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buying shares....help!
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Plus the professionals don't know because the news has been released yet. I totally get that its a risk, when I can commit more time to spend looking at company data etc I'd love to do it more but at the moment just thought I'd dip my toe in the water.0
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So are you going to tell us who it is?0
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Surely this is a wind-up. Had a tip off, just one company, don't know how to go about purchasing... c'mon!0
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racing_blue wrote: »Why? If someone had bought into Apple or Google 10 years ago, and held ever since, which would that make them- a speculator, or a gambler?
As someone's very first investment?
Yes.I am one of the Dogs of the Index.0 -
Sounds a bit like insider dealing if you know some market sensitive information that has not been released yet and are going to try and profit from it.0
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racing_blue wrote: »Why? If someone had bought into Apple or Google 10 years ago, and held ever since, which would that make them- a speculator, or a gambler?
And Apple 25 years ago?0 -
racing_blue wrote: »Why? If someone had bought into Apple or Google 10 years ago, and held ever since, which would that make them- a speculator, or a gambler?
Gamblers can win too.0 -
ChesterDog wrote: »Investing in only one company to begin with...
That's not investing.
That's speculating, or gambling.
It is a very risky thing to do.
All very true, but sometimes when you only have one egg, it is difficult not to have it in a single basket.
All the advice above is very sound but experience is the sum total of our successes, failures and near misses and often people have to travel along the learning curve before it is real to them.0 -
"This share is going to explode!"I am not a financial adviser and neither do I play one on television. I might occasionally give bad advice but at least it's free.
Like all religions, the Faith of the Invisible Pink Unicorns is based upon both logic and faith. We have faith that they are pink; we logically know that they are invisible because we can't see them.0 -
With respect, the OP asked how to buy a share as an investment.
Some may think that's a risky thing to do, but to call it gambling or speculating - without knowing any details - feels kind of insulting.
When someone comes on here asking how to put £10 on Red Rum, or buy leveraged cotton futures, then knock yourselves out and I'll join in.
Sorry OP0
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