23rd December 09
Some of the best profits I have made have been on short-term trades; 30%, 40%, and 50% in just a day or two. The thing is I have never posted on the chat forums for these shares. It’s not that a...
Read More14th December 09
Don’t you just love that saying ‘Out of the Frying Pan and into the Fire’? Well, that is exactly what happened to me. I was watching some prices fluctuate on my monitor and noticed a news...
Read More10th December 09
Having a read over the weekend newspapers, I was interested to read an article on easyJet . It stated that easyJet had bucked the trend of the economic downturn; posting a 12.2% increase year-on...
Read More4th December 09
You may remember back on May 16th I wrote a piece about NAV (Net Asset Value) and asked the question if we can really rely on NAV and what true value did it have. http://www.lse.co.uk/blogs...
Read More27th November 09
Always expect the unexpected. Yes, I know how hard that is to do. Take Ascent Resources (TIDM code: AST) as an example. For anyone that has followed my previous Blogs, you will know this has...
Read More26th November 09
I have been trading for 2 years now and have learnt from many early mistakes when I just picked stocks on fundamentals alone, without any reference to the Chartist and technical picture. I still...
Read More26th November 09
Spin Doctors; not the band, but I’m thinking more in public relations terms. They put a ‘spin’ on whatever or whoever they want to push to a prominent position. It got me thinking; that is all...
Read More22nd November 09
How many times have we all seen news of a bid being made for a company? I’m not just talking about official news. At times it may be a newspaper article or even the dreaded bulletin board (chat...
Read More12th November 09
How many times have you made an error in your trading and thought “I don’t believe I done that, I should have known better. I’ve made that mistake before”? I was talking to one of my ‘trading’...
Read More10th November 09
Hello fellow traders. It has been an interesting couple of weeks since my last offering, and is worth summarising before we move onto the main theme. The FTSE100 still hasn’t breached 5300 and...
Read More6th November 09
100 posts a day and you are lucky if more than 5 are of any substance. There used to be a time when, if a Bulletin Board/Chat Forum had a huge amount of postings in one day, it would mean that...
Read More1st November 09
Okay, hands up who was scared on Wednesday and Thursday of last week? It wasn’t even Halloween and I was scared. The announcement that Britain hadn’t pulled itself out of the Recession was...
Read More28th October 09
Okay, imagine that there is a ‘Sale’ advertised. This particular sale is absolutely amazing, great value for money. Some products are worth double what you will pay for them, some four times. ...
Read More26th October 09
Hi fellow traders. This week has been a funny affair, with the markets shrugging off some pretty dire GDP figures on the 23rd October, but still failing to surpass 5300. Today, (Monday 26th)...
Read More26th October 09
Well, this year’s trading has certainly been better than last. I have been keeping a rough guide of my share transactions for profit and loss, but felt that the time had now come to ensure I was...
Read More21st October 09
I sometimes wonder what is going on with retail stores. Having a background in retail management, of course I can be quite critical, but things really seem to have taken a turn for the worse. ...
Read More15th October 09
I have spoken recently about my indecisiveness and coming out of a share only to go back in and buy them again. There have been many shares that I have done this with and I have done it for many...
Read More15th October 09
Hello fellow traders. The much-documented fall to c4,900 and perhaps beyond hasn’t happened yet, and sentiment is running high today, but that doesn’t mean I have taken my eye off the big. ...
Read More9th October 09
Well, what an interesting last weekend I had. I attended the wedding of Sinead and Darren in Ballachulish – okay, get your maps out and see what a remote little place Ballachulish is. I drove...
Read More5th October 09
Welcome back to reality fellow traders. The FTSE has dipped beneath the psychologically important 5000 mark, unemployment is the U.S. was higher than estimated and the euphoria of the summer has...
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