Stock Trading

im 20 and would like to invest some of my money into the FTSE stockmarket but i would like to know the calculation on finding out how much my investments is worth at that time of viewing, also working out the formula?????
please help me thanks!!
HOW DO I DO IT! MIND BAFFLED
example: ( base the calculation on this example)
I WILL INVEST £2000

Symbol
ABF.L

Name
ASSO BRIT FOODS

Last trade
661.50 p Apr 17

change
12.50 (1.93%)

volume
1,667,306

thanks for taking the time to answer my question

I always find it’s easier if you stop thinking Shares and Stock Exchange and start thinking Oranges and Fruit Market.

On Apr 17 ABF Oranges sold at 661.50p down the Market, this was 12.5p (or 1.93%) more than the previous sale and the number of Oranges that changed hands on that day (volume) was 1,667,306 ….

So there you have it .. plainly if you went down the market on the 17th you could have purchased Oranges at about £6.60 … after all, there were over 1.6 million available so plenty for everyone …

What does this tell you about the price of Oranges today ???

Well on the 17th they were going up (12.5 p) so you might expect them to be a bit more expensive now .. however for all you know, pesticide has been found on the Oranges (‘hole in the accounts’, ‘breaching banking covenants’) and the price could have collapsed … alternatively a new Orange drink may just have come onto the market and the price of Oranges may have jumped up …

In order to ’spread you risk’ (i.e. avoid loosing everything when the Government nationalizes soft fruit (aka the Banks) it’s usually recommended that you purchase a mix of items down the market .. so as well as soft fruit (Oranges etc), buy some clothing, meat, kids toys, handbags etc. …

If you BUY you will always pay a slightly more than if you SELL (this is known as the ’spread’ and is how the wholesalers (‘Market Makers’) make a profit)

When you buy Oranges you will have to pay some FEES .. (Brokers Commission PLUS Government Tax known as ’stamp duty’) ..when you sell, you just pay Brokers Commission. The Fees could be as low as £5 each time and the Tax is 0.5% … even so, it’s not ‘free’ to buy & sell.

Fees means it’s usually not worth dealing in less than £500’s worth of any item per trade .. and to ’spread your risk’ it’s usually recommended you hold at least 10 different shares ….

With only £2000 to invest you might be a lot better off buying an INDEX TRACKER (via an ISA).

im 20 and would like to invest some of my money into the FTSE stockmarket but i would like to know the calculation on finding out how much my investments is worth at that time of viewing, also working out the formula?????
please help me thanks!!
HOW DO I DO IT! MIND BAFFLED
example: ( base the calculation on this example)
I WILL INVEST £2000

Symbol
ABF.L

Name
ASSO BRIT FOODS

Last trade
661.50 p Apr 17

change
12.50 (1.93%)

volume
1,667,306

thanks for taking the time to answer my question.

To find out how many shares you can buy you divide your £2000 by £6.615( FTSE lists share price in pence) the answer is 302.34 so you would have 302 shares. In reality this would be less as stockbrokers will charge varying in the region of (£6 – £12.95) also you would have to pay stamp duty of 0.5% of your transaction.

After you buy your shares to find out how much your return is you would use the HPR formula This is (End-Of-Period Value – initial value) divided by initial value. this will tell you your return in a percentage. e.g. if buy now at 661.50 for £2000 and the tomorrow the share price is 695.36.

Your return would be (6.9536*302) which is about 2100. Your would now minus the 2000 and divide the whole thing by 2000

(2100-2000)/2000= 0.05 so if you sell it then you would make a 5% return.

so im currently trying to take up the stockmarket "business". i am currently having trouble trying to understand what fee’s would i pay if i wanted to purchase some stock. i am with etrade and they say that the fee’s are:
Simple Options
(options contract fee per contract) $6.99 plus $0.75
and
Stock and Options Trades $6.99
what does this all mean and what other hidden fee’s do i need to look out for? thank you for your time

If you are new to trading, you probably want to avoid trading options contracts.

It looks like E*Trade has a special offer where you can do a stock trade for a fee of $6.99 — as long as you do 500 trades per month. If you trade less (and I would advise that you do), then it looks like the fee is $9.99 per trade.

It looks like they may also be allowing some free trades.

You should really talk to someone there about the exact deal that you will get.

I am 18 years old and i am looking to get into the stockmarket in Britain.

First off i know its risky and all that..
I am also aware i am young and haven’t really got the life experiance to go into it right now .. But saying this i have to learn at some stage and i would rather start to learn about it now.

Here comes the long line of questions:

First of can i just go into a bank and ask the cashier at the desk if i can set up a bank account ? If so will they ask what the account is for ? and do i need a certain type of bank account for trading and which bank is the best ( cheapest and best rates )

Do i use a stockbroker from that bank or can i choise who helps me? ( as in can i just use somone who is nothing to do with a bank and he just buys and sells for me at a cost ofcourse)

I want to trade around 200-500 British Pounds, which will rise if i make a profit etc ( is this to little will they just laugh at me )?

How can i find which stocks i want to buy ? as in there cost ? because i don’t want to tell the stock broker to buy shares in somthing that costs more money than i have?

if i were to make a profit would that profit got right back into my bank account or would i have to do somthing to get the money ?

Can i do it via a website: as in can i deposit money onto this website buy and sell shares then withdraw the money back to my bank account . such as www.share.com ?

Any other basic tips and help that you can give i would be very greatfull !
Also are there any good websites/books i can buy that will explain this

I think buy now you can see i know little or well i know nothing about it. so please any other imput such as what banks charge .

if i get to chose when to buy the stock and to sell etc…

thank you for any help you give in advance

Thanks !

Go Lakers has perty much hit it right on the nose. I was just like you 4 months ago. I didn’t know much at all, but i knew a little more than you. I’m 21 years old, and i still don’t know everything, not even close, but i do know 1000 times more than when i started back in january. I’ve made over 4000 dollars so far.

Like he said stay away from banks. Just because a stock is cheap doesn’t mean it’s worth bying. Learn what EPS is and P/E. I go through scottrade.com for my brokerage account. 7 dollar trades. You will have to have a bank account first, and then transfer funds from your bank account into your money market account. You can make yourself an account, but don’t just jump in and start buying crazy shares of cheap stocks. Do your research, ask questions, you could very well be buying a company that is going under and not even know it. I’ve made 2 bad buys since i’ve been investing, both when i first started. DRYS shipping company at 13 dollars, and CIT at 4.22, but i didn’t buy a lot so it didn’t hurt me to bad. Wish i had thought it through before i bought them though.

The US Stockmarket is crashing, the Banks are all collapsing… the US Government wants to "bail out" the collapsing banks by giving full control to Wall St to control the US Treasury… What do you think of this idea?

SOLUTION TO THESE PROBLEMS…

Ignore the elites… Stop using their paper money… go back to bartering and trading only physical goods & services. Let the lazy elites and banksters see if they can survive on their own, without the cooperation of the hardworking people and taxpayers.

STOP USING MONEY! THE ELITES PRINTED IT FOR FREE… IT IS NOT WORTH ANYTHING… STOP USING THEIR PAPER AS A FORM OF LEGAL TENDER… FEDERAL RESERVE NOTES ARE REALLY COUNTERFEIT MONEY… THIS MONEY IS ILLEGAL, AND IS NOT EVEN BACKED BY ANY REAL ASSETS OR GOLD… WHY WORK HARD FOR WORTHLESS PAPER???

Go back to bartering, trading, and growing your own food, managing your own chickens, pigs, cows, and fish farms. Be as self-sufficient as possible. Stop using petrol powered cars, and just use rechargeable electric bikes or electric cars. Be as independent as possible… Money is now being used to ENSLAVE all Americans and all people around the world. Don’t go along with this agenda of worldwide slavery. Stop using the elite’s instrument of control over you. Stop using their money… Encourage everyone you know to stop using printed Federal Reserve notes, or Central Bank notes. These ELITES do not own you… They cannot force you to pack back all the debts of the bankrupt bankers and Wall St gamblers. You don’t need these parasites in your lives.

Keep up to date with the latest REAL news, at:

http://www.infowars.com

http://www.prisonplanet.com

Listen to the Alex Jones radio show every day.

let them crumble. they;re worried about the big comps, what about the middle class or the other people. u know if theres no middle class then who are the millionaires gonna make money of. they just keep knocking us down. oh the poor folks thats losing their houses

Hi! I am searching for sites about learning more about stockmarket and how I can open order….etc and about technichal strategy and fundamental strategy
especially with silver-usd trading fields…e-books about this topic..anything you have thanks!

there are so many of those I would be hard pressed to recommend just one. Why not try this. pick one area you like the most and research that, become an expert and do practice trading on your methods (it is hard to do, but try and do real world trades that you would do) then once you think you have that down, move on to the next area of interest until you perfect that, then combine your strategies and see if they mesh, if they do, start shaking and use real money. if you really do the owrk you can do fine, but there is no guarentee but you are guarenteed to lose if you don’t do your homework

univeral misery and millenia-long escalation of war and weaponry to nuclear extinction [soon] – ie, do we have to stop these legal thefts in order to survive and be happy [peace]?

can we determine the point of maximum fortune beyond which fortunes are from legal thefts, ie are overfortunes, thefts, injustices?

1] workvalue of transaction items cannot be equal, ie, must be x and x+y, therefore transaction must be fair-trade-no-robbery [x for x] plus legal theft = y

2] buy land, do nothing, others build city round land, landowner gets the net capital gain [after costs of owning the land] – eg, waldorfs [manhattan], westminsters [london]

3] new technology – built-in high demand/low supply – [everyone wants one, industry gearing up] – owners profit without work

4] rich can afford more stockmarket info – so do better – so stockmarket pumps money from less informed to better informed [eg, film, trading places]

5] 100% of workers build nation – the 10% stock owners reap all

Legal, yes. Theft, no. Cause of war, not usually. Greed and lack of love & of other moral values are the prime causes of war, not injustices.

I just watched Trading Places

how do they get rich? can someone please explain how the stockmarket scene worked?

and why they got rich?
I don’t understand it

Actually, it was the commodities market, but it was meant to represent what happens in the stock market also.

When the Dukes were making purchases, it was driving the price up. They were misinformed and thought that the crop report would drive the price up further, so that they could sell at a higher price.

When Valentine and Winthorp started selling, they were selling at the inflated price. They didn’t own the contracts they were selling. They purchased them later in the day, after the correct crop report was issued which drove the prices down. They then purchased the contracts that they had already sold, but at a lower price than they sold them for. That’s how they made a profit.

The confusing part may be the fact that they sold before they bought. This was perfectly legal, settlements were due at the end of the day. Their net settlement was a huge gain, they got rich. The Dukes, on the other hand, had purchased high, tried to salvage what they could by selling after the prices started falling, and ended up losing a ton of money. They didn’t have the money to make the settlement at the end of the day and lost their seat on the exchange.

that any country can allow the money supply to be in private hands is just supersupersuper incredible – the moneycontrollers can pump money to themselves endlessly at will – increase money supply, which lowers interest rates, borrow money cheaply, decrease money supply, & lend at high interest rates the money they borrowed at low interest rates – money for nothing, legal theft – it is like always having inside stockmarket info, as portrayed in the film ‘trading places’ [one of the few films in which any potent information has been allowed to get to the ppl] – there is an hypothesis around that garfield, lincoln & kennedy were assassinated because they were pro-people enough [uncorrupt enough] to fight against the privately owned federal reserve
why why why why WHY!!!???? do the ppl every time allow unlimited overwealth, which is unlimited political overpower, raise its filthy ugly tyrannical head & eat peace & democracy & liberty & justice & freetrade for all??????????????????????????

Yes it is theft, greed and a total lack of compassion.
It’s the order of the day in Africa. Nigeria was coached by the british. The saudi’s were coached by the US, who are now also trying to coach those poor Iraqi puppets.

how to trade in stockmarket

what is the question!!!