Suggestions for a speculative punt?

Username999

Blink Charging (BLNK).
Up 48% today.
Anything related to EV could pop anytime.

Another_Saver

Given its bad rep lately, I think a FTSE 100 tracker currently qualifies as a speculative punt. 

Ciprico

Another_Saver said:

Given its bad rep lately, I think a FTSE 100 tracker currently qualifies as a speculative punt. 

I was thinking the same thing.  If someone built a
'UK Covid Recovery ETF' how different from a ftse100 tracker would it be ?

Another_Saver

123mat123 said:

Another_Saver said:

Given its bad rep lately, I think a FTSE 100 tracker currently qualifies as a speculative punt. 

I was thinking the same thing.  If someone built a
'UK Covid Recovery ETF' how different from a ftse100 tracker would it be ?

Filter out healthcare, consumer staples and utilities, more or less everything else is arguably a recovery play. I just buy index funds though, 1/3 FTSE 100, 1/3 FTSE 250, 1/3 global (of which 1/2 is vanguard FTSE global all cap and 1/4 each is vval and vhyl).
But I did buy Tesla over the last 2 years, only to sell most of my holding in this year's rally, probably all to @a@AnotherJoe

Username999

Interesting that the chart for FTSE 250 compares quite well to the SP500.
Now take out the $1T+ companies and I would think the FTSE 250 would be better.
Just a thought.

FTSE 250 beats Russel 2000 hands down.

adindas

Username999 said:

Blink Charging (BLNK).
Up 48% today.
Anything related to EV could pop anytime.

Nice one. I remember back in  September this stock suffered due to fake report from short sellers such as Culper Research. Retailer investors who get scared and decided sell their position are now regretting it. It is only an idiot will ever believe a report published by gosh not known organisation.

Good to see with the current price this short sellers are now in pain while the deadline is aproaching. They are all will be making a huge loss.

Blink, Green Power, SBE all have been making a huge jump 100%+

adindas

https://www.fool.com/investing/2020/11/20/why-longview-acquisition-stock-jumped-today/

A new SPAC LGVW LONGVIEW ACQUISITION CORP will merge with Butterfly.  Google it, it is disruptive innovation and a game changer in Digital Heath, Tele Medicine, Especially in rural area.

ARK invest just started building up a small position (new position) on this stock yesterday.

Is it worthy to have a closer look ?

Anyway it is probably not a good entry point as the stock has recently jumped up, but hopefully there is pull back

https://uk.finance.yahoo.com/quote/LGVW?p=LGVW&.tsrc=fin-srch

Another_Saver

Username999 said:

Interesting that the chart for FTSE 250 compares quite well to the SP500.
Now take out the $1T+ companies and I would think the FTSE 250 would be better.
Just a thought.

FTSE 250 beats Russel 2000 hands down.

The S&P recently is all bubble and tax cuts, and the FTSE 250's outperformance of the 100 since the Millennium is explained entirely by net acquisitions - still I think there's a few decades left in that phenomenon and even after its run out, UK mid and small cap will always so fine (imho).

csgohan4

adindas said:

With the news like this I fully believe any stock related to Travel, Airlines, Booking, Cinema, Banks, Cruises (to some extends) will wake up. Many of Uk stocks in these sectors although have made a run, are still undevalue.

https://news.sky.com/story/covid-19-oxford-vaccine-is-up-to-90-effective-in-preventing-coronavirus-tests-show-12134940

You will see more news like this in the coming weeks and it will only add the propelling power. If we focus on the companies with strong Balance sheet so they could survive until activities back to normal. All of these stocks will make money.

Nevertheless investing in these shares is still higher risk compared to Index tracker funds.

Cine was a risky punt even for me, but it was discount investing from my side, their financials aren't looking good and in billions of debt, but hopefully with CVA's they will be able to restructure and get rid of non viable overheads. 

Some people got lucky with IAG, some even got lower than 90p, Well done to those who got Rolls royce/CINE for less than 40 p and IAG for less than 80p. 

The key is how much of bottom will there be and not to get too greedy

There's still some good shares to get despite some of the crazy rises yesterday and today, fill your boots with care. 

mazibee

There's still some good shares to get despite some of the crazy rises yesterday and today, fill your boots with care. 

@csgohan4

Please can you list few of them here.

Thanks