Dumb ass money making idea I've just dreamed up

[DimPrawn]

On the whole, just after a listed company pays a dividend the stock price falls. Not always, but quite often.

So I'm going to look at a list of companies that pay their divis like clock work (monthly or quarterly be best) and then put a spread bet (with a stop loss just above the current price) on just before the ex dividend date.

Do you think I'm onto a winner?

[suityou01]

On the whole, just after a listed company pays a dividend the stock price falls. Not always, but quite often.

So I'm going to look at a list of companies that pay their divis like clock work (monthly or quarterly be best) and then put a spread bet (with a stop loss just above the current price) on just before the ex dividend date.

Do you think I'm onto a winner?

Yep. Brill idea. Got to pay for that beachside residence somehow I s'pose

[MarillionFan]

Yep. Brill idea. Got to pay for that beachside residence somehow I s'pose

Oh do keep up!

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[DimPrawn]

Oh do keep up!

http://forums.contractoruk.com/gener...-calendar.html

Is this what you wanted it for? to Spekulate on a price fall and make loads of dirty profit?

[TimberWolf]

What about buying shares that popular investor mags promote, as soon as they promote them, and sell them a few days later. A bit like they do, but a bit later.

[d000hg]

What about buying shares that popular investor mags promote, as soon as they promote them, and sell them a few days later. A bit like they do, but a bit later.

Not sure if it's quite the same but I read about why those share-tips you get in email spam (or used to) are always a bad idea. You really need to know what they're going to tip before it's published don't you?

[d000hg]

On the whole, just after a listed company pays a dividend the stock price falls. Not always, but quite often.

So I'm going to look at a list of companies that pay their divis like clock work (monthly or quarterly be best) and then put a spread bet (with a stop loss just above the current price) on just before the ex dividend date.

Do you think I'm onto a winner?

Not familiar with spread betting. Is this effectively shorting before a predictable drop?

[MarillionFan]

Is this what you wanted it for? to Spekulate on a price fall and make loads of dirty profit?

Yep. In fact the share price drifts and then starts to rise
before the dividend. If you get the timing right you can buy and sell within a short period and make a profit.

I have a spreadsheet that runs a scrape routine online buts it's slow. I'm migrating it to a Crystal Report which to a webservice to pull the data.

[TimberWolf]

Not sure if it's quite the same but I read about why those share-tips you get in email spam (or used to) are always a bad idea. You really need to know what they're going to tip before it's published don't you?

Yeah. I once monitored shares tipped by Investors Chronicle and noticed a small winning strategy over the short period I examined, that could easily get wiped out by a single loss over a longer period, but I never pursued it. The gains were only small. I wouldn't touch email tips.

[DimPrawn]

Yeah. I once monitored shares tipped by Investors Chronicle and noticed a small winning strategy over the short period I examined, that could easily get wiped out by a single loss over a longer period, but I never pursued it. The gains were only small. I wouldn't touch email tips.

Stop loss. The ones you get wrong lose you a small amount of money and the ones you get right make you a small amount of money and since you get it right far more often than you get it wrong, all the small profits add up to one big profit.

Don't let AtW see this thread for gods sake.