Investing in shares for the first time

Doshwaster

FCRangers wrote: »

After reading this and noticing my ISA is paying 0.1% I'm happy to though a few £100 into an account and see what happens.

If your Cash ISA is only paying 0.1% then you really need to move it. There are accounts paying around 3%. You need to keep an eye on the rates as the banks will attract you with a good headline rate then drop it to 0.1% after a year.

fozzeh

I like this report as sums up what I said (wahoo! Something right):

http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/Business/Retail-Expert-Neil-Saunders-Of-Verdict-Writes-For-Sky-News-On-The-Challenges-Facing-HMV/Article/201106116007193?lpos=Business_First_UK_News_Feature_Teaser_Region_0&lid=ARTICLE_16007193_Retail_Expert_Neil_Saunders_Of_Verdict_Writes_For_Sky_News_On_The_Challenges_Facing_HMV

"If HMV is to succeed it absolutely must offer something a bit different; at the moment it is hard to figure out exactly what that point of difference will be."

Back down to 10.5p now too. Still say no.

Huss001

which shares do you think have growth potential and you are keeping your eyes on

Toby1990

Not that funny seems as though decided to sell after the news had made it go to 14p then back to 10p. I would of only got it at 10p anyway if I put 1k in it, being at work and that. When did you say buy at 8p?

Obviously they need to think of something different.

sabretoothtigger

Sounds surprisingly canny. Shares dont often move straight up, could back to 9 then to 18 but most likely not that easy


Banks offering more debt is usually to their profit more then the companys. I remember this is how channel tunnel got swallowed up.

PE reads 1.6 but thats retrospective. The easy way to choose is companys with good value shares is the ones set to surprise the world with their growth like MS in 1990, still regretting that one or Apple has a unique niche. Based on low mobile usage in usa apple might be predicted to some extent.
Heard one guy describe synchronica which is an email to text service useful to low income high growth countries, its a good idea at the least

What companies should I invest in and how do I go about 'safely' choosing.

none of the above is safe. unit trust trackers are safe. That or buy a big company with good cashflow which ironically is probably not the banks

fozzeh

sabretoothtigger wrote: »

Heard one guy describe synchronica which is an email to text service useful to low income high growth countries, its a good idea at the least

Just had a quick look and quite a bit of promising news on Synchronica.

Mobile messaging systems provider Synchronica's has signed an expansion order with a tier-one mobile operator group targeting Latin America. The group-wide contract covers the deployment of Synchronica Mobile Gateway 6 across all its Latin American subsidiaries. This is the second Tier-1 operator expanding a group-wide agreement with Synchronica. In aggregate, Synchronica's contracts with operators in the region cover more than nine out of every 10 mobile users in Mexico and Argentina and five out of every 10 mobile users in Brazil, the company said. Launched in February, Mobile Gateway 6 introduces Pre-RCS Unified Messaging capabilities, with a presence-enabled address book, J2ME client, support for xHTML browsers, and document transcoding capabilities. It provides push Email, synchronization, instant messaging and social networking even on low-end devices. Mobile Gateway aims to enable the group's consumer, prosumer and business subscribers to access advanced messaging without upgrading or replacing their existing mobile handsets.


Mobile messaging systems provider Synchronica's revenue for the first quarter ended 31 March increased 271 percent to USD 1.93 million from USD 0.52 million in the same period last year. The company moved to a net profit of USD 0.865 million or USD 0.009 per share from a net loss of USD 2.278 million or USD 0.059 loss per share. EBITDA loss excluding exceptional items increased to USD 1.99 million from USD 1.83 million. Total number of operator customers increased to more than eighty with a total addressable market which exceeds 1.3 billion potential subscribers. Cash and cash equivalents amounted to USD 0.6 million at the end of the period.

Very volatile though. 6m growth is good but 1y and YTD are down. Could be a good one to hold maybe.

Just_landed

FCRangers wrote: »

After reading this and noticing my ISA is paying 0.1% I'm happy to though a few £100 into an account and see what happens. Am I correct in working out on iii.co.uk they only charge £1.5 for charge and £10 when I sell?

So if I buy £200 of BP shares they need to go up to £211.51 to make a profit?

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The buy price of BP shares @16:30 today was 449.6 pence. So buying £200 worth would work out like this 42 shares x 449.6 pence which = £188.832 x (0.5% = £0.95) = £189.78 + £10.00 dealing charge iii = £199.78 to buy 42 shares. Divide 199.78 by 42 and each share stands @ £4.76 . When you sell the shares you would need to get £209.78 divide by 42 = £5.00 a share to break even because of the dealing charge to sell of £10.00 with iii. So each share would have to rise by 50 pence to get your money back, which is quite a big increase.

TheMatrix_2

Toby1990 wrote: »

Definitely! Alot of money could of been made shorting that 2 years ago... The music industries going to down the drain in the whole! If you could afford to loose it ( I am planning the same thing making money from little money £1000) then I'd put it in something high risk. I would buy a book aswell to get some understanding, it really helps

Hindsight is a wonderful thing.... Imagine buying google shares at $100 when it did its IPO. They'd be worth a small fortune now, with all the stock splits they have done over the years!!

sabretoothtigger

Dont remind me about google. I thought 100 dollars a share was too expensive :laugh:

push Email even on low-end devices.

Yes could be good, I cant see a no shoes pauper buying a blackberry or ipod somehow. Low end is maximum usefulness to people who only a few years ago lived on a dollar a day like large parts of India.

There cant be higher growth then selling useful stuff to someone who previously had nothing - direct opposite of saturated bloated western markets with no growth and the world at their feet

Global government policys support the rich not the growth of all people, the whole we cant cut budgets it will hurt the consumer too much is based on profits are made by feeding fat people more, so crap when some have nothing)

http://websciencetechnology.blogspot.com/2011/06/young-chinese-man-sold-kidney-to-buy.html

Melvin001

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