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What are Broker Tips? |
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What is behind the jargon that analyst use in terms of rating shares. e.g. Underweight, Neutral and Overweight. |
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What is the difference between the Bid and Ask? |
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What are Preference Shares? |
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So are Preference Shares like Loans taken at LIBOR? |
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What is a Share Split? |
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Why do I have to pay tax on shareholdings? |
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What is Dividend Cover? |
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What is the difference between the ex dividend and record date? |
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Can you tell me how to find out dates of company ex-dividend dates? |
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What is the difference between a SCRIP and a DRIP? |
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What is Cashflow? |
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Please explain 'Yield'? |
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Why isn't an AIM stock with a big capitalization like Playtech not in the FTSE 250? |
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How are stocks promoted/relegated in the FTSE and how does this impact on a share's price? |
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What happens to a spread bet quarterly bet if a company were to move from the main market to AIM? |
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If you knew a company was about to move from AIM to Main market would you buy before it moved or just after? |
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Mergers - Why do the acquiring company shares often fall while the target company shares rise? |
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Are there rules on when profit warnings have to be issued? |
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What is a Placing? |
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What are the main debt considerations to consider? |
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Why do buybacks work? |
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Shares going into treasury, does that mean the total number of shares remains the same but sharesholders hold an overall greater share of their own company? |
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What does it mean when a stock is said to 'Bounce'? |
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Housebuilders priced below book value...isn't that a very strong positive buy signal? |
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Why are Shared Ownership Schemes usually a bad idea?
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What are REITS? |
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Risk grade - what risk grade? |
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What is a 'Price Monitoring Extension'? |
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What is Capitulation? |
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Is it best to invest in high or low priced shares? |
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Buying many shares - is it more worthwhile having my fingers in as many pies? |
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But what proportion of your portfolio would you allocate to just one share? |
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How do you find the right stocks to trade at the right time? |
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How does one select which stocks to invest in? |
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So tell me what study and research would you suggest one does? |
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How important is free cash in selecting a company to invest in? |
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How do you measure how cheap or expensive a share is? |
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How can I compare market capitalisation against profits? |
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What is 'Beta' in a share? |
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How can a sector help you find performing stocks?
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I'm looking for tips on how to guesstimate a target share price...? |
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How does corporate news affect the price of stock prices?
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In 2007, JSG share price was trading the in the range of 300-400p - now its 30p surely it could head towards there again?
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How do stock prices usually react to an upbeat trading results market update?
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Is it a good idea to buy more of a stock that's doing well before it gets too expensive or hang on to my cash until another opportunity arises? |
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Do you have any tips in picking penny shares? |
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Do you pick shorts based on technical analysis? Or do you just use technical analysis to filter a short list and then look at fundamentals as well? |
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Sure there might be some decent shorts around but in general its going against the market trend & therefore more difficult to make money? |
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What's the biggest risk with shorting? |
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With so many investors looking at shares, don't you think that most shares will be trading at a price that reflects their current balance of risk? |
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If a stock is said to be 'Good Value' what is meant by that? |
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What about buying into underperforming 'badly managed companies' hoping for a turnaround? |
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Any good sources of instantaneous news on equity prices and other important news?
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Can you suggest me any sites or resources from which to obtain the best overview as to what is occurring in the markets throughout the day?
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Any tips on how to keep up-to-date with RNS notifications?
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I was wondering if you can recommend a website that emails company news by sector?
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Are there any tipsters or trading publications that you recommend? |
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Which are the best spreadbetting books out there to read? |
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What about Bonds? |
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Moody's, Standard and Poor's and Fitch - what are they? |
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What is a Depositary Receipt? |
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What are Gilts? |
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In one instant this year the government wasn't able to sell all offered gilts - does this imply that Brown is having trouble... |
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My Index Linked Gilts fund is falling in value, will it recover? What's the outlook for gilts in times like this? |
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'If you buy index-linked gilts you get protection whatever the level of inflation. In fact deflation is best as there is a stop-loss on them...' |
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How does inflation affect an investment portfolio? |
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What is the difference between the Bank of England rate and LIBOR? |
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If the BOE can simply make unlimited loans to keep LIBOR down then why haven't they done it before to control LIBOR if it were so easy? |
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Is government borrowing inflationary? |
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How does one bet on interest rates? |
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Tell me more about spread trading long-term interest rates... |
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What does the expression "short Sterling" mean, exactly? |
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Are the financial futures markets reliable predictors of the future? |
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What is an Exchange Traded Fund (ETF)? |
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Why are ETFs so popular in the USA with personal investors? |
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What is the difference between ETFs and ETCs? |
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Are Exchange Traded Funds derivatives? |
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Are Exchange Traded Funds a good trading tool? |
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How safe is an Exchange Traded Fund? |
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Why are ETFS often better than an actively managed fund? |
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What sort of rough percentage profit would a good fund manager achieve as an average? |
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What about those funds promising to preserve your capital should the stock market drop? |
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I have been looking at Index Trackers in the UK and in Ireland... |
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I bought some ETF's recently and noticed I did not have to pay stamp duty ON them as you normally do with other stocks and shares? |
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Assuming a sustained rally in the US is coming, what's the best vehicle (with least fees) for a UK investor to get in to the S&P 500...etc?
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Why should you be careful in investing in ETFs when the Pound is rising versus the Dollar? |
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Is there an advantage in using GLD (an exchange traded fund) for example over a spreadbet on gold future? |
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How does spread betting compare to trading ETFs? |
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Is it possible to spread bet iShares ETFs?
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Can you give me the name of an ETF that tracks physical silver?
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I'd like to ask whether it is possible to bet on the Sensex (India) or India 50 and Russian indices?
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How to I get exposure to Brazil?
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Do you think it's better to buy when everyone is selling like today? |
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Is high volatility good for spread betting? |
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Why do shares fall faster going DOWN and go UP slower? |
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Is buying stocks a rip-off? |
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I bought in the morning and am a bit disappointed as I did the research and felt that it was a sure fire buy and that the rewards would be a rising price early doors?! |
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I've just bought a share with strong upward momentum and it started falling the day after I bought it, surprise, surprise! |
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What is Pyramiding? |
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Add more to winning positions!!? Why???? |
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I went for the FTSE long from 5174 at a massive 2pp! If only I'd dare do more! |
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About Momentum Investing. Why would I want to buy a share that has already gone up? |
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How do I know when the strong trend is over and I need to close my positions? |
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Can you tell me more about timing buys/sells or is it something that comes with experience? |
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The problem with this is that the gains per trade also go drastically down when you are using a trading system which risks just 2%... |
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