So we offloaded our parcel of Climate Exchange today. Since we began our Investor Trader experiment Climate Exchange has risen from £7.00 to £9.15, a 30.7% rise in 3 and a half months. Not too shabby in anyone’s books. A lot of that in the past 4 weeks based on a little healthy takeover speculation. Now nothing has changed since, but the upward momentum seems to have peaked and I’d e...

Since having a speculative punt on China Biodiesel last Tuesday (14th July) at 6.60 pence, they’ve climbed to 10.25 pence in a week on no news. Now no news probably means some news that some know but most don’t. The spread is still hovering between .50 and .75 pence but if this thing continues to rise, expect that to tighten. Read our reasons for taking a punt on China Biodiesel last w...

In overall terms it was a bit of subdued start to the week for our little portfolio considering the recent strength of local markets but the lights that shone, shone brightly. Lloyds Bank surged ahead 6.7% on the day on the back of a weekend report stating it could post an interim profit despite enormous bad-debt provisions. It appears some of its most toxic sub-prime investments are more just ick...

And the last of our three purchases for the day yesterday was Synergy Health, where we bit the bullet and went big (for us) purchasing 82 shares at £5.0800 for a total outlay of £416.56 Why? An oversold equity with a healthy order book, long term contracts and an X factor in the potential of its Chinese operations. You can read all about it in yesterday’s post where we added it to the Inve...

So we’ve taken the plunge with some concrete boots, but don’t panic, that’s West China Cement on our feet! Yesterday we purchased 153 shares of West China Cement at £1.7050 a share for another huge outlay (don’t trip on the sarcasm) of £260.87. The reasons? Well I won’t bore you again, but check out this one I made earlier. So another small outlay on a Chinese AIM S...

So this buy ain’t gonna break the bank. Yesterday we lashed out and bought, wait for it, 1,960 shares of China Biodiesel at 6.6 pence a share, for a total outlay of £129.36. I think it’s the smallest single tranche of shares I’ve ever purchased. But it’s not about the total outlay, it’s about the selling price and when these babies rocket to a quid each, I’ll b...

On the advice of a very reputable source and after doing a little of our own homework, we’re added Synergy Health to the Investor Trader Radar. To quote from the tin, Synergy Health has achieved market leading positions in the following areas: Hospital decontamination services for reusable medical and surgical equipment Sterilisation services for single use medical devices and other produ...

Ready for some good old-fashioned penny stock speculation? This one’s got the lot! After floating on AIM in June ’06 at an initial price of 85 pence, China Biodiesel traded in a range just above and below a quid for roughly 12 months before plummeting to a low touching on 2 pence in February 2009. Yep, 2 pence. Why? Well any number of factors really. The market’s reluctance to ta...

So after an eternity – or a whole Celine Dion album for those who require a little perspective – our little portfolio finished a day valued higher than when it began. Hooray! And whilst our recent falls have been nothing stupendous – except in the case of (insert your own collection of expletives here) Cosalt – all those red arrows do tend to get to you after a while. The F...

It’s estimated that $555 billion will be needed to realise a planned project to harness the sun that beats down on the Sahara Desert and pipe it to European homes, according to sources from Siemens AG quoted in an article on Bloomberg.com. Some big players such as Siemens AG and Munich Re – amongst others – will meet today in Munich to sign a memorandum of understanding to procee...