Share Price Watching for a Noob
Discussion
Ken_Code said:
Digger said:
Does "Yes" work for you?
Iran launched an attack in Israel, which had been brewing for a little while.There’s a thread about it.
https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&...
Edited by Ken_Code on Sunday 14th April 21:41
EXACTLY . . . HOW . . . do world events affect (in this specific case) the fluctuations of Shell shares?
As NowWatchThisDrive suggests . . . right now . . . who knows?!
Digger said:
I don't think you understand the point of my thread!
EXACTLY . . . HOW . . . do world events affect (in this specific case) the fluctuations of Shell shares?
As NowWatchThisDrive suggests . . . right now . . . who knows?!
Fears of war in the Middle East lead to expectations of oil prices increasing.EXACTLY . . . HOW . . . do world events affect (in this specific case) the fluctuations of Shell shares?
As NowWatchThisDrive suggests . . . right now . . . who knows?!
Shell is a company that produces oil, if the price of oil increases then Shell are expected to make higher profits.
Earning shares in a company gives you ownership of a share of those profits, and people are willing to pay more per share when the expected profits increase.
This leads people to buy the shares, and these buyers find that sellers (who are also aware of the news) won’t sell them unless a higher price is paid.
You can see the prices that buyers and sellers are dealing via stock markets such as the London Stock Exchange, which facilitates trading in shares.
Apologies for not understanding your question earlier.
To reiterate my earlier point, no-one knows when the price will stop rising.
Edited by Ken_Code on Sunday 14th April 23:22
Digger said:
There is no need whatsoever to apologise & I very much appreciate your considered reply.
I’m just a middle-aged bloke whose parents lined up a small stock of Shell shares when a wee nipper back in the 80’s & just wondering how it all works these days
Any one single stock is risky. That just means that the price lives around an awful lot.I’m just a middle-aged bloke whose parents lined up a small stock of Shell shares when a wee nipper back in the 80’s & just wondering how it all works these days
Conventional wisdom says that splitting your pot among many different shares is a better idea. If you wanted to do that then a company such as Vanguard charges very little and has funds such as the LifeStrategy100 which will spread your investment across many hundreds of different shares.
Digger if you need the money that's fine. But if she'll falls tomorrow then suddenly rises 10% the rest of the week you can't look back and wish differently. You can never call the top or the bottom of anything.
There are 2 threads running about shares in this section of pH.
What's your big gamble
And
Share tips or something like that I forget its gotten lost down the pages.
A rising market usually brings more posts to it.
There are 2 threads running about shares in this section of pH.
What's your big gamble
And
Share tips or something like that I forget its gotten lost down the pages.
A rising market usually brings more posts to it.
asfault said:
Digger if you need the money that's fine. But if she'll falls tomorrow then suddenly rises 10% the rest of the week you can't look back and wish differently. You can never call the top or the bottom of anything.
There are 2 threads running about shares in this section of pH.
What's your big gamble
And
Share tips or something like that I forget its gotten lost down the pages.
A rising market usually brings more posts to it.
You oughtn’t to hold or sell one specific stock based on “needing” the money.There are 2 threads running about shares in this section of pH.
What's your big gamble
And
Share tips or something like that I forget its gotten lost down the pages.
A rising market usually brings more posts to it.
In general you should only hold a single stock if you have a very strong reason for doing so.
I’ve a huge amount of stock in my employer, and sell every share that I’m allowed to the day that I can.
Ken_Code said:
asfault said:
Digger if you need the money that's fine. But if she'll falls tomorrow then suddenly rises 10% the rest of the week you can't look back and wish differently. You can never call the top or the bottom of anything.
There are 2 threads running about shares in this section of pH.
What's your big gamble
And
Share tips or something like that I forget its gotten lost down the pages.
A rising market usually brings more posts to it.
You oughtn’t to hold or sell one specific stock based on “needing” the money.There are 2 threads running about shares in this section of pH.
What's your big gamble
And
Share tips or something like that I forget its gotten lost down the pages.
A rising market usually brings more posts to it.
In general you should only hold a single stock if you have a very strong reason for doing so.
I’ve a huge amount of stock in my employer, and sell every share that I’m allowed to the day that I can.
I have reached the conclusion that, even with considerable effort and time spent to understand the dependencies and mechanisms behind the sentiment towards stock traded entities, it is very hard to anticipate stock movements. Factors affecting those can be downright esoteric. You can have a grasp of the basic principles of an entities core business and fail absolutely to anticipate how a butterfly flapping its wings in Shanghai has caused a big movement while you were asleep.
And of course, if you are doing it properly you should hold a diversified portfolio, many holdings hedging against one another so that while one unexpectedly falls, the rest of your stocks are holding or rising.
It's a lot of homework to fully understand the many potential factors affecting multiple stocks. It is even more homework to then remain vigilant to world and business events and to know what to do given those often unprecedented stressors.
For an average punter like me it is essentially little more than a game of chance. I think this is the case for more than would care to admit.
If you have a big enough pot of money and enough time to monitor daily and manage a number of holdings, then there's a possibility you can 'do it right'. Your success or failure is then mostly in the homework.
If you have 'time', as in, many years remaining in your life, you don't need to play individual stocks. You can invest in a fund. Then you are automatically hedged.
I reckon that stocks and shares trading is probably for people who have a different sort of 'time'- as in, hours in their day... By which I mean, professionals, retired, people who have carved out time specifically for that purpose etc
Hence I basically took Ken's advice a year or so ago.
And of course, if you are doing it properly you should hold a diversified portfolio, many holdings hedging against one another so that while one unexpectedly falls, the rest of your stocks are holding or rising.
It's a lot of homework to fully understand the many potential factors affecting multiple stocks. It is even more homework to then remain vigilant to world and business events and to know what to do given those often unprecedented stressors.
For an average punter like me it is essentially little more than a game of chance. I think this is the case for more than would care to admit.
If you have a big enough pot of money and enough time to monitor daily and manage a number of holdings, then there's a possibility you can 'do it right'. Your success or failure is then mostly in the homework.
If you have 'time', as in, many years remaining in your life, you don't need to play individual stocks. You can invest in a fund. Then you are automatically hedged.
I reckon that stocks and shares trading is probably for people who have a different sort of 'time'- as in, hours in their day... By which I mean, professionals, retired, people who have carved out time specifically for that purpose etc
Hence I basically took Ken's advice a year or so ago.
Ken_Code said:
Any one single stock is risky. That just means that the price lives around an awful lot.
Conventional wisdom says that splitting your pot among many different shares is a better idea. If you wanted to do that then a company such as Vanguard charges very little and has funds such as the LifeStrategy100 which will spread your investment across many hundreds of different shares.
Conventional wisdom says that splitting your pot among many different shares is a better idea. If you wanted to do that then a company such as Vanguard charges very little and has funds such as the LifeStrategy100 which will spread your investment across many hundreds of different shares.
asfault said:
Ken_Code said:
asfault said:
Digger if you need the money that's fine. But if she'll falls tomorrow then suddenly rises 10% the rest of the week you can't look back and wish differently. You can never call the top or the bottom of anything.
There are 2 threads running about shares in this section of pH.
What's your big gamble
And
Share tips or something like that I forget its gotten lost down the pages.
A rising market usually brings more posts to it.
You oughtn’t to hold or sell one specific stock based on “needing” the money.There are 2 threads running about shares in this section of pH.
What's your big gamble
And
Share tips or something like that I forget its gotten lost down the pages.
A rising market usually brings more posts to it.
In general you should only hold a single stock if you have a very strong reason for doing so.
I’ve a huge amount of stock in my employer, and sell every share that I’m allowed to the day that I can.
Such is life
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