Hello again… This is just a few of my musings at the end of the month… as much for my benefit as yours. I can look back and see what I have been doing and it forces me to spot things that I might prefer to forget!… Read the rest...
Author: Investor John
Investing as a Private investor John has shown success over the last 20 years with a straight forward common sense approach to investing - He can help you to learn and will gladly share his knowledge to get you started.
The year that was 2019…
In Summary my overall portfolio is up by 21% for 2019 🙂
Number of Trades
Buy Trades 44 – (24 Different companies bought the rest of the trades were topping up existing holdings)
Sell Trades 30 (25 Different companies sold)
I have been adding capital to my portfolio throughout the year so this means I am buying into some new stocks and adding to existing holdings that are doing well and averaging up.… Read the rest...
Checking out of Checkit CKT
Another holding bites the dust as the tender offer for Checkit completed with funds for the accepted portion of my tendered shares dropped into my account on the 5th of December (65p per share).
The remaining shares were credited back into my account at around 16:20 pm.… Read the rest...
SOLD – MCL Morses Club 118p
As I had said I want to reduce the number of holdings that I have to make my portfolio more concentrated. When you hold too many stocks your time is spread across a lot of companies and you will find it harder to keep on top of things.… Read the rest...
Share Dealing Costs – What charges do I have to pay?
When you buy a share in your chosen company there are a few Share dealing costs that you would need to be aware of…
Namely the 3 dealing costs below
- Broker Commission
- Stamp Duty
- Spread
I will attempt to explain them briefly below…
Broker Commission
As I explained in my earlier post – Picking a Stockbroker you will be charged a commission any time you buy or sell any even if you only buy 1 share!… Read the rest...
Stock Market opening hours UK and US
Find out here what time the stock market opens at in both the UK and the USA – What else should you be aware off in terms of the timetable of Daily events as a Trader??
OPENING BELL!
Stock Market opening hours UK
The London Stock Exchange UK opens at 8am and closes at 4:30pm
Note: it is closed completely on UK Public and Bank Holidays
RNS News is released before the Market opens at 7am so you can see your company news and reports and you have a bit of time to plan any required action that you may want to take as a result.… Read the rest...
Different Trade and order types explained
In my earlier post about Picking a Stockbroker I mentioned that there was different ways to place an order to buy or sell shares…
… Read the rest...You may also want to check that they offer some different trade types apart from the standard “Quote and Deal” Buy and Sell orders.
What is a Ticker Code?
The Ticker code for a share is a few Letters and numbers that are used to identify the company on the Stock market
A few examples would be
Easyjet = EZJ
British Telecom = BT
Dominoes Pizza = DOM
Hangar Eight = HGR8
You will use these to add shares to your monitor in Advfn and to buy and Sell shares with your broker they are a bit like an abbreviation.… Read the rest...
Picking a Stockbroker
Okay so you have gathered up some funds?
And done your research??
Good – now in order to buy a share you are going to need a Stockbroker. Here I hope to help you in the task of Picking a Stockbroker
For the purposes of this post I will only be discussing Execution Only stockbrokers.… Read the rest...
What is AIM?
AIM is the London Stock Exchange’s international market for smaller growing companies. They are not only smaller but also higher risk! This Market is not as tightly regulated as the main market but if you are careful you can find some gems that give great gains e.g… Read the rest...