15th November 23
Two months ago, we wrote “Growth has stalled, and posed the question “but is that bad for markets?” Since then we have witnessed terrible atrocities in Israel and loss of life in Gaza which...
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15th September 23
Most financial commentators would agree that growth in the economies of many of the world’s major developed countries has stalled as inflation has proven to be more persistent, which in turn has...
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17th July 23
Looking at the first half of 2023, it was a period in which economic data disappointed and fell short of consensus market forecasts. In particular, domestic inflation and UK interest rates...
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23rd May 23
Following recent articles highlighting the attraction of investment trusts which appear undervalued, by reference to the worth of their underlying assets, in response to readers’ requests, this...
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24th April 23
This blog is the final one in a series of four, searching for Value amongst close-ended investment trusts. It follows on from previous reviews of UK equity selections Henderson...
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20th April 23
This blog is the third in a series of four which is searching for Value amongst close-ended investment trusts, following on from the previous reviews of Henderson Opportunities ( HOT ) , ...
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11th April 23
Following on from the previous blogs which reviewed two of Janus Henderson’s UK equity multi-cap investing trusts Henderson Opportunities ( HOT ) and Lowland ( LWI ) , this...
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27th March 23
For the first couple of months on 2023, financial markets have been focused on the pace and magnitude of inflation, together with the extent to which central banks would raise interest rates...
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25th January 23
These commentaries typically focus on longer term views and an investment stance appropriate for the retirement savings of private individual investors – which could be termed structural...
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14th November 22
Anglo American ( AAL:LSE ) had a good week last week rising 13.54%. Commodities companies especially those in the base metals sector have been pretty unlucky of late. China is still dealing...
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24th March 23
Hi LSE readers! I don't often post directly on the website and usually keep a low profile, focussing on website improvements and making sure the chat boards are behaving themselves! I...
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6th May 22
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...
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4th May 22
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...
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21st February 22
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...
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11th February 22
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...
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28th January 22
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...
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21st January 22
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...
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18th January 22
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...
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17th January 22
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...
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13th January 22
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...
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