The first game after Blanchflower scored the penalty, no kissing or cuddling just a hand shake and a hearty pat on the back The crowd was 65,000 , I bet it came over the tannoy 37,500 for tax reasons 2nd game at Citeh, those awful chaps from Tottenham are upto those hugging and kissing antics again The pitch was cutting up a bit it was a swamp
We've been here before - on this very thread https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick,_Kerr_Ladies_F.C. https://www.dickkerrladies.com/
News that Rick Jones of Fingerbobs fame departed us yesterday. Looking back at his face he was one I would put (and lost) money on for BBC noncery, but as a 70s kid he has my regards and a place alongside Gerry Anderson / Brian Cant / Oliver Postgate.
Only 13 episodes ever made - but repeated regularly on the BBC into the '80s, which is why most of us are familiar with it.
Bit of a random question but does anyone here trade on Forex/ Stocks? Either as a full or part time thing? Since I've been working from home during Covid I've had a lot of spare time as I don't have to pretend I'm busy when the boss is lurking, so I've done a fair bit reading up/ watching vids on Forex (don't worry, not from the guys who say they can flip £10 into a £1,000 in 24 hours and they can show me how if I pay them £200 for their course). Always had an interest in it but never gotten around to ever doing anything about it other than a paper/ demo account a year or two back which I just messed about with. My bosses have now in so many words said we're gonna keep working from home, business has remained steady and so they're basically looking at ridding themselves of the office costs - works for me, I enjoy my own company and don't need to be around others. So I'm gonna still have a lot of spare time for the foreseeable future at least and was gonna potentially look at giving Forex a go as a sort of side thing/ experiment, won't be throwing huge money into it or anything but wanted to know if anyone here does it, what broker they use, have they found it successful (or even enjoyable) in anyway and if they'd recommend?
He also wrote and performed this...which those of us of a certain vintage, will definitely recall... I remember him from Play School...I hope that, as his coffin goes along the conveyor and through the curtains, it's announced that..."Today, Rick's going through the square window"
There's an openly gay ref in the English pyramid: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/58850314 James Adcock? Of all the names... He claims that he's had no homophobic abuse, but I suspect that's because nobody knows who he is. If he was a regular in the Premier League, then I think things would change, unfortunately.
There's an Italian article doing the rounds that claims that 98% of Seria A players are vaccinated. That's compared to roughly 50% of Premier League players, apparently. Not sure where they've got their numbers from, but that's a little concerning, if true.
I'm going to assume the Italian number is bollocks, because even if you consider that Reuters report the country has 71.7% has been double jabbed (and they admit that number's doing a lot of legwork) surely it's massaged to all buggery, for example Juventus have 25 players out on loan outside of Serie A be it to teams in Serie B or C to teams in Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Holland, Spain and Switzerland, and does anyone believe that all 25 of those are fully vaccinated? The real test is what happens with the various South American players in Serie A at the end of this international break, because if the likes of Dybala, Martinez, Vecino etc etc have to isolate on return like Lo Celso or Sanchez will have to for us, that immediately makes the number suspect
And what was the ROI for your "on paper" experiments ?? IMHO the big issue for "hobby" investors is time. The time taken to trawl info sources to gain some insights into what is happening / looks likely to happen. The pros are doing that 9 to 5, with "big data" scale sources + analytics systems at their fingertips in order to gain the edge. AFAIK you cannot directly buy units in pension/insurance provider schemes, which IMHO would be easier to manage and give you really good ROI.
My suggestion is to find everything Jacob Rees Mogg's hedge fund has stakes in, and short the living **** out of every last one of them
It was a pretty minimal ROI IIRC, likely around 1-2%. It was a year or two back which I didn’t really take too seriously - nor did I understand it too much either, I mainly done the demo just to get a feel of what it was like. Since then I’ve done a lot more reading/ researching as well as watched a good amount of tutorial videos. I’ll look to do a demo account again before I ever put my own money into it, that’s if I do too. I’m still undecided if I want to actually go for it, was just looking to see if anyone else here had/ has any experience. Edit: Part of the reason I done the demo account back then too was because I had money in football index that I made a decent bit from (thankfully got my money out before the whole thing went tits up) so I wanted to just have a crack at one of the “big boy” markets. I’d like to think I’m someone with a good psychology when it comes to money and risk which is why I’ve fancied having a crack at Forex but it’s just making that first step - and whether I definitely want too.
My musings are more along the lines of : If I want continuous fund returns (after tax) of R% pa, then as a "retail" investor how many hours/week H am I required to put in doing "spade work" (reading media articles, using/developing analytics software - assuming that such and the required source data are effectively zero cost etc) to enable that return ?? If for your desired R, H is too much (we all have other life commitments - family, profession etc that already take much of each 24 hrs) , then you might be better off getting a managed fund. In a long round-about way, I suspect this is the question you really want answered (which I am not doing - sorry ) .
I used to be a risk manager in commodity trading. I've got a spread betting account but I don't use it much because it's impossible to have an edge if you are not watching the market full time. And even if you are you are betting against people who have large teams of analysts crunching the numbers in ways you wouldn't even think of. Stocks and shares and FX are even harder to make money out of than commodities. It can be quite fun trying but don't expect to make a living out of it.
