Suggestions for a speculative punt?

Dandytf

Thrugelmir said:

Dandytf said:

Thrugelmir said:

Probably a takeover target in the medium term rather than a star performer. Tekmar Group PLC (TGP) @ 60p. 

Niche business that supplies services to the global offshore energy industry. 

Hope you don't mind, thought Id'e have a bid myself.

15.00
 STOCK CODE: TGP Tekmar Group Plc

Ord GBP0.01

Limit Order

Venue of Execution: London Stock Exchange AIM (AIM

66.8

 10.02

 Commission

These shares / units have been dealt using the following account:

 11.95

 HL Fund & Share Account Settlement Date: 06/01/2021

 21.97

Think I'll prefer paying Fees separately in future Bids.
That 11.95 is included in today's portfolio view, which means I'm -54% though the stock is slightly up.
Thanks for the possible takeover info.

Don't blame me if the company tanks! 

 

😲

HarryGray

Old_Lifer said:

I wouldn't think it would make any  difference either way.    I would imagine hardly any investment professionals, large investors and day traders read MSE Forums.

I’m an investment professional and I read it 😊 I love seeing people’s opinions, no investment professional knows everything so it’s good to get insight from other people no matter their experience 

csgohan4

HarryGray said:

Old_Lifer said:

I wouldn't think it would make any  difference either way.    I would imagine hardly any investment professionals, large investors and day traders read MSE Forums.

I’m an investment professional and I read it 😊 I love seeing people’s opinions, no investment professional knows everything so it’s good to get insight from other people no matter their experience 

There have been some good cracking tips on here in the last year, SMT, SBE, EQT, Nio/Xpeng, William Hill, RDSB to name a few

But just like betting on the horses with tips, you need to do your own research. Or risk losing it all. Look at Nikola

Depends on one's risk appetite and some luck as well. 

[Deleted User]

Old_Lifer said:

I wouldn't think it would make any  difference either way.    I would imagine hardly any investment professionals, large investors and day traders read MSE Forums.

They might not read them, but I would be very surprised if they didn't use a Social Data Aggregator to harvest the feeds of all forums and news feeds, then put them through a NLP to track sentiment against content/keywords.
(just so happened I did this for a living the past 6 years but for a large Consumer Goods company and based on that I did numerous pitches to Finance sector companies)

sevenhills

HarryGray said:

I’m an investment professional and I read it 😊 I love seeing people’s opinions, no investment professional knows everything so it’s good to get insight from other people no matter their experience 

I have a few of Morrisons shares, a really good store and the type of business to carry on making money in this lockdown. Spread the word 😁😁

bowlhead99

Thrugelmir said:

msallen said:

Thrugelmir said:

Dandytf said:

bowlhead99 said:

msallen said:
I've had to read this a few times to make sure it does actually say what I think it says (I should have just scrolled down as bowlhead had already deciphered it to mean the same). Are you f***in' crazy?

Looking on the bright side, although you lose huge percentages of money to fees this way, it isn't a large absolute amount of money. The investor would have had a harsher lesson if they had put a meaningful amount of money (hundreds or thousands) into a 'punt' company and it had gone bust or crashed in value. This way, the £24 of transaction fees incurred to buy and sell a meaningless amount of shares is just something that would have been frittered away on some other form of entertainment.

Thanks for some minor positive reply, appreciated.
Setting 11.95 trade costs apart, this makes for some satisfaction-Sell:66.00p Buy:68.00p  1.50p (2.26%)
Lesson learned on the Costs. Though not to be repeated.

Thanks Msers

Open a GIA account with X-O. Trades then would just be £5.95p. No account fees. 

I'm an x-o user myself, but even at half the cost of HL, the charges there are way too high for this sort of investment. This is where free platforms like Trading212 have a place - just don't get tempted into anything more exotic like CFDs.

Does Trading212 offer this particular stock? 

Don't know as am not an accountholder - but Freetrade does offer it, but only if you have upgraded to their 'plus' subscription service which costs £9.99 a month.

Apodemus

sevenhills said:

HarryGray said:

I’m an investment professional and I read it 😊 I love seeing people’s opinions, no investment professional knows everything so it’s good to get insight from other people no matter their experience 

I have a few of Morrisons shares, a really good store and the type of business to carry on making money in this lockdown. Spread the word 😁😁

Lol! Best of luck with that one! 

I'm afraid Morrisons shares are a bad memory for me!  I held through thick and thin from Argyll Group days on down, through the Safeway era and finally Morrisons.  Holding on during various promises of a bright new dawn and hopes of catching up with Tesco.  Customer service in the local store got worse and worse, the check-out queues got longer as they reduced staffing and the final straw was when the store manager showed no concern when I pointed out that the variation between shelf-prices and check-out prices was so wrong that they risked a visit from trading standards. 

Sold at £1.89 in April 15 and I see I could buy them back today at £1.80! 

csgohan4

Apodemus said:

sevenhills said:

HarryGray said:

I’m an investment professional and I read it 😊 I love seeing people’s opinions, no investment professional knows everything so it’s good to get insight from other people no matter their experience 

I have a few of Morrisons shares, a really good store and the type of business to carry on making money in this lockdown. Spread the word 😁😁

Lol! Best of luck with that one! 

I'm afraid Morrisons shares are a bad memory for me!  I held through thick and thin from Argyll Group days on down, through the Safeway era and finally Morrisons.  Holding on during various promises of a bright new dawn and hopes of catching up with Tesco.  Customer service in the local store got worse and worse, the check-out queues got longer as they reduced staffing and the final straw was when the store manager showed no concern when I pointed out that the variation between shelf-prices and check-out prices was so wrong that they risked a visit from trading standards. 

Sold at £1.89 in April 15 and I see I could buy them back today at £1.80! 

Ocado would have been a better bet 10 months ago, look at Sainsbury, been stagnant, probably due to the Argos overheads weighing them down. 

bermudianmark

lse:aml - Aston Martin continue to tick up - I sold my holding before Xmas but now regret doing so.  I expected them to be amongst the fallers with the new lockdown given their luxury high end brand prices, but seems the market is taking a long term view and expects a deal with Mercedes in the near future to come off.

adindas

Dandytf said:

Thrugelmir said:

Dandytf said:

Don't blame me if the company tanks! 

 

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It is hardly new. These epicentre stocks such as Airlines, Banks, Cinemas, and Cruise lines (To some extends) are highly correlated to Lockdown & COVID-19 infection. Also the epicentre stocks like these are sensible to "market rotation".

New tougher restriction to lockdown, it will go down, restriction is removed or relaxed more good news in the vaccination, stimulus packakge, it will go up as simple as that.

Those who are not sensible enough expecting to get the same level of return with volatile stocks but only want a risk similar to saving account or Index fund, should not go anywhere near investing in individual stock, let alone investing in a rollercoaster stock like this. Only invest the money you could effort to lose. In my personal experience investing the stocks like these, the key here is to get the best possible entry and exit if you are close to your princinpal. You could also combine it with DCA (Dollar Cost Avareging). Once you exit, you could reenter again later, if you could. However low the rollercoaster is swinging you will not lose money.

So what is speculated here is whether you believe that we will be going back to business as usual, whether these businesses could survive or not. With the stocks like Airlines, Banks, Cinemas, and Cruise lines there will be a lot of news coverage, so you have time to exit before they go bankrupt.

Also consider the risk and reward ratio. Risk the worst case (market crash in march) reward pre COVID-19 which one is much higher ??