Is the London Market momentum becoming too rapid ?

[Jon39]

My experience has taught me, that when markets become over excited, there tends to be trouble ahead.

Having just completed the usual end of week valuation and seen a single week increase of 4·82%, then concern goes up a notch.
We all like to see share price increases, providing they are justified by profitability growth, but when the pace of increase accelerates, it does make us wonder what might happen.

I have always followed a long-term strategy, so am not inclined now to start guessing the market and commence selling.

We are at the begining of 2025 major company annual results announcements. Strong results would certainly be helpful, but market participants should by now have an idea of what is expected and that should already be within the prices.

Any comments?



FTSE 100 INDEX

[Phooey]

Jon39 said:

I have always followed a long-term strategy, so am not inclined now to start guessing the market and commence selling.

Any comments?

Yes. Stick to fundamentals and not guessing for long-term investing

[fridaypassion]

Set and forget. Unless you are within 4/5 years of retirement the day to day is totally irrelevant. Keep investing and let compounding keep its inverse proportion to your prostate size.

If theres a crash double what you are putting in.

[ukwill]

Jon39 said:

My experience has taught me, that when markets become over excited, there tends to be trouble

Any comments?

My guess - Investors rotating out of the US/tech and looking at the perceived value of the ftse. Examples in Jan - mining and banking. Combination of inflation falling and interest rate cuts could see a strong year.

Or,

Tech boom goes pear shaped, takes miners and energy stocks with it and we all go south, quick, whilst everyone pours into staples and fixed income.

One more for the ride…

[Panamax]

Jon39 said:

Having just completed the usual end of week valuation and seen a single week increase of 4·82%

UK market FTSE100 is 10,370 today and was 10,223 this time last week. By my schoolboy arithmetic that's an increase of 147 points, or 1.4%.

UK market FTSE AllShare is 5,580 today and was 5,511 this time last week. By my schoolboy arithmetic that's an increase of 69 points, or 1.2%.

What has caused you to talk about a "London Market" lift of 4.82%?

Is there something I've missed?

[NortonES2]

Panamax said:

UK market FTSE100 is 10,370 today and was 10,223 this time last week. By my schoolboy arithmetic that's an increase of 147 points, or 1.4%.

UK market FTSE AllShare is 5,580 today and was 5,511 this time last week. By my schoolboy arithmetic that's an increase of 69 points, or 1.2%.

What has caused you to talk about a "London Market" lift of 4.82%?

Is there something I've missed?

He's talking about his share holding not the FTSE

[Jon39]

NortonES2 said:

Panamax said:

UK market FTSE100 is 10,370 today and was 10,223 this time last week. By my schoolboy arithmetic that's an increase of 147 points, or 1.4%.

UK market FTSE AllShare is 5,580 today and was 5,511 this time last week. By my schoolboy arithmetic that's an increase of 69 points, or 1.2%.

What has caused you to talk about a "London Market" lift of 4.82%?

Is there something I've missed?

He's talking about his share holding not the FTSE

That is correct.

The very unusual aspect, was that the sudden substantial increase was not caused by a single holding. Several sprung into life in the same week.

GSK ...... +17.13%
BT ......... + 7.97%
BATS .... + 5.32%
IMPS .... + 8.97%
M&S ..... + 5.94%

Perhaps a tumble is coming.

[Jon39]

loafer123 said:

Well I'm up 0.38% this week on my low risk 50:50 strategy.

So that's nice.

A contributor to the S&P 500 topic.

London had to wait years, before being able to beat the U.S. market in 2025.