Category: Share Sales

With a handful of shares on my must-have before Christmas list we chopped the top off a few of our more profitable holdings last week. This is never easy to do, especially when you know there’s more to come. I’m a big fan of letting the good ones run (unfortunately I’ve been known to let [...]

Another day, another sale. What can I say, we’re trading the Hades out of our little portfolio recently in the hopes of finding some short term gains in sectors new. This time it’s our holding of Ceramic Fuel Cells (CFU.L) that’s been given the chop. We sold off 5,546 shares at 10.50 pence a share [...]

In line with our new make hay while the sun shines speculative approach to investing we’ve dumped the only FTSE 100 share in our portfolio, Lloyds Banking Group. We sold all 1,811 shares last Thursday (11th November 2010) for 67.67 pence a pop for a return of £1,225.50. Our original purchase of Lloyds was made [...]

It’s been a busy fortnight and it ain’t over yet. On Tuesday we sold off our entire holding of OPG Power Ventures for 68 pence a share after buying in at 66 pence a share in April. With the meagre profit, we covered our dealing costs. Mid to long term I have no doubt that [...]

Late last week, following our sad farewell to Renesola, we sold off our final cache of another Investor Trader stalwart, Clipper Windpower. The once proud Clipper Windpower whose price previously stormed its way toward ten quid recently became a takeover target for UTC and not for the first time if memory serves me correct. Anyway, [...]


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