Had a bit more of ppi back.
Quite a good bit actually.
Not wanting to throw it away but wouldn't mind investing a little in shares.
It's all Greek to me but i read the AIM market is as I understand penny shares.
Any tips or useful ways to get involved.
Looked at web pages but tons.
Any idiot guides to recommend and how or who do you use to deal the shares and what are the rough charges.

Did you lose because you chased a loss or did you put tons in to start.
I sort of want to I suppose dabble with a fixed start amount and not keep adding.
Say a bag of sand as a max.
I was also thinking of looking at startup companies. That looks complicated in itself with tax and the like.
I know I'm not going to get minted but got to be a bit better than corals or bet 365.
Maybe my quite a bit is not the same as someone else's quite a bit.!!!
Also I'm not in any finance business at work so my view shouldn't be to deep as to
Scrutinise to much. Ignorance is bliss I suppose and like they say
" A fool and his money are easily parted"
Hence I'm not going flat out in a get rich quick scheme with all I got back.

Do not go for start ups, or AIM, whoever you bank with will no doubt have a share buying service, dead easy, i deal with first direct, if i were you i would open an account, buy via a self select ISA, check out dividend paying stocks with a long history, and re invest the divis, as you are new, stick to ftse 100 companies, google lse, London south east,not london school of economics, there is loads of info on there to help you

If i were you i'd subscribe to the Penny Share newsletter...its worth it in the long run.

Some of my original investments have increased by over 1000% (Oxford Biomedica)

But as someone else said, they're far more volatile and less likely to pay any dividends so you will want to mix these up with the likes of Lloyds (which are still a great price and pay a 6% dividend).

Good luck

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I wrap my money up in a S&S Isa and put it in a Vanguard Life Strategy Fund - [Link]

You can choose how risky you want it to be (20% equities up to 100%).

I use the 80% fund. 80% of my capital gets invested in stock markets all over the world and 20% is invested in bonds.

Looking at previous performance, it's returned nearly 11% a year for the last five years. Although I've only been invested for one so far.

Well from what I can see, the estimates are based on old 2d seismic and they're going to shoot 3d later this year and see if they can identify oil and/or shale targets. They've only just let the contract for the seismic - so you may have to wait it a little longer so that they can shoot it, process it, interpret it, identify drillable targets, hire a rig, drill some holes, and keep everything crossed, during the shortened working months in deepest Alaska, that they find something.