Tag: Investing

Target (TGT) Stocks About to Take a Hit?

A number of indications that the stockmarket price of Target (TGT) is about to take a hit has been popping up online in the days leading up to Wednesday (17th May).

First up a number of reputatable commentators have been posting screenshots of a headline about the CEO of the Target chain of variety stores claiming they’re about to take a $500-million hit due to “Retail Crime” hitting their stores, especially in Democrat run Cities that don’t seem to understand what the problem is when people start shoplifting on a massive scale.


Prior to this another bunch of reputable commentators have been calling for a Bud Light style Boycott of Target because they have been selling items to assist with an issue increasingly being seen as a form of child abuse. Continue reading “Target (TGT) Stocks About to Take a Hit?”

How to Start Investing in the Stockmarket (UK Edition)

Investing in the UK Stockmarket can be a great way to turn your spare cash into even more spare cash, providing you know what you’re doing. Especially as interest rates in your average Savings Account are still not much to get excited about unless you’ve got the spare cash to stick in one of those fixed term accounts that usually require a minimum £500 investment that you can’t touch for between 2 to 5 years.

However there seems to be a fair few people around who seem to like the idea of investing in the stockmarket but don’t have a clue where to get started.

This blog article is mostly intended as a primer to show people like that based in the UK where to look rather than a mighty tome of all necessary knowledge. Continue reading “How to Start Investing in the Stockmarket (UK Edition)”

Idiots guide to dabbling in Forex

Forex is short for “Foreign Exchange”, and is basically swapping over currency from one country for one from another – For instance swapping your British Pounds (GBP / £) for US Dollars (USD / £), like you may do when going on Holiday (Vacation), or in this instance for investing purposes.

For investing purposes, this is basically done by taking advantage of changes in value for the currency over the passage of time. Thanks to the same technology you’re using to read this article, you can keep tabs on it via the internet at a dedicated Foreign Exchange website.



In order to do it for the purposes of investing you will need the following:

  1. Knowledge of what you’re letting yourself in for. If you want to be successful at any kind of investing, you need to get your geek on, and do craploads of reading to learn how it works. If you jump into investing without knowing what you’re doing, you’re going to get your ass kicked (as the Americans say). For that, you may want to consider a couple of books such as Currency Trading for Dummies (among others)
  2. A customer account with an investing broker that allows you to do Forex Investing.
  3. Some money to invest….. most the brokers I’ve seen who allow you to do Forex require a minimum £200 – £300 for your first investment. If you can’t afford to lose it, you may want to consider a different sort of investment.
  4. Research of what’s happening in the market, such as the Currency Heatmaps at Digital Look (I always have trouble finding them again).
  5. Practice via an online fantasy investing game such as what was available at the now defunct Bullbearings (that’s the one I’d been using for at least 10years now) so you can get the hang of what you’re doing without pissing any real money up the wall by making rookie investing mistakes (and trust me, you WILL make mistakes).