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Hey,
A quick outline:
Am looking to go on a big, long, holiday next year, which will cost a fair old whack. I've been saving for the past year and am already over half way there.
I also have a seperate savings isa, which is just money that sits there getting 4% (soon to be 6% thanks to MSE:cool: ) but what I do not need right this moment. Thus, am looking to "invest/play" with £1k of it, with a view to potentially paying for some of my holiday this way, and if I get my fingers burnt it will be lesson learned but not a big hinderance.
The question I'm really here to ask then is what share dealing account I should open with what I guess is a v small bankroll of £1k.
I have looked at HB and Halifax Sharebuilder, and am stuck between the two, although am perfectly open to other suggestions!
Also, do you think it is worth me investing in four/five companies of £200-£250 of shares each, or simpy not economically viable and i should be looking to lump it across a maximum of two?
Sorry if I sound rather naive, but am all rather new to the idea!
Tyvm in advance.Holiday Savings fund - 53%, 11 months to go!
A friend and I, jailed;
We agreed to stay silent
(But I still confessed)
-Stolen from someone more clever than myself, an Economics Haiku.0 -
Halifax do a five pound dealing charge for 250 pounds worth of shares
What shares do you have an interest in, on such low volume 6% after costs and duty is going to be hard to beat.
If you know nothing about the market, you could just play a demo account while you keep on earning interest. Timing is often everything so getting a feeling for a share while waiting for the best time to buy can pay quite well.
Never buy on what has happened, buy on what you think will happen next because the price allready contains the good news and may even go in the opposite direction shortly after.
Its easier just to give up and buy a tracker, taking the good with the bad
http://www.fool.com/school/glossary/glossary.htm0 -
Hi all
Can anyone recommend a relliable broker with the option to trade UK and international markets? I currently have shares in AAPL with iii.co.uk, but am looking to ditch them as their 'realtime online trading' platform regularly becomes overloaded and stops working.
Thanks
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ok I'm new to all this share dealing thing but I did buy some hbos shares today at £1.93 a share I reacon that there will be no such take over and when the us government put in the $700billion dollar rescue plan together the divs will filter into our market, I don't honestly think that they will be bought out by lloyds even if they do they are buying out at £2.32 so garanteed profit or they will equate into lloyds share's so if I stick with them long term they can't honestly see this as a loser.£2400 mb profit so far since 01/11/08
!!!!!!!!!I am a scrooge and proud of it!!!!!!!!!!!!0 -
The price is not fixed to 2.32, its linked at .83 of the lloyds share price whenever the take over goes through
A high yield as alot of the bank stocks have typically means high risk to your capital unfortunately.
At the end of today, 217.25 is the worth of hbos if the merger works I think. So I guess the market is saying theres 37p of risk per share that the deal will not suceed, does seem alot because I think it'll merge too
Could lloyds change its mind?0 -
sabretoothtigger wrote: »The price is not fixed to 2.32, its linked at .83 of the lloyds share price whenever the take over goes through
A high yield as alot of the bank stocks have typically means high risk to your capital unfortunately.
At the end of today, 217.25 is the worth of hbos if the merger works I think. So I guess the market is saying theres 37p of risk per share that the deal will not suceed, does seem alot because I think it'll merge too
Could lloyds change its mind?
If I buy some HBOS shares and Lloyds take them over, do I have a choice of whether I want to sell, are they automatically converted to Lloyds shares or just to a cash payout?0 -
Is there a fast track method of dealing in real time shares? I phoned a couple of places and they say I can’t deal without a share dealer account, which takes a few days to open.0
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The main thing is you are registered to vote in the uk I think if you want quick access but yea you might have to wait
You get to vote on the merger and if it goes ahead you get lloyds shares0 -
sabretoothtigger wrote: »The main thing is you are registered to vote in the uk I think if you want quick access but yea you might have to wait
You get to vote on the merger and if it goes ahead you get lloyds shares
Would I get 1 Lloyds share for each HBOS share or Lloyds shares to the value of my HBOS shares?0
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