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Buying Shares as a one off

johnrobinson1 · 2019-05-07 18:55:39

Hello, I'm looking to buy a one off lump of shares to sit on (only a few hundred pounds) for a set period of time but im discovering that the share investment platforms are a minefield or different costs, new words and information. As you can guess im very new to this so i was looking for some advise what platform would be…

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Malthusian Posts: 11,055 Forumite

8 May 2019 at 8:12PM

By your own description you can't afford to gamble on shares. People with less money can afford to take less risk, not more.

The way to get a large amount of money is not to gamble the small amount of money you have so that you lose it and have to start all over again.

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