Trendy shares (good performers but volatile!)

Scorchio!

I list below some shares and ETFs that have been appearing a lot in many YouTube investor videos.

Most have shown amazing gains so far, but of course they could descend into the depths of Hades at any moment, so beware! Many are purely sentiment driven.

The ones listed below are all ones I hold and most (but not all) are showing me a nice gain so far.

Please do your own research on them and if you decide to buy any, please buy at a good price and remember to take profits before they collapse.

The market at the moment seems to be high, so maybe wait a while?

I will list each one with the 3 month and 1 year performance percentages in parentheses.

How to cash in on the new weight loss obesity drugs

Two of my friends here in the UK who were overweight and pre-diabetic have started to take weight loss drugs.

They were not on an NHS prescription however and it had to be paid for out of their own pocket. Each were paying over £200 a month but the results have proved remarkable. Both women have lost weight and look so much healthier, happier and more attractive! Clearly, these drugs advertise themselves!

This, of course, means that the potential for the success of these drugs is enormous, for both women and men.

Couple this with the fact that as soon as you stop taking the drug, you start eating for two and the weight piles on again, and so we have a drug habit as expensive as tobacco but it is all profit with no tax!

Gold and Silver stock tips today!

Clive Thompson is a retired professional investor who has a YouTube channel that gives investing information and tips.

He says he has learnt of large transactions which are about to take place in a week or so by a large ETF company that is disposing of a large amount of stocks and buying other gold and silver stocks instead.

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Anyone in the UK who has not already opened a Stocks and Shares ISA must be crazy! Lol :-)

Trading 212 offer a free account (no charges except a very small Foreign Exchange rate charge if you buy non-GBP shares). You can buy fractional shares (so you can buy shares even if you only have £5 a month to invest) and because the ISA is flexible, you can take out all your money from the ISA (tax free) at any time and as long as you put it back in before the end of the tax year (April 5th 2026), anything you put back in is still tax free. You don't need to tell the tax man about your ISA or any profit you make inside your ISA - it is all tax free!

UK Stock up 16% this last week - Manolete partners (MANO)

Manolete Partners are an insolvency litigation financing company who were listed on the AIM market in 2008 and has risen 38% in the last month and 16% in the last week. Manolete work for, and alongside, HMRC, the Insolvency Service, the British Business Bank and the many hundreds of outstanding private sector insolvency practitioners and insolvency and restructuring lawyers.

The recent share price increase is presumably due to recent cases which they have on-boarded and funded. Their 2024 net profit was 3%.

The best investing advice you can get!

I have been investing in Stocks and Shares for over 20 years, starting with ISAs and then with General (taxable) Investment Accounts (GIAs) and then I also started a SIPP.

Over those 20 years, I have made all the mistakes possible:

Broadcom shows sharp price rise today!

Broadcom (AVGO) often appears in the top 10 tech stocks lists but yet seems to be mainly ignored by most retail investors. It has shown a massive gain of over 100% in just 1 year.

This morning (pre-market UK) it seems to be rocketing up 10% so far today, so I have bought in...

More risky share tips!

Last week I bought a few 'risky' shares/ETFs inside my ISA. Yesterday the whole market was down, but when the UK market opened this morning, it was looking better.

First, I have bought £1000 of  the NASDAQ 100 x3 long QQQ3 this morning as I notice that EQGB, XLKQ and IITU are all up this morning (probably due to Alphabet/Google).

Then I checked on my recent smaller mining holdings which are also up today:

Cheapest UK S&S ISA provider + my Top Secret Stock Picking Tool!

In the UK, the cheapest Stocks and Shares providers are Trading 212 and Invest Engine, however they do not provide all types of accounts (e.g. SIPPs, LISAs) and do not allow purchase of mutual funds (e.g. my current favourite fund - Artemis Global Income Fund).

Some brokerage providers do not offer Flexible ISAs and have quite high trading charges.

A new online tool (under development) is here. It is not yet entirely accurate, but you can view the source data here and check each brokers T&Cs. For instance I have an Interactive Investor account and the charges are shown incorrectly by this online tool, they are actually:

Is Ashtead Technology a good buy?

One of the YouTube channels I follow is that of the Geordie Pig Investor. He used to be very strongly into UK Dividend paying companies, but has since seen the light and has started to strengthen his portfolio with USA and global accumulating ETFs.

In normal times, I would buy mainly World ETFs and US Tech ETFs, but I think the USA is heading for a money-printing phase next year and weakening dollar. The Trump effect has made me cautious.

So I have been looking for a good UK company like RR to invest in and Geordie Pig's pick of Ashtead Technology seems like a bargain to me, especially as it has just gone ex-dividend this month and so its low price should rise again before the next 6-monthly dividend payout in early Jan 2026. His video is below. The shares should be moving out of the AIM market on October 6th and although this will be priced in, it may see greater upwards movement when it hits the London market.