Category: UK Trading

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 [...]

As investors we’re always on that elusive search for the no brainer trade – the investment that just can’t lose. Well I can’t say I’ve found an investment with absolutely no downside yet, but by utilising spread trading and taking advantage of the markets where they stand at this point in time, I’ve found a [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

You’ll have to excuse this post, it’s a little self indulgent and – as Lucy from Entertainment One has kindly pointed out – incorrectly titled, since Entertainment One moved to the main board in July 2010. I wanted to throw the recent (three months in this case) charts of all our holdings together in the [...]


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