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NPH
Posted: 13 March 2025 16:53:04(UTC)
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This is just a bit of fun amongst all the serious discussion.
I have two bombed out shares, SFOR and DOCs, for which I have given up hope of recovery. All my fault, should have used a stop loss, lesson learned etc.
Anyway, about £6k in total, don't need the money for 10 years +, all the pain already gone through. Where would you put it?
I will put the best suggestions in a virtual portfolio and see how we get on.
I suppose there is a more serious point about dealing with the psychology of losses and how we feel like we should be chasing them. When a fund goes down, I blame the market or the manager. When an individual stock goes down, I blame myself as I chose it. Anyone else or just me?
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Harry Gloom
Posted: 13 March 2025 19:07:30(UTC)
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I wouldn't pick a single stock as I don't invest in single shares so it would be Vanguard S&P500 Acc ETF (VUAG) for me.
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Wave Action
Posted: 13 March 2025 19:09:18(UTC)
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I only blame myself these days as I've gone DIY over 30 years now. Online data is fantastic especially when you think 20 years ago most were using library books and the weekend financial press for information.
Anyway my selection is Gold using the SGLN ETF . It's made rapid progress in recent years and many are predicting a new bull era .

https://bigcharts.market...ggle=false&state=11

Set to 5 , 10 and 20 years to get the picture..

https://www.macrotrends....ck-market-100-year-chart
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NPH
Posted: 13 March 2025 19:29:54(UTC)
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Wave Action;337497 wrote:
I only blame myself these days as I've gone DIY over 30 years now. Online data is fantastic especially when you think 20 years ago most were using library books and the weekend financial press for information.
Anyway my selection is Gold using the SGLN ETF . It's made rapid progress in recent years and many are predicting a new bull era .

https://bigcharts.market...ggle=false&state=11

Set to 5 , 10 and 20 years to get the picture..

https://www.macrotrends....ck-market-100-year-chart


Great call, thx. I know all the choices are mine, but somehow individual stocks seem worse. Though that may be because they can fall a lot more!
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Sara G
Posted: 13 March 2025 19:35:08(UTC)
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I mostly blame myself, whether it's a stock or a fund, usually for my appalling timing rather than the selection itself. Sometimes I blame the (to me) irrational responses of other investors, or geopolitics, or some other external factor, but I try to see it as an opportunity to buy more (if the investment case still stands up), or to learn a lesson, as you have done.

As for my free bet... Silver may be starting to pick up, so I'll go for SSLN.
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NPH
Posted: 13 March 2025 19:45:30(UTC)
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Sara G;337502 wrote:
I mostly blame myself, whether it's a stock or a fund, usually for my appalling timing rather than the selection itself. Sometimes I blame the (to me) irrational responses of other investors, or geopolitics, or some other external factor, but I try to see it as an opportunity to buy more (if the investment case still stands up), or to learn a lesson, as you have done.

As for my free bet... Silver may be starting to pick up, so I'll go for SSLN.


Been there and done that on timing as well!
Interesting call, thx
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Busy doing nothing
Posted: 13 March 2025 20:01:09(UTC)
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Well because valuations are down a little compared to a couple of weeks ago, my choice would be L&G Global 100 Index Trust.
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mcminvest on 14/03/2025(UTC)
ANDREW FOSTER
Posted: 13 March 2025 22:05:12(UTC)
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Id bung it in

HANetf ICAV - Future of Defence UCITS ETF

Spending on Defence will rocket (excuse the pun!) over the next ten years as we enter a new Cold War...

Fire and forget...

That's my bet..
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Peanuts
Posted: 14 March 2025 06:54:14(UTC)
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Not sure if this is a challenge or not but difficult to win without taking big risk.. which I don't know much about without taking crazy guesses so my boring suggestion below..

Ok firstly if you couldn't touch it for 10yrs I would choose something with a low P/E like a FTSE250 index tracker. I know I'm going to get a dividend each year. It's still relatively suppressed over a 1 and 5yr time frame. And mainly I think within a 10yr timeframe the opportunity for smaller (than large) companies to benefit from falling interest rates (if it happens) is a decent bet.
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Himlo
Posted: 14 March 2025 07:08:25(UTC)
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GKP. Debt free oiler with the licence to operate one of the largest untapped land based oil fields discovered in a generation
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