We first squeezed a little Asian Citrus into our portfolio back in October 2009, taking up 254 shares in China’s largest orange plantation owner and operator at £4.27 a share. Before we had time to shake the tree a ten for one stock split was in the works which multiplied our holding by ten to [...]
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We bought a bunch of Alecto Energy back in November 2010, our reasons then were speculative but simple: “Alecto has been awarded three gold and copper mining and two uranium mining licenses in the Mauritanide mobile belt of Mauritania and there’s the possibility of more good news on the horizon.” Since we jumped on board, [...]
I’ve got an apology to make. When times are good – as a blogger – you can’t shut me up. I’m talking big, the million quid looks more than doable and I’m shooting my mouth off to anyone who’s willing to drop by. But when things turn sour for a month or two, well, I [...]
It’s been a bit of a rocky road for our gold play over the past few weeks since we got on board in late April at just a notch above $1,500 an ounce. The one month chart (below – courtesy of SharePrice.co.uk) shows the spot price for gold rocketed to over $1,560 an ounce in [...]
So I’m up and running with my first financial spread bet for a while. The ghosts of financial spread betting failures past have been laid to rest with a renewed bout of reading and I’m ready to make my fortune (sic) trading commodities. I popped 100 quid in my trading account (big spender) and I’ve [...]



