Today we sold our holding of 82 shares in Synergy Health PLC (SYR.L) for £5.8730 a share, netting us a total return of £481.59 before costs. We got on board with Synergy Health back in mid-July of this year at £5.0800 a share. In 3 and a half months we’ve made 79.3 pence per share – a 13.5% gain. Our reasons for selling? A simple case of opportunity cost. Again, we see Synergy Healt...

The last couple of weeks has seen a little turnaround in the fortunes of our – predominantly – small capped portfolio. The recent rise and rise of the FTSE seems to indicate that there’s still faith in the market in general so maybe it’s a case of people taking from AIM to invest in the main board. Whatever the case, we’ve decided to pocket a little profit from our Cl...

Yesterday we offloaded our holding of Low Carbon Accelerator (LCA.L) selling 1,834 shares for 31 pence each for a total return of £568.54 (before costs). Low Carbon Accelerator were one of the original three holdings we kicked off Investor Trader with back in April 2009, but sentiment be damned! We returned a small profit (very small after broker’s costs) after buying in at 29.5 pence a sha...

Today we sold our holding of 100 shares of Lyxor ETF India (the fund that tracks the S&P CNX NIFTY Index – the nifty fifty – the leading index for large companies on the National Stock Exchange of India) for £5.88 a share for a total return £588. Our original purchase of 100 shares was made on the 17th June 2009 for £5.6999 a share for a total outlay of £569.99. Our return befo...

So we offloaded our parcel of Climate Exchange today. Since we began our Investor Trader experiment Climate Exchange has risen from £7.00 to £9.15, a 30.7% rise in 3 and a half months. Not too shabby in anyone’s books. A lot of that in the past 4 weeks based on a little healthy takeover speculation. Now nothing has changed since, but the upward momentum seems to have peaked and I’d e...

I see red arrows next to ReneSola for a second day in a row and I run! Only kiddng, though there is an Annual Report on offer very soon. I was under the impression that it was on their website, but I can’t see it yet. Anyway, we sold another parcel of 500 shares at £2.0414 for a total consideration of £1,020.70 this morning, bringing our holding back to 1,000 shares. In the past on occasio...

If you’ve been following my posts of late (especially the daily updates) you will have noticed ReneSola has been rallying a fair bit in the past week. So when it poked it’s head above 170 pence today it was just too inviting not to take a little profit. So, we sold 337 shares at £1.7225 for a return of £580.44. We still hold 2,000 shares in ReneSola at an average price of £1.0450, s...