Articles: February 2012
March Competition
Simply compare & contrast Phsc Plc ( PHSC.L ) and Stagecoach Theatre Arts ( STA.L ) and tell me which company you’d rather buy and why. Send your answers to MarketSwings@yahoo.ie Competition closes at midnight 31st of March. The winner …
Let me give you €10!!
Ok, for the month of March only ( starting tomorrow 28th February ) I will be trialling a Refer-A-Friend scheme. If you refer a person to thethis site and they take out an annual subscription to the newsletter ( €50 ) …
Averaging my active portfolio recent trades
With my personal active portfolio trading beyond expectations I thought that it would be interesting to see what the average gain and average holding time is. Taking my last 7 sell orders, which are all detailed on this blog, my …
More good profits and a new purchase
Last week continued as 2012 started which meant a few more nice profits. I stumbled upon a few shares which were cheaper then the shares I held so I decided to sell some of my holdings and to buy the …
Exciting Changes Coming Soon
I am happy to report that changes to the layout of this site will be coming in the next few weeks. The home page, which is currently, the blog will change but the blog will still be available, for free, …
RIP Walter Schloss
RIP Walter Schloss. Schloss passed away last Sunday, 19th February, due to Leukemia. Investors would do well to study his method. Just google Walter Schloss for more information.
Severely Undervalued Fund
I happend to look at an index whose constituents I am researching on a one by one basis hoping to find value. The beauty of such research is that you can put the interesting companies on excel for future revision. …
Important Lessons
I spend this morning reviewing some of my past investment decisions, or rather, some of my investment failures ( if you meet anyone that says that they don’t pick a loser on the market sometime then don’t listen to them …
Portfolio Addition
I added a new company to the Market-Swings model portfolio yesterday. Subscribers to the Market-Swings newsletter were alerted immediately. The stock trades at less than net working capital but really in the sector it is the intangibles that count. Basically …
Selling my ‘back-end’ for opportunities
So far I have detailed some of my small cap trades. These holdings constitute my ‘active’ portfolio even though I would be willing to wait a few years for these holdings to either reach fair value, in the case of …