{"id":1988,"date":"2017-01-29T01:01:08","date_gmt":"2017-01-29T01:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asadkarim.co.uk\/?p=1988"},"modified":"2017-01-27T14:40:52","modified_gmt":"2017-01-27T14:40:52","slug":"risk-and-reward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/?p=1988","title":{"rendered":"Risk and Reward (Trackers vs Individual Stocks)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The picture below shows the dangers of a concentration of risk in one asset.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/asadkarim.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/BTandFTSE.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-1987\" src=\"http:\/\/asadkarim.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/BTandFTSE-300x169.gif\" alt=\"BTandFTSE\" width=\"520\" height=\"293\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/BTandFTSE-300x169.gif 300w, https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/BTandFTSE-1024x576.gif 1024w, https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/BTandFTSE-624x351.gif 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 520px) 100vw, 520px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In the past days the FTSE has moved little, with highs of over <strong>7,200<\/strong> to lows of<strong> 7135<\/strong>. That is about a <strong>movement of 1%<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>BT plc has traded this week from <strong>\u00a33.80<\/strong> to as low as <strong>\u00a32.99<\/strong>. That is price <strong>movement of 20%<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The benefits of a fund like a FTSE-100 tracker is obvious. Never have all your eggs in one basket.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The picture below shows the dangers of a concentration of risk in one asset. In the past days the FTSE has moved little, with highs of over 7,200 to lows of 7135. That is about a movement of 1% BT plc has traded this week from \u00a33.80 to as low as \u00a32.99. That is price [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1988"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1988\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1990,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1988\/revisions\/1990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}