Roku stock up over 45 percent from our purchase at start of December. Yay. For the record it was one we bought with a view to it doing OK over the mid term 4/5 years, but heck.
Roku stock up over 45 percent from our purchase at start of December. Yay. For the record it was one we bought with a view to it doing OK over the mid term 4/5 years, but heck.
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Looks like more BTC leveraged options coming to SIPP/ISA etc soon via Blackrock
https://www.coindesk.com/blackrock-g...itcoin-futures
They're a pretty big deal, according to Twitter
Tesla found a new market high of almost $900 (declined a few % now but still up on the day)
perhaps this is why, nancy Pelosi has bought Tesla options;
https://markets.businessinsider.com/...1-1-1029998372
Given the crazy bubble it wouldn't surprise me!
Did we all sell our rolex's and join the Robinhood movement in gMe?
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Markets will tank tomorrow if the news coming from Germany that the Oxford vaccine is only 8% effective in the over 65s is confirmed.
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The financial equivalent of Q-Anon has taken control of the stock exchanges.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/artic...es-to-the-moon (open in incognito window)
https://twitter.com/DeItaone/status/1353793275388456960
Someone who lies about the little things will lie about the big things too.
Strap in lads I think , unemployment rates, dodgy vaccines, the reality of economic outlook sinking in and suppressing the vaccine glow, Biden easy as you go ( print money Joe!) Travel bans and extra hotels etc etc
On the plus side a reduction in new cases
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If you say so.
https://twitter.com/washingtonski/st...41867029438465
Apparently they kinda f'ed up their phase 3. From the Lancet: “As older age groups were recruited later than younger age groups, there has been less time for cases to accrue and as a result, efficacy data in these cohorts are currently limited by the small number of cases, but additional data will be available in future analyses.” In other words they tested the most vulnerable last, and may not have enough data points, is my understanding.
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Let's wait and see the efficacy for the over 65's when the data is available. It certainly doesn't help bandying around 8% efficacy figures when by the reporters own admission it is a political piece surrounding the German government vaccination plans. As I said, scaremongering, let's hope I'm not wrong.
Anyone else slightly amused by this WSB story? I must admit I am. “What’s save for the goose is sauce for the gander” springs to mind
Someone who lies about the little things will lie about the big things too.
No but they might own the same underlying investments.
As per the title of this thread, and the title of this post.....
What do our resident gurus feel the best places to be invested may be if there is another bear tumble coming along, and the bubble is about to pop?
Is it best to be fully out of everything and sat in cash again, or in inflation proof commodities and metals? Or in the emerging markets that are said to be leading the post Covid rebound?
It’s obviously a crystal ball question, but there must be safer places to be than all in FTSE trackers and SMT?
As evidenced in this thread, if you are not following the market on a daily basis and are willing to put quite some work in, it's probably for the best to stay invested and ride it out. Maybe sell a quarter or a third of your trackers if and when you don't feel comfortable about the market and buy back when happy with the direction (no matter if that is lower or higher than where you sold).
Simple truth is that there is nothing more difficult than timing the market swings.
The best advice I’ve seen in this thread is “time in the market will outperform trying to time the market”
Granted my SIPP is small and I’m relatively young, but I sat in cash for several months waiting on a bubble popping that didn’t pop.
I’m letting it ride now, across a few trackers and low cost funds.
Gamestop: the wild ride continues.
High yesterday: $159. Only 90 minutes later, the low of the day at $61. Today, a low of $80 and high of $143.
Place your bets.
It's a video game retailer (the blockbuster of video games), which has been dying for years. As a result, every hedge fund and their dog has ended being short the stock. The company was racking up operational losses and looked like it was weeks away from bankruptcy - until the new armada of pandemic traders invested their stimmies and bought OTM call options in coordinated fashion. No fundamental reason to buy the stock, other that the whole float is sold short and they were going after the shorts.
There was not a single piece of news which affected the company's business between July, when the stock was $4 and today, when it is trading at $145. Google gamma-squeeze if you want to understand what happened.
This is also happening with a few other stocks: Blackberry, Bed, Bath & Beyond and AMC have all more than double during the past two weeks to name a few. Check it out, it's unreal.