This month we will take a look at a sub-division of the world of charting and technical analysis – the Japanese candlestick chart and a couple of associated patterns. This form of representing price data has become very popular in recent years. It is an approach that is thought to date back to the 18th…
Online investment platform, SyndicateRoom, which pioneered the investor-led model, is the latest company to partner with the UK’s largest event for private investors. This year’s Master Investor Show takes place at the Business Design Centre on Saturday 25th March. The CEOs and founders of 100 exhibiting companies will connect with an anticipated audience of 5,000…
I have followed The 600 Group plc for at least forty years. This was mainly because, as a much younger man, I saw the way forward lay in machine tools. This enthusiasm was a bit late. I recall Alfred Herbert of Birmingham and Jones and Shipman, both of the Midlands, which I visited and admired.…
It may just be me, but it does appear that there are several saucer formation stocks around in the small caps space currently. One of the flavours of the month is Uru Metals (LON:URU). What can be seen on the daily chart of Uru Metals amounts to a classic extended share price turnaround situation. This…
I made a speech a few days ago to a gathering of property entrepreneurs in London. I intended to speak of my excitement about the new science surrounding longevity – and I did – but I think had I not mentioned property I would have been lynched! So I improvised some thoughts on real estate,…
Suddenly everyone is talking trade deals – while TTP and probably TTIP bite the dust. Why does President Trump prefer bilateral trade deals to multilateral ones? What will the markets make of it all? And what happened when Theresa met Donald? Ciao TTP On 23 January President Trump signed an order to junk the Trans-Pacific…
Given that both my parents are doctors, I of course feel fully qualified to discuss the investment proposition at Oxford Pharmascience Group (LON:OXP). I have a memory like a sieve when it comes to almost all fields of human endeavour (chart patterns are an exception), so it seems appropriate to write up my views in…
“For some reason I have always felt happier going against the crowd and generally feel uncomfortable doing what everyone else is doing. So many pressures in the investment business encourage one to do the opposite and go with the crowd.” – Anthony Bolton, “Investing With Anthony Bolton: The Anatomy of a Stock Market Winner”, 2006…
While Donald Trump’s victory in the US election was unpopular, there will inevitably be some winners from his Presidency. One sector which could record higher profitability as a result of his win is the defence sector. His promise of greater military spending and the possibility of rising defence spending among NATO members means the sector…
One of the challenges of charting minnows on the stock market is to identify the differences between flash-in-the-pan spikes for a stock and a lasting turnaround. With ECR Minerals (LON:ECR) there are currently a couple of clues. It has been quite a journey over the past year for ECR Minerals, something which can be seen…
