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Looks like we are heading for a Bull run

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  • wotsthat
    wotsthat Posts: 11,325 Forumite
    Generali wrote: »
    There are 2 truisms to investing:

    1. Nobody ever went broke taking a profit.
    2. Leave 10% [of the capital gain] on the table for the next guy as you're not smart enough to pick the top.

    Depends on your investing timescale. I've learnt that I make better returns by trading less so if I'm investing for retirement it's better just to leave the profits invested because, given the long timescale, I'm invariably going to be buying back into the same market anyway.

    Fine if someone can buy and sell consistently in troughs and peaks but very few do.

    If the saving horizon is a house deposit then yes it's more sensible to book a profit but longer term, IMO, it's time and compounding that matters.
  • Thrugelmir
    Thrugelmir Posts: 89,546 Forumite
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    CLAPTON wrote: »
    many companies have loads off cash


    Which companies?

    US multinationals perhaps. Not UK SME's.
  • Thrugelmir
    Thrugelmir Posts: 89,546 Forumite
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    CLAPTON wrote: »
    many are paying good leveld of dividens (above what you can get in 'safe' savings accounts.)

    Vodafone accounts for 15% of dividends paid by FTSE 100 companies.

    Top 10 payers account for 50%.

    So many isn't that many.
  • StevieJ
    StevieJ Posts: 20,174 Forumite
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    Generali wrote: »
    There are 2 truisms to investing:

    1. Nobody ever went broke taking a profit.
    2. Leave 10% [of the capital gain] on the table for the next guy as you're not smart enough to pick the top.

    There are also 2 golden rules to investing which Brit also seems to have remembered:

    1. Never lose money.
    2. Never forget the Golden rule.

    So how do you know it is 10% off the top :)
    'Just think for a moment what a prospect that is. A single market without barriers visible or invisible giving you direct and unhindered access to the purchasing power of over 300 million of the worlds wealthiest and most prosperous people' Margaret Thatcher
  • Graham_Devon
    Graham_Devon Posts: 58,560 Forumite
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    Conrad wrote: »
    The point being he's also very wrong about property prices but is so blinded by confirmation bias he fails to see reality.

    Property is now on a bull run, you can Bank on it.

    Only problem is, you've been saying the same thing for 3 years.
  • lvader
    lvader Posts: 2,579 Forumite
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    Thrugelmir wrote: »
    Vodafone accounts for 15% of dividends paid by FTSE 100 companies.

    Top 10 payers account for 50%.

    So many isn't that many.

    That is because they are large companies, there are plenty of stocks paying large yields, the total amount is irrelevant to shares.
  • Generali
    Generali Posts: 36,411 Forumite
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    StevieJ wrote: »
    So how do you know it is 10% off the top :)

    Ha ha, yes. Very good.

    The point is that you shouldn't try to pick the top as you'll not do it and don't beat yourself up if you sell an asset that goes up in price some more.
  • Thrugelmir
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    lvader wrote: »
    That is because they are large companies, there are plenty of stocks paying large yields, the total amount is irrelevant to shares.

    Such as ? Number of good solid cash generative dividend payers has been in decline.
  • Generali
    Generali Posts: 36,411 Forumite
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    Thrugelmir wrote: »
    Such as ? Number of good solid cash generative dividend payers has been in decline.

    That's the point of QE, in part, drive down yields and so force people to take more risk.
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