Articles: March 2012

A favourable by product of value investing, the process of purchasing securities at a big discount to the fair value of the underlying company, are large dividends. Of course as every investor knows the lower the share price falls, the higher …

I’ve received a few emails asking me to list my latest returns so I thought that I’d put them on the blog. My last 7 trades have been: 1) 68.60% in 8 weeks 2) 16.30% in 3 weeks 3) 8.77% …

A lot of websites have a testimonial section. I often find these things crummy as the sites owners could write these themselves. Having said that I would like to share two recent testimonials which I have received. These are real, …

First of all I offer my apologies for not posting much on the blog lately. Unfortunately I have been busy refurbishing one of my investment properties and have only found time to research shares for the newsletter. My contributions probably …

I am looking forward to next week and the end of March as currently a rake of companies are, and will be, reporting 2011 full year results. Happily I hold shares in several companies whom will be reporting shortly. If …

Yesterdays market fall will hopefully open up a few investment possibilities. 118 shares in London fell by 7% or more. The DAX was down 3.4%, the FTSE 1.9% and the DOW 1.6%. Whilst these figures sound large they are not. …

I previously wrote a post about a stock I purchased which increased by over 38% in 6 weeks ( at which I sold ) only to have it fall below my initial purchase price. Luckily I was checking some share …

Ok, so there’s a very cheap share currently trading on the market in London. Most investors/speculators probably won’t even notice the stock because it’s a small cap and it’s unloved at the moment. Cheap stocks are generally unloved right ? Sure, otherwise …

I have received a few emails stating that the last competition was too difficult. Well, here is an easy competition: Just mail your name to marketswings@yahoo.ie to be in the running for a years free subscription to the Market-Swings newsletter. Competition …

Regular readers of this blog know that I recently took some good profits after only holding the shares for a short time. Just in case you didn’t know I’ll mention it again :O) I made an average gain of 33.84% …