Share Picks 2026

Picked up some iShares S&P 500 GBP Hedged ETF Acc (IGUS.L) in my AVC today, wish I'd known about it before yesterday. With Trump hell bent on dollar devaluation it seems prudent for now.

How could you be up 35% or am I looking at the wrong ticker?

By a quick Google the last time the SP of Arizona Metals was 0.57 CAD was about 16th Dec. 2025. @howsshenow didn't tip the company here til 4th Jan. Soo did you receive the 'tip' before it was published here to everyone else 🤔

Are you using Degiro? I got burned with stop loss function on that before. The price dived to my stop loss and jumped back up again. It may have been a low volume stock but was nasty. Having said that, it happened the other way too when a GTC order I had got filled way below the asking price and got a 1k profit almost instantly.

I use T212 and Degiro. I've stopped using stop losses as no matter where I set them I always seem to have them picked off. Far too frequent for it to be random. Even if I set a stop loss 10-15% wide of market i would see a quick drop to my level (or below) and then a market recovery.

Fcuk me Im down 45k this week.

Wonder if I should just sell up for a while, you know its all going to end in tears with anything Trump touches.

Today was rough.. But I don't think theres any need to panic sell or anything just yet.

Could be a big bounce again next week depending on what Trump does in Iran.

I'm not claiming to have any special insight here and take his for what it is...a complete amateur offering an opinion

This could be coming from a place of dangerous levels of ignorance but gold and silver thing wasn't necessarily surprising to me.... (easy to say after the fact :) …..I wouldnt have been confident in the timeline or able to short it in advance) .... well gold anyway (a lot of silver is a byproduct of gold production as I understand it so that's a natural constraint and silver is required in manufacturing/has uses so you might expect it to behave quite differently as it should be underpinned by a different type of demand and settle at an entirely different pricepoints and not move in lockstep over a longer time period)

Anyway as I see it, Gold has been on a tear for a lot of reasons......people see it as a safe haven....the more uncertain investors feel the more they turn to it, then the easily led fomo in as they see the price skyrocketing..

Then there appears to have been a lot of central banks/countries purchasing....if I'm not mistaken China just spent 13 months purchasing gold as they look to not be as dependent on good old dollar under the orangutan ...that has either come to an end or its signalled to come to an end

Without that demand and buying the price probably goes down or if its signalled to end soon those speculating due to that probably want to take their profits and run.....

The Graph for gold doesnt looks unlike an exponential to me (if you squint and are selective with your timeframe!)...I don't think anything that ramps up like that ever stays up like that, it could well settle at a high level in the medium term but it cant keep going up forever (if it does were all fucked)..... anyway anyone that isn't a gold bug wants to take their profits while they can.... and that anyone doesn't have to be small time retail traders..couple that with large buyers like China coming to an end of a purchasing program and you have downward pressure

Thats my thesis anyway....We live in interesting times

Flutter getting a daily kicking the past few weeks. When's it all going to stop?

I changed my recurring payments over to credit card a few days ago. I am happy enough with current security approach from the credit card company that no large frauds can be done at my expense so even though I have stuck with PayPal longer than most I don't see the compelling argument for it that once was there. Young People might even think PayPal is old fashioned. Won't close my account but don't see myself send large volumes of money through it.

I am in a share which tracks the fortunes of Microsoft because it attracts similar customers and I have no expectation that my share recovers until Microsoft recovers.

Share price reflects the hopes for the future, not the glories of the past.

Moved my work (Mercer) pension fund to cash/bonds at the start of the week. With Trump's Tariffs etc etc and AI seemingly in a bubble or about to be the tech that eats other tech (SaaS for example) i'm just going to wait out until US midterms are done to see the lay of the land. I'm about 5-7 years from retirement and a big hit would be pretty much devastating at this point, market is just far to volatile right now. my far smaller AVC PRSA is mostly cash too now after I sold up EQQQ but am still holding some IGUS in there. Sitting on my hands

Hi All

I simply want to invest using my Revolut App into an Index fund

Which index fund do people recommend?