A couple of weeks ago now – prior to a little mid-summer rest and relaxation – I penned a post (with one foot out the door) in which I fleetingly mentioned the fact we’d liquidated a number of holdings and topped up on one in particular I thought a little over-sold. There wasn’t any great [...]
Category: Market Movements
With AIM shares pretty much taking a beating across the board, it’s a good time to keep an eye out for an AIM bargain or two. I’m not saying dive in head-first for all you’re worth, but there’s a lot of very good companies that have probably drifted into the over-sold category that are worth [...]
Despite the fact that I like to think of myself as a long-term investor – albeit with a speculative bent – part of me wishes I took advantage of short-term gains a little more often. Sure, I look for shares with the potential for explosive growth but when that explosive growth comes I rarely think [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]




