Monday 29 May 2017

Another Bank Holiday and it's raining

It's a bit damp outside, but that's given me a chance to try something out on DEGIRO - a really cost effective online dealing platform https://www.degiro.co.uk/


I've used the tips from Simon Thompson of Investors Chronicle - here he has a 'bargain portfilio' - http://tinyurl.com/y89hzhdd

I've followed this, buying about £100 of each, I've not actually bought all of these, in later columns Simon sets new criteria, so I've dropped a few recomendations, and added others.

This is what I've done:
Share                  ISIN    QTY   PRICE(p) TOTAL(£)
====================== ====    ===   =======  ========= 
BowLeven Plc           BLVN    335   30.00    100.50
Avingtrans Plc         AVG     50    238.00   119.00
TISO BLACKSTAR         TBGR    170   61.00    103.70
Cenkos Securities Plc  CNKS    100   100.00   100.00
Bioquell Plc           BQE     60    166.00   99.60
Electrocomponents      ECM     9     555.00   49.95 (Note 1)
easyHotel              EZH     100   99.00    99.00


Note 1: Not in the list but I'm topping up an earlier purchase to £100

So this experiment is about investing about £1,000 in tem stocks and a few others to see how it works. If sucessful I'll go large and start investing £1,000 in each sstock, or maybe more, or maybe some form of weighting.

It's only a bit of fun but may be quite profitable, the only trouble is that everything is going up, even a monkey with apin could make money now - notice how monkey and money are very similar, one has a K
The reason I'm using DEGIRO is because  it's so cheap to trade, about £2 a trade - using TD Direct Investing it would cost £about £14 for each trade, not cost effective for just a few shares
 
Some alternatives for cost effective trading could be iWeb or x-o, about £6 a trade.

                                       
http://www.iweb-sharedealing.co.uk                    http://www.x-o.co.uk/


So the choice is yours - if you decide to go down the DEGIRO route let me know and I'll send you a link that will give a bit more discount. 

Happy trading everyone.

2 comments:

  1. Very useful you are getting good at this .wonder where the K was used?

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