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...

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 ...

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 ...

From the four options I spoke of earlier in the week, I’ve gone all in with Lloyds (option 1) fully taking up my offered allotment of 1,037 shares at £0.37 a share. The rights issue gave me a reduction on current market value of about £0.16 per share or 30%, so I can’t really complain, despite doing my darnedest in my most recent post. Our total holding of Lloyds has now risen to 1,...

Personally, I’ve always considered trading shares a very intimate process. I would do my homework, I would look at the market and I would decide, initially my entry point, and down the track, my exit point for any given equity. The timings were mine, the mistakes – of which there have been many – were mine, and even the odd windfall was mine. It was done to my schedule. I had no ...

So I’ve been talking about it for long enough but last Friday I put my money where my mouth was and topped up on some Renesola, adding another 692 shares to our holding at £1.23488 a share for a total consideration of £854.54. Renesola has been on our radar again since it visited the 150 pence mark in late September where it traded within a range for a fortnight or so before continuing its...

Another three-figure write-off day for the FTSE and again our portfolio is adrift atop a sea of red, but its not all bad news. We’ve taken the opportunity to sell off a few of our Eros International shares. We first got on board with Eros International – a Bollywood film producer and distributor – in early May of this year, purchasing 533 shares at £1.05 a share for a total outl...

We’ve been stockpiling a little cash of late at Investor Trader – taking the top off one or two nicely performing investments – and today we blew the lot! Again we’ve sent our money east to the Chinese, this time to their agricultural sector purchasing some 254 shares of Asian Citrus (ACHC.L) at £4.27 per share for a total outlay before costs of £1,085. The reasons in bri...

A while back (June in fact) I wrote extolling the virtues of a company by the name of Cosalt and promptly put my money where my mouth was, purchasing 916 shares at £0.5437 for a total outlay of £498.03. I’d read a little good press, the company seemed to have had it’s problems in the recent past, but was moving in the right direction and with prices nearing five quid back in ’0...

Following the sale of our Lyxor EFT India holdings we’ve moved the cash a little further east taking up another tranche of West China Cement (WCC.L). Although West China Cement has already run up from £1.70 to £2.55 since our first uptake a few weeks back, we still think there’s plenty o’ good times ahead with West China Cement and we were happy to jump in with today’s pu...