Anyone who’s dropped by Investor Trader more than once over the journey would know of my penchant for Chinese investments. I have no defense. In the short time we’ve been online we’ve held Renesola, West China Cement, China Biodiesel and Asian Citrus. Hell, even Synergy Health had a Chinese interest. That’s a fair slice of China in our investment pie. China may be a juggern...

Back in Mid May of this year – following a prompt from an Investor Trader reader – we took up a speculative tranche of Entertainment One (ETO.L). Entertainment One is a leading independent entertainment group, with diversified operations incorporating film, television and music across five territories (UK, Canada, US, Holland, Belgium). We liked what we’d heard so we did a little...

And trust me, it is a tender offer. After purchasing our initial tranche of 1,960 China Biodiesel shares back in July 2009 for 6.6 pence a share and topping up a short week later at 10.06 pence (yep that’s a 50% rise in that short week), we were averaged into CBI.L at 9.29 pence a share. And whilst the share price did go on to test 20 pence in August 2009, since then there’s been a lot...

With an abundance of cash – well, for me anyway – sitting in our trading account following sales of West China Cement and Renesola, I thought it time to set some of it free. Put it to work. Following a nudge from an Investor Trader reader a few months back now, we’ve been keeping an eye on Entertainment One (ETO.L). After Small Company Sharewatch (our absolute fave small cap tip ...

A few days back I wrote about Renesola testing new recent highs in the lead-up to results and how the situation in Greece threw a bit of spanner into the works. Well results have come and gone, and not bad results at that, but having a bit of a conservative edge about me of late, I took a little profit, realising 400 shares at £2.41 a share for a return before costs of £964. We were averaged int...

It’s with a heavy heart that today I write about my sale of West China Cement. Our brief love affair – this time around, for we have loved before – began in July 2009 when I picked up 153 of these little grey beauties at £1.70. Watching our love take flight, two short weeks later I added another 221 shares at an already soaring £2.57. My 374 shares were averaged in at £2.21, f...

There’s no doubting anyone holding any sort of UK based portfolio over the past week or two has felt the pinch of what’s been happening in Greece. I, like many, are hoping it’s no more than a blip – albeit a pretty big blip for those on the ground – and with solutions being touted as I type, the markets will rebound in the coming days and weeks. Now hindsight is a won...

Late last week we added OPG Power Ventures to the Investor Trader Radar with the view of dipping our toe in the under-supplied Indian power market. As it panned out we were pretty quick on the draw, picking up 1,598 shares at 66 pence a share for a total outlay of £1,054.68 after selling off our remaining Eros International holdings and a little Renesola last Thursday. We see a massive potential ...

Eros International wasn’t the only holding to get a trim following our decision to add OPG Power Ventures to the Investor Trader Radar. For those of you that have followed Investor Trader over the journey you’ll know that we often buy and sell a little Renesola on the dips and peaks. And although we believe Rensola’s current surge toward £2 still has a ways to travel, we sold 29...

After adding OPG Power Ventures to the Investor Trader Radar we decided it was time to raise a little capital to facilitate a purchase. We settled on liduidating the remaining tranche of our EROS International holdings for no better reason than we needed the dinero. We were averaged into Eros International (EROS.L) at 105 pence and sold out at 165 pence turning a £180 profit on the final 300 shar...