:wave:t3: What’s your number one tip for a first time investor? If you could recommend 1 short term / one long term stock, what would it be. Much love, hope you and your family are safe and well.

I don’t know much about the Korean stock market… Also, it is not available on T212. I tend to stick with mainly Europe and a small amount of USA. At the moment I only have 2 asian companies in mind (1 Taiwanese and 1 Japanese) for when the markets are available on T212, apart from that I may inves…

[image] JD1: A stop loss where you cap your losses personally I think this is the worst bit of advice I have ever heard someone say they would tell a newbie at investing. losses are only real when you sell, someone new to investing shouldn’t be trying to time the rise and fall of a stocks va…

The worst bit of advice you’ve ever heard is to practice strong risk and money management? Scary stuff.

Lols :smiley: I think he just means, a stop loss normally results in a near zero chance for new investors to make money as they for the most part don’t factor in the volatile swings. Setting hard limit stops I think is useful, but it needs to be mentioned hand in hand with allowing the stock enoug…

[image] adm: tock enough room to “breathe”. For absolute beginners, the best route for them to follow is play with the practice account for a while then buy’n’hold a company or ETF. Personally, i’ve only ever cut positions too short using Stops, only for the equity to rise on and later be prov…

50% company 50% etf is the way to go [image] Zoom info stock 📬 Stocks & ETFs requests When is this going live? Also can I set a limit buy or have I got to hover about ?

how do you do this, what do you mean?

[image] Dao: losses are only real when you sell Agree… if people starting on the stock market cannot handle to see a -20% on their portfolio, you’re in the wrong place. There are many books and videos and speeches of very successful investors (not gamblers or speculators) that are doing very…

So whatever you invest in, it is guaranteed increase to a profitable position? Sticking your fingers in your ears and telling yourself losses are not real is madness and poor pyschology. If I bought shares in Tullow when they were 1400p, its now 27p, but my losses wouldn’t be real, right?

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