Why would anyone want to be a doctor when they could be a trader?

I do ahahahaha. I have £25k diversified atm, and £2k to punt around.

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I make a lot more than that by going to work for 4 weeks... Could make it in 2-3 locum shifts if I wanted to do the extra hours.

The point isn't about how much personal money I "could" make though, it's about why you would choose to be a doctor vs being a trader. And I am quite happy to admit that I don't have the skills or interest to be a proper City girl - but playing with your £20K isn't that either.

Where have you put it? Let's see how amazing you are?

Mostly in various ETFs (Vanguad, FTSE trackers, commodities trackers), cba actively managing it.

As for the £2k, I have a decent amount in GOOGL (+17% from when I bought it in July), some of it in oil (bought at $29/bbl), some of it in recent M&A plays (e.g. Starwood acquisition), lost a few bucks in AAPL because I went long at the wrong time..



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Don't over-diversify in with ETFs, they hold so much crappy stuff like banks

You should be buying based on P/E ratio, dividend yield and dividend cover (this is your margin of safety). Google is still valued too much right now on P/E metrics, I sense a pullback.

You want a good buy right now....

Go and buy some Interserve (FTSE 250), Galliford Try (FTSE 250) and Easyjet (FTSE 100)

There are different ways to invest man, not all about using multiples sometimes you have to be opportunistic..

I'll look into it, but EasyJet imo is a pretty shaky company - not sure if I'd really want to put money there.

Google is on an uptrend, doubt there'll be much to push it down - at least not for the next few months.

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You need to buying on P/E, it is the best metric, other than PEG ratio (but that is a different story).

Think of P/E like this, something with a high P/E like ABF (the owners of primark) how to perform so much better for their stock to rise, because a lot of earnings have been priced into the stock.

So easyjet can do ok and the stock price will rise. It's just a cheap stock that is undervalued. I know the company is not great, but they still make money and that stock will return 50-60% in the next year for sure.

Now holding onto these stocks is another question, ABF might perform better in the super long run, but for the next 2-3 years their stock price won't grow as much (unless primark really does deliver)

Are you seriously acting like hot **** after having made <10% lifetime? An amount that a pretty normal swing could send down the *****er, no matter how good your strat is?

Simple argument is that being a doctor usually requires passion in helping people. That's true, then again many people study medicine for different reasons.

To become a hedge fund manager you can set this up at home, you can study actuarial science at uni for 3-4 years and still land a job in the city. It's guaranteed you'll be making a stable income between 50k-100k within 2 years because of market fluctuations.

People saying that your job will not be stable are lying to theirselves. With that experience you can literally transfer into any kind of employment across the world.

I don't like seeing the sight of people's blood, dealing with infectious people unless it's someone close to me. If you want to be a doctor fair enough - don't stop yourself. I encourage more doctors anyway to start from here.

I don't see the point to financially drain myself for nearly 10 years just to earn 30k and worry about the debt for most of my working life. On top of that some may want to become private practitioners to its not always the great picture of carrying out civil duties for everyone in society.NHS is not doing great at all and statistics simply backs that up.

Mostly in various ETFs (Vanguad, FTSE trackers, commodities trackers), cba actively managing it.

As for the £2k, I have a decent amount in GOOGL (+17% from when I bought it in July), some of it in oil (bought at $29/bbl), some of it in recent M&A plays (e.g. Starwood acquisition), lost a few bucks in AAPL because I went long at the wrong time..



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To become a hedge fund manager you can set this up at home, you can study actuarial science at uni for 3-4 years and still land a job in the city. It's guaranteed you'll be making a stable income between 50k-100k within 2 years because of market fluctuations.

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The money that you put in ETFs, what's the return been like?

are you high

In case you were not aware https://www.theguardian.com/money/2008/aug/06/investmentfunds.investing

In case you were not aware https://www.theguardian.com/money/2008/aug/06/investmentfunds.investing

Been alright, ~8% aggregate.

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