UK Share tip newsletter

Waitrose_Carpark

Hi everyone

I'm looking for a share tipping newsletter (probably subscription/paid) that offers, daily or weekly, UK share tips.

I used to get the Wagner Daily newsletter and that was OK, but was for US stocks (actually my dad used to get it and forward to me).

I'm not interested in learning too much about the shares/investing (i have a kid and quite a hectic life at the moment), I just want somehing to tell me what to buy, and when.

Looking at reviews of various newsletters online there are so many affiliate links etc it makes it hard to filter out who is promoting what for the commission rather than qualified analysis of the tips.

Can anyone offer any advice, good or bad? Of course there's fool.co.uk share advisor but there seems to be just as many good words said about this as bad.

barnstar2077

If you don't have the time to do any research then put everything into a multi asset fund, like a Vanguard life strategy fund. What you are describing sounds more like betting on the horses than investing.

msallen

I very much doubt that you'll get a recommendation for anything like that here.

Are you looking to "trade" (regularly buying and selling), or to "invest" (buy and hold)?
If you're looking to invest then you would be far better advised to buy into a single multi-asset fund.

AnotherJoe

if the people making those tips actually had even a better than average chance of being correct, they wouldn't need to try to make money selling tips, they'd simply act on their tips and end up ruling the world, and the income from a tip newsletter would be inconsequential.
Or in other words, it's a fools errand to think you can, in the long run, make money this way. Unless you start your own tip letter of course. That's how those people make their money, not from the tips.:D
Either buy global investments or investments in sectors you think, through your own research* will do better long term than the average.

* I know you said you haven't the time to do research but you might simply have a conviction that,say, health care or China or non fossil fuel energy will do better than average. That's something you can act on without getting into day trading or researching individual companies.

EdGasketTheSecond

I heard of someone that used to call out share names to his dog; if the dog barked, he bought the shares; apparently it was a very successful system. Have you tried that?


Seriously if you don't have time, just buy a world fund ETF or Vanguard life strategy.

Malthusian

As per AnotherJoe, the way to make money is in writing these newsletters, not reading them.

If you've had this "Wagner Daily" newsletter for a while you'll know how they work. There's nothing stopping you from writing your own, although you may want to make your English a bit poorer.

What you want to do is write at least two newsletters under different names. In the second newsletter you say "sell" about whatever you said "buy" for in the first one, and vice versa. Across the two newsletters you are guaranteed 50% successful tips, and statistically one of them is likely to do better than 50% while the other will do worse. After a few months, close the loser and relaunch it under a new name. Trumpet the track record of your successful newsletter to the rooftops.

If this sounds like hard work, that's because it is. If you just want passive capital growth, see others' suggestions re globally diversified multi asset funds.

Looking at reviews of various newsletters online there are so many affiliate links etc it makes it hard to filter out who is promoting what for the commission rather than qualified analysis of the tips.

Actually it's very easy. It is all for comm.

DrSyn

No one can foretell the future.

If their share predictions where so good, they would not be telling you about them but keeping it to themselves and making themselves very rich.

1. Watch both of the following:-

http://www.kroijer.com/

https://www.ifa.com/indexfundsthemovie/


2. Then think of investing in one of the below:-

Global Multi-Asset Funds

Vanguard Life Strategy
HSBC Global Strategy
L&G Multi Index Funds
Blackrock Consensus
Architas Passive

These have wide diversification while minimising risk, at low cost.

Vanguard Life Strategy (VLS) seems the most often mentioned. The 60% shares/ 40 % bonds seems to me pretty much a "fire and forget" option.

https://www.vanguardinvestor.co.uk/investing-explained/what-are-lifestrategy-funds?intcmpgn=lifestrategyfunds_learnmore_link


3. Then get on with life.

verybigchris

Actually, these share tippers can fortell the future. They know that if they buy a holding in a relatively illiquid stock and then hype the stock in their newsletter, they can sell their shares to their gullible readers at an inflated price and make a tidy profit.

londoninvestor

EdGasketTheSecond wrote: »

I heard of someone that used to call out share names to his dog; if the dog barked, he bought the shares; apparently it was a very successful system.

Ruffer Investment Trust is said to be a decent conservative choice...

coastline

EdGasketTheSecond wrote: »

I heard of someone that used to call out share names to his dog; if the dog barked, he bought the shares; apparently it was a very successful system. Have you tried that?

Did he Winalot ?

A simple log in here will give you a weekly magazine which reviews shares as well as investments.

https://www.sharesmagazine.co.uk/

Thrugelmir

Waitrose_Carpark wrote: »

I just want somehing to tell me what to buy, and when.

Share prices move daily. Sometimes one needs to time the purchase. That may require patience until there's an overhang of stock in the market.