A Great Week For Gold

Sunday, 17 July, 2011 22:45 Written by Paul

Fuelled by the possibility that the US may soon default on its debt – to avoid default, US politicians have to agree to raise the country’s debt limit by 2nd August 2011 – coupled with the imminent announcement of the European Banking Authority’s stress tests on 90 banks across Europe, it was a bumper period [...]

Cherry Picking Profitable AIM Shares

Monday, 11 July, 2011 16:09 Written by Paul

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 [...]

Bargains on AIM

Tuesday, 21 June, 2011 14:06 Written by Paul

With AIM shares pretty much taking a beating across the board, it’s a good time to keep an eye out for an AIM bargain or two. I’m not saying dive in head-first for all you’re worth, but there’s a lot of very good companies that have probably drifted into the over-sold category that are worth [...]

Investing or Actively Trading?

Monday, 20 June, 2011 18:19 Written by Paul

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 [...]

Asian Citrus Holdings

Monday, 13 June, 2011 16:45 Written by Paul

We first squeezed a little Asian Citrus into our portfolio back in October 2009, taking up 254 shares in China’s largest orange plantation owner and operator at £4.27 a share. Before we had time to shake the tree a ten for one stock split was in the works which multiplied our holding by ten to [...]

A Little Look at Alecto

Monday, 30 May, 2011 16:20 Written by Paul

We bought a bunch of Alecto Energy back in November 2010, our reasons then were speculative but simple: “Alecto has been awarded three gold and copper mining and two uranium mining licenses in the Mauritanide mobile belt of Mauritania and there’s the possibility of more good news on the horizon.” Since we jumped on board, [...]

When Times Are Bad – An Apology

Wednesday, 25 May, 2011 23:34 Written by Paul

I’ve got an apology to make. When times are good – as a blogger – you can’t shut me up. I’m talking big, the million quid looks more than doable and I’m shooting my mouth off to anyone who’s willing to drop by. But when things turn sour for a month or two, well, I [...]

A Golden Update

Tuesday, 17 May, 2011 17:00 Written by Paul

It’s been a bit of a rocky road for our gold play over the past few weeks since we got on board in late April at just a notch above $1,500 an ounce. The one month chart (below – courtesy of SharePrice.co.uk) shows the spot price for gold rocketed to over $1,560 an ounce in [...]

Buying Gold

Monday, 25 April, 2011 03:11 Written by Paul

So I’m up and running with my first financial spread bet for a while. The ghosts of financial spread betting failures past have been laid to rest with a renewed bout of reading and I’m ready to make my fortune (sic) trading commodities. I popped 100 quid in my trading account (big spender) and I’ve [...]

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