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Any of you lot got any shares?

No matter how good of a invester you are, any shares you have at the moment you have probably lost money. I have anyways :(

I could have sold my HBOS shares for £8.50 a few months ago but now they are about £5.50 :(

Could be a really good time to invest at the moment...Anybody got any good tips?

This is supposed to be a good time to invest in Index Trackers, anybody know anything about tracker funds?

I have Bradford & Bingley shares (BB.) which were given to me when it de-mutualised, keep thinking about selling them, but then I keep expecting them to go up. I could have sold them for about £850 a while ago, now they are hovering around £737


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THIS IS NOT TO BE TAKEN AS INVESTMENT ADVICE!

heh, it still works :) virtualtrader.co.uk

Havnt logged onto thier for over a year :)

I originally bought 940 COLT telecom shares @ £15.69 each. Totalling just under £15000

These shares are only worth 43p today! lol total value of £407 Lost 97% on that deal!

I've turned my £100,000 into £38,842.59

The only shares which made me profit were a company called brancote.

Or†ega wrote:
> Uh huh, before i started to trade for real i used to do one on
> virtualtrader.com
>
> You start off with £100,000 i think it was. I lost about
> £60,000 in my first month :) Dont think the game runs anymore
> though, it was pretty cool though.
>
> I invested heavy telecom companies and of course they have gone
> completly down the drain as of late. Especially bloody colt telecom...

Ive invested in HBOS and Marconi at the moment, i haven't checked my numbers in a few weeks though, i dont think they will be pretty.

Uh huh, before i started to trade for real i used to do one on virtualtrader.com

You start off with £100,000 i think it was. I lost about £60,000 in my first month :) Dont think the game runs anymore though, it was pretty cool though.

I invested heavy telecom companies and of course they have gone completly down the drain as of late. Especially bloody colt telecom...

At one time i was thinking of becoming a stockbroker, i started my own little virtual portoflio and made a return of £220. Since im too young to have a credit card i still play the virtual games, but this time next year i'll be a millionaire.

Shares Smares

May take another battering in the morning after the DOW JONES done crap just before close on Friday.

Some analysts are saying it will be 3200 by the end of the year :S

Already went low as 3860 earlier today :S

my HBOS shares are down another 6% today :S

The American markets will be opening in an hour or so...could get even worse...

Don't buy yet.

The FTSE will fall to around 3800, and then stabilise. To get maximum return over the shortest possible time, buy then.

If you're looking at longer term, say 5 years, then it's ok to buy now.

Tiltawhirl wrote:
> That's what Gary Glitter used to say and he was arrested.

Heh.

PCWorld, the peadophile police......