Category: Progress Updates

Last October I spent 30 days on a freighter ship as a passenger travelling from Melbourne, Australia to La Spezia in Italy. One whole month without Internet, with only the most fundamental of financial headlines via a copy of the ship’s faxed daily world news summary from its head office. Despite 48 hours of fearing [...]

Thud! That’s the sound of the bottom falling out of our portfolio. There’s going to be days like that but you’ve got to remain philosophical. As long as the good days outnumber the bad days, we’ll get there in the end. I’m just not sure where there is! Clipper Windpower came back 6% on news [...]

On a day when the FTSE finished sharply down, our portfolio provided a mixed bag. We saw modest gains in Lloyds Bank (up 2.3%) and Ceramic Fuels Cells (up 3.0%) but these were more than offset by the continued retracement of ReneSola (down 5.8%) and the yo-yo-ing, Climate Exchange (down 4.9%). After last weeks highs [...]

ReneSola experienced a second day of retracement following our crazy gains that began last week, but interestingly it seemed to settle around the two pound mark. Psychologically, nice round figures tend to make convenient entry and exit points for investors and theoritaclly at least, can bring on increased volume. “If that thing ever gets under [...]

So, the inevitable happened, ReneSola came back a little. Not a lot, but a little and believe it or not, I’m a touch relieved. Not that I don’t like making money, it’s just that volatile stocks that climb that fast tend to slump back down to earth with an even bigger thump. For ReneSola to [...]


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