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Buying shares....
poolielad
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Who is the best company to use to buy shares online, and how much admin would i pay to buy 2000 pounds worth of shares???
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About £10-£15. plus 0.5% stamp duty.Krusty & Phil Madoff, 1990 - 2007:
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Be aware that £2000 is only enough to get you exposure to two companies at most, and ideally only one. You need to be putting in about £2000 per company for 10 or so companies across different sectors, otherwise you don't have diversification and you'll possibly get hammered in the current environment.Mmmm, credit crunch. Tasty.0
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Codswallop, if you have 2k to spend on equities, you can put it across more than 1 or 2 companies.
You can, but then your profit point moves out accordingly. If you want to buy in and need a 3% to 5% move before you've even made a profit, go right ahead. If your target is a gain that exceeds interest rates available on cash you're looking at a 10% - 13% move on every share. Big ask.Mmmm, credit crunch. Tasty.0 -
You can, but then your profit point moves out accordingly. If you want to buy in and need a 3% to 5% move before you've even made a profit, go right ahead. If your target is a gain that exceeds interest rates available on cash you're looking at a 10% - 13% move on every share. Big ask.
Your right. But It was your previous post that was innacurate:-
Quote - Be aware that £2000 is only enough to get you exposure to two companies at most, and ideally only one.Liquidity is when you look at your investment portfolio and **** your pants0 -
Unless you have a compelling reason to buy a particular company, ie you have a company in mind that you really want to invest all your money in, then I'd be inclined to look at an ETF or some other form of diversified fund with that sort of moneyHope for the best.....Plan for the worst!
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Your right. But It was your previous post that was innacurate:-
Quote - Be aware that £2000 is only enough to get you exposure to two companies at most, and ideally only one.
That's extremely pedantic. Minimum trade value of some execution brokers is £50, so technically £150 is enough to get you exposure to more than 2 companies, but it doesn't mean it's sensible.
Just imagine I added "to give you an expectation of reasonable return" to the end of that quote.Mmmm, credit crunch. Tasty.0 -
We seem to be forgetting dividends.0
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We seem to be forgetting dividends.
I don't think we've forgotten them, just not sure exactly what relevance they have to the original discussion (best execution broker).Stavros wrote:Then we wouldn't have been arguing the toss would we?
Wasn't me doing the arguing
Mmmm, credit crunch. Tasty.0
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