21 May 2012 @ 11:05
This week will decide if this is the crash of the summer or the current move is just a nasty shake. I’m sitting on a little Lamprel, torn between taking a quick 25% profit and holding it for the long term and perhaps a 100% or more. The trouble with fast 20% profits is they […]
09 May 2012 @ 11:05
Interesting times in the market. To crash or not to crash, that is the question. I feel it isn’t going to crash but that’s a guess. It’s a speculation that the market doesn’t like to deliver the expected and a crash is what everyone is thinking will happen this summer. Meanwhile the Euro is falling […]
02 May 2012 @ 11:04
I always try and remind myself not to sell when my portfolio is suffering a reversal. The key thing is to ride out storms. As long as you are investing sensibly there is not too much to worry about. Only when something massively bad has/is happening should you think of selling, something huge like the […]
25 Apr 2012 @ 11:04
It’s been a shaky ride for my Cable and Wireless but in the end holding on proved the correct thing to do. In previous years I would have bought in on the slump when Tata bought in but in the current environment I’ve not the nerve to trade these kinds of situation. The market is […]
20 Apr 2012 @ 11:03
It’s frustrating when two of your favourite stocks are falling and you already have enough stock. Becoming undiversified is a lethal mistake. As such, I have enough Trinity Mirror (TNI:L) and enough RM (RM:L) Trinity Mirror is very risky because there might be something very nasty under the hood – surely there has to be […]
17 Apr 2012 @ 11:02
It’s very hard to write a blog when you don’t fancy buying any stock. Stocks look ugly to me at the moment in the same way as people look ugly in a packed underground train. My portfolio has been, and is being, kicked – which is to be expected as it is a very high […]
05 Apr 2012 @ 11:02
The markets don’t like the fact that the FED reckons it is not about to do anymore stimulus in addition to the Himalayan levels it has already created. It could of course just be the beginning of the summer slump or, as I model it, yearly global wealth fund trade surplus rebalance. In any event […]
29 Mar 2012 @ 11:13
I’m kicking myself for not selling Cable and Wireless for a 100% profit. Even at 80%+ profit it is shear greed that keeps me in. I should sell but I’m trying to hang in. If the takeover happens I’ll end up with a 150% profit, so its not irrational to hold out, even so the […]
26 Mar 2012 @ 11:13
I can’t sit around and not buy stock, but it’s a hard task at the moment to find something interesting. So it’s ironic I’m buying Shell today. It is perhaps some kind of condemnation of the market that a company so huge and so pivotal can have a 7 p/e and a 5% dividend. For […]
22 Mar 2012 @ 10:14
We are now in a little bear sequence and it’s faintly irritating to watch the profits bleed. Even more annoying is the fact I’m not finding many new shares of interest, which is the investing equivalent of watching a second division football match in the rain which turns out a nil-nil draw. If we go […]
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