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I must be bonkers, but fancy a bit of contrarian investing and just moved a few K into a BRICS ETF which has collapsed -60% over the last two years.

I will probably be catching a falling knife,...

Silver is on a rocket too. Up 17% in one month, and getting me out of a hole, when I bought it very expensively a couple of years ago.

The time to take the risk was at $15k.

Gotta love the bulls hyping it when it is already rampant. Same people were sh1tting their kecks over a year ago.

Maybe because a ponzi scheme relies on new recruits.

Yep, I took your broad advice on that one, thanks.

I believe they were just a paper company and they never had a any manufacturing facility.

AMTE are a spin off of AEA (Atomic Energy Authority) and then Quentiq, and have had long standing...

Thanks. Any gut feel on Vodafone? Big in continental Europe. Looking to add quite a bit more to that.

In talks with other parties too. It would be the loss of the UK’s only homegrown battery company, but I will now to your wider knowledge in the company finance area.

AMTE power running out of cash and share price down 75% in the last 5 days.

Will the Government allow the only U.K. owned battery producer to fail in its race to net zero and leccy cars?

Might...

Followed your tip and bought in at 742p, but carried on buying at 650p and 620p, so doing alright out of this one now.

Just put several k into Vodafone with more to go in on a drip feed basis. Share price is on its knees.

Yes it can fall further, but I am holding this one for several years.

Given the experiment has shown some potential, I am actually tempted to sell my top 12 FTSE 250 'dog' stocks that have actually bounced really well, and plough all the funds from selling into the...

I bet you are on tenterhooks to understand how my 24 most underperforming FTSE 250 dog stocks are doing 3 months later.

Original investment £7,170

Current value (inc £60 divis) £7691

3 month...

Some analysis from the well respected Ramin.

https://youtu.be/k3wGqD_9SzY

You are correct, but it depends on your employers flexibility.

My employer contributions are not matched and are flexible for me to do as I wish.

I just get a % of my salary which can be...

45% is not the max.

You can get up to 60% tax relief on pension contributions in the salary range £100-125k.

Plus if your contribute via employers salary sacrifice you get 2% NI relief as...

I have faith in the BoE printing press.

I couldn’t agree with you more on this point. The addition return for extremely low risk makes a money market fund in this situation by far the best investment.

But I will still stick to my guns...

Whatever the vagaries, money market funds are not as safe as FSCS protected cash.

With cash your investment is guaranteed not to go down (inflation aside). That is not the same for money market...

In the U.K. cash in the bank (or cash in any organisation that is FSCS protected) is the safest thing you can hold, as the U.K. Government guarantees your deposit up to £85k per bank/organisation.
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Yes, I am using Freetrade.

One month into my bit of fun/experiment and I am up 1.5% across my 24 FTSE 250 dog stocks. FTSE 250 is up 1% in the same time frame, so I'm star fund manager for the month, lol. Not for the feint...

Sometimes the most simplest of research pays off.

Wetherspoons are up 40% since before Xmas and I have continued to drip feed another few K on the way up. Wetherspoons share price is still 50%...

Where is Raffe?

The largest crisis in Swiss banking history and I thought he would have a few comments.

Maybe he has been drafted from Lux to lead the 24 hour due diligence. Or maybe he is...

I will probably massively regret this, but as an experiment I just bought 24 of the most beaten up stocks in the FTSE 250, without any diligence or research (half of them I have never even heard of)...