Stocks and Shares ISA potential loss

ValiantSon

Ray_Singh-Blue wrote: »

Q) I have a dozen eggs. Someone steals them to make an omlette. How many eggs have I lost?
A) 12

Q) I bought a single fertilised egg, and the chick that hatched grew into the hen that laid the dozen eggs, that someone stole to make an omlette. How many eggs have I lost?
A) 12

Your analogy isn't analogous to an investment. £50 is the cash sum invested. Any gains are only paper gains until you sell, and so too are any losses. You don't actually have that money unless you sell. In your analogy you do actually have the eggs.

Fatbritabroad

IanManc wrote: »

You can't make a magic omelette without breaking magic eggs - as no one's granny used to say, ever.

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My granny used to say this. Mind you she used to fly around on a broomstick and had a wart on her nose so...