Share Dealing Discussion Area

Newbie2saving

I would like to add shares to my investment portfolio, currently I'm only in funds. I have been doing quite a bit of research and following a number of shares I like. I have read in a few places you need a min of £1000 really. Is this the case and do you all agree? Also is that into one company or a mix? TIA.

sabretoothtigger

I'd say dont spend more then 1% commission each way if possible

Monday January 17 

INTERIM DIVIDEND PAYMENT DATE 
Phoenix IT Group, red24 

INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC ANNOUNCEMENTS 
Consumer Confidence (JPN) 
Wholesale Price Index (GER) (07:00) 

GMS 
Eclectic Investment Company, Gas Turbine Efficiency 

SPECIAL DIVIDEND PAYMENT DATE 
India Hospitality Corp. (DI) 

EGMS 
Finders Resources Ltd. 

AGMS 
Hot Tuna International, RM 

UK ECONOMIC ANNOUNCEMENTS 
Rightmove House Prices (00:01) 
Nationwide Consumer Confidence (00:01) 

Tuesday January 18 

INTERIMS 
IG Group Holdings 

QUARTERLY EX-DIVIDEND DATE 
Caterpillar Inc. 

INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC ANNOUNCEMENTS 
Industrial Production (JPN) 
Capacity Utilisation (JPN) 
Machine Tool Orders (JPN) 
Tertiary Industry Index (JPN) 
ZEW Survey (EU) (10:00) 
Empire State Manufacturing Survey (US) (13:30) 
NAHB Housing Market Index (US) (15:00) 
ABC Consumer Confidence (US) (22:00) 

GMS 
Kenetics Group Ltd., Pathfinder Minerals 

FINALS 
Arden Partners, Chemring Group, Safestore Holdings 

IMSS 
Experian 

EGMS 
Dolphin Capital Investors Ltd., XCounter AB 

AGMS 
ATH Resources, Baring Emerging Europe, European Investment Trust, SVM Global Fund 

TRADING ANNOUNCEMENTS 
Burberry Group, Carphone Warehouse Group, Record, SABMiller 

UK ECONOMIC ANNOUNCEMENTS 
RICS House Price Balance (00:01) 
Consumer Price Index (09:30) 
Retail Price Index (09:30) 
DCLG House Prices (09:30) 
Wednesday January 19 

INTERIMS 
Ebiquity 

INTERIM DIVIDEND PAYMENT DATE 
Home Retail Group, National Grid 

INTERIM EX-DIVIDEND DATE 
ACM Shipping Group, Ashtead Group, Consort Medical, Jupiter Second Split Trust Geared Shares, Pennon Group 

QUARTERLY EX-DIVIDEND DATE 
City of London Inv Trust, Merchants Trust 

INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC ANNOUNCEMENTS 
Current Account (EU) (09:00) 
Construction Output (EU) (10:00) 
Housing Starts (US) (13:30) 
Building Permits (US) (13:30) 
Crude Oil Inventories (US) (15:30) 

IMSS 
Land Securities Group 

SPECIAL DIVIDEND PAYMENT DATE 
Lancashire Holdings 

AGMS 
Character Group, F&C Capital & Income Inv Trust, GW Pharmaceuticals, Lowland Investment Co, Majedie Investments, Redefine International 

TRADING ANNOUNCEMENTS 
ASOS, JD Wetherspoon, William Hill 

UK ECONOMIC ANNOUNCEMENTS 
Claimant Count Rate (09:30) 
Unemployment Rate (09:30) 
Average Weekly Earnings (09:30) 

FINAL DIVIDEND PAYMENT DATE 
Diploma 

FINAL EX-DIVIDEND DATE 
Cardiff Property, Imperial Tobacco Group, RWS Holdings, Titon Holdings 

Thursday January 20 

INTERIMS 
NCC Group 

INTERIM DIVIDEND PAYMENT DATE 
Tongaat-Hulett Ltd. 

INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC ANNOUNCEMENTS 
Convenience Store Sales (JPN) 
Producer Price Index (GER) (07:00) 
ECB Report (EU) (09:00) 
Consumer Confidence Indicator (EU) (10:00) 
Continuing Claims (US) (13:30) 
Initial Jobless Claims (US) (13:30) 
Existing Home Sales (US) (15:00) 
Leading Indicators (US) (15:00) 
Philadelphia Fed Index (US) (15:00) 

IMSS 
Associated British Foods, Enterprise Inns, Invensys, Man Group 

EGMS 
Banco de Chile ADR, OAO Omz ADR (Level 1) 

AGMS 
Aberdeen Asset Management, Education Development International, Enterprise Inns, Euromoney Institutional Investor, Wolseley 

TRADING ANNOUNCEMENTS 
easyJet 

INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC ANNOUNCEMENTS 
Supermarket Sales (JPN) 
PMI Manufacturing Survey (FRA) (08:00) 
PMI Service Sector Survey (08:00) 
IfO Business Climate (GER) (09:00) 
IfO Current Assessment (GER) (09:00) 
IfO Expectations (GER) (09:00) 

UK ECONOMIC ANNOUNCEMENTS 
CBI Business Optimism Index (10:00) 
CBI Trends Total Orders (10:00) 

Friday January 21 

INTERIM DIVIDEND PAYMENT DATE 
Acal, Cranswick, London & Associated Properties, MS International, Tarsus Group 

FINALS 
Schlumberger Ltd. 

AGMS 
Advanced Power Components, Troy Income & Growth Trust 

TRADING ANNOUNCEMENTS 
Close Brothers Group 

UK ECONOMIC ANNOUNCEMENTS 
Internet Retail Sales (09:30) 
Retail Sales (09:30) 
Trends in Lending (09:30) 

FINAL DIVIDEND PAYMENT DATE 
Carr's Milling Industries, MBL Group 

2kool

Hi

I'm thinking of getting into buying and selling shares. Can anyone recommend any good guides (either printed or online) for background information. I'm a complete newbie so would appreciate any help.

Regards,
2kool.

ChrisEvanson

The Naked Trader by Robbie Burns. Cracking read, in laymans terms, by someone who has made many hundreds of thousands buying and selling shares. The risk is that you get so enthusiastic you sell everything you have to put in shares tho! Take a steady approach and monitor your initial investment and don't get carried away. Baby steps.

Treesie

saving-mad wrote: »

i have had a look at a couple of share price websites and am completly confused as to how much my shares are worth i am sure someone can help
i have:
228 barclays shares
159 international power shares
83 santander shares

lastly what is the best way of selling them to get a lump sum house deposit?

Today, as I type your shares are worth the following;

Barclays £3.06 each = £697.68
International Power £4.24 each = £674.16
Santander £7.28 each = £604.24

Barlcays in particular are very liquid and will move daily.
You can call the shareholding company (i.e. Computershare etc) and instruct them to sell them. You should ask them how much brokers fee they will charge.

Vectra

I have some shares in Smiths Group supposed to have just jumped 99p to 1390.6p whats the best way to go about selling these shares?

Pieman1972

Hi All - quick (easy) question I hope....Am looking at buying (on the French market) some EuroDisney shares to get the Park benefits....looking round for a "one off" transaction I see the Halifax charge about £12 for them to press a button. For the sake of pressing a button is that the cheapest / easiest way?

Thanks!

sabretoothtigger

Halifax will charge you more then that, 12 is for uk shares not french market. iii charge 15 for foreign shares. TD waterhouse maybe

Pieman1972

Thanks for the response....appreciate it....looking at a few of the "services" they all want to charge Management fees's - if all I want to do is go in - buy the shares - keep them - thats it.

JamesU

Pieman1972 wrote: »

Thanks for the response....appreciate it....looking at a few of the "services" they all want to charge Management fees's - if all I want to do is go in - buy the shares - keep them - thats it.

To receive perks as a shareholder normally the shares need to be held in certificated form rather than held in a nominee account. Same situation with the perks at Disney, you need 5 or 20 shares in a certificated form as mentioned in their link:

http://corporate.disneylandparis.com/CORP/EN/Neutral/Images/general-membership-conditions.pdf

So holding Disney SCA shares in an online account is not an option for you anyway based on what you want to do.

Not time or cost effective to set up an online account, buy the shares on the French market, convert online holdings to share certificates, receive them and then close the online trading account.

Likely option: a bank to buy the shares for you if they have affiliated stockbrokers. Depending on who you bank with, for how long etc etc they might be able to arrange this for you in a branch at a reasonable cost (but expect minimum £10-20 for time and trading costs and then add to this the cost of 5 or 20 shares) eg halifax, barclays etc. For info:

Require: shares in EuroDisney SCA, ticker EDL, ISIN: FR0010540740

Current share price at 16:00 ish today: around 4.4 Euro each
Year price range: 3.53 - 5.15 Eur


Worth reading through these threads on the same subject for info also:

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/30196875#Comment_30196875

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/25845827#Comment_25845827


Best decide if there is any real merit cost-wise in becoming a shareholder for the perks though.

JamesU