Sweet, thanks for the heads up! 
YouTube wise the only channel I’ve followed and really trusted is Damien talks money. Just comes across as less in your face and a bit more considered. So perceived him as more trustworthy 
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It feels like he picks up where (up until recently) Martin Lewis left off.
I’d tip him to become a regular on TV within the next few years. A few slots on magazine shows like This Morning to start with.
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He has another company/channel called Financial Interest which do good comparisons between brokers/platforms as well as other things
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Yes, he’s very good. I like the podcast he does.
Toby Newbatt is quite good on YouTube.
PensionCraft do good videos as well but they can get quite technical
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Hmm…. I’m finding the Trading 212 app really addictive. It’s fun reading about all the companies and seeing what their share prices have been doing.
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Check out my Global ETF for Growth pie. It’s about 20th in the top pies list.
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I was going to message you in Discord actually to find out what the name of your pie was so I could check it out.
It’s number 25, helpful you have the same picture there haha!
Come payday I shall save it and throw some change in.
Is this the Nonzo Discord? Could somebody post a new invite link, the previous one has expired.
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Surely they’re 17 by now? Seems like ages since they were turfed out of here 
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If it ever goes down, I’m going to have to go into hiding 
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I slapped £20 into it on Monday and now I’m at £20.30. Can nearly buy a Freddo.
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If you’d been one of the 50-odd crazy people who invested in Trio, you’d have had about £25 
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I like the AI analysis of your portfolio. I’ve picked some individual stocks based on knowledge and a couple based on my own sentimentality (namely AMD and Ocado )
But it’s telling me I should add a bit more consumer focused stocks to balance out the portfolio and dilute the swings from my tech stocks.
But tech and pharma is where my knowledge base is. So it’s more natural for me to gravitate towards those.
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If anyone is looking for a investment platform that isn’t Trading 212.
I can recommend Lightyear.
They don’t charge any fees for purchasing shares or selling. The only fee you pay them is 0.3% for currency conversion and if you are buying British Stocks and ETFs it wont effect you at all.
The UI is very very clean and the platform is probably one of the easiest to use. It’s very easy to learn and get used to.
I have a GIA with them that I use for holding some US Stocks.
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You know about consumer stocks too because you use them e.g. Coke, Magnum, Walgreens (who own Boots), etc.
Defence and precious metals are the way to go for balance at the moment. Rare earth’s too possibly, but they’re currently very volatile.
Just because I buy their products doesn’t mean it will be a performant stock tho? But I take your point.
I was thinking at next payday I’ll add a few defense stocks and might sell my gold on Chip and buy the Royal mint fund on T212 instead. I may add silver to my portfolio too.
I’m surprised that my Vanguard S&P 500 etf just seems to have bumped along not really doing much. Whereas the L&G Large to Mid Cap UK businesses ETF had consistently shown growth since I started investing in it.
I might have a look at light year. I’ve seen it mentioned online and in various YouTube videos.
It’s interesting to read what others are investing in. I do have a separate pie to dabble in things but I personally try to leave my main savings investment alone.
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Does look a much neater platform than 212!
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