It’s easy to focus on the same markets all the time and forget to look for opportunities elsewhere. Screening is a useful tool that’s available through most charting packages and online services, but you still may miss some big ones. Nothing beats having an actual browse from time to time. So here are some places…
With the news today that Facebook will have to pay more UK tax, I thought it was about time to do a round up on the US markets. First off the Dow (DJI) looks nice and bullish for the moment. It’s above the cloud there and probably heading up to the region of 17,700, with…
I first started running comedy clubs in 1998. Of course, you could still smoke in pubs and bars in those days. I used to joke to the punters that it was a healthy option to come to comedy because on the one hand they would lose 5 minutes off their lives (perhaps) with each cigarette,…
Greggs (GRG) has been a bit like Bitcoin. I remember hearing a commentator say that they’d thought Bitcoin at $1 was overpriced, then at $2, and so on… until it had reached around $1,000. Greggs has been similar. It just seemed to keep going up and up and up. The rallies in its history are…
When places are far away and not that vocal it’s easy to forget they are there. New Zealand is one such example. Quietly beavering away, building a sound economy since the UK joined the Common Market back in 1973, New Zealand has set up a very sound business. Their GDP chart is excellent. Almost every…
There is some debate about who said it, according to Wikipedia, but whether it was George Santayana or Edmund Burke, or even BBC1’s comedy schedulers, the quote “those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it” gives the impression that repeating it is a bad thing. As traders and investors the one…
Tate & Lyle (TATE), for those who didn’t know, is no longer in the business of making Britain the fattest, even if it is also possibly the phattest, country in Europe. They got out of the sugar business some years ago in 2010 when they sold the Tate & Lyle sugar brand and Golden Lion…
And so it’s arrived. The Brexit referendum. Governments of course won’t consider referenda unless coerced, and then of course they’ll want to see the desired, or what they would call the ‘correct’, result; otherwise they wouldn’t have them. There was a joke in Sweden to the contrary. They had a referendum in 1955 about whether…
As seen in the February edition of Master Investor Magazine. If you’ve been paying attention over the last 50 years (or for as many of them as you were around), then it can’t have escaped your attention that there is a bit of a problem in the pensions department. I wrote about how The Baby…
I was commenting positively on a friend’s picture they’d posted on Facebook the other day. They thanked me and said it was taken when they were younger. I replied, “I think you’ll find all photographs were taken when you were younger”. When you’re analysing charts and creating a watchlist it’s a really good idea to…
