Stock/Share Holders

Good day all,

Hope you don't mind if I run a bit of 'low-budget' market research on you.

I'm interested in finding out how many members/readers here are stock/share holders as well as currency traders.

If you don't mind submitting your input to the poll and feel free to elaborate with a post as to what it is your holding and for how long.

Individual stocks/shares, from any country/exchange.
Index ETFs
Currency ETCs/ETFs
Anything else

Thanks.

Just had a chance to follow up on this and start it off.

I also invest in other securities, US / UK listed stocks.
Blue-chips mostly.
Nice high dividend paying one's are obviously always a bonus ;-], but not a requirement to make it into the portfolio. Good avg. $/£ trading volume is more important to me. Ie. the liquid ones.

I have a portfolio that I hold pretty much 'all the time'.
The stocks within the portfolio chop and change though, and I swap out non-performers every 6+ months or so.

Portfolio size varies, but is 50k+ most of the time.
I also hold a prop portfolio for the company, which is, well, much larger :-P

Appreciate any feedback from anyone else.

PS. You don't have to divulge any information you don't want to, like size/amount/tickers/etc. I'm just trying to get a feel for whether this is a potential market for a product/service. Not really FX related, but 'trader/investor' related certainly.

Thanks again.

Well, I guess the lack of 'enthusiasm' and one WTF vote :-D, tells me I should just be straight up with you guys and gals.

Not sure how 'commercial' this makes me, but the reason I asked was essentially that I was trying to find out...

WHO WANTS MONEY?! ;-]

My company does securities collateralised loan finance.

I figured, hey, there may be some currency traders here, that are also sitting on stocks, bonds, treasuries, gilts, etf's, cdo's, cmo's etc. that would like to be made aware that they can use those instruments to raise some liquidity, for whatever legal purpose.

Reason for the >6 months or <6 months question is that our loan terms start from 1 year, so day-traders couldn't use it obviously.

Anyway, there you have it.
Take it or leave it, as with everything on this forum.

Cheers all.

EDIT: Now that it's not such a ridiculous hour, I've had to come back and just correct on the above.

The length of time held, is actually a moot point.
Meaning, just because we have a minimum 1year loan term, does not mean you have to have held your stock (or whatever) for any particular period. So hell, why not, short term traders, feel free to touch base.
You can buy it today and make an application with it. Makes no difference.
As long as you can verify it, you can borrow against it.