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offline giginger from Milky Beans (United Kingdom) on 2006-09-05 07:31 [#01965722]
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Anyone know the best way to start going about buying shares
as an investment etc; I know all the dangers etc but I feel
it's time I started trying to make some money other than the
job I'm in. I've been reading about the whole thing but
there's not actually any guide to actually buying them or
recommended companies etc;


 

offline mylittlesister from ...wherever (United Kingdom) on 2006-09-05 07:51 [#01965725]
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i imagine that it'd be best to look at companies in a field
of industry that you know about, but other than that i have
no idea.

have you tried reading publications such as the financial
times, economist, etc...? i think 'which?' magazine will
offer some sort of guide, but probably only to their
subscribers - don't expect any help for free :)


 

offline giginger from Milky Beans (United Kingdom) on 2006-09-05 07:57 [#01965728]
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I haven't read the actualy publications but I've been
through their online sites. Forgot about Which? though. Good
idea!


 

offline mortsto-x from Trondheim/Bodø (Norway) on 2006-09-05 08:41 [#01965750]
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Don't do it if you can't afford to loose the money.
Otherwise I know nothing


 

offline hanal from k_maty only (United Kingdom) on 2006-09-05 08:43 [#01965758]
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buy a house and rent it out.do it now.


 

offline mortsto-x from Trondheim/Bodø (Norway) on 2006-09-05 08:46 [#01965761]
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Yeah. If it's the same trend over in UK, one should probably
stick to buying property. Even if you bought magic Harry
Potter-shares ten years ago, you would have made more money
if you brought property


 

offline hanal from k_maty only (United Kingdom) on 2006-09-05 08:52 [#01965764]
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its the only way.
my house has valued almost 40k in under 4 years.
thats 10k+ a year


 

offline evolume from seattle (United States) on 2006-09-05 09:35 [#01965800]
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buy oil futures.


 

offline avart from nomo' on 2006-09-05 10:08 [#01965827]
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shares and stocks works in an interesting way for ordinary
people - things happening that makes the stock market happy
and shares more worth (downsizing, outsourcing) are often
the same things that makes people unemployed...

A lot of ads informs about how good shares are - the elite
want people to work for them and then "invest" their
hard-earned money in the stock market. What a nice set up.


 

offline giginger from Milky Beans (United Kingdom) on 2006-09-05 13:19 [#01965942]
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This is the problem. I don't have enough money to buy a
house without crippling myself with debt and mortgage
repayments through the arse. However, I do want to try and
invest some money but also do something a bit more daring
than a high interest account. Probably stupid but I just
want to do something different. Shares are a risk granted
but I won't go mental and diving into high risk ventures.


 

offline Raz0rBlade_uk on 2006-09-05 13:23 [#01965944]
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get all your money together and gamble it on a 50/50 bet


 

offline swears from junk sleep on 2006-09-05 13:41 [#01965955]
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I don't think the current system will last another ten
years, there isn't enough growth in Western countries to
support the stock exchange, too many markets are already
saturated. (How many more McDonalds can they open? How many
more cars on the road?) and falling birthrates. China, on
the other hand looks good, but look what happened to Japan's
"bubble economy."



 

offline thatne from United States on 2006-09-05 13:57 [#01965963]
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yeah real estate is probably where its is.


 

offline Dannn_ from United Kingdom on 2006-09-05 17:10 [#01966047]
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i invested some inheritance a few years ago and it pretty
much dissappeared


 

offline Anus_Presley on 2006-09-05 17:25 [#01966052]
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i know my dad had a bunch of sharres once, but he lost
money.


 

offline w M w from London (United Kingdom) on 2006-09-06 03:18 [#01966187]
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I'm about 1/2 way through reading 'rule makers rule
breakers' by the motley fool. I've never bought stock. The
book lists about 6 or so rules, sort of a heuristic to
selecting the sock of companies most likely to explode (rule
breakers), ie microsoft etc.

As for property I read manufactured homes depreciate, unless
they are on their own land (not on a rented lot). Regular
homes have been appreciating, however some suspect they are
in some sort of bubble and might go down soon (usa I guess).
I have no idea what the fuck I'm writing about.

Don't you hate when you go to google and search for
something, then click on the cached version so everything
will be highlighted, then it says 'these terms appear only
in links pointing to this page'... THEN DON'T PUT IT IN THE
SEARCH RESULTS


 

offline w M w from London (United Kingdom) on 2006-09-06 03:21 [#01966188]
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You just have to find the next sort of revolution... most
likely something related to networking/the internet/etc...
maybe some company will make absolute bank on artificial
intelligence or something etc. We're in time of exponential
change.


 

offline oxygenfad from www.oxygenfad.com (Canada) on 2006-09-06 10:47 [#01966350]
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Yeah dude, gambling actually works if you know how.
If you play the inside of a rulet table, you can make a lot
of money (slow and steady).

It's real easy and the odds are with you (since your playing
little bets).
Example

You see where I added the blue marks? You want to put you
chips down here.

The spot I didn't put the X on (if you notice the pattern of
how I did it) usually never gets played.

Since you are betting so far on the inside, you barely make
money, BUT you did win money. You just gotta keep at it for
a bit.

How it works is that you are basically picking every number
on the board. At the Casino I went to , the earnings was
like times 5 your bet.

So, even though you lose 4 out of 5 of your chips, you still
win 5 back off of the ONE that did get picked.

So 5 - 4 = 1

BUT that last chip won the game so

1 X 5 = 5

PLUS you still keep that on chip in the game so you actually
have 6 now.

It's slow, but if you play the tables enough, and move up to
higher bidding tables, you could make a few hundred dollars
in one day.

by the time I figured this out, I had to leave so I only
made off with 50 bucks, but this was like in the span of 1
hour, and I was playing the 1 dollar tables.

It works try it!



 

offline oxygenfad from www.oxygenfad.com (Canada) on 2006-09-06 10:48 [#01966351]
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here!


 

offline giginger from Milky Beans (United Kingdom) on 2006-09-06 11:19 [#01966363]
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Interesting.


 

offline glasseater from Switzerland on 2006-09-06 11:25 [#01966364]
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buy coca cola company shares and start drinking 35 cans a
day.


 

offline evolume from seattle (United States) on 2006-09-06 11:55 [#01966379]
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Peak Oil.



 

offline Dinky Pimp from United Kingdom on 2006-09-08 13:45 [#01967548]
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Get hold of a copy of Money Week (from the people behind The
Week, which you're more likely to find in good newsagents),
there's some good advice in that. Not that I've invested
because I'm always skint - but you can get four issues for a
quid, I think. Google it and see what comes up. Warning:
once your four issues are up you'll keep on getting
mailshots to do with spread betting, horse racing betting
systems and "red hot penny shares" and no, Penny Shares
isn't the latest xxx sensation, more's the pity.


 

offline belb from mmmmmmhhhhzzzz!!! on 2006-09-08 14:10 [#01967560]
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Cease your babblings, irresponsible oaf! You'll worry the
markets and gigi's plan will be RUINED :(


 


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