Dec 05 2011 @ 05:29
My dog portfolio is doing well again today. If only we could time the market perfectly. As Pace shoots up it is now almost back to par for me. RM effectively halved under me as I bought into my position then rebounded into profit and Game fell a third before a recovery to trail single […]
Dec 01 2011 @ 05:29
As a PLC director I know that buying shares in your own company takes a fair amount of nerve. From an investment position it’s about as wrong as you can get. The company after all pays your wages so from a position of diversification it the worst thing possible you can do. To make it […]
Nov 30 2011 @ 05:30
The dead cats have been bouncing. Normally I would be trying to catch these falling knives but I simply do not have the nerve at present. In a nutshell I think this is 2008 all over again and that this little rally will tilt over into a giant fall. Of course I can’t really know […]
Nov 30 2011 @ 05:30
Well the big Euro move came a bit faster than expected. Clearly this move was out of the bag on the weekend. Don’t expect any financial regulators to look into this fine piece of market insider trading though but bear it in mind for the future, that in the euro crisis the market will move […]
Nov 28 2011 @ 05:30
I have been out of the markets since just before the US downgrade. My position is: keep my powder dry till the real crash happens. Yet I love stocks so it’s hard to stay away. These are testing times, but deep down I like a test – it’s the cricketer in me. I should be […]
Oct 27 2011 @ 06:31
Well finally the leaders of Europe manage to do the blooming obvious. My Lloyds position would have made a nice return overnight but I don’t feel to sorry. Over the previous few months it has become clear to me that government measures in Europe and the UK are leaked into the market days before we […]
Oct 26 2011 @ 06:32
These are very difficult times to invest. The sword of European disintegration hangs over all our heads and a failure today by those that lead us will set Europe fast down the road of financial disaster. The call is between deflation and inflation, but to me it is obvious we are in for a giant […]
Oct 25 2011 @ 06:33
Unsustainable government debt, broken budgets and huge trade imbalances. Wednesday is crunch-time. The EU’s 13th crisis management summit in two years, held in Brussels at the weekend, was the non-event we have come to expect from the leaders of a world economy mired in inescapable debt. Wednesday October 26 is now the big day. So […]