D?
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Damn it. I thought this was going to be a tricky one but you got it! The correct answer is indeed D.
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Pretty sure you can make a behavoural research topic out of thisā¦āIs the retail investor community wisdom beating the market?ā
May be an area to cover in either Honey or the longer Insight pieces @Freetrade_Team
Needless to say, when pies eventually become available, we need to have this portfolio as one of the default options!
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The way oil has dived due to covid i think that if it all goes back to normal and oil goes up again due to planes flying, more cars on the road etc that Ā£BP will be close to doubling.
$KNB newcomer Kanabo Group looks to me like a really nice stock for 2021. Kicked off straight away once added to NASDAQ, crazy gains already and I can only see it going up.
Plus itās something I really believe in and stand with so itās always nice to invest in something that you really want to follow and see grow.
Currently only holding 267 shares but grabbing more at any chance I can. Wish Iād bought more at 20p now!
Ok, Ben. Being of the passive investing persuasion, Iāve hitherto been a bit sceptical of some of your claims and advice. But I can see that as an experiment, this approach has merit i.e. invest in a sufficiently large number of stocks and it starts to mimic an ETF of one type or another.
So, in the spirit of entertainment (per your initial post), Iāve bought, in total, just under Ā£900 of the stocks in the spreadsheet, specifically those that can be held in an ISA and are available to a non-Plus account. Youāll be particularly pleased that to dabble in this ādark sideā I sold some bond ETF units to fund it. 
And on that note, Iām off to have a stiff drink.
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Liking this!
Iām as excited as you are. Could I really give a crowd wisdom for a material part of my portfolio? Certainly they could focus my attention on maybe the top 100 stocks to focus my research on out of thousands out there. Some will be not so good, but I suspect a lot will be excellent. There are loads of other good mentions in this thread.
We will certainly have a more structured approach going forwars if by June this is a success rather than the first 60 odd replies!
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Will deftinely keeping an eye out for june
thatās funny ā to dabble in this dark sideā that gave me a good laugh 
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In terms of long term multi baggers (perhaps a different thread!), I think Illumina is an interesting one.
Genomic sequencing is a hugely important and disruptive area for the future. Itās also competitive but Illumina are the market leaders and its acquisition of Grail consolidates that position.
Like a lot of Nasdaq companies, it make may take time for its performance to catch up to and justify its market value. However for a positive endorsement look no further than James Anderson, the Oracle of Scottish Mortgage Trust - he picked Illumina as the company he is most excited about for the future (SMT are of course invested in it) in the podcast linked below. He mentions it at the end - 45m 27s - but the whole podcast is really interesting and is worth a listen.
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@CashCow if you ever consider a career changeā¦
The Digital Marketing role might suit you
https://www.ajbell.co.uk/careers/vacancies
PS: Iām sympathetic with your pain but sometimes I just canāt help myself. Iām sick. I need help
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Ha ha! Thatās actually what I do for a living alreadyā¦ though not for them obviously.
I like to think Iām pretty good at my job but Iām really not sure that Iāve got enough ādigital polishā to make that turd appealing. It probably wouldnāt help that:
- I donāt believe in the quality of their product at all
- My first marketing initiative would be centred on the phrase āWeāre nowhere near as good as Freetrade but hear us outā¦ā
- Iād blow the entire budget on getting Andy Bell from Erasure to star in a promotional campaign. Iām thinking āA Little Respectā might be good, given that that is what I feel as though Iāve received as an AJ Bell customer.
Edit: I feel legally pressured to point out that Andy Bell of Erasure and Andy Bell of AJ Bell are two different peopleā¦ two very very different people.
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Ugh! They have a stadium? I can only assume every transaction has an additional charge of Ā£9.99.
Ā£9.99 booking fee when you buy a ticket, Ā£9.99 transaction fee PER ITEM for any food and drink you buy, Ā£9.99 to spend a penny/go the loos and of course, because that fee applies to Sells as well as Buys, you have to pay Ā£9.99 when you want to leave the stadium along with additional Ā£9.99s for every item you take out with you. You should probably leave that match programme behind.
Pfff.
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Until FT covers more of the market who do people use to invest in companies not on FT?
I use Trading212 and Interactive Brokers.
T212 is similar to FT in that all its offerings are free, whilst IBKR charges but it has the benefit of being able to access LOTS of markets, as well as offering other items which are not as common such as european options .
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Pretty sure Trading 212 isnāt free- the leverage is nuts, especially on CFDs. Pretty much how they make money, as most people lose money. Personally wouldnāt touch with a barge pole, beyond the quality of their charting.
Chris
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I donāt do any CFDs, but I use the ISA and Invest accounts.
The only thing I can say is that I have not paid a single penny. I have not paid anything to buy stocks, no payment to keep account open, no foreign exchange charges and certainly I havenāt paid anything on leverage (I donāt do CFDs).
Anyway, I have no intention of getting into a debate. I replied to the question ad Trading212 is one of the platforms I use, amongst others, such as IBKR and obviously FT. They each have their uses and advantages.
If what @Gilesf13 is looking for is most developed markets, Interactive Brokers (IBKR) offers them, although it charges a fee to buy and sell stocks as well as to have the account open. I think it is cheaper than others such as HL though. I imagine that they have the capacity of transferring stocks out, though I have not askedā¦
If in the future FT has access to another stock market from abroad, such as Hong Kong, would it allow in specie transfers of stocks?
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