Category: Share Purchases

So we’ve been trawling the depths of AIM for months now adding distressed companies to a dossier of potential turnarounds. It’s a bulging bundle, but I am an optimist by nature. Our latest investment, Norseman Gold – like many companies we’ve bought into over the years – has certainly seen better days (we added 41,768 [...]

So we’ve top-sliced our PV Crystalox Solar holding (pocketing a handy 15% in five weeks into the bargain) and taken up a little OPG Power Ventures with the proceeds. After buying in to PV Crystalox Solar at 4.40, then again at 5.15 and yet again at 5.40 pence, even the optimist in me was saying, [...]

Now it’s no news to anyone who has followed us on our little journey that we’ve a penchant for a highly speculative buy. Add a green energy aspect to the mix and it’s like a waving a pizza, at mid-70′s Elvis (too soon?). So, when PV Crystalox Solar plunged to below 10 pence a share [...]

We’ve been eying them off for long enough. We listed them in December 2010 as one of 17 potential speculative investments to watch in the year ahead…and they delivered. At the time they were trading around six pence. During the early months of 2011 they’d rocketed to 20 pence. Then they were mauled by a [...]

Well, it’s a fact. There is now no denying it. I am a fair-weather blogger.  Since the markets began their free-fall, I’ve barely let out a whimper. So again, allow to me apologise. Now I’m not the only one. I’ve noticed quite a few other financial bloggers have fallen off the radar a little since [...]


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