Easy Equities good or bad?

Wrath of Khan MD said:
it can't be because I have to do 100x individual transactions <-- I'm dramatising but I have done 10x before! so the final amount is the same

imagine wanting to buy a share and then having to email a company with an automated response that says "we will try and reply to you in 5 days!"

I owned Nepi rockcastle a while back... wanted to sell it as its done and dusted, nope platform would not allow me to sell it, says I must contact them.. something to do with the stock delisting etc etc... their response is "it seems fine from our side..." after I sent them a screenshot of the denial of sale and saying, "contact EE etc etc"

To the chap would mentioned IBKR <-- yes excellent and quick and easy platform with almost zero fees <-- South Africa thieves should learn from this
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W@P said:
My email orders have been concluded within 20 min so far every time. Toss way to do a deal but ja.

What other options are available to us peasants? And what other platforms are available to trade actively on? As EE is more of a longer-term investment platform imo.

I have an IBKR account, but afaik it's only USD based?

When I look at, for instance, Sasol, I get this:

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And then something like Choppies:

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IBKR, I have had multiple currencies ib my account at the same time and you can choose from a range of stock exchanges.

I have not looked at ZAR specifically though.
 
W@P said:
BUT, and I think it is relevant.

There have been times when I placed big orders via the trading desk that went through in one transaction.
Then, like my recent Choppies order, they executed about 15 orders just to get to 50k shares.

So their system seems messed up. Wtf would it work like that? Even on their side.
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The trading volume on sasol is 10x that of choppies.
There isn't an infinite amount of shares someone needs to sell theirs in order for you to buy shares. On companies like choppies the volume traded a day or month is much smaller than sasol so the 50K of shares you bought was about a quarter of a whole months trading volume at current volumes.

EE will only sell you what is available they don't let you put a buy order so the desk first checks if there is actually 50k worth of shares they can buy on your behalf before they let you place your order.
 
B-1 said:
The trading volume on sasol is 10x that of choppies.
There isn't an infinite amount of shares someone needs to sell theirs in order for you to buy shares. On companies like choppies the volume traded a day or month is much smaller than sasol so the 50K of shares you bought was about a quarter of a whole months trading volume at current volumes.

EE will only sell you what is available they don't let you put a buy order so the desk first checks if there is actually 50k worth of shares they can buy on your behalf before they let you place your order.
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Thats how I imagined it yes.
 
wonder what 2026 will be like for these ETFs... the mining companies have exploded!

I own a lot of Satrix Sharia (gosh I hate that name... but anyway) maybe I should swop to Resi, hmmm...

suppose it's pointless as I also have 10x top 20 and 10x top 50...
 
Still pissed off I missed the communications about Lonmin converting to Sibanye, otherwise I would have been sitting very pretty on that front now.
 
FiestaST said:
Combo to note as we head into '26:

https://twitter.com/x/status/2005519047241478167

+

https://twitter.com/x/status/2005889612099563643
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I hold a percentage of those in the mining industry. They've been good.

But my golden child is this.

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Still, it is all irrelevant until you sell. So either ride your specific stocks' dividends wave and pay your taxes.
Or cash out on some of them, and still, pay your taxes.

Either way.

I am planning on getting a dedicated cathedral hull boat just for fishing in the next year, just by trading.
Fishing in dams, not the ocean. A Bandit 490 to be specific.

Dreams...
 
FiestaST said:
https://twitter.com/x/status/2006638732615762139
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sorry to say this portfolio is kak... not balanced, weird risk etc... not to bash but just no... this person whoever it is needs to rebalance their portfolio. I would bet they have lost money on this for the year. The below are from tradingview

ZAR

1. 2.7%
2. 20.4%
3. -8.3%
4. 107%
5. 38%

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USD <-- excluding currency improvement which reduces all these figures by quite a bit

1. 0.5%
2. -22.3%
3. -48%
4. 65.8%
5. -14%
 
Wrath of Khan MD said:
sorry to say this portfolio is kak... not balanced, weird risk etc... not to bash but just no... this person whoever it is needs to rebalance their portfolio. I would bet they have lost money on this for the year. The below are from tradingview

ZAR

1. 2.7%
2. 20.4%
3. -8.3%
4. 107%
5. 38%

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USD <-- excluding currency improvement which reduces all these figures by quite a bit

1. 0.5%
2. -22.3%
3. -48%
4. 65.8%
5. -14%
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It's picks for 2026, not picks for 2025... so does 2025 performance matter?
 
as in this is what he is picking for 2026 or this was his picks from 2025?

either way, they're not good options, the balance doesn't fit any logical investing strategy...
 
Anyone know why if you have say R 5000 in your zar account and try by shares you can only do it in tranches of R400 - R500 or is it limited to the share / etf?
 
SauRoNZA said:
Depends on the share and its liquidity.
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Assume its a platform thing, same happens when selling. On my bank app they also have shares with much larger orders can be palced but guess I will need to check the fill prices.
 
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