Share Picks 2022

With degiro when selling why would Total figure on email notification be more than is shown in app. The app seems to be including extra charges that I can't see...

Also why does IB ask for your employer when signing up...

Think you're mixing up a few things with the "people who make money in stocks are low" line

• The amount of day traders who make money is shockingly low.
• The amount of professional investor who beat the market it shockingly low.
• The amount of professional investors who make money is high (ie most grow at least 0.1% in a period)
• The amount of people who buy and hold stocks (ie not day trading, or holding for less than 30 days) who make money is high

The good MSFT results seem to be giving the market a bit if a lift today, for now

Unless they are developing some new product in the background that will be ground breaking I just don't see the value in it...a company with 8bn in revenue and 172m premium subscribers and can't turn a profit.

They're making strides to become a podcast developer at the moment, bought a few platforms recently that produce podcasts, and another one in Dec that turns radio into Podcasts. That's their angle, get a cut out of every podcast wherever it's broadcast. For me it's a bet that Podcasts are the big thing in media. From my own podcast consumption at the moment they're not wrong

I think another angle for them is at some tipping point level, they will slowly turn the screw on the free accounts and push them to paid subscription , assuming that's better margin compared to advertising. They could still have advertiser sponsored podcasts so not closing the door on ads entirely.

I believe they have a strong enough MOAT though, Spotify is almost a verb for streaming music even with apple and other players in the space Spotify are the headliners. Neil Young could have potentially started a battle that could go against them but I'm with them for the war!

Is the new trend of red all day, green at close set to continue? Refreshing change from the green all day, red at close experienced most days last year.

Still can't tell if this is just another blip on the Nasdaq map or if it's a sign of a rough year to come. Powell naively feels everything is priced in already. Will be DCAing into an ETF regardless.

That 9% is after inflation though, which is probably not far off where it's been over the last couple of years.

Robin Hood share flop just wow