Share Dealing Discussion Area

tradetime

JonnyBravo wrote: »

Apologies. I had no idea you could move it out of a cash ISA and into a S&S ISA.
That's something for me to consider now!

Thanks tradetime.

:T

Just remember it must be done similar to a transfer from one Cash ISA provider to another, namely the money must never leave the ISA wrapper, check the procedure with your S&S ISA provider.

sabretoothtigger

turbobob wrote: »

Would be 985 shares - you can't buy a fraction of a share, unlike units in a trust

I think thats usually true but some brokers might allow fractions.
Halifax sharebuilder does, some shares are 30 pounds or more each so its useful for small position buying or dividend reinvestment which they specialise in

[B]Monday January 18[/B] 

INTERIM DIVIDEND PAYMENT DATE 
red24 

AGMS 
Hot Tuna International, John Lewis of Hungerford, RM Group 

TRADING ANNOUNCEMENTS 
ASOS, Taylor Wimpey 

[B]Tuesday January 19[/B] 

INTERIMS 
Games Workshop Group, IG Group Holdings, Zetar 

IMSS 
Alterian, Land Securities Group 

AGMS 
Baring Emerging Europe, Sirius Petroleum, SVM Global Fund 

UK ECONOMIC ANNOUNCEMENTS 
Consumer Price Inflation 
Retail Price Inflation 

[B]Wednesday January 20[/B] 

INTERIM DIVIDEND PAYMENT DATE 
Home Retail Group, Intelek, National Grid, Polar Capital Holdings 

INTERIM EX-DIVIDEND DATE 
ACM Shipping, Consort Medical, Hampson Industries, Pennon Group, QinetiQ Group, Scott Wilson 

QUARTERLY EX-DIVIDEND DATE 
City of London Inv Trust 

FINALS 
Wynnstay Group 

IMSS 
Great Portland Estates 

EGMS 
1pm, Treveria 

AGMS 
ATH Resources, Character Group, F&C Eurotrust, Majedie [URL="http://www.digitallook.com/news/sharecast/news.cgi?view=full&story=3227069&username=sabrehbos&ac=211409#"]Investments[/URL] 

TRADING ANNOUNCEMENTS 
Kesa Electricals 

FINAL DIVIDEND PAYMENT DATE 
Bellway, Diploma 

FINAL EX-DIVIDEND DATE 
Aberdeen Asian Income Fund Ltd., BlackRock New Energy [URL="http://www.digitallook.com/news/sharecast/news.cgi?view=full&story=3227069&username=sabrehbos&ac=211409#"]Technology[/URL] Inv Trust, Cardiff Property, Care UK, Hydrogen Group, Impax Asset Management Group, Imperial Tobacco Group, Puma VCT I, Puma VCT II, RWS Holdings, Titon Holdings 

UK ECONOMIC EVENTS 
Bank of England MPC Minutes 
Claimant Count Unemployment Rate 
ILO Unemployment Rate 
Average Earnings 

[B]Thursday January 21[/B] 

INTERIMS 
Begbies Traynor Group, NCC Group 

EGMS 
Jessops 

AGMS 
Education Development International, Euromoney Institutional Investor, Milestone Group 

UK ECONOMIC ANNOUNCEMENTS 
CBI Industrial Trends, Total Orders 
Public Sector Net Borrowing Requirements 

[B]Friday January 22[/B] 

INTERIM DIVIDEND PAYMENT DATE 
Acal, Cable & [URL="http://www.digitallook.com/news/sharecast/news.cgi?view=full&story=3227069&username=sabrehbos&ac=211409#"]Wireless[/URL], Cranswick, Latham (James), London and Associated Properties, Speedy Hire 

GMS 
Evolution Group 

EGMS 
Wynnstay Properties 

AGMS 
Advanced Power Components, Lowland [URL="http://www.digitallook.com/news/sharecast/news.cgi?view=full&story=3227069&username=sabrehbos&ac=211409#"]Investment[/URL] Co. 

FINAL DIVIDEND PAYMENT DATE 
MBL Group 

UK ECONOMIC ANNOUNCEMENTS 
Retail Sales

sabretoothtigger

[B]Monday February 01[/B] 

INTERIMS 
Energy XXI (Bermuda) (Reg S), Ryanair Holdings 

INTERIM DIVIDEND PAYMENT DATE 
HMV Group, KCOM Group 

QUARTERLY PAYMENT DATE 
Mercantile Inv Trust, Torchmark Corp 

INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC ANNOUNCEMENTS 
Personal Income (US) (13:30) 
Producer Prices (FRA) (7.45)  
PMI Manufacturing Survey (FRA) (8.50)  
PMI Manufacturing Survey (GER) (8.55)  
PMI Manufacturing Survey (EU) (9.00) 
Construction Spending (US) (15:00) 
Current Account (JPN) (23:50) 
House Price Index (AUS) (00:00) 
ISM Manufacturing (US) (15:00) 
ISM Prices Paid (US) (15:00) 

UK ECONOMIC ANNOUNCEMENTS 
Hometrack House Prices (00.01)  
Net Consumer Credit (09.30)  
Net lending Secured on Dwellings (09.30)  
Mortgage Approvals (09.30)  
M4 Money Supply  (09.30)  
PMI Manufacturing Survey (09.30)  

Q2 
Energy XXI (Bermuda) (Reg S) 

GMS 
National Bank of Greece ADR 

FINALS 
Argo Real Estate Opportunities Fund Ltd., SThree 

AGMS 
JPMorgan Asian Inv Trust 

UK ECONOMIC ANNOUNCEMENTS 
PMI Manufacturing (09:30) 

FINAL DIVIDEND PAYMENT DATE 
Albion Income & Growth VCT, Alliance Trust, Banco Santander SA 

[B]Tuesday February 02[/B] 

INTERIMS 
ARM Holdings, BP, Maxima Holdings, Murgitroyd Group, NWF Group 

INTERIM DIVIDEND PAYMENT DATE 
Johnson Matthey 

INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC ANNOUNCEMENTS 
PMI Construction (EU) (09:00) 
PMI Construction (GER) (08:55) 
RBA Interest Rate (AUS) (00:00) 
Pending Home Sales (US) (15:00 
Producer Prices Index (EU) (10:00) 

IMSS 
Babcock International Group 

EGMS 
Gladstone 

AGMS 
Electra Private Equity, Imperial Tobacco Group, Numis Corporation, Syntopix 

UK ECONOMIC ANNOUNCEMENTS 
PMI Construction (09:30) 
Halifax House Prices  

FINAL DIVIDEND PAYMENT DATE 
Marston's 

[B]Wednesday February 03[/B] 

INTERIMS 
Quadnetics Group 

INTERIM DIVIDEND PAYMENT DATE 
Ashtead Group, FirstGroup, United Utilities Group 

INTERIM EX-DIVIDEND DATE 
Carpetright, CPL [URL="http://www.digitallook.com/news/sharecast/news.cgi?view=full&story=3253098&username=sabrehbos&ac=211409#"]Resources[/URL], Daejan Holdings, Invesco Perpetual AiM VCT, Latchways, Mattioli Woods, Penna Consulting, SSL International, Stagecoach Group 

QUARTERLY EX-DIVIDEND DATE 
Bankers Inv Trust, Boeing, JPMorgan Claverhouse Inv Trust, M&G High Income & Growth Units, M&G High Income Inv Trust Income Shares 

INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC ANNOUNCEMENTS 
Balance of Trade (AUS) (00:00) 
ISM Non-Manufacturing (US) (15:00) 
ISM Services (US) (15:00) 
PMI Services (EU) (09:00) 
PMI Services (GER) (08:55) 
PMI Composite Index (EU) (9.00) 
Retail Sales (FRA) (10.00) 
PMI Services (FRA) (8.50) 

Q4 
Autonomy Corporation 

FINALS 
Autonomy Corporation 

AGMS 
Dimension [URL="http://www.digitallook.com/news/sharecast/news.cgi?view=full&story=3253098&username=sabrehbos&ac=211409#"]Data[/URL] Holdings, Invesco Perpetual Recovery Trust 2011 

TRADING ANNOUNCEMENTS 
Carpetright, Eurasian Natural Resources, Standard Life, Workspace Group 

UK ECONOMIC ANNOUNCEMENTS 
PMI Composite (09:30) 
PMI Services (09:30) 
Nationwide Consumer Confidence (0.01) 
BRC Shop Price Index (0.01) 

FINAL EX-DIVIDEND DATE 
Aberforth Geared Capital & Income Trust Income Shares, Aberforth Smaller Companies Trust, AstraZeneca, Connaught, Fenner, Framlington AIM VCT, Invista Foundation [URL="http://www.digitallook.com/news/sharecast/news.cgi?view=full&story=3253098&username=sabrehbos&ac=211409#"]Property[/URL] Trust, Northern AIM VCT, Puma VCT I, Sage Group, THB Group, Treveria, UK Commercial Property Trust, Wichford 

[B]Thursday February 04[/B] 

INTERIMS 
Alumasc Group 

INTERIM DIVIDEND PAYMENT DATE 
Burberry Group, Mitie Group, Robert Wiseman 

INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC ANNOUNCEMENTS 
Business Inventories (US) (15:00) 
ECB Interest Rate (EU) (12:45) 
Factory Orders (GER) (11:00) 
Factory Orders (US) (15:00) 
Retail Sales (AUS) (00:00) 
Non-farm Productivity (US) (13:30) 
Unit Labour Costs (US) (13:30) 
Weekly Jobless Claims (US) (13:30) 

Q4 
Royal Dutch Shell 'A', Royal Dutch Shell 'B' 

GMS 
Discovery Metals (CDI), Visonic 

FINALS 
Coca-Cola Hellenic Bottling Company SA, Royal Dutch Shell 'A', Royal Dutch Shell 'B', Unilever 

AGMS 
Asset Man Inv Trust, Dunedin Smaller Companies Inv Trust, Edinburgh Worldwide Inv Trust, Intec Telecom Systems, Romag Holdings 

TRADING ANNOUNCEMENTS 
easyJet, Fuller Smith and Turner, Vodafone Group 

UK ECONOMIC ANNOUNCEMENTS 
BoE Interest Rate Decision (12:00) 

FINAL DIVIDEND PAYMENT DATE 
Baring Emerging Europe, Euromoney Institutional Investor, WH Smith 

[B]Friday February 05[/B] 

INTERIMS 
Avanti Communications 

INTERIM DIVIDEND PAYMENT DATE 
Aveva Group, Bisichi Mining, Mothercare, Rensburg Sheppards, Sovereign Reversions, Vodafone Group 

QUARTERLY PAYMENT DATE 
Investors Capital Trust 'A' Shares, Investors Capital Trust 'B' Shares, Quorum Oil and Gas [URL="http://www.digitallook.com/news/sharecast/news.cgi?view=full&story=3253098&username=sabrehbos&ac=211409#"]Technology[/URL] Fund Ltd. 

INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC ANNOUNCEMENTS 
Consumer Credit (US) (20:00) 
Industrial Production (GER) (11:00) 
Non-Farm Payrolls (US) (13:30) 
Unemployment Rate (US) (13:30) 
RBA Statement of Monetary Policy (AUS) (00:00) 
Trade Balance (FRA) (07:45) 

UK ECONOMIC ANNOUNCEMENTS 
Producer Prices Index Input Prices (09:30) 
Producer Prices Index Output Prices (09:30) 
Producer Prices Index Core Output Prices (09:30) 

Q4 
BG Group 

FINALS 
BG Group 

IMSS 
Electrocomponents 

AGMS 
Albion Income & Growth VCT, Carluccio's, Compass Group, Geiger Counter Ld, Scottish Inv Trust 

FINAL DIVIDEND PAYMENT DATE 
Acuity VCT 3, Next Fifteen Communications, RM Group, Smiths News

http://www.stockchallenge.co.uk/dividends.php

RDF

Does anyone know who gives close spreads on AIM listed companies. Selftrade seems to have a 10% spread which I believe is excessive.

sabretoothtigger

10% is normal for many tiny companies, Im not sure the broker makes that much difference. Try checking the price on moneyam and it shows the spread % realtime

I would stick to larger listed companies to avoid this problem, they will be below 1%

Try iii for a cheaper broker

vincentt

Hi there guys,
I am totally new to this and i want to learn how to buy shares, Ideally i would like to hold the index ftse100 in the long term and i want to buy some shares. I have a few strategies but i am not looking to buy frequently. I am studying at the LSE and want to become a trader, so thought it would be good to get some direct experience.

Regards.

xyy123

vincentt wrote: »

Hi there guys,
I am totally new to this and i want to learn how to buy shares, Ideally i would like to hold the index ftse100 in the long term and i want to buy some shares. I have a few strategies but i am not looking to buy frequently. I am studying at the LSE and want to become a trader, so thought it would be good to get some direct experience.

1. Open a stockbroking account - make it a low cost one if you're only dealing with small amounts of money and one without an 'inactivity fee' - I use 1st direct and the execution seems pretty reasonable.

2. Do some research on trackers - I tend to use iShares - and if you can, get an Acc fund or a SCRIP divididend to roll up the distributions (assuming you don't want the income for whatever reason).

As a rule of thumb, I aim to keep total costs (include the cost to sell as well as the ETF fee below 1%).

You'll probably want to use your ISA allowance too if you haven't already.

3. Buy the security you want.

4. Make money (hopefully).

On a slight tangent, if you're a student, and this is long-long term money, you may want to consider a FTSE All Share or FTSE All Small tracker, small caps generally do better over the long long term than large/mega caps.

yowza

.As a first-time investor, I'd like to ask for opinions about the value of cumulative investing - pound cost averaging - in my circumstances.

I'm 60 years old. Looking at possible retirement in 7 years. Living off savings at present but trying to get re-employed.

My savings are £60k. I'm currently considering investing £15k of this in the markets, with a (sensibly!) diversified portfolio, mainly using funds but also maybe some individual trades.

As I understand it, the advantage of building a portfolio from regular selected monthly investments is that some pitfalls of poor decision-making can be avoided as new market information can guide new investment decisions each month.

— Over what time frame should I consider investing my £15k?

— Should I invest more per month at first, or less, or always stick to the same monthly amount?

— Is cumulative investing a good idea, or will I just lose out from not being fully invested from the start?

Any thoughts welcome.

(P.S. Hope I'm in right place as there's no New Thread button on this sub-Forum.)

xyy123

yowza wrote: »

.As a first-time investor, I'd like to ask for opinions about the value of cumulative investing - pound cost averaging - in my circumstances.

I'm 60 years old. Looking at possible retirement in 7 years. Living off savings at present but trying to get re-employed.

My savings are £60k. I'm currently considering investing £15k of this in the markets, with a (sensibly!) diversified portfolio, mainly using funds but also maybe some individual trades.

As I understand it, the advantage of building a portfolio from regular selected monthly investments is that some pitfalls of poor decision-making can be avoided as new market information can guide new investment decisions each month.

— Over what time frame should I consider investing my £15k?

— Should I invest more per month at first, or less, or always stick to the same monthly amount?

— Is cumulative investing a good idea, or will I just lose out from not being fully invested from the start?

Any thoughts welcome.

(P.S. Hope I'm in right place as there's no New Thread button on this sub-Forum.)

Statistically speaking, pound-cost averaging actually more often detracts from returns over time, rather than add to them. Obviously regular instalments from Oct 07 to March 09 would have been great. But regular instalments from March 03 to Oct 07 would have been awful. The market was going up pretty much the whole time.

If you have the money, and do not know how to time the market (few do with any consistent accuracy) a lump sum investment is better.

Cumulative investing is good if you don't already have the money. i.e. £250 per month from your salary. But if you have the money, and its long-term, you're better off with a single lump sum investment.

yowza

Thanks for the reply xyy123. I'd recently read this article at Morningstar which suggests that regular investing vs. lump sum adds to returns rather than detract from them. Though the underlying point being made may be that this is better than trying to switch in and out of the market in good or bad times.

http://www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/news/article.aspx?lang=en-GB&articleid=77967&categoryid=416

Of course it depends on the period chosen, as you point out. Perhaps the price-changes in their graph are well chosen to prove their point. I was thinking of building up a portfolio over a period of 18 months - 2 years, which in reasonable conditions (!) might cover most eventualities of the markets.

Nevertheless, the temptation must be to get fully invested as soon as possible, see what happens and change investments if necessary.