I’ve made 30% on Sterling.

I see it a bit like a stock portfolio, players like Sterling you are guaranteed a reasonable but not exceptional return.

Lower value players have the potential for greater % returns but at a higher risk (so greater potential loses).

Sterling has a beta value of 1.3, lower value 2-5.

Actually worse than that - sold at about 86p or something. At least I only had 140 shares.

Should take my own advice and be more patient!

Me about two weeks ago... “Arthur is doing nothing, I’m selling off at 98p”

FFS

First bonus I’ve not taken part in. Market was too odd for me to pump a load of cash in.

Don’t get me wrong I’ve still got 5 figures in here and I’m not leaving, but I want to watch the market for a while before I put more in.

10% with commission taken out and spreads wasn’t enough to tempt me.

I’ll probably regret it, but I’ve opted for the safe watch from the wings option.

The last one had about a 3% dip after it finished, but massive growth during it.

If that repeats then the smart move is hold, and if you need to sell do it gradually a few weeks after the end as prices recover.

Expect they are think about introducing it as a paid option. The new beta had a stats link I seem to recall.

Mehdi tarini was my best. 10p to 31p.

Shame I only bought 200! :)

That was just a punt from a forum discussion.

Hindsight and all that

Really interesting post and thread. There is certainly a new pattern, personally I’m staying out of it for two reasons; 1) I probably don’t have enough time to be good at it, 2) the commission on the buys and sells mean ipds aren’t that attractive.

I’m happy for new users or old users with time and good sense to do it. Think of all of the extra commission FI make from this. Then they’ll want to use a proportion of that to keep the platform attractive - for example increased divs or future splits.

I guess overall I’m still confident that a longer term hold strategy will generate significant profits.

I wasn’t getting them. Double checked my comms settings and email was off. I changed that and got this latest batch.

So anyone not getting them, double check you comms prefs

Ah, they’ve fixed it. Calming blue again. :)