Another three-figure write-off day for the FTSE and again our portfolio is adrift atop a sea of red, but its not all bad news. We’ve taken the opportunity to sell off a few of our Eros International shares. We first got on board with Eros International – a Bollywood film producer and distributor – in early May of this year, purchasing 533 shares at £1.05 a share for a total outl...

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...

It seems as though our portfolio has been hovering in a range just above or below 10K for months now. In reality, it’s probably been closer to a few weeks but after the meteoric rise of our – small caps dominated – portfolio in the preceding four months, expectations have been high. But sideways isn’t a bad thing, especially when you see dips as potential entry points. Rene...

We’ve been stockpiling a little cash of late at Investor Trader – taking the top off one or two nicely performing investments – and today we blew the lot! Again we’ve sent our money east to the Chinese, this time to their agricultural sector purchasing some 254 shares of Asian Citrus (ACHC.L) at £4.27 per share for a total outlay before costs of £1,085. The reasons in bri...

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...

So it seems an age since I’ve posted on Investor Trader but in reality its only been the best part of three weeks. Three weeks since we broke through the 10K figure. And whilst the FTSE powers on northward, heading back towards it’s old stomping grounds of ’07 and ’08 – beyond the 6K level – our portfolio has spent the past few weeks neither gaining or losing to...

Today the value of our portfolio banged and crashed its way through the four figure barrier and into the five figure bracket with a lovely £370 rise on the day, taking it to to £10,159 (see the juicy, big blue numbers to the right). So five figures down and only two to go before we hit the magical million mark – a walk in the park. Careful, don’t slip on the sarcasm! Looking back ove...

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...

A while back (June in fact) I wrote extolling the virtues of a company by the name of Cosalt and promptly put my money where my mouth was, purchasing 916 shares at £0.5437 for a total outlay of £498.03. I’d read a little good press, the company seemed to have had it’s problems in the recent past, but was moving in the right direction and with prices nearing five quid back in ’0...

Anyone who’s visited Investor Trader in the past knows we err on the side of risk when it comes to investing our hard earned. A quick look at our portfolio as it stands today would appear to back that up – it’s a rag-tag band of Alternative Investment Market (AIM) shares from India, China and Australia with a leaning toward green energy. Oh, and then there’s the bank that n...