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Generally speaking the usual advice is to drip feed the same amount every month, buy it and then stop watching it and treat it as a long term investment.

I tend to go for trackers so I pay piddly...

I always stick with trackers. I can't be arsed to look but I have read on numerous occasions that trackers always out perform 75% of managed stocks.

I have been buying UK trackers since the early...

It's no different from a grockle buying a cottage as a holiday home in Devon or Cornwall. The buyer gets his cottage and the local seller gets the money, so both happy. Foreigners have as much right...

Every cloud has a silver lining.

Classic cars, motorbikes and all antiques will be snapped up by cash rich foreigners.

They will also invest in uk property.

The tourist trade will do well...

Somewhat melodramatic but it's a good old fashioned moan.

Life was very complicated back in the 1970s when inflation hit 26.8% and a lot of pensioners had fixed rate incomes. I think most of us have it bloody easy now-a-days in comparison to as it what...

I would rather have todays environment of low interest rates and low inflation as apposed to high interest rates and high inflation. Life is a lot easier now a days.

Totally agree, if you lap up the profits, suffer the losses and don't ruin your dignity by bleating.

So you live in a mansion and drive a Porsche or similar ?

Why do you waste your time talking to us lowly lot ?

As I said earlier in the thread, I am holed up in a villa in Spain which was paid...

If someone could genuinely predict currency movements, they would be sitting in a nice office and making an absolute packet. The last thing they would be doing is wasting their time talking to a...

To make money , you need to buy at the right price and then sell at the right time.

The gamble is should you have sold in this last month or should you have bought ?

Like a fool I just sat and...

Jonny

I have a fair amount in equities and I have done very well out of it. Also I have often advocated trackers because they perform well and attract low management fees. So I cannot see why you...

Raffey dear boy, why don't you just slink back to the BP, you fit in well there.

Ok fair enough, now please allow me to bask in the Spanish sun in the villa that was mainly financed by selling equities.

If you buy a share today, you obviously think it will rise in value. However the market can change and you could slide into a loss. It is no different than backing a horse to win a race. It is a...

Buying equities is, and always as been, a gamble. Even 12 year old kids know that.


You buy equities at your own risk and you, and you alone, are responsible for any profits or losses made....

With all due respect there is a difference between taking a holiday and switching off.

Locked up in Spain, life is so tough.

The truth is that absolutely no one really knows the answer to that. This is not not a financial market crash in the true sense, it is a crash due to the uncertainty of globalisation. Can a...

One part of successful investing is knowing when to take a holiday. The chances are most stuff will continue going down in price for 6 months or so, so stick it in a bank and earn your quarter of one...