Plus500 Share Discussion Threads

[villarich] 17/9/2018 12:18

Fenners - I'm with you. I'm always happy to view the other side of my investment choice. After all you need to have a balanced view to take an informed decision. BS888 has said he has a very good reason to be short because he knows something we don't. He just won't tell us what it is!

[alan00] 17/9/2018 12:09

Hi, Has anyone been paid their tax reclaims relating to the dividend that went XD 22/02/2018? I was told nearly a month ago that the refunds would be paid in a few days, but don't seem to have received anything yet.

[the don of dons] 17/9/2018 12:04

sb888 is short again at 1441 so the clown has thrown all his massive 100 point profit from last week that he was so dead proud of and given it all back pretty much

well done clown. as you say - you're always right lol

[davebdavid] 17/9/2018 12:00

It may have been mentioned before but with all the troll remarks over the last month it is hard to find anything on this thread. DO we know when the Q3 update is roughly due?

[fenners66] 17/9/2018 11:37

Idon't mind shorters or their negative views on shares - when they have an argument and reasons for being short.
I am after all negative on many companies.

But the sort that offers no substantive reason - they are just gambling red or black.

They get lucky sometimes - but most gamblers cannot help themselves - even if they win , they give it back.
Looks like they are on their way to give it back today.....

[thedoghouser] 17/9/2018 11:22

How has sb888 ‘s inarticulacy been achieved? How do you learn to be THAT inarticulate?

[shaker44] 17/9/2018 10:36

I guess they are not smart enough to understand they no longer have an audience here, so may as well move on and troll elsewhere.

[nurdin] 17/9/2018 09:21

Just done that..had enough

[davroc] 17/9/2018 09:19

This board is still spoiled by pointless childish arguing. Will sensible contributors please use the filter button. FILTER FILTER FILTER FILTER.

[sb888] 16/9/2018 18:54

gettingpoorquickly

you are an idiot, so whatever you say is irrelevant

[metis20] 16/9/2018 17:57

various fees for CFD trading...

[gettingrichslow] 16/9/2018 17:36

Given you can't spell and you can't structure a sentence properly, its highly unlikely you are more intelligent than anyone else on this board.

[riverman77] 16/9/2018 14:33

Does anyone know anything about a rival operator called Trading 212? I only ask as it's cropping up a lot in searches and has 5m+ downloads in the android store so looks like a serious competitor, probably a lot more so than IG.

[sb888] 16/9/2018 14:28

gorw poorslowoly

It is stupid to those with a brain. If i have looked at something that is it, i dont need to keep going back to the same place. I assume you are of a much lower intelligence that isnt quite so controlled.

[metis20] 16/9/2018 12:52

MT MTP - I will investigate.

[mrtenpercent] 16/9/2018 12:19

Apologies for a late reply to the question from metis20, and for the tone of my comment on 14th. Better information about short interest is obtainable from Euroclear - I acknowledge poster Mount Teide on another thread for putting me on to this and explaining how short sellers can mask the data collected by the FCA. I should have said that instead of criticising anyone for using the same source (short interest tracker) as I used to use myself.

[dumbbunny] 16/9/2018 09:58

Hussyo, the most likely explanation for you seeing so many Plus500 ads is because of your recent search and browsing history.

However, that’s not to say Plus500 haven’t ramped up investment marketing spending over the last eight weeks. Since late July Plus500 have increased marketing spend on keyword traffic significantly across all core markets. To give you some idea of the increase, Plus500 were previously purchasing paid traffic via keywords of c. 50,000 paid search referrals in the UK. Now we are seeing purchases of c. 200,000 in the UK. A fourfold increased since July. Similar patterns can be seen in Germany, Australia, Netherlands, Singapore, and Scandinavia.

This has probably come about as a direct response and consequence of ESMA but perhaps not for the reasons you might first think. ESMA’s new rules also brought about a ban on binary options from 1st July. Binary option firms where tech led very much like Plus500. They were very big purchasers of Google keywords. Their withdrawal from the keyword market combined with reduced keyword spend by some CFD firms, as they take a cautious early approach to ESMA, has led to a significant reduction in the cost of keywords related to CFD marketing.

Plus500 have no doubt seen this as an incredible opportunity to hoover up large parts of the google CFD keyword market at reduced prices. The reduction in keyword prices is very noticeable at the top end of the keyword market. i.e. the most expensive words, which have the highest click-through and conversion rates.

As to be expected, everyone is focusing on the negatives of ESMA’s new rules and not the amazing opportunities it presents to the strongest (especially on-line) operators who will be able to grow market share at reduced costs.

Do not be scared of high marketing spend in Q3 and beyond. Marketing spend is in fact investment spend that has a very high ROI attached to it, especially in the case of Plus500 (something Financethoughts posts have also highlighted).

[davebdavid] 16/9/2018 09:44

It normal for this to happen when you start looking at certain products. That's what 'cookies' in computer terms is all about. The way to stop advertising popping up that's relevant to what you are looking at, is to clear your browse history but it will just start up again when you start looking again. That's the power of Google advertising.

[gettingrichslow] 16/9/2018 09:40

It's not 'mad' at all - it's a calculated bet that if you keep looking at something then you are probably not yet decided on it, so the advertisers pile in. Every website I visit at moment has adverts for King size mattresses and Ethiopian coffee for a reason!!

[hussyo] 16/9/2018 09:20

I only highlighted it because it's so late in Q3... A bull might say Q3 is good and the push is for Q4...