Disclaimer: the presentation of my portfolio is not an injunction to buy any of the following, and certainly not investment advice. I haven’t included proportions for this reason. At present, I have my investments in a Stocks & Shares ISA and a Lifetime ISA. The majority are in the former, and the really long-term holdings…
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Platform Review: Freetrade (2021)
Don’t assume that Freetrade can be reduced to its name: just another Robinhood-like brokerage app for share traders and speculators to freely gamble away their stimulus checks on GameStop or take a punt on the latest cryptocurrency miner. While ‘trading shares for free’ is a core aspect of what Freetrade offers, ultimately this is only one means to a more comprehensive end: enabling its users to become wizened medium-to-long-term investors, who, instead of getting burned and indebted by playing around with leveraged derivatives, stick with investing (and very likely the platform) for the long term.
Stages in Investment’s Way: Learning How To Buy
The awareness of opportunity can become pathological. With limited capital, you must pass over innumerable buying opportunities and commit to only a few. Cash, waiting to be invested, can feel like burning sulfur in your pocket; it wants to be spent. When the markets are bullish, perhaps the desire to spend one’s cash diminishes. You…