EMIS Group

EMIS Group

Sometimes a market over-reaction to news creates the perfect buying opportunity for the shrewd investor but what constitutes an over-reaction? Whilst it’s not always evident without the benefit of hindsight, there’s certainly an observable outcome over time – a steep dip in price followed by a leisurely stroll back up...
AIM Chat Trick - Triple the Discussion

AIM Chat Trick – Triple the Discussion

Hi there, you look nice, do something with your hair? Just a quick update today on new happenings over at AIM Soiree. We’ve given the Soiree a bit of a tune-up in terms of the companies it follows. We’ve trimmed a lot of dead wood, getting rid of those companies...
Gold, Supergroup, Lavendon, Archipelago and Avocet

Gold, Supergroup, Lavendon, Archipelago and Avocet

It seems like an age since I’ve put index fingers to keyboard and tapped out a bit of an update. It’s not as though I haven’t had a dabble on the markets here and there, it’s just that I’ve been a little preoccupied with some of our other web ventures....
Range Resources

Range Resources

A positive bit of news from their operations in Trinidad followed by an update on their interests in Guatemala (via a recent investment in Citation Resources Limited) has seen Range Resources put on 30% in 8 days – from 3.00 pence at open on 5th February to 3.90 pence, as...
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Doing Business in Lebanon: Getting Help from International Banks

Bordering the Mediterranean Sea and lying between Israel and Syria, Lebanon has a population of 4.259 million and a GDP of USD 40.09 billion in 2011, according to World Bank figures. Lebanon is situated in a strategic geographic location, at the crossroads between three continents (Africa, Asia and Europe), where trade routes converge. It is...

AIM Soiree

We’ve been having a bit of a poke around with the code that does what it does on AIM Soireé and I thought a little update may be in order. For those of you yet to sample the Burt Bacharach-backed, velvet-lined plushness that is AIM Soireé, I implore you to drop everything, apply a dob...

Supergroup Hits 12 Month Highs

A retailer sells more product over Christmas, it releases a statment to that effect, the price of its stock goes up. It’s investing Utopia. But how often does it happen just like that in reality? Read on my sceptical friends… Supergroup (a UK-based clothing retailer that features brands such as Superdry and Cult) has had...

Archipelago Resources

We’ve been bullish on gold since Buffet was, well, pretty old actually, and whilst our specatcularly speculative buy into Norseman Gold (123,211 shares at 3.26 pence) hasn’t exactly paid off – Norseman is down, but not yet out – we still have faith in the sector, as gold continues its holding pattern in the $1,600...

Getting a FTSE up in December – The Results

Late last year I wrote about FTSE behaviour come December. No, not playing under-the-table toe-tennis with the cutie from accounts at the work Christmas party, rather what the London Stock Exchange’s biggie share index – the FTSE 100 – tends to do come the silly season. I looked at data from the past nine years...

Get a FTSE up in December

  A friend of mine recently asked if I went long on the FTSE for a month each December? I looked at him a little strangely thinking, what a silly question (and what’s the story with that shirt). Why, with the markets ramping down for the holidays and many investors taking defensive positions before hitting...

incadea

In a continuation of our shift away from a portfolio lopsided by speculative mining plays toward a portfolio lopsided by companies with a recurring revenue model, in early October we took on a bunch of incadea (the lower cap i in incadea is part of the branding), buying 1,237 shares at 98 pence. Here’s the...

Cleaning House

We’ve been cleaning house at Investor Trader of late. Knocking things into shape a little and getting rid of few of the more dated aspects of the site. And whilst the process is ongoing, we thought now’s as good a time as any to fill you in with what’s coming up. Since our inception back...

Enter the Dragon Oil Into Our Portfolio

That title’s a little laboured, right? I tried. Big and cashed up is not a bad place to be in these lawless economic times. Just look at the slashed valuations some of the junior miners are sitting on – especially those that are geared up a little or looking to head back to the market...

Filtered Investment News to my Inbox

As part of the now generation of equity investors we’re faced with an incredible assortment of possibile companies in which to invest our hard-earned cash. On the Main Market of the London Stock Exchange alone there are more than 1,300 listed options. Round out another 1,000 odd plays on the Alternative Investment Market (AIM) and...

Introducing LSE Soirée

Following on from the unmitigated success of AIM Soirée – where we rank the chat, so you know where AIMs at – the next logical step was to apply the same shoddy coding (and funky design) to AIM’s big sister; the London Stock Exchange’s, Main Market. Well, a fair chunk of it anyway. Ladies and...

Sepura

Besides timing entry and exit points and looking at long term trends I’m not a huge advocate of trading off charts, but every now and then I come across a chart that just screams at me to take action and fundamentals be damned. So was the case with Sepura and its five year chart below...