30 Jul 2012 @ 13:19
First off, start with $1000. You thought you would need more didn’t you? No, $1000 will do. Now take your favorite stock, I’m going to pick Microsoft as our example. Microsoft is hardly the sort of crazy penny stock that the get rich quick merchants push at you and it isn’t some crazy pink sheet […]
27 Jul 2012 @ 13:30
I top-sliced Pace [PIC.L] today, on the basis I’m up 100% on it and now’s not the time to be greedy. Pace could hit £2, perhaps even get bought, but I’m lightening up as the market is, as a whole, super-risky right now. Lamprel [LAM.L] collapsed again yesterday. Its story is almost too bad to be true. […]
24 Jul 2012 @ 15:39
Yesterday, the portfolio took a mighty kicking, today Pace (PIC.L) rocketed 18%, putting all the losses and more, back. This is the way it should work when you have a good portfolio, but the wretched state of the market has made keeping the faith a much harder job than normal. The big call right now […]
09 Jul 2012 @ 14:31
Lighthouse is planning to go private. What a shower! Going private effectively destroys all shareholder value as far as I’m concerned and as the market has market the company down by 30-40% today, I don’t seem to be the only one that thinks that. Any company that has gone public owes it to its shareholders […]
02 Jul 2012 @ 10:25
Promethean slumped again. In the old days I would have immediately doubled up and bought more on its earlier slump, but I’m not very wary indeed. Instead I planned to wait again but instead took a dab more, rather than a full clip as my old confidence bubbled up a bit. Of course if the […]
22 Jun 2012 @ 17:16
Over the past few days, the ol’ portfolio has come screaming back. This was after seeing a super 30 per cent profit dive to yearly returns barely scraping in at low single figures. When you’re loading up on bigger positions it’s harder to make accurate yearly return calculations, so I tend to use time-weighted calculations. […]
20 Jun 2012 @ 11:30
If you look at the stock market indices from the Second World War you will be left with the impression that it takes a lot to crash a market. This is true. Crashes don’t come when the market is down; they come when it is high. There is no bubble in equities so a true […]
12 Jun 2012 @ 11:06
I’m getting fed up with all the governmental insider trading. When the market rallies, you know damn well something will be announced in 3-4 days. This time around it was the Spanish bailout. That is why the market spiked and fell on Monday. The outsiders bought in and the insiders who were buying on tips […]
06 Jun 2012 @ 11:00
A slump isn’t over before there is terror in the media; and whilst there is fear there is currently no headline saying “CRASH”. As such, I’m not optimistic that this summer slump is over. All the warning signs are flashing. The pound has collapsed against the Yen, a sign of a sudden flight to havens. […]
24 May 2012 @ 11:06
‘Buy now’ is not really a sensible thing to do as we could fall 10% more in the next few days. However we might not and when a stock looks right you should buy regardless. This has caused me to buy Flybe, which I suppose is a very risky buy. Airlines go bust all the […]
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