Batten down the hatches!
18th March 2022
Russia’s military incursion into the Ukraine and the economic consequences (notably the spike up in energy prices) has not just replaced the Covid infection as the focus of global media and...
Read More18th March 2022
Russia’s military incursion into the Ukraine and the economic consequences (notably the spike up in energy prices) has not just replaced the Covid infection as the focus of global media and...
Read More21st February 2022
Last week a good friend – let’s call him Fred - told me that he had accepted redundancy and, for the first time in his life had some capital, was wondering what to do with his good...
Read More6th January 2022
The hope the Covid infection, with its adverse economic consequence, would be receding by the end of 2021 has been confounded. The Omicron variant appears to be a particularly virulent, if milder,...
Read More24th September 2021
Investor sentiment seems to be changing as equity markets’ ‘risk on’ momentum appears to be slowing – notably on concerns that the authorities begin to pare back their...
Read More11th August 2021
Today I thought I might spend a little time discussing various different ways you can invest in gold (and silver) since many people have been in touch to ask about this very topic recently. As...
Personal FinanceRead More10th August 2021
The answer may surprise you. Gold I have had a reasonable number of questions of late about precious metals and, in particular, how to go about buying them if so inclined, so thought it might...
Read More6th August 2021
Regular readers of these articles will be aware of an ongoing and oft-repeated theme of mine: Namely that, to a certain degree at least, you can run your financial affairs so that you...
Personal FinanceRead More5th August 2021
Smaller Companies (AKA “small caps”)… One asset class that I have written about before and that has a long track record of producing average annual returns quite some way north...
Read More4th August 2021
Why Read Finance Books? As part of your ‘own the world’ journey we believe that the information required to make useful and lasting change in our lives can very often be found in the...
Personal FinanceRead More3rd August 2021
I previously highlighted four beliefs many people hold when it comes to finance which I suggested simply weren’t true. These were: “You can’t go wrong with bricks and...
Personal FinanceRead More6th May 2022
A couple of companies to add to your watchlist for research for casual investors. Companies featured here are for medium to long-term purposes. Goldplat, (LSE:GDP) GDP has recently started a...
Read More4th May 2022
I thought I would reinstate my News for Snoozers series that I used to do a few years ago. It will just be a brief collection of recent newsflow which you can use as a springboard for future...
Read More21st February 2022
ITM Power (ITM) has had a phenomenal rise in market value over the last few years which was initiated by a breakout around the start of May 2019. What can other companies learn from this example...
Read More11th February 2022
After creating the simple volume buying method I was excited to test it out. This simpler method, for companies with daily volumes tending to be under 5m, actually uses less capital than the...
Read More28th January 2022
Here are two sets of volume buy trades I made in Asiamet Resources (ARS). Following the August 2021 breakout, I took the opportunity to logically react to ARS newsflow since then. The volume buy...
Read More21st January 2022
I imagined myself as a reader of these recent blogs and wondered how I would go about creating a simple volume buying method. I quickly came up with the following strategy: For daily volume...
Read More18th January 2022
From experience, the majority of standard unscaled volume buys for AIM companies required up to £600 before turning a profit, but as a safety net I allocate a maximum of £1,000. If the...
Read More17th January 2022
Here are two sets of volume buy trades I made in Metal Tiger (MTR). Both use the June 2021 price peak as a starting point for cumulative volume buy calculation. The first trade was a 20%...
Read More13th January 2022
Aside from my core holding of Deepverge (DVRG), I wanted to try a scaled up test trade. Following the news driven breakout in October 2021, I chose my starting point for volume calculation as the...
Read More10th January 2022
In another early test I decided to volume buy Thor Mining (LSE: THR). Here are the buys generated from market volume since the price peak in June 2021: 26 July 2021 - 14,520 shares,...
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