Buying Shares

[dwarf gourami]

For economics, our teacher has 'given' us 100,000 pounds to spend on shares. We have to invest in at least 5 different companies, but under 10.
I was thinking that if I put in a lot of money into 1 company and got the decision right, then that would probably be the way to go.

What companies should I buy shares from?
Nintendo?
BP?
Northern Rock?

I don't know because I have little knowledge in this area and maybe your experience could help me win. :smile:

[Chuck]

What company is worth the most? What do you think will make the most profit?
Petrol Prices ^ so I would put my money in oil.

Agip
Shell
BP
Taxaco
Esso

[Ellmeister]

Well you also have to consider that if a business has been consistently doing well, to buy their shares initially it will cost a lot of money, so I wouldn't go for lots of petrol ones personally.

don't go near northern rock you fool!

Other than that I have never played the share market so I wouldn't know=]

[Chuck]

They're only going to gain profit. Your not going to lose anything. If you can buy them, you cant lose.

[MoogleViper]

We did something like this. I was making the decisions and we were doing ok. Not that great but not bad. Then Strider said he wanted to make some decisions. A week later we were very near the bottom.

[Strider]

We did something like this. I was making the decisions and we were doing ok. Not that great but not bad. Then Strider said he wanted to make some decisions. A week later we were very near the bottom.

Yeah, i'm not very good at choosing shares. I'm at the bottom of the Schools MSN shares group at the minute.

[weeyellowbloke]

Watch Working Lunch on BBC 1 and nick there ideas on what to stick your money on.

[Ellmeister]

They're only going to gain profit. Your not going to lose anything. If you can buy them, you cant lose.

But he won't be able to buy many and they won't be going up substantially meaning he won't make that much money me thinks. I think anyway.

[Happenstance]

Anyone know anywhere online that you can do this stuff as like an online game? Id actually be interested to try it out myself and see how well it went.

[Strider]

Anyone know anywhere online that you can do this stuff as like an online game? Id actually be interested to try it out myself and see how well it went.
Msn Virtual trader (http://secure.digitallook.com/cgi-bin/digitalcorporate/msn/login.cgi?)

[Happenstance]

Thanks a lot, gonna give that a try

[kyletherobot]

Mobile phone companies. My brother once did this and I remember him banging out about Vodafone, so do that.

[Charlie]

Oil companies at the moment are a good bet.

Stay away from football clubs.

Apple are a wise bet as they have a big conference coming up in a few weeks and Apple shares historically jump up a bit at these conferences.

[Supergrunch]

1. Build time machine.
2. Go back to the 70s.
3. Buy shares in Microsoft.
4. ???
5. Profit!

[Haver]

I have a hot tip that tangerines are set for a surge, far above forecast expectations. My portfolio is particularly fruity.

[Twozzok]

Anyone know anywhere online that you can do this stuff as like an online game? Id actually be interested to try it out myself and see how well it went.

I personally use VSE

http://vse.marketwatch.com/Game/Homepage.aspx

It's awesome,as you can have games and stuff to see who is the best in your group.

Anyone up for an N-E game?

[gaggle64]

I read an interesting column about this. Basically, an experienced stock broker, a dentist and a four year old girl were all given a choice of shares, to see how well each of them would do. The girl selected hers by throwing bits of paper in the air and picking a random selection. She won.

[The Lillster]

I personally use VSE

http://vse.marketwatch.com/Game/Homepage.aspx

It's awesome,as you can have games and stuff to see who is the best in your group.

Anyone up for an N-E game?

Yeh, i've just registered on that site, i've also created a game.

If anyone wants to join the game id is: neurope and the password is: wearegamers.

[Twozzok]

whats the password?

[The Lillster]

whats the password?

wearegamers

edit: The game doesn't begin until Monday 19th May.

Also I have no idea what i'm doing so if you or anyone else has any suggestions please let me know and i'll make a few changes.

Another edit: Ok now that everything is setup, who wants to create the official thread, i'll do it if no one else wants to do it, but i'm not much of a thread maker.

[Shino]

This should be interesting. I always wanted to learn how this works.

[Hellfire]

http://www.reverseturkey.com/Images/trump.jpg
You're fired.

[gaggle64]

Yeh, i've just registered on that site, i've also created a game.

If anyone wants to join the game id is: neurope and the password is: wearegamers.

Get a thread started in the Playground.

[The Lillster]

Get a thread started in the Playground.

Ok i'll give it a go.

[Ice9]

1. Build time machine.
2. Go back to the 70s.
3. Buy shares in Microsoft.
4. ???
5. Profit!

I'm not sure step 4 is needed.. :p

[The Lillster]

Ok i've created the thread...

Official N-Europe Share Trading Game (http://www.n-europe.com/forum/showthread.php?t=20857)

[McPhee]

For economics, our teacher has 'given' us 100,000 pounds to spend on shares. We have to invest in at least 5 different companies, but under 10.
I was thinking that if I put in a lot of money into 1 company and got the decision right, then that would probably be the way to go.

What companies should I buy shares from?
Nintendo?
BP?
Northern Rock?

I don't know because I have little knowledge in this area and maybe your experience could help me win. :smile:

How long do you have? And can you buy/sell during the game?

If you've got a short amount of time then you want to invest in companies that are likely to make big announcements before the time on you're game is up. Look for big exhibisions, or companies that haven't released their financial results yet for this year (as long as you know they did well).

[Caris]

My Dads got thousands in Cadburys and Arriva. Dunno how long he's had them (years i think) but he's making a fair bit on em.

Mabey you should look into those?

[dwarf gourami]

I actually don't really know, I should have listened a bit more, but I think its for at least a month, not 100% sure.

[system_error]

CBS bought Gamespot and Co. - I guess this will make shares of CBS rise quite a bit. Generally for long term trading it is best to invest in fonds and other traditional companies. Weapons, energy, oil normally rise. If you want to make quick money you have to follow anouncements of new patents, products and stuff and then be quick.

If a pharma company is close to get new medicine out you can get a lot of money but also lose a lot when the government doesn't allow that sort of drug.

[Charlie]

Completely forgot about this last night... I have a whole portfolio of shares managed for me! Will divluge more detail when I can find the bumph on them.