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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 [...]

It’s been a while since I’ve had any financial spread bets in play. To be honest in the past I’ve had mixed fortunes with my forays into the world of financial spread betting. It’s a situation I usually attempt to remedy by furthering my financial education before trading again; you just can’t have enough financial [...]

Following the announcement of their 2010 results, Alecto Energy added a healthy glow to our portfolio on Tuesday, finishing 24% up on the day. We bought into Alecto back in November last year at 3.75 pence a share on the back of their three gold and copper mining and two uranium mining licenses in the [...]

Back in January of this year I took stock of our portfolio by lifting the three month charts of the 13 shares we held from our friends at SharePrice.co.uk. From a technical point of view it gives a great snapshot of your holdings and although the process in January was conducted with a tad more [...]

My apologies first up for the complete lack of posts over the past couple of months. After a spell in Russia and Asia I’m back in my native Australia taking stock of a portfolio that’s suffered a bit of a bashing from its highs of January. To say I’ve lost touch with what’s been happening [...]


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