Liquidate entire portfolio until virus is over?

Sailtheworld

Thrugelmir said:

schiff said:

Motley Fool apparently suggested W H Smith, Wetherspoons and National Express on 19/3 as possible early survivors - up 113%, 85% and 159% today. Lucky, or well judged, for some!

Opportune time to take bank some profits. 

Only if they made those profits by pure luck and recognised this was the case and even then they could, instead, decide to choose a lower risk investment. If someone has the stockpicking skill to be able to pick W H Smith, Wetherspoons & National Express why the hell would they choose to gaze upon the profit earning 0.1% interest in a bank account? 

I've never really understood why banking profits is seen as sage advice unless it's part of a derisking exercise or the cash is actually needed. 

kinger101

Sailtheworld said:

Thrugelmir said:

schiff said:

Motley Fool apparently suggested W H Smith, Wetherspoons and National Express on 19/3 as possible early survivors - up 113%, 85% and 159% today. Lucky, or well judged, for some!

Opportune time to take bank some profits. 

Only if they made those profits by pure luck and recognised this was the case and even then they could, instead, decide to choose a lower risk investment. If someone has the stockpicking skill to be able to pick W H Smith, Wetherspoons & National Express why the hell would they choose to gaze upon the profit earning 0.1% interest in a bank account? 

I've never really understood why banking profits is seen as sage advice unless it's part of a derisking exercise or the cash is actually needed. 

Possibly to buy something less volatile.  Why do you think those companies fell so precipitously in the first place?

Alexland

kinger101 said:
Motley have have a series of articles they churn out about which FTSE 250 companies should be bought.  I think they're written by a bot that selects them at random.

If they are not autowritten by bots then someone has an extremely tedious job generating endless similar clickbait.

kuratowski

Alexland said:
If they are not autowritten by bots then someone has an extremely tedious job generating endless similar clickbait.

I sometimes suspect those are the "work from home" jobs you see advertised on lamp-posts.

Thrugelmir

Sailtheworld said:

Thrugelmir said:

schiff said:

Motley Fool apparently suggested W H Smith, Wetherspoons and National Express on 19/3 as possible early survivors - up 113%, 85% and 159% today. Lucky, or well judged, for some!

Opportune time to take bank some profits. 

Only if they made those profits by pure luck and recognised this was the case and even then they could, instead, decide to choose a lower risk investment. If someone has the stockpicking skill to be able to pick W H Smith, Wetherspoons & National Express why the hell would they choose to gaze upon the profit earning 0.1% interest in a bank account? 

I've never really understood why banking profits is seen as sage advice unless it's part of a derisking exercise or the cash is actually needed. 

All three are recovery punts on the travel and leisure industry. The tip was made some weeks ago. Be interesting to see what the writer thinks now. WH Smith has since already diluted small shareholders with a £166m share placing to shore up it's balance sheet. 
PS. Share market makers follow the tip sheets as well. You'll be paying these higher prices in purchasing VWRL. 

Sailtheworld

Thrugelmir said:

Sailtheworld said:

Thrugelmir said:

schiff said:

Motley Fool apparently suggested W H Smith, Wetherspoons and National Express on 19/3 as possible early survivors - up 113%, 85% and 159% today. Lucky, or well judged, for some!

Opportune time to take bank some profits. 

Only if they made those profits by pure luck and recognised this was the case and even then they could, instead, decide to choose a lower risk investment. If someone has the stockpicking skill to be able to pick W H Smith, Wetherspoons & National Express why the hell would they choose to gaze upon the profit earning 0.1% interest in a bank account? 

I've never really understood why banking profits is seen as sage advice unless it's part of a derisking exercise or the cash is actually needed. 

All three are recovery punts on the travel and leisure industry. The tip was made some weeks ago. Be interesting to see what the writer thinks now. WH Smith has since already diluted small shareholders with a £166m share placing to shore up it's balance sheet. 
PS. Share market makers follow the tip sheets as well. You'll be paying these higher prices in purchasing VWRL. 

Well quite. I've decided I don't have an investment edge and am happy to accept that today's price is the correct price. Of course I wish I had bought VWRL ten days ago when prices were somewhat lower but if wishes were horses beggars would ride (and I didn't have the cash).

My next share purchase will be at the start of the 2021 tax year apart from reinvesting dividends. I'll still be dipping here for an occasional dose of success bias in action though. 

bargainhunter888

Sailtheworld said:

Thrugelmir said:

Sailtheworld said:

Thrugelmir said:

schiff said:

Motley Fool apparently suggested W H Smith, Wetherspoons and National Express on 19/3 as possible early survivors - up 113%, 85% and 159% today. Lucky, or well judged, for some!

Opportune time to take bank some profits. 

Only if they made those profits by pure luck and recognised this was the case and even then they could, instead, decide to choose a lower risk investment. If someone has the stockpicking skill to be able to pick W H Smith, Wetherspoons & National Express why the hell would they choose to gaze upon the profit earning 0.1% interest in a bank account? 

I've never really understood why banking profits is seen as sage advice unless it's part of a derisking exercise or the cash is actually needed. 

All three are recovery punts on the travel and leisure industry. The tip was made some weeks ago. Be interesting to see what the writer thinks now. WH Smith has since already diluted small shareholders with a £166m share placing to shore up it's balance sheet. 
PS. Share market makers follow the tip sheets as well. You'll be paying these higher prices in purchasing VWRL. 

Well quite. I've decided I don't have an investment edge and am happy to accept that today's price is the correct price. Of course I wish I had bought VWRL ten days ago when prices were somewhat lower but if wishes were horses beggars would ride (and I didn't have the cash).

My next share purchase will be at the start of the 2021 tax year apart from reinvesting dividends. I'll still be dipping here for an occasional dose of success bias in action though. 

sorry to hijack this post
i was looking at an all world tracker is VWRP the accumulation version of VWRL? also VWRP was only launched 9 months ago, is there any risk involved with a newer etf?
Thanks 

bowlhead99

bargainhunter888 said:

I've decided I don't have an investment edge and am happy to accept that today's price is the correct price. Of course I wish I had bought VWRL ten days ago when prices were somewhat lower but if wishes were horses beggars would ride (and I didn't have the cash)

sorry to hijack this post
i was looking at an all world tracker is VWRP the accumulation version of VWRL? also VWRP was only launched 9 months ago, is there any risk involved with a newer etf?

In this case, what you are looking at is simply a different share class of the same ETF. It's a $4.8 billion ETF, with most invested via the longer-established distributing classes (VWRD, VWRL) and about a sixth of it in the newer (accumulating) classes (VWRA, VWRP) - but fundamentally you're taking exposure to the same product and underlying investment instruments. 

worldtraveller

CLOSING NUMBERS FROM YESTERDAY:

FTSE 100 @ 5,791 - DOWN 25% FROM PEAK

FTSE 250 @ 16,083 - DOWN 27% FROM PEAK

FTSE ALL SHARE @ 3,200 - DOWN 25% FROM PEAK

DOW JONES @ 23,950 - DOWN 19% FROM PEAK

NASDAQ @ 8,516 - DOWN 13% FROM PEAK

coastline

Username999 said:

coastline said:

Spinning top..Maybe   
https://stockcharts.com/h-sc/ui

DOJI ...
https://www.investopedia.com/terms/d/doji.asp

Not a very good day so far with bad news from the USA. Maybe a trip lower now.? Those doji spinning tops ? 
https://www.proactiveinvestors.co.uk/companies/news/917245/ftse-100-takes-another-plunge-us-crude-now-below-us20-per-barrel-917245.html

https://stockcharts.com/h-sc/ui

From yesterday one of my favourite indicators ,Slow Stoch , on the top of the guideline and curling down. Lets see ? Not the best of charts but the ideas there.
https://investing.thisismoney.co.uk/charts/?epic=INDU&compareTo1=&compareTo2=&period=YEAR1&type=2&indicator[]=SlowSTO&draw=
https://investing.thisismoney.co.uk/charts/?epic=UKX&compareTo1=&compareTo2=&period=YEAR1&type=2&indicator[]=SlowSTO&draw=