Hi. Would love any feedback on the following ideas for a more prominent dividend portfolio, also have a couple of growth stocks too. The idea is to add to the portfolio in small amounts each week, also to build a cash fund for any major drops in prices. I’m thinking both US & UK holdings and maybe…

Please could you explain compounding in a bit more detail to me and how I can get started? The numbers mentioned are amazing and I’m relatively young (mid 20s) so the earlier I start the more benefit I will have from compounding. I am a recent investor (some might say speculative trader) so I am no…

Yes, compounding interest, I too was going to ask about it, how does it work & is it really as good as some people say, given you have enough time?

Compounding isn’t something that amazing, the real results only come from the latter years when you have a large enough amount of money that each year the % increase goes up exponentially. People get way too fixated on the gain over a really really long time frame. If you invested for 50 years and…

Yep that’s the one :slight_smile:

I really enjoy how rational you are. It’s so easy to become swept away in “but in 10 years I’m going to have this amount and 15 years this amount” when realistically it might not happen this way. Things change. Like you said 40 years ago to now and 40 years into the future who really knows where we …

If you want to become rich quick, build the next Amazon. :roll_eyes:

I am also fairly new in all this and have only brought Stocks. I am not keen of ETF’s and other instruments. I brought shares on the UK/US/Swiss and Spanish market. I have brought the majority on all those that crashed because of COVID and will most certainly rebound in the next year or 2. Not pa…

[image] Damiansasha: I brought shares on the UK/US/Swiss and Spanish market. What companies have you bought in the Swiss and Spanish stock market?

Dufry is affordable at the moment and in my view has to go back up when travel eases and Telefonica in Madrid ! Same thing. I am for all the stocks that were high up and went down because of the virus. !

@pipo can tell you all about compounding.

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p.s. Also I would recommend David Bach’s short book “The Latte Factor” that explains everything in a very simple language if you want to understand the power of compounding.

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