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« Reply #15 on: Thursday, August 27, 2020, 17:09:30 »

I use a financial advisor to look after my investments and things did take a nose dive in March,April & May but have recovered well since early July
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« Reply #16 on: Thursday, August 27, 2020, 17:10:19 »

I think closer to the truth, Jimmy Quinn fucked up quoting


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« Reply #17 on: Thursday, August 27, 2020, 17:31:58 »

Never invest in something you don't fully understand, unless it's money you can afford to lose. That goes for all investments to a certain extent, recommendations even more so.

Absolutely. Simple advice but very rarely followed.

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What are you currently invested in out of interest? Right now I'm in ZOE, EUA, AA, and SYME.

I have had a few regarding Graphene, and a minerals one but not EUA. SYME did interest me funny you mention that but noticed it rise back to near launch price levels so, if someone bought £1ks worth in July, you'd have a nice 800% profit. Not bad for a month or twos work. Although I did miss that.

Buying anything at the initial Covid outbreak certainly will have been an investors dream. Had the stock been around a fair while, you'd be confident that it could survive. Growth then would normalise. In this instance the growth would look abnormal to many due to the "crash". Yet it's purely just an initial correction that would happen in most cases.

I have a few legacy investments that won't be touched and are linked to former employment.

Of course, have a few crypto and digital assets. Some are just pure fun and if they grow they grow, if not we are talking very small stakes. Others are also mid to long term but try and take advantage of a trade as and when I can. One thing you know, is that crypto definitely will be hanging around when regulators, governments, banks and ECB, BoA, SBI etc are all looking at ways of implementing it.

For me it is about interoperability and helping the unbanked have access to some form of account. We all know FIAT as we know it is dead. You can continue to apply QE but in the long term all that does is devalue your currency and subsequently, economy. I also look at projects that can not only transfer a payment quick (we kind of have that) but also settles quickly too (we know that the banks and traders do not necessarily like that). In a constantly quickening world where everything is on tap, people are wanting their money to move just as fast, and at as little a cost to them as possible. I believe that at least a handful of crypto will emerge to do that.
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« Reply #18 on: Friday, August 28, 2020, 07:49:27 »

Crypto = speculating, not investing.
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« Reply #19 on: Sunday, August 30, 2020, 16:15:27 »

Crypto = speculating, not investing.

Not necessarily true for all crypto or digital assets.

I have tracked one in particular for the last 18 months to two years on a month by month basis and I can confidently tell you that there is zero speculation (or gambling) going on there. Consistent trend value measurable of 10% swing (5% up - 5% down) or thereabouts. Even a complete Joey could trade in and out of that once a month. More consistent than several FIAT currencies.

Had you started with a £5k investment 12 months ago, and simply trading out and reinvesting back in each month, the year end (allowing for the initial £5k and deducting CGT) would have seen a compounded profit of around £50k. This is before we even talk about any speculative potential and what the particular asset is capable of doing in terms of the tech.

In terms of risk in just that one year you would either be stuck with the asset (no big deal, it will be around for the long term) or have a bunch of dollars/pounds to off ramp into your bank account if desired.

I think the trouble is, there are several Financial Advisors who have not adapted or much too cautious. Caution isn't a bad thing but to not adapt, well in anything those who can't or won't adapt get left behind.

The same can be said for banks too. An antiquated system (SWIFT messaging) that is much slower than the facade it keeps trying to believe that it is quick. Tell that to folk who need to pay and settle funds with cross transfers and how long it can still take to wire funds or the costs involved in doing so. Yet when you tell them there is an asset that can pay AND settle in a few seconds and also cost a very negligible amount, regardless of the amount of funds sent, is it any wonder several businesses are turning to other options instead of using the more traditional methods.

Take today/this weekend for example; you urgently need to send funds to someone/business but they aren't in the same banking network or messaging system as  yourself. You can send the funds but they won't receive them until Tuesday at the earliest and you will also have the funds pending in your account (aka not settled), plus if it is outside of SEPA then your bank will charge a hefty fee to you for this "privilege".

Imagine you have staff worldwide who need these funds on the day they are paid, who don't recognise the same bank holidays as your native country, and subsequently will have utilities and other bills go out. They can't afford to wait - so why should banking stop because life certainly doesn't?

But of course, crypto/digital assets are pure speculation and nothing else.
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« Reply #20 on: Sunday, August 30, 2020, 17:15:20 »

Never invest in something you don't fully understand, unless it's money you can afford to lose. That goes for all investments to a certain extent, recommendations even more so.
What are you currently invested in out of interest? Right now I'm in ZOE, EUA, AA, and SYME.
I’ve got 2.5m shares in SYME as a punt, gone up about £20k in value in the last couple of weeks.
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« Reply #21 on: Monday, August 31, 2020, 06:58:16 »

I think the trouble is, there are several Financial Advisors who have not adapted or much too cautious. Caution isn't a bad thing but to not adapt, well in anything those who can't or won't adapt get left behind.

You realise I'm one of them, right? And it's adviser, please. We're not american.

As confident as you may be about certain cryptocurrencies, I still can't call that investing. Just because your example made a nice return doesn't make it an investment, it means you speculated well.

I agree that as a method of transferring value and having the ability to do so without the need for a banking system, crypto (blockchain) is the future. But that's nothing to do with investing or speculating. We could transfer value between each other with carrots if we wanted to, it doesn't mean I need to speculate on their future value.

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« Reply #22 on: Monday, August 31, 2020, 14:16:42 »

You realise I'm one of them, right? And it's adviser, please. We're not american.

As confident as you may be about certain cryptocurrencies, I still can't call that investing. Just because your example made a nice return doesn't make it an investment, it means you speculated well.

We could transfer value between each other with carrots if we wanted to, it doesn't mean I need to speculate on their future value.

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Yes, of course I do, which is why I mentioned it. However don't take it personally when I said "several financial advisers", I certainly wasn't meaning all.

Apologies for the Americanism, it was either on purpose (I do it with colour/or sometimes) or may just have ben an auto correct (INTL Keyboard).

Ok, so I didn't acquire my asset(s) with the main goal of generating income or appreciation in the future? Smiley I would say many people who invested in Alphabet Stock did so purely as a speculative punt and not as a long term investment. I certainly didn't with this particular asset.

I agree, or at least to start with as a compliment to enhancing the banking system. Too many people still around who won't let traditional banking die and they won't let others in unless they have a piece of the proverbial.

For sure, we could trade in smarties or tea leaves but the point being, the more people that trade/transfer in a particular medium (or peg themselves to it) then naturally it has a value that tends to appreciate. Like the gold standard used to be and how the $ & £ are (yet losing value with continued QE) today. More so if that medium is limited. You know the drill regards supply, demand and scarcity of assets.

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« Reply #23 on: Monday, August 31, 2020, 14:22:49 »

Yes, of course I do, which is why I mentioned it. However don't take it personally when I said "several financial advisers", I certainly wasn't meaning all.

Apologies for the Americanism, it was either on purpose (I do it with colour/or sometimes) or may just have ben an auto correct (INTL Keyboard).

Ok, so I didn't acquire my asset(s) with the main goal of generating income or appreciation in the future? Smiley I would say many people who invested in Alphabet Stock did so purely as a speculative punt and not as a long term investment. I certainly didn't with this particular asset.

I agree, or at least to start with as a compliment to enhancing the banking system. Too many people still around who won't let traditional banking die and they won't let others in unless they have a piece of the proverbial.

For sure, we could trade in smarties or tea leaves but the point being, the more people that trade/transfer in a particular medium (or peg themselves to it) then naturally it has a value that tends to appreciate. Like the gold standard used to be and how the $ & £ are (yet losing value with continued QE) today. More so if that medium is limited. You know the drill regards supply, demand and scarcity of assets.

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You obviously know your stuff and have confidence in what you do where as I have quite a lot of funds invested through an advisor I personally know and trust as I wouldn't know where to start
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« Reply #24 on: Monday, August 31, 2020, 15:12:43 »


You obviously know your stuff and have confidence in what you do where as I have quite a lot of funds invested through an advisor I personally know and trust as I wouldn't know where to start

Absolutely and very sensible to do so. I'm not for one moment rubbishing FAs though - I took some myself.

From experience though, it also seemed that several and especially around 5/6 years ago that when I even mentioned the words cryptocurrency or digital assets, they didn't really seem to have any idea. One or two shrugged and mentioned BTC but any ideas beyond that seemed alien. Some didn't even want to discuss them.

Must stress though, that my point was several and not all and the knowing part is a combination of listening to what some were saying as well as what they weren't. Remember that sometimes there are those that don't want you to know about a certain stock/investment/speculation and will rebuff anything about it; all the while though they are happily filling their bags with it Wink
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