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Mr_Dividend

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« Reply #7425 on: February 28, 2019, 05:23:21 pm »
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The main difference is the way they are treated for tax– spread bets are free from capital gains tax in the UK *, while CFDs are not. CFD trading is not tax free in the UK, while spread betting is. CFD equity trades ask for a commission – spread bets on shares do not.

you have a link? Everywhere I look says the above?

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« Reply #7426 on: March 01, 2019, 09:50:36 am »
I started here with nothing and still have most of it left.

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« Reply #7427 on: March 01, 2019, 04:24:17 pm »
cheers Orca - everwhere else say differently. Like the tax free nature of spreadbetting but they seem to be for day trading only as the close at the end of the day and need to be rolled over and as I am more a swing trader, CFDs make more sense.

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« Reply #7428 on: March 04, 2019, 04:59:27 pm »
Seems like time to look at STXIND again.
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« Reply #7429 on: March 08, 2019, 06:50:11 am »
What's your view on the ZAR/USD?

I reckon it gonna strengthen again after the hoohaa over our Reserve Bank being nationalised blows over.

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« Reply #7430 on: March 08, 2019, 10:11:20 am »
Nationalising the Reserve Bank is already known so it must be pricing it in now. International best practice is for the state to own central banks anyway. The weakening zar is now mostly due to the electricity price increase and the strengthening of the dollar.
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« Reply #7431 on: March 08, 2019, 04:21:21 pm »
Man the casualties on JSE is getting bad, APN, BLU, EOH and ELB
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« Reply #7432 on: March 09, 2019, 08:12:38 pm »
SNH too. I would have never guessed those in a million years.

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« Reply #7433 on: March 10, 2019, 08:38:09 am »
Oh - the list is much longer than these few:-
Off my portfolio alone;
ADI, CML, DCP, IPL, L4L, RFG, RFL, SYG,  - all 20% or more down on original purchase price.
My view is that politics is getting in the way of good business practices and having a major depressing effect on the economy, and the ability of business to function in such negative environs.
Hardly a day goes by where we don't hear some or other depressing economic story, looting by politicians or interference in the lives of South African, and yet the landscape is littered with thieving, fraud and wholesale treasonable acts and yet nobody goes to jail for their crimes.
Sad state of affairs indeed 
Not everything that counts, can be counted, and, not everything that can be counted counts - Albert Einstein

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« Reply #7434 on: March 11, 2019, 08:11:24 am »
WHL, SHP, BTI, BAT, TBR, TBS, ANH you can just go on and on.

Way harder to actually find stocks that have grown over the last 3-4 years bar mining stocks. Capitec? err, anyone else?

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« Reply #7435 on: March 11, 2019, 09:31:28 am »
Fortunately I also hold AVI;CLS; BVT; CSB; MRP; STXIND - for many years and they have been my bacon savers :-*
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« Reply #7436 on: March 11, 2019, 07:11:40 pm »
Quite sad state of affairs our JSE - on the current chart from position 74 upwards all competitors are showing negative results on their portfolios
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« Reply #7437 on: March 12, 2019, 03:45:10 pm »
Greetings all. I'm a total newbie to investing and stumbled across this site after reading one of Stealthy Wealth's posts. I've found it to be invaluable. I have some serious catching up to do - no retiring early for me! Looking forward to learning from this forum.

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« Reply #7438 on: March 13, 2019, 08:52:55 am »
Welcome :)
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« Reply #7439 on: March 18, 2019, 12:38:11 pm »
Bought some Amazon on Friday :)
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