26th August 10
There is a thread in General Chat called ‘Sound tracks of our lives’. You can list songs there that may be apt to your trading. Well, my song from Tuesday of last week has to be from The Street...
Read More16th August 10
Okay. I realise that the title is a tad dramatic, but what else do you call trading in Connaught shares (TIDM code: CNT )? You see, it tends to go a bit further than ‘playing with fire’. There...
Read More3rd August 10
As I have mentioned previously, I tend to regularly trade a little in order to maintain my interest in the markets and make some money. This can be on a day-to-day basis, depending on if I can find...
Read More29th July 10
Welcome to another month of conflicting data in world equities! Just when the analysts are warning of ‘Double-Dip’ Recession and re-visiting the 2009 Bear market lows, we then have data from the U....
Read More28th July 10
I have some shares that I am fairly happy to leave for growth opportunities. I also trade to keep my interest in the markets and hopefully make small amounts of profit. I am afraid that, in my t...
Read More22nd July 10
The bigger they are, the harder they fall. Being only 5 feet tall, I have never really experienced that concept until now! I have always had a set amount of money that I invested in company shares...
Read More12th July 10
Cycling was especially hard today. Could it have been the bottle of wine that was almost completely finished off last night? Could it have been the longer than usual cycle due to it being Sunday? ...
Read More5th July 10
As mentioned in past Blogs, I have traded Nautical Petroleum (TIDM code: NPE ) and Encore Oil (TIDM code: EO. ). NPE was turning out to be a little success story for me and I was doing quit...
Read More29th June 10
I read a couple of interesting newspaper articles recently. They have focused on a couple of products purchased in a ‘pound’ store, where labels have been peeled back only to reveal much more expen...
Read More23rd June 10
I hope that fellow Traders have enjoyed the recent equities rally, and trust that their carefully chosen stocks are rising nicely. The recent BP spill and subsequent political fall-out has brough...
Read More20th June 10
To quote Robert Louis Stevenson ... "Little do ye know your own blessedness; for to travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour." The meaning being that...
Read More13th June 10
The share price of B.P. (TIDM code: BP. ) is an absolute rollercoaster at the moment. A political storm many are being dragged into. Of course, the disaster in the Gulf of Mexico is atrocious...
Read More6th June 10
Feeling a little like Groundhog Day... ...every morning waking up and waiting for 7am to come to see if there is any RNS news to digest, and then patiently waiting for 8am for the markets to open t...
Read More31st May 10
As you know, I tend to trade from time to time, sometimes successfully and sometimes not. On Wednesday of this week I noted the chat on lse.co.uk in the morning, seeing that Matra (TIDM code: MT...
Read More23rd May 10
I don’t know about you guys, but I have been finding it hard to keep up with the new functions that lse.co.uk are offering these days. I can only say that the team must be working flat out to improve...
Read More16th May 10
Have you ever gone through a tough time in your life when things were so hard that, when you look back, you only remember how bad it was and how tough things actually were? Equally, you may have ha...
Read More10th May 10
Hello fellow traders. With those healthy rises in equities over the first 4 months of 2010 culminating in many stocks and indices reaching new 12-month highs, it may have crossed traders’ minds to ...
Read More9th May 10
Damn Hung Parliament. What a horrible week that was. As I type, I have seen about 12% wiped off my portfolio over 4 days of trading. Two to three months of profits wiped out; one month’s profits ...
Read More1st May 10
What a week that was! We experienced the biggest one day fall in the FTSE in the past 6 months. Greece has been downgraded to ‘Junk’ category for debt and there are fears that we will possibly s...
Read More24th April 10
A few weeks backs back I bought into Invu (TIDM code: INVU ). I only bought in as a short-term trade, looking for a couple of points on a rising sp so that I could get out with a small profit. ...
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