get out of tech.

 

[Tommy Tainant]

I am doing all right this year but the stocks doing better have shifted from last year. I did well with tech last year but this year I am doing well with dull income shares. Sachem Capital being my best performer.

Overall my UK holdings are doing better than the US with Europe doing better than both. There seems to be more optimism around these days.

It's boring value stocks' turn. If interest rates go up, get out of tech.

I am pretty much out of tech now. I take profits at a certain level so all my tech holdings now are stuff I pretty much have for free. I find the US markets very exciting but some of the message boards seem more akin to a casino. There seem to be a lot of people who perhaps should not be investing.

 

[Mac1958]

I am doing all right this year but the stocks doing better have shifted from last year. I did well with tech last year but this year I am doing well with dull income shares. Sachem Capital being my best performer.

Overall my UK holdings are doing better than the US with Europe doing better than both. There seems to be more optimism around these days.

It's boring value stocks' turn. If interest rates go up, get out of tech.

I am pretty much out of tech now. I take profits at a certain level so all my tech holdings now are stuff I pretty much have for free. I find the US markets very exciting but some of the message boards seem more akin to a casino. There seem to be a lot of people who perhaps should not be investing.

Oh, definitely. Plus there are many who try to push thinly-traded stocks to drive the price up and sell ("pump and dump").

Best to find a good system, stick to it, and ignore the loonies.

 

[Tommy Tainant]

I am doing all right this year but the stocks doing better have shifted from last year. I did well with tech last year but this year I am doing well with dull income shares. Sachem Capital being my best performer.

Overall my UK holdings are doing better than the US with Europe doing better than both. There seems to be more optimism around these days.

It's boring value stocks' turn. If interest rates go up, get out of tech.

I am pretty much out of tech now. I take profits at a certain level so all my tech holdings now are stuff I pretty much have for free. I find the US markets very exciting but some of the message boards seem more akin to a casino. There seem to be a lot of people who perhaps should not be investing.

Oh, definitely. Plus there are many who try to push thinly-traded stocks to drive the price up and sell ("pump and dump").

Best to find a good system, stick to it, and ignore the loonies.

Ive seen a lot of that. Been a bit nervous when Ive bought stock I think looks decent and then find the pump and dump brigade all over it. Fingers crossed.

 

[Likkmee]

Focus on minerals......not gold and silver. Stuff people actually MUST use.
Then look at point A to point B.
Face masks are good !
Body bags will become more and more in demand.
Investing is simple.

 

[Gdjjr]

Body bags will become more and more in demand.

Good point!

 

[Dekster]

My 401K funds are mainly in global stocks. My personal managed stocks are strictly short-term investments these days. I look for a solid company whose lower share price stock gets hammered under some silly pretense or the other, buy in, and then sell out as soon as its recovery starts to taper off. I can go months with no stocks and then make 10-20% over a few months and then go back to holding none again. My biggest investments are and will always be real estate. Stocks are just a way to make a little extra every now and then when the planets are aligned.

 

[DudleySmith]

lol it's always hilarious when gamblers keep calling themselves 'investors', as if they actually know all about the companies they're betting on.

 

[DudleySmith]

Focus on minerals......not gold and silver. Stuff people actually MUST use.
Then look at point A to point B.
Face masks are good !
Body bags will become more and more in demand.
Investing is simple.

Really? Gold is way up, some 110% over the last three years or so. Don't keep up with silver outside of antique coins, silver dollars and jewelry, but plenty of people make good money with little or no risk in both.

 

[the other mike]

I invested in some land with good clean well water.
Been sitting in my bathtub filling these up.

 

[Issa]

lol it's always hilarious when gamblers keep calling themselves 'investors', as if they actually know all about the companies they're betting on.

Many do, at least I do...
You have to know the company inside out.

 

[DudleySmith]

lol it's always hilarious when gamblers keep calling themselves 'investors', as if they actually know all about the companies they're betting on.

Many do, at least I do...
You have to know the company inside out.

Thats's true, but many CFO's. CEO's, and accountants lie on their 10K's and everything else. Others, like many hedge funds and P/E firms, don't make any reports at all, even to investors.

 

[Issa]

lol it's always hilarious when gamblers keep calling themselves 'investors', as if they actually know all about the companies they're betting on.

Many do, at least I do...
You have to know the company inside out.

Thats's true, but many CFO's. CEO's, and accountants lie on their 10K's and everything else. Others, like many hedge funds and P/E firms, don't make any reports at all, even to investors.

Not the case for good established companies.
Investing in stocks is like any other business investment one has to do his or her homework.

 

[Tommy Tainant]

lol it's always hilarious when gamblers keep calling themselves 'investors', as if they actually know all about the companies they're betting on.

Many do, at least I do...
You have to know the company inside out.

Thats's true, but many CFO's. CEO's, and accountants lie on their 10K's and everything else. Others, like many hedge funds and P/E firms, don't make any reports at all, even to investors.

The US companies I have money in seem to be very transparent. Certainly compared to their UK counterparts. I get invites every week to some conference call. In the UK its just the big funds that get that level of info not the individual.

 

[DudleySmith]

lol it's always hilarious when gamblers keep calling themselves 'investors', as if they actually know all about the companies they're betting on.

Many do, at least I do...
You have to know the company inside out.

Thats's true, but many CFO's. CEO's, and accountants lie on their 10K's and everything else. Others, like many hedge funds and P/E firms, don't make any reports at all, even to investors.

The US companies I have money in seem to be very transparent. Certainly compared to their UK counterparts. I get invites every week to some conference call. In the UK its just the big funds that get that level of info not the individual.

Ye,s I am always amazed at EU laws,; one would expect them to be a lot more thorough than the U.S.'s, which were essentially written by the market operators themselves, but it seems that isn't the case. European banks got hit hard by the mortgage collapse here, for instance, which I would thought they would easily have avoided. In any case, the GAAP changes in the 1980's makes what corporations have to report and can claim as 'equities' along with assorted off-shoring practices pretty much useless to me as proof of performance and actual net gains and losses.

 

[Tommy Tainant]

lol it's always hilarious when gamblers keep calling themselves 'investors', as if they actually know all about the companies they're betting on.

Many do, at least I do...
You have to know the company inside out.

Thats's true, but many CFO's. CEO's, and accountants lie on their 10K's and everything else. Others, like many hedge funds and P/E firms, don't make any reports at all, even to investors.

The US companies I have money in seem to be very transparent. Certainly compared to their UK counterparts. I get invites every week to some conference call. In the UK its just the big funds that get that level of info not the individual.

Ye,s I am always amazed at EU laws,; one would expect them to be a lot more thorough than the U.S.'s, which were essentially written by the market operators themselves, but it seems that isn't the case. European banks got hit hard by the mortgage collapse here, for instance, which I would thought they would easily have avoided. In any case, the GAAP changes in the 1980's makes what corporations have to report and can claim as 'equities' along with assorted off-shoring practices pretty much useless to me as proof of performance and actual net gains and losses.

Its UK laws not the EU. The EU is bringing in a lot of tax avoidance offshore stuff this year which was one of the reasons the elites fought so hard for brexit. It wasnt a point that they ever made publicly for obvious reasons.

|Re th other stuff, the banks are international and have their fingers in many pies. After the last lot there was a call to split the banks in two, investment and retail, so that deposits could be safeguarded from the casino banking. It hasnt happened. Things are pretty much back to normal here and bankers bonuses are going through the roof again. Our government is made up of Goldmans,JPM and similar execs and I think they work for their friends rather than us.

Rishi Sunak - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

This guy is our chancellor, he manages the nations finances. He is typical of the current tories and has a wealth of interests that conflict with his day job. He has never introduced a tax that business didnt like and is currently at the centre of the lobbying scandal with former PM David Cameron.

Greensill: What is the David Cameron lobbying row about?

Why former PM David Cameron is being investigated over his links with a controversial financier.

www.bbc.co.uk

The UK is fucked.

lol it's always hilarious when gamblers keep calling themselves 'investors', as if they actually know all about the companies they're betting on.

Many do, at least I do...
You have to know the company inside out.

Thats's true, but many CFO's. CEO's, and accountants lie on their 10K's and everything else. Others, like many hedge funds and P/E firms, don't make any reports at all, even to investors.

The US companies I have money in seem to be very transparent. Certainly compared to their UK counterparts. I get invites every week to some conference call. In the UK its just the big funds that get that level of info not the individual.

Ye,s I am always amazed at EU laws,; one would expect them to be a lot more thorough than the U.S.'s, which were essentially written by the market operators themselves, but it seems that isn't the case. European banks got hit hard by the mortgage collapse here, for instance, which I would thought they would easily have avoided. In any case, the GAAP changes in the 1980's makes what corporations have to report and can claim as 'equities' along with assorted off-shoring practices pretty much useless to me as proof of performance and actual net gains and losses.

 

[Meister]

I pay somebody to look over my portfolio. It saves me from ulcers.

 

[Tommy Tainant]

I pay somebody to look over my portfolio. It saves me from ulcers.

I used to do that until I realised my investments were doing better than my funds.

 

[Meister]

I pay somebody to look over my portfolio. It saves me from ulcers.

I used to do that until I realised my investments were doing better than my funds.

I have individual stocks, muni bonds, and three real estate funds