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Amazon
|    | 45 | 30.41% |
Apple
|    | 32 | 21.62% |
Facebook
|    | 12 | 8.11% |
Google
|    | 59 | 39.86% |  | | | 
24.08.2018, 19:16
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| | Re: Stock investment poll | Quote: | |  | | | Congrats! I must admit you are not afraid of roller coasters, are you? I am talking about AMD, PM and Tencent for example  | | | | | PM is a sore point. I had a sell order which missed by a few cents. It didn't catch and then went from a profit to a loss quite rapidly after that. I think I went from +20% to -20% on PM.
BP and Total were bigger stakes, but I don't want to be in Oil & Gas long term so only recently sold Total and a good chunk of BP. Took profit on WMT and FeverTree too so now the top 3 holdings are about equal weighted.
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11.09.2018, 15:56
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For me 2018 is shaping up as a battle between how much I make from AMD vs how much I bleed on tobacco and China-exposed companies.
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11.09.2018, 20:31
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| | Re: Stock investment poll | Quote: | |  | | | For me 2018 is shaping up as a battle between how much I make from AMD vs how much I bleed on tobacco and China-exposed companies. | | | | |
This seems to confirm Buffett statement about buying a low cost tracker on S&P instead of cherry picking stocks https://www.cnbc.com/2018/01/03/why-...nvestment.html
Having said that, I have recently read that Altria/Philip Morris has been the best performing stock in the S&P for a very long time (19% avg annual gain with dividends reinvested), so assuming your tobacco stocks still pay a dividend you should probably be happy that their price has gone down
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11.09.2018, 22:36
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| | Re: Stock investment poll | Quote: | |  | | | This seems to confirm Buffett statement about buying a low cost tracker on S&P instead of cherry picking stocks  https://www.cnbc.com/2018/01/03/why-...nvestment.html
Having said that, I have recently read that Altria/Philip Morris has been the best performing stock in the S&P for a very long time (19% avg annual gain with dividends reinvested), so assuming your tobacco stocks still pay a dividend you should probably be happy that their price has gone down  | | | | |
Link here https://www.portfoliovisualizer.com/...ocation2_2=100
Summary: a 10K investment in MO in Jan 1994 would be ~470K today, while 10K invested in SPY would be ~98K -- dividends reinvested.
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11.09.2018, 23:54
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| | Re: Stock investment poll | Quote: | |  | | | This seems to confirm Buffett statement about buying a low cost tracker on S&P instead of cherry picking stocks  https://www.cnbc.com/2018/01/03/why-...nvestment.html
Having said that, I have recently read that Altria/Philip Morris has been the best performing stock in the S&P for a very long time (19% avg annual gain with dividends reinvested), so assuming your tobacco stocks still pay a dividend you should probably be happy that their price has gone down  | | | | | yes, i'd be happy with this except for a few points:
1. i currently don't have any more money to invest
2. i'd rather the tobacco companies stop wasting money on new-fangled HNB or Vaping and stick to their tried and tested cancer-sticks
3. not sure whether tobacco is a dead industry with increasing health-conscious generations and gradual pseudo-outlawing of tobacco.
but yes, assuming tobacco doesn't get killed through regulation or changing trends, it potentially is set-up for some huge gains once investors shift from growth back to safety.
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12.09.2018, 09:29
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| | Re: Stock investment poll | Quote: | |  | | | 2. i'd rather the tobacco companies stop wasting money on new-fangled HNB or Vaping and stick to their tried and tested cancer-sticks | | | | | In that case you might prefer Imperial Tobacco to the others in this regard. They have hardly any R&D spend compared to the others.
PM is the biggest R&D spender.
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12.09.2018, 11:46
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| | Re: Stock investment poll | Quote: | |  | | | yes, i'd be happy with this except for a few points:
3. not sure whether tobacco is a dead industry with increasing health-conscious generations and gradual pseudo-outlawing of tobacco.
but yes, assuming tobacco doesn't get killed through regulation or changing trends, it potentially is set-up for some huge gains once investors shift from growth back to safety. | | | | |
They'll just buy into the marijuana-craze, once it gets legalized everywhere.
And it will get legalized, because countries need the taxes like an addict needs his fix.
Not a fan of these kinds of companies, TBH.
Though I'm not a fan of banks, either and now the money is just sitting in the bank.
In the end, it's a rabbit-hole that leads to nowhere.
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12.09.2018, 13:05
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| | Re: Stock investment poll | Quote: | |  | | | They'll just buy into the marijuana-craze, once it gets legalized everywhere.
And it will get legalized, because countries need the taxes like an addict needs his fix.
Not a fan of these kinds of companies, TBH.
Though I'm not a fan of banks, either and now the money is just sitting in the bank.
In the end, it's a rabbit-hole that leads to nowhere. | | | | | i looked at canopy and also at an indirect exposure via constellation brands. cgc would definitely have made money, but not convinced on it. i wonder how big that market would be?
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12.09.2018, 14:49
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| | Re: Stock investment poll | Quote: | |  | | | In that case you might prefer Imperial Tobacco to the others in this regard. They have hardly any R&D spend compared to the others.
PM is the biggest R&D spender. | | | | |
For that precise reason Terry Smith sold Imperial and bought PM https://www.fundsmith.co.uk/docs/def...lders-2017.pdf | 
12.09.2018, 16:28
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absolute m***F***s so i set a sell order last night to free up cash to buy into MO and after months of this stock price languishing at lows, what day did it decide to spike up 6% for no bloody reason whatsoever???? i hate the stock market.
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| | Re: Stock investment poll | Quote: | |  | | | | | | | | He already had the state in P.M, It's the only US listed company FS hods with zero US earnings.
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| | Re: Stock investment poll | Quote: | |  | | | | | | | | It depends on if you believe investment in R&D to be a good one or not. PM is boldly pushing on with the IQOS and other products. Imperial is less so.
Excluding all other factors of the business of course | This user would like to thank Enohzee for this useful post: | | 
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| | Re: Stock investment poll | Quote: | |  | | | absolute m***F***s so i set a sell order last night to free up cash to buy into MO and after months of this stock price languishing at lows, what day did it decide to spike up 6% for no bloody reason whatsoever???? i hate the stock market. | | | | | Based on one news report of the FDA cracking down on e-cigarette companies in the US (youth use)  I love the stock market
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| | Re: Stock investment poll | Quote: | |  | | | Based on one news report of the FDA cracking down on e-cigarette companies in the US (youth use) I love the stock market | | | | | so ridiculous. that the FDA might do something. and that this might make these vapers suddenly decide to smoke instead is worth a 6% jump? anyway. i set a limit order and wait for the price to drop once this news is forgotten and the stock goes ex-div.
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| | Re: Stock investment poll | Quote: | |  | | | so ridiculous. that the FDA might do something. and that this might make these vapers suddenly decide to smoke instead is worth a 6% jump? anyway. i set a limit order and wait for the price to drop once this news is forgotten and the stock goes ex-div. | | | | | The market being 'wrong' is good. Gives us 'irrational' prices to take advantage of | The following 2 users would like to thank Enohzee for this useful post: | | 
20.12.2018, 08:58
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FB down nearly 25% from the beggining of the year.
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| | Re: Stock investment poll | Quote: | |  | | | FB down nearly 25% from the beggining of the year. | | | | | And so are many other stocks - look at financial companies for example. https://www.yardeni.com/pub/breadth.pdf | 
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| | Re: Stock investment poll | Quote: | |  | | | | | | | | Nvidia has lost about 50% since October.
I guess it is normal to expect growth stocks to fall hard from time to time...
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20.12.2018, 20:18
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| | Re: Stock investment poll | Quote: | |  | | | | | | | | Yeah but no one would have predicted such a drop of FB. That said it was all their own doing.
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| | Re: Stock investment poll | Quote: | |  | | | Nvidia has lost about 50% since October.
I guess it is normal to expect growth stocks to fall hard from time to time... | | | | | Nonsense, not for the major players.
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