Seemingly unable to stay out of the news these days, and in what seems to be one of the biggest PR campaigns we’ve seen, Facebook has decided to change it’s name (or atleast the name of the ‘parent’ company) to Meta. In this article, we’re going to talk about why the change, why the stock …
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Welcome cheapskates to an article that we’ve put together due to popular demand. Following on from our recent newsletter where we revealed our entire portfolio holdings in detail (if you haven’t already signed up for our newsletter, you really should by clicking HERE), we’ve decided to follow it up by revealing the exact platforms we …
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Welcome cheapskates to another beginners guide. Only this time, it won’t be a series, we’ve packed everything you need to know all into this one handy article! You may have read our recent stock article about the iShares Physical Gold ETC that we have invested in this month and are thinking of getting in on …
Welcome cheapskates to a slightly different stock portfolio focus article. As you will have been aware if you subscribe to our newsletter, we are getting a little nervous bout the high value of the stock market right now. The S&P500 is trading at a P/E ratio of almost 40 and its only ever been that …
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Good evening cheapskates! Today marks the start of a new series for beginners on CI that we’re calling – popular finance and investing google searches – not so catchy we know, but we’re working on it. Before we get into answering the question, a little on why we’re doing this. To cut a long story …
Popular google searches: Can I lose money in stocks? Read More »
As we’ve said previously, 2021 so far really has been the year of crypto. Back in 2020, we would have looked to invest in a BTC or other crypto exchange traded fund, which up until last year was available through trading212. However, these funds were shut down to UK investors while the government decide how …
In August 2008, a website named ‘www.bitcoin.org’ was quietly registered online by an unknown person. A couple of months later, the paper ‘Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System’ was circulated in the cryptography community. The world didn’t know it at this point (and maybe it still doesn’t) but this concept would in less than a …
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3 Months ago, global clean energy stocks took a bit of a nose dive. In particular, the ETF we hold in our portfolio that cover these types of stocks – The iShares Global Clean Energy ETF (INRG) dropped more than 30% between January and February. Today though, we’re doubling down on clean energy stocks. We …
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Good evening cheapskates! We kick this investing article off a little differently. Today’s article isn’t about stocks or equities. Nope, in fact today we’re talking about savings! Boring old savings. As always, the following is not financial advice, read our disclaimer But don’t savings accounts provide poor returns? You’re absolutely right. Ordinarily, we’re very much against …
Earn guaranteed 5%+ interest on GBP savings? It’s true, but it involves crypto….. Read More »
OK cheapskates, we’re going to start this one with a word of warning (aside from our regular disclaimer) – the stocks we’re going to talk about today are not the usual stocks we would invest in. They are currently pretty volatile and we think – still pretty expensive (as far as p/e ratios go). If …