Share Dealing Discussion Area

pwinky69

Hey guys,

Can anyone recommend some AIM share tips for 2010?

sabretoothtigger

http://www.stockchallenge.co.uk/report.php?challenge=2010&report=stocks&order=profit

Monday March 22

INTERIMS
Nautical Petroleum, PureCircle, Wolseley

QUARTERLY PAYMENT DATE
Virgin Media Inc.

INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC ANNOUNCEMENTS
Auto Sales (AUS) (00:00)
Chicago Fed National Activity Index (US) (12.30)
Consumer Confidence (EU) (15.00)

GMS
Pan Andean Resources

FINALS
AG Barr, China Food, Cryo-Save Group, DataCash Group, Development Securities, Forth Ports, Green Dragon Gas, Healthcare Locums, Kentz Corporation, Nationwide Accident Repair Services, Orchid Developments Group, Parkwood Holdings, Regus, RGI International, Zenergy Power

ANNUAL REPORT
Brit Insurance Holdings NV, JPMorgan US Discovery Inv Trust

EGMS
EIH Plc

AGMS
Hirco

TRADING ANNOUNCEMENTS
Brit Insurance Holdings NV

Tuesday March 23

INTERIM DIVIDEND PAYMENT DATE
BHP Billiton, Park Group

UK ECONOMIC ANNOUNCEMENTS
Consumer Prices Index (09:30)
Retail Prices Index (09:30)
BBA Loans for House Purchases (09:30)

INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC ANNOUNCEMENTS
BoJ Interest Rates Minutes (JPN) (23:50)
Existing Home Sales (US) (15:00)
Richmond Fed Manufacturing Index (US) (14.00)
Business Confidence Indicator (FRA) (7.45)
Production Outlook Indicator (FRA) (7.45)
Supermarket and Convenience Store Sales (JPN)

FINALS
1st Dental Laboratories, 888 Holdings, Atlantic Global, Cairn energy, CBG Group, Energetix, Ferrexpo, Hansteen Holdings, Henry Boot, Ideal Shopping Direct, Irish Continental Group Units, Legal & General Group, LMS Capital, Morson Group, Norcon, Parity Group, Portmeirion, RAB Capital, Straight, Titanium Resources, Trafficmaster, Tribal Group, Vindon Healthcare, Vphase

ANNUAL REPORT
Ferrexpo, Flying Brands, Meggitt, Rolls-Royce Group, Spectris

EGMS
Titon Holdings

AGMS
Galleon Holdings

TRADING ANNOUNCEMENTS
Imperial Tobacco Group

Q1
Carnival

Wednesday March 24

INTERIMS
Baqus, Bellway, RSM Tenon Group, Smiths Group

INTERIM DIVIDEND PAYMENT DATE
Hargreaves Services, Standard Life Equity Income Trust

INTERIM EX-DIVIDEND DATE
British Sky Broadcasting Group, Brooks Macdonald, Close Brothers Group, NWF Group, Photo-Me International, Plexus, Renewable Energy Generation, Thorpe (F.W.)

QUARTERLY EX-DIVIDEND DATE
Henderson Financial Opportunities Limited

INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC ANNOUNCEMENTS
Durable Goods Orders (US) (13:30)
New Homes Sales (US) (15:00)
Import Prices (GER)
PMI Manufacturing Survey (FRA) (08:00)
PMI Service Sector Survey (FRA) (08:00)
PMI Manufacturing Survey (GER) (08:30)
PMI Service Sector Survey (GER) (08:30)
PMI Service Sector Survey (EU) (09:00)
PMI Manufacturing Survey (EU) (09:00)
IfO Business Climate (GER) (09:00)
IfO Current Assessment (GER) (09:00)
IfO Expectations (GER) (09:00)
New Orders (EU) (10:00)

GMS
Limelight VCT, Michelmersh Brick Holdings, SatCom Group, Savills

FINALS
Abbey Protection, Alliance Pharma, EG Solutions, Espirito Santo, Eurasian Natural Resources, Hochschild Mining, IQE, Melrose Resources, Metalrax Group, Nichols, Panmure Gordon & Co, Pilat Media Global, Planet Payment Inc., Plaza Centers, Resolution, S & U, Soco International, Source BioScience

SPECIAL EX-DIVIDEND PAYMENT DATE
Charlemagne Capital

AGMS
Aukett Fitzroy Robinson Group, Autonomy Corporation, Beazley Group, Minorplanet Systems, Novo-Nordisk AS 'B' Shares, Safestore

TRADING ANNOUNCEMENTS
ICAP, Man Group, Sainsbury (J)

UK ECONOMIC ANNOUNCEMENTS
Chancellor Budget Statement (12:30)
CBI Distributive Trades Report (11:00)
FINAL EX-DIVIDEND DATE
4imprint Group, Aviva, F&C Asset Management, French Connection, InterContinental Hotels Group, Stadium Group, Stobart Group Ltd., Wynnstay Group

Thursday March 25

INTERIMS
Ceres Power Holdings, Clinton Cards

INTERIM DIVIDEND PAYMENT DATE
Town Centre Securities

UK ECONOMIC ANNOUNCEMENTS
Retail Sales (09:30)

INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC ANNOUNCEMENTS
Corporate Service Price Index (JPN) (23:50)
Weekly Jobless Claims (US) (12.30)
GfK Consumer Confidence Survey (GER) (7.00)
Consumer Spending (FRA) (07:45)
M3 (EU) (09:00)
Consumer Prices Index (JPN)

Q4
Petropavlovsk, Signet Jewelers

GMS
Aberdeen Development Capital, Clinton Cards, Monitise

FINALS
ACTA, Churchill China, Empresaria Group, Evolution Group, H & T Group, Inditherm, Kingfisher, Lupus Capital, M&C Saatchi, Moss Bros, Next, Northbridge Industrial Services, office2office, Petropavlovsk, Premier Oil, PV Crystalox Solar, RCG Holdings, Scisys, Signet Jewelers, Sportech, Ted Baker

ANNUAL REPORT
Modern Water

SPECIAL DIVIDEND PAYMENT DATE
Maintel Holdings

EGMS
Banco de Chile ADR

AGMS
Banco de Chile ADR, Image Scan Holdings, Rights & Issues Inv Trust Income Shares, Thomas Cook Group

TRADING ANNOUNCEMENTS
London Stock Exchange Group, Thomas Cook Group

FINAL DIVIDEND PAYMENT DATE
Brunner Inv Trust

Friday March 26

INTERIMS
Artilium

INTERIM DIVIDEND PAYMENT DATE
Aquarius Platinum Ltd., Character Group, Electric & General Inv Trust, Hargreaves Lansdown, Heath (Samuel) & Sons, Lindsell Train Inv Trust, Ruffer Investment Company Ltd., Scottish & Southern Energy

UK ECONOMIC ANNOUNCEMENTS
Total Business Investment (09:30)

INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC ANNOUNCEMENTS
Consumer Price Index (JPN) (23:30)
U. of Michigan Confidence (US) (15:00)
Gross Domestic Product (US) (12:30)
Personal Consumption (US) (12:30)
University of Michigan Consumer Confidence (US) (13.55)
Consumer Confidence (FRA) (07:45)

GMS
Spitfire Oil

FINALS
Greenwich Loan Income Fund Limited, Judges Scientific, Robinson, Songbird Estates, Tawa

ANNUAL REPORT
Anglogold Ashanti, Provident Financial, Smith & Nephew, Spirax-Sarco Engineering, Standard Chartered

SPECIAL DIVIDEND PAYMENT DATE
Fletcher King, Hargreaves Lansdown, Throgmorton Trust

EGMS
Income & Growth VCT, Pangea DiamondFields

AGMS
MCB Bank Ltd. GDR (Reg S)

TRADING ANNOUNCEMENTS
Artilium, Spirax-Sarco Engineering, Standard Chartered

FINAL DIVIDEND PAYMENT DATE
Abbey Protection, Catlin Group, Henderson Opportunities Trust, LPA Group, Ocean Wilsons, Sanderson Group, SpaceandPeople, Throgmorton Trust

yorkiebar

Just_landed wrote: »

I suppose one way would be to sell an amount of shares that will keep you under the CGT threshold this year & keep doing this each year until the issue is resolved. :think:

That is exactly what I intend to do, I understand that the "sale" part will realise a CGT hit so would only sell a certain amount to utilise my annual allowance. So I think we have exactly the same understanding of what a Bed and ISA is

Margaret_Skinner

I've been left shares as part of an inheritance and don't really have the desire or time to follow the market. I also need some ready savings as although I'm working full-time just now and am not in debt (apart from the mortgage) I've no 'back-up' cash and have a number of things really needing done to the house.

What's the best (and cheapest) way to go about selling the shares fairly quickly? I've done a bit of reading on the subject but am getting more confused by the minute! Is there a relatively simple way round this?

Thanks in advance!

Biggles

Margaret_Clark wrote: »

I've been left shares as part of an inheritance and don't really have the desire or time to follow the market. I also need some ready savings as although I'm working full-time just now and am not in debt (apart from the mortgage) I've no 'back-up' cash and have a number of things really needing done to the house.

What's the best (and cheapest) way to go about selling the shares fairly quickly? I've done a bit of reading on the subject but am getting more confused by the minute! Is there a relatively simple way round this?

The executor will normally have done that as part of settling the estate and you will normally inherit the cash unless you specifically choose to have the shares made over to you.

cloud_dog

Margaret_Clark wrote: »

What's the best (and cheapest) way to go about selling the shares fairly quickly?

Margret, unfortunately those 3 things don't sit well together.

If you want to quickly sell the shares then your best bet is to walk in to your bank and see if they can/will sell the shares (if you bank with one of the four major banks you should be ok to do this). This can be relatively expensive.

If you want the cheapest option then you will need to open an online dealing account, sell the shares, and close the account.

Margaret_Skinner

Thanks guys - I don't remember there being an option for cash at any point when the estate was all getting dealt with - maybe I missed something along the way? And am with Bank of Scotland and also Alliance & Leicester so maybe a trip to BOS to at least discuss might be a first port of call? I thought BOS had something on their site re shares but can't seem to find it.

sabretoothtigger

http://www.bankofscotlandhalifax.co.uk/sharedealing/share_dealing_home.asp

mycar37

xyy123 wrote: »

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.

ref your reply to Vincent, I am new to this business too. I would like to invest a couple of grand in a couple of STOCKS for my grandchildren to let sit for the long term. Would not want to charged for inactivity. I know that in the USA they can invest in companies using a DRIP system - (Direct Reinvesment Plans). Do you know if this is available in the UK?
Thanks

sabretoothtigger

iii and halifax both do drip and they charge 1% each time.


With halifax you can ask them to give you a sharebuilder account which is especially good for tiny amounts of shares because they let you hold and buy tenths of a share which isnt normally possible.

Some FTSE shares cost over 30 pounds each and with quarterly dividends you would not normally have enough to reinvest it except with this special measure