Stock Tipsters

From a markets perspective, rarely is the eternal pessimist – i.e the investor currently thinking the world is going to hell in a hand basket – correct. Permanent “bullish” or “bearish” positions are simply not useful. In investment, you must be able to swing from happy to sad. Doing so is essential if you are […]

You have to love Facebook and their IPO. They may not have yet monetised their massive usage on their site, but at $100 a user they surely will have monetised their traffic on Wall Street. Some details: • Facebook plans to raise $5bn in IPO, but this could rise • Company made $1bn of profit […]

There are conflicting signals in the market. 2011’s summer slump was meant to have been caused by European economic uncertainty and the possibility of the Eurozone’s violent implosion. Yet the crisis seems far from being resolved, whilst the markets, at least outside of the euro core, have recovered much of the lost ground. Does this […]

Anyone brave enough to have bought equities in the pit of euro crisis anxiety is looking pretty clever. The markets of Europe and the U.S. have been rallying hard since the euro summit.It was agreed that most of EU countries would tie themselves tighter together for the sake of their common currency. Pundits don’t seem […]

What should an investor be doing right now? The answer is to examine the basics. What are the key elements that make up the investing environment? Firstly, this is not a free market situation anymore. We are operating in a rigged market. That sounds bad, but it’s not as bad as you think. The market […]

The funny thing about the markets and crashes in particular, is that most people get the timing of everything wrong. The latest symptom of this is the completely bogus statement that a bear market is one that has already fallen 20%; this is like saying an accident happens when the participants are admitted to A&E. […]

Everyone is a great investor in a bull market and it has been tough to be a genius in the last few months for sure. As such, I’ve been as quiet as a church mouse when it comes to buying. Stocks I have bought have halved and then doubled in a frustrating pattern, but all […]

Can an economy that spends more on the individual than they earn, which takes almost all GDP for its purposes, really be considered a capitalist system at all? It is not surprising that the new capitalist countries of the developing world are catching up fast. Even against a background of a depressed global economy are […]

Being an investor in the current climate is like being a grouse hunter in the off season. Its frustrating and frankly boring. I topped up on some Game group. It is of course naïve to buy on the basis that some titles this Christmas are going to be the biggest on record, grossing more on launch than […]

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 […]