[savgeax]

Having just sold out on some boohoo shares recently. I am looking to reinvest in some shares.

Anyone got any tips on shares that are on the up or have been doing well recently?

[SteveChester]

No they are still on the up ..very early stages of business growth..... Did you buy at 50p?

[Jeff123]

I have bought a few in the past and lost money on some of the more speculative punts, like mining shares. Providence Resources for example, tipped by 5 brokers on the same day with an average target of 1500p. Bought at 600p. They have slowly (and quickly) fallen as virtually every potential oil find under the Irish sea turn out to be underground water.

I have bought them again and my average price is now 130p - but they are currently trading at 10p. Thats how good an investor I am!!

I have other similar examples as well, equally bad.

Now I am mainly buying FTSE 100 or 250 shares with good dividend payments - maybe 5% and (in my opinion) some scope for capital growth.

[savgeax]

Originally Posted by SteveChester

No they are still on the up ..very early stages of business growth..... Did you buy at 50p?

I did, unfortunately they are on the decline having reached a peak last year. The strong dollar rate has seen them drop further and they are just not gaining.

So looking for another company that generally appears on the up.

[savgeax]

Originally Posted by Lobb

Depends on whether you're investing for a bit of fun. Or whether this is a long term investment strategy.

Looking maybe for investment of about one month, then I need the cash.

Ive tried cyprocurrency for a short term investment but again that appears to be quite volatile at the moment.

[aquazi]

Anything oil or minimg is doing well at the moment.

I’ve been investing in PFC (petrofac) since they fell last summer... av £4 a share briefly broke £5.50 Friday.

An even better tip would be GGP - tipped to be either bought or JV by a big player - Newmount.

But that seems to be every delayed/ may never happen.... and its AIM so huge risk.

[Sasquartch]

I'm thinking of putting some cash into a FT100/250 tracker fund - seems a reasonably safe bet to me - any thoughts ?

[Tengocity]

Originally Posted by Jeff123

I have bought a few in the past and lost money on some of the more speculative punts, like mining shares. Providence Resources for example, tipped by 5 brokers on the same day with an average target of 1500p. Bought at 600p. They have slowly (and quickly) fallen as virtually every potential oil find under the Irish sea turn out to be underground water.

I have bought them again and my average price is now 130p - but they are currently trading at 10p. Thats how good an investor I am!!

I have other similar examples as well, equally bad.

Now I am mainly buying FTSE 100 or 250 shares with good dividend payments - maybe 5% and (in my opinion) some scope for capital growth.

Could be worse, you could have Carillion shares!

[Jeff123]

I would be surprised if Carillion don't recover. They are undertaking many Government-related projects and its in no ones interest to let the company fail.

[Tengocity]

Originally Posted by Jeff123

I would be surprised if Carillion don't recover. They are undertaking many Government-related projects and its in no ones interest to let the company fail.

As long as the shareholders take the pain and not the government and taxpayers....

[jamojdm]

Originally Posted by savgeax

Having just sold out on some boohoo shares recently. I am looking to reinvest in some shares.

Anyone got any tips on shares that are on the up or have been doing well recently?

I'm currently feeling the Boohoo pain too - didn't see the latest drop coming. Not sold out yet but getting close to...

[jamojdm]

Originally Posted by Tengocity

Could be worse, you could have Carillion shares!

Originally Posted by Jeff123

I would be surprised if Carillion don't recover. They are undertaking many Government-related projects and its in no ones interest to let the company fail.

Originally Posted by Tengocity

As long as the shareholders take the pain and not the government and taxpayers....

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-42675427

They're working on it

[savgeax]

Originally Posted by jamojdm

I'm currently feeling the Boohoo pain too - didn't see the latest drop coming. Not sold out yet but getting close to...

Owners decided to sell quite alot of their shares for unknown reason. If I didn't need the cash, I would keep with it, but I can't afford the drop too much, hence the cash out now. Given their profits rose 100%, I cannot believe the share price isn't higher.

[SteveChester]

The guy that sold this week left the business ages ago so his sale was irrelevant.

They were over priced at 2.60 but in terms of a medium term bet still a good share to keep hold of.

[hudson012003]

Could be worse, you could have Carillion shares! [/QUOTE]

Or Interserve

[hudson012003]

Originally Posted by savgeax

Owners decided to sell quite alot of their shares for unknown reason. If I didn't need the cash, I would keep with it, but I can't afford the drop too much, hence the cash out now. Given their profits rose 100%, I cannot believe the share price isn't higher.

Finance guy I know went to see them in Manchester last year - obviously he couldn’t give away too much at the time but did say their USA expansion plans with their other brands were impressive but long term implementation. What worried him thou was the logistics side in the UK. Seemed to low a priority for them..?

[SteveChester]

They are currently building a massive warehouse extension and automating it so they are putting in place the infrastructure to sell more stuff....

[Tengocity]

Originally Posted by Lobb

It's an interesting one Terry, given the strategic projects they are involved with.

Indeed... the old too big to fail issue.

This is the issue with capitalism at times, and just sometimes the state does need to interfere. Otherwise, the worst aspects will lead to its downfall and we will have full on socialism before you know it.

And these top execs who get tens of millions seem to have no consequence of getting it wrong...

[Kiddy1]

Take a look at Sirius Minerals... massive potential for big growth

[Tengocity]

And don't get me started on the Persimmon fiasco where a few people have made £600M in bonuses off the back of taxpayer funded Help to Buy.

[Tengocity]

Originally Posted by Lobb

Life is all about being in the right place at the right time Terry

Yes, or not being in the wrong place at the wrong time... like at Carillion this morning.

[davyk31]

Carillion shouldn't be news to anyone, been on the cards for a long time. Very sad though for the countless people out of jobs and the many many small subcontractors left out of pocket and often with their main client now having gone. More jobs at risk!!