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Trading and Live Prices

3rd August 10 By: Boredmum

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...

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If we had our time again: Lessons learned

29th July 10 By: Riddler

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....

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The grass is always greener?

28th July 10 By: Boredmum

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...

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The bigger they are...

22nd July 10 By: Boredmum

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...

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Healthy Body, Healthy Mind

12th July 10 By: Boredmum

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? ...

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One extreme to the other

5th July 10 By: Boredmum

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...

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Think about what you want to pay

29th June 10 By: Boredmum

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...

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Lessons from the BP spill: The biggest excuse to go green

23rd June 10 By: Riddler

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...

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It’s better to travel than arrive

20th June 10 By: Boredmum

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...

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The Rollercoaster that is B.P.

13th June 10 By: Boredmum

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...

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Groundhog Day

6th June 10 By: Boredmum

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...

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Moment of clarity?

31st May 10 By: Boredmum

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: ...

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LSE New Functions

23rd May 10 By: Boredmum

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...

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Selective Memory

16th May 10 By: Boredmum

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...

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How do you take profits?

10th May 10 By: Riddler

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...

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Market uncertainty

9th May 10 By: Boredmum

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...

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Fear and Confidence

1st May 10 By: Boredmum

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...

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The irony of it

24th April 10 By: Boredmum

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. ...

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The glamorous world of a Trader

20th April 10 By: Boredmum

You have to laugh sometimes at the pre-conceived ideas that people have of a ‘Trader’. I usually don’t divulge to people what I do, as the responses I have had in the past can be rather. ...

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It’s good to talk

11th April 10 By: Boredmum

Yes I know, the Blog title sounds like a bad caption from an old BT TV ad, but it is important nonetheless. A lot of people like to dabble in the stockmarket and some people do it full-time as...

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