9th June 25
Surveys Over the years, we’ve run a number of surveys asking you, our users for your feedback – and particularly if there are features you would like us to add. One feature that has come up consi...
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20th February 25
Be warned. Be wary. Green energy investment is not what it seems. Five companies are in this writer’s sights: · Bluefield Solar Income Fund Ltd [BSIF] · Gore Street Energy Storage Fund plc [...
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9th January 25
Very interesting to watch how the major central banks are applying different strategies in their rate setting, against a backdrop of stubborn inflation around the 2.7% mark across the Western worl...
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18th November 24
Amid talk of a correction or crash on Wall Street in 2025 (from the likes of Capital Gearing’s ( CGT ) perennial bear Peter Spilling), we suggest the owners of AVI Global ( AGT ) with its focu...
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13th November 24
Insofar as interest rate sensitive asset diversifiers (such as commercial property and quasi-utilities) is concerned, the UK Budget and US election result has changed the immediate landscape for m...
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29th April 24
As appetite for risk assets has increased - driven by the consensual expectation of cheaper money ( “it’s only a question of when, not if, interest rates fall” ) and “travelling is better than ar...
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11th March 24
This report can be summarised by saying that economic activity in most of the world’s developed economies is sluggish suggesting that inflationary forces are abating and that central banks will ...
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2nd January 24
A significant weakening in inflation and economic activity over the past three months has prompted market commentators to believe that the peak in interest rates has been seen and that, by contras...
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19th December 23
Christopher Nicholson and Renas Sidahmed, MD and Head of ESG at ACF Equity Research respectively, presented the key findings of their recently published research on the Rare Earths sector, provi...
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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 has ...
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19th April 26
If you'd rather not read my blog, and want to jump straight to the donation bit - click here! https://www.justgiving.com/page/phil-thomas-runs Another year has rolled by - and it's time for me ...
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21st April 25
If you'd rather not read my blog, and want to jump straight to the donation bit - click here! https://2025tcslondonmarathon.enthuse.com/pf/phil-thomas I'm running again. But first - "Hello, I'm ...
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2nd April 24
Hi LSE readers! For those of you that don't know me - I'm Phil - I founded lse.co.uk back in 1998, and have enjoyed seeing our community grow and flourish, through the ups and downs of investing! L...
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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 founde...
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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 sta...
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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 future ...
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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 exa...
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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 ori...
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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 b...
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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 vol...
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