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Happy Sunday guys! It took two months to make this one, but hopefully you'll see it's full of lessons that can be taken from investing in what can be a very volatile stock market. To get FREE fractional shares worth up to £100, sign up to Trading 212 using the following link: https://www.trading212.com/join/MITCH. Or Use PROMO CODE “MITCH”. When investing, your capital is at risk. Terms and Conditions Apply. Thanks to Trading 212 for sponsoring this video.
I would like to start investing £200 a month, would it be better for my gains in the long run to invest £50 weekly or £200 monthly as the price can change alot in a monthly period would weekly investments be more beneficial?
A couple of (hopefully constructive!) criticisms – 60 days is far too short to do any meaningful analysis. Yes, it was a period of high [negative] volatility, followed swiftly by a V-shaped recovery, but the power of dividend reinvesting and cumulative returns takes years to appreciate, not months. Equally, whilst pound cost averaging is powerful, particularly when you've smaller amounts invested, the benefits of it are less obvious when your portfolio value is many multiples of times greater than the amounts regularly invested.
Hopefully nobody completes the video expecting to achieve better than 10% growth every couple of months – that's not realistic during most periods of market activity. The period considered here is very much an outlier…
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is it not cheaper to invest with Vanguard themselves than do it with 212?
Very interesting post thanks for sharing I’m not someone who’s found stocks and shares interesting but I’m tempted to have a dabble with something like this just to see where it goes 👍
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This year; for obvious reasons; is entirely unprescedented in the stock market. There I said it.
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Great returns but actually you’ve proved this is down to market timing and not time in the market. Had you invested the full amount just before the drop in March then your investment would be 0-1% for a longer time in the market (Dow Jones). But the experiment managed to capture a significant moment when the trend was broken and quickly recovered to give greater than normal returns. Had you invested the full amount at the end of March/start of April then a diversified portfolio could have returned over 20% in the Dow Jones (slightly less in the FTSE). So if market corrections occur every 1.35 years giving an average trough to peak of >10% and take 4 months to return to mean then why not invest only with every correction and exit the market once it’s returned to mean? The compounded results will be enormous without tying up money for the long term.
Seems to me that market timing is everything and will far outperform passive investing which is what we’re all told to do.
Dollar cost averaging is just for lazy investors who are happy with average returns.
Interesting video possibly made or interesting by the market volatility. Good to see though.
My question is – would the results of been different if you’d initially invested the £600 or so, in the first place.
Hi, l'm interested in starting investing but don't know where to begin. Any advice or recommendations for someone who can help?
Excellent video.
Its like the old Chinese curse, 'may you live in interesting times'.
Pretty rubbish timing for me as I just retired a few months ago but luckily I'm prepared to see some bumps along the way (like every year).
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Hi Mitch. Can you buy indices on 212 say when one dips and then maybe sell again at the top perhaps a week or two later without losing too much profit in the two transactions? I know about CFDs but want to do it in the normal investing accounts. Thanks
60 days isn’t enough, what would’ve been the result if you had started at the beginning of February this year. You almost certainly would’ve made a loss. The time horizon for investing has to be at least 10 years.
FX has killed us international investors. VOO/SPY up around 2% YTD, but VUAG still down circa 7%… I know its swings and roundabouts but 9% is a monumental swing. Potentially a good video idea covering hedged ETF's?
There's one thing you didn't mention about pound cost averaging. If you were purchasing, say, 10 shares a day, then the average you'd pay would be the arithmetic mean of all the consecutive share prices. However, if you invest £10 per day, then you'd receive more shares for your £10 when the price drops. So your purchase price per share will be skewed towards the cheaper end of the price range.
I'm surprised this wasn't mentioned in the Vanguard Newsletter 13:47.
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Please keep this going! Will be great to see check ins like 3/6/12 months even years
So a quick question, with the market closed for weekends how does this affect the daily investment? Do you auto invest £30 on Mondays or do you only invest on weekdays
60 days means nothing but youtube click bait
Great video idea and what a time to do it 🔥
Hello Mitch,
Once again a great video, but I think you have missed a trick. What would have happened if you put all £600 on day one (how many shares would that have bought) along side how many shares the pound cost average has bought. You could then do the analysis of yes you would have got this in gains but in fact you now have half a share more than if you had bought everything in one go.
This then of course elevate your compounding gains over the next 60 days or the next 120 days or the next year.
That would be a great video to watch, what happens if you put one years money in on day one and one year of £10 per day who would be better off in the long run and who now has the most amount of shares.
Great video all the same
James
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I have a couple of daily ones (including VUAG), though one is still down having started around Feb/Mar. The other which is a UK Pie i created, is up 3.45%. I did have other daily ones which i paused, but probably should have continued while the fire-sale of the world markets was happening. I also have a weekly funded US tech pie of 23% returns.
13.2% over 60 days is a great return.. Even without the April dip, you still would've got about 2% or 3% return
A top saving account wouldn't even give you 1% over 60 days
Thanks for this! Has encouraged me to start using this method. Great to be able to set and forget
Great piece….something different and a real insight into the ups and downs of the market….would be interesting to see something similar with a diversified portfolio which would perhaps highlight the interaction of different regions and asset classes….ie some up, some down….but giving a net result over a similar period especially given how the world is at present….thanks again
lol what a time to do this experiment I would have been stressing out
Very interesting video. Goes to show just how returns can swing during even short periods. Pound cost averaging is always the best way to go if investing for the long term