Stock Picks - Darlings and Dogs

How successful have you been in trading your own equities, etfs and funds ?

  • Extremely successful (make a living off my takings)

    Votes: 8 2.7%

  • Beating passive investment returns

    Votes: 133 44.2%

  • About par with normal returns from banks and money markets

    Votes: 52 17.3%

  • Lost a few pennies of spare cash to play with

    Votes: 34 11.3%

  • Should have rather left my money in the bank

    Votes: 27 9.0%

  • Took a knock

    Votes: 23 7.6%

  • Cremated

    Votes: 24 8.0%
  • Total voters
    301
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What happened to "Ashburton Global 1200 FOF ETF"? This was supposed to be 'THE' fund everyone recommended here. It is back to where it started.
 
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LaraC said:
Does insider trading hold merit?
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What do you mean?

An "expert" talking up a share that he is holding to get the price up and then sell is certainly not insider trading. Market manipulation possibly but not insider trading.

Insider trading is specifically defined as trading based on information that is not publicly available. Doing your own analysis on publicly available info is fine, the issue comes in when you get info on, say, annual profits from someone inside the company before they are published and then trade based on that.
 
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Jehosefat said:
What do you mean?

An "expert" talking up a share that he is holding to get the price up and then sell is certainly not insider trading. Market manipulation possibly but not insider trading.

Insider trading is specifically defined as trading based on information that is not publicly available. Doing your own analysis on publicly available info is fine, the issue comes in when you get info on, say, annual profits from someone inside the company before they are published and then trade based on that.
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I'm referring to board members and company directors buying or selling stock in their company. ;)

e.g. If the CEO sell the majority of his/her stock does it influence confidence in the value of stock in the company?
 
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LaraC said:
I'm referring to board members and company directors buying or selling stock in their company. ;)

e.g. If the CEO sell the majority of his/her stock does it influence confidence in the value of stock in the company?
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Not really a general rule for that unfortunately. If the CEO sells a large proportion of his/her stock it would generally be a sign that things might not be going well but not always. Sometimes they just want to buy a yacht :p
 
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surface said:
What happened to "Ashburton Global 1200 FOF ETF"? This was supposed to be 'THE' fund everyone recommended here. It is back to where it started.
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It was a buy and hold for me. Would still recommend that, or SATRIX MSCI world or Coreshares Total World to anyone who wants to buy and hold for years.

I was one of the Ash FOF preachers, but I have sold mine and moved it to Coreshares Total World as the exposure should be a tiny bit better, and it's a tiny bit cheaper.
 
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PPI to be released soon, that might be another trigger

jobless claims wont really matter much
 
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mr_norris said:
It was a buy and hold for me. Would still recommend that, or SATRIX MSCI world or Coreshares Total World to anyone who wants to buy and hold for years.

I was one of the Ash FOF preachers, but I have sold mine and moved it to Coreshares Total World as the exposure should be a tiny bit better, and it's a tiny bit cheaper.
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Thanks/ Might as well hold Ash as no point in selling at a loss right now.
 
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Sygnia Itrix MSCI Emerging Markets 50 - webinar tomorrow so I suppose it will start trading tomorrow ?
 
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LyondellBasell Industries N.V. (NYSE:LYB) may acquire the remaining 50% stake in its joint venture (JV) with Sasol Limited (JSE:SOL) in the US in 3-5 years.
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Can someone explain this to me. Sure looks like a lot of bs.
 
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surface said:
Sygnia Itrix MSCI Emerging Markets 50 - webinar tomorrow so I suppose it will start trading tomorrow ?
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ok. hardly listened to the webinar but it seems it is tracking MSCI Emerging Markets 50 Index so it just looks like Sygnia expanding the range a bit. Bought some on EE as I don't have Core EM50 or MS EM50.
 
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