Plus500 Share Discussion Threads

[johnkettleyistheweatherman] 11/11/2020 19:15

Elmoron is the Saddest moron on these boards by far

How’s NLG coming on ya clown

Still tumbleweed over there eh.

Fking idiot

[ceri evans] 11/11/2020 13:40

On II click on cash and then USD. It should show up then. If you have your shares in an ISA, then it will show under Sterling. In both cases the funds should show as "pending". I can't convert my USD yet. I've got about £14,000 across 7 accounts.

[ramellous] 11/11/2020 13:31

Mine is there on ii. Look under usd transactions. It’s in dollars.

[basem1] 11/11/2020 12:56

Anyone received there dividend yet ? I am with ii and nothing as yet

[andrewbaker] 10/11/2020 17:13

Hmmm: maybe the punters who lose money using Plus500 are the same ones who sell it when markets rise?? Whatever, the price is too low: I'm not just holding in there, but may buy more.

[johnkettleyistheweatherman] 10/11/2020 13:59

speak up filth

no one listens to you stephen

[racktp6] 10/11/2020 12:44

everyone knows what rackers is peter

[johnkettleyistheweatherman] 10/11/2020 12:30

the ped ?


make sense you rambling angry fool

[simplethesis] 10/11/2020 12:30

People want to trade. Some want leverage. Some will not yet have made a decision on that aspect. Plus500 is not bidding on a competitor's name unless the marketing machine sees benefit in their doing so, i.e. it's not exploratory, it is based on evidence. That's the essence of Plus500.

[rhatton] 10/11/2020 12:18

The only thing is a lot of other providers aren’t offering cfds. If you want a share dealing service you are unlikely to be convinced to move to p500?

[simplethesis] 10/11/2020 12:16

chucko1 - not enormous, IMHO. New client acquisition is more affected by global coverage of astonishing market performance and vaccine launches, creating FOMO. Competitor unreliability must nonetheless help, at the margin.

Remember that Liberum only has 92k new customers in 2021. Peel Hunt, as of mid September, was forecasting 61k (!). Canaccord is at 100k.

[chucko1] 10/11/2020 11:37

ST, how important do you think the problems the major platforms having yesterday is to PLUS client acquisition? After all, yesterday was a once in 5 year smashfest. (if you forget the 4 equal and opposite March down moves!)

[simplethesis] 10/11/2020 09:32

FYI, HL does matter to Plus500. Plus500 bids on Hargreaves Lansdown as a search term, meaning that it is after new clients who have half thought they might want to trade on HL. This is relevant now and may be to a greater extent in the future.

[markbelluk] 10/11/2020 08:09

User comments

"It took a good two hours yesterday using Halifax. Might try for some Glastonbury tickets next!"

"It's not just HL, iweb, part of Halifax was also down."

"I use both II and H/L and yesterday Hargreaves was like a chocolate fireguard."

[markbelluk] 10/11/2020 08:03

"More than two million customers of some of Britain’s largest investment platforms faced being locked out of buying shares during the busiest trading day on record.

Investors using firms such as Hargreaves Lansdown, AJ Bell and Fidelity were unable to execute trades to cash in on the huge surge in the value of shares as websites crashed."

Times reporting

[chucko1] 10/11/2020 07:59

HL was a tad slow, but I used it and had no trouble at all. I don’t recognise the otherwise description.

But sounds bad again re. IG.

[markbelluk] 10/11/2020 07:52

PLUS's system stood tall yesterday in what will be the one of the heaviest stress test 's it could suffer. Given HL, 212, AJ Bell all collapsed and others including IG had major problems this bodes well for poaching high value customers IMHO

As usual it will take time for people to catch on

[djokovic1] 09/11/2020 23:15

I echo the general thoughts out here already. Customer positioning seems to be reasonably balanced and if you consider the moves in the context of September end (down and then up) they are not that significant.

In any case, I expect the increased trading to result from the current volatility in stocks to increase spreads PnL and cover for any resulting negative customer PnL. Also today's rally has been mixed: In favor Covid beneficiaries have fallen sharply while beaten down stocks have rallied sharply.

And in the overall context of depressed expectations for Q4, and 2021/22E, Plus doesnt have to do much to beat significantly.

[mighunter] 09/11/2020 20:04

CMC report H1 results on 19th November so hopefully some good read across on any outlook/post-period highlights not too far away...

[rhatton] 09/11/2020 19:56

Simple, in terms of a daily move yes, but the last week or so has seen moves of 10%+ in indicies over that period. Hopefully as SJ and other have said client positioning has been more balanced lately. Wonder if we will get a trading update later this month.