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Re: iWeb Change to Scottish Widows
IWeb's TradePlans are different to regular investingThey are buy limit or stop loss instructions where you can set an upper or lower price to trade for anything on an exchange, so ETFs, investment tr…1 -
Re: My Off-grid and need to be frugal diary
I've been given a lot of cooking apples so I'll be making a lot of apple pies tomorrow. I have some frozen shortcrust pastry so I'll get that out of the freezer tonight ready to use tomorrow. DH went…4 -
Re: The Top Regular Savers Discussion Thread
Newcastle BS I initially thought the same (even though I'd already passed the ID check the first time round in 2024 when I had originally applied for an account then)... but after the ID upload as pe…1 -
Re: Selling up to pay off debts and start over
I was in a similar situation to you bmchutch1. We were up to our eye balls in personal debt with no way out as we were merely maintaining everything without really making any inroads in to our debt. …1 -
Re: Money markets
From my limited understanding, the mmf will be investing by giving cash from the fund to many corporations who want to borrow that cash, with very short term maturities (weeks), which the mmf fund co…3 -
Re: Money markets
Worth noting that about a year ago there were stories in the media about money market funds being more risky than the perception, since if everyone wanted to take their money out at the same time, th…2 -
Re: with all the coverage of impending market crashes, what are you doing?
I’m 41. When I started investing I toyed with so many options when I started out with ETFs. I flirted with defence ETFs, AI concentrated stocks, small caps, mid caps, gold, silver and so on. I like t…1 -
Re: Tried and tested way to remove power steering oil from granite block driveway?
I spilt red power steering fluid on my concrete garage floor. I used neat Fairy liquid and a few splashes of water and worked with a stiff brush and it worked a treat.1 -
Re: Melton Building Society - Migrating Computer Systems
Whoops, test data in the live system. Bit naughty.1 -
Re: Aim share loss and cap gains
Yes you can , but if they were not losses carried forward from the previous 2024/25 tax year the online CGT calculator for residential property gains, does not appear to allow you to claim losses inc…1