DECEMBER 17, 2015
Sleepover headache
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Welcome to the final update this year! And please note the lack of
tinsel and decorations on this website. Bah Humbug! But please enjoy
an Xmas decoration and music free website.... Next update is on return from hols on Jan 14th
I wish you all a fantastic Christmas season. While I know it can also be a stressful time of year for some, try and be kind and forgive people if they annoy you. This does get easier as you get older. We all have our faults and every single one of us can be irritating to others at time.
If someone annoys you especially a relative just relax about it if you can!
Before talking about the festive season a hi to those I met at the seminars the last two Mondays. I enjoyed both immensely and picked up some lovely trades myself, particularly thanks to some of the old hands at the follow up last Monday.
Hi to you all and of course my Number one fan Larissa! Thanks to all of you for your great senses of humours... I remember having a great time at both and feedback on both tells me you (well hopefully most of you) did too.
I won't be doing one in January but I have booked the next one now for February 1st so make it a new years resolution to come and spend a day with me and live markets, details elsewhere on the site, very early bookers get a very nice price! Mail
me for details and ask about the discount.
We have some relatives coming over from Ireland for the big day and we have our big evening quiz where everyone will yell. I'm the quizmaster so I'll get the sharp end of it but if anyone messes with me they are getting points deducted.
Sadly we can't do a music round as Grandad only remembers music from 1967 and Grandma from 1969..
After the big day we are off to Dubai for a relax and catch some nice sunshine, watch the fireworks on New Year's Eve and back home just as the new term starts. Whatever you are doing have a good one!
Yes, in hindsight we were crazy. A sleepover for eight ten-year-old boys.
And not just any ten-year-old boys. The boys from the football and rugby A teams. Yes, the bossy alpha males to be.
When we thought they might like to play nice games of say, musical chairs, or sit and watch a nice movie in peace and harmony... well that was naive...
It all started ok, we went to see Fulham play Preston (How on earth do these crap footballers get paid so much?) then we went swimming and then fed them fish and chips.
Our cunning plan was all those events would wear them out. We could sit them in front of "Home Alone" and go and relax.
Mistake ! Because all they wanted to do was wrestle and destroy. Oh and shout, a lot. So they wrestled and destroyed. Frankly we struggled to keep any kind of control. To be fair it is difficult shouting at other people's kids...
At one point the neighbours thought we were being attacked by burglars and shouted whether they should call the police to help us.
There was no sleep possible. They "slept" in sleeping bags spread across the living room. Lots of talking and stuff all night long. Lights on and not switched off. One boy kept shouting "Lesbians". He had just discovered the word and I don't think he knew what it meant except it annoyed adults so did the job.
By 7am the next morning they were STILL crazy. Oh how we longed for 9am when the first parents began to arrive. Every boy gone was a major victory.
We lied to the parents. "Little Frank (made up name obviously) was so well behaved, it was a pleasure," etc. After all telling the truth "Little Frank is an arrogant **** and a pain in the **** and a sneaky little **** wouldn't be a specially politically correct move....
It took us days to get over it. And even now bits of sticky something appears from behind the sofa... odd bits of crisps are still being hoovered up...
And now it's the end of term. Christopher's list to Santa (probably the last year he believes) includes: pringles, coke and twix....
Yes, like all the boys his age they are addicted to sugar. And I can't be holier than thou about it given the dentist just told me if I carry on eating sugar like I do I'll have no teeth left.
Three fillings this time and implants likely soon. I'm trying hard. Switched from jam to marmite for toast though it's going to be a struggle to come off twixes. It's probably as hard as quitting smoking or drugs.
Thing is when you're writing books, two at the moment - you look forwards to a little treat. Marmite doesn't really cut it over a twix...
Still, right now my teeth are sore after fillings so that is IT
for chocolate bars. Mind you there is a box of Thorntons
someone gave me, maybe I'll just have a little bite..
We saw "Peter Pan Goes Wrong" at my sister's theatre The Apollo.
This is a very funny farce, lots of kids in the audience including Christopher and we had a great time, it's on till mid Jan if you fancy going.
We got a tour backstage afterwards, it is amazing how much hard work
goes into the set of a complex farce where props need to "go wrong".
If you would like to come to the next seminar..it is on Mon Feb 1st - there is a massive very early bird discount on offer, so please claim it!
Mail me at robbiethetrader@aol.com with "Feb seminar interested" in the subject line.
Beginners and improvers welcome! Come and spend the day with me, the markets and some lovely people - and of course, lunch, lots of sugary snacks, and even live chocolate waffle making in the teabreak!
My seminars are designed for beginners, dabblers and improvers and deals with everything from how to look for winners, how to research, spreadbetting, level 2 use how to time trades and short, how to use advfn properly and run your portfolio without having to spend money on systems and tipsters.. and tons more.
A lot of the day comes directly from the live markets and I show you many of the tricks I use to get good prices live. And there might even be the odd live trade or 2!
Here's some feedback from from "D"
'It's obvious from his site Robbie Burns is a good market analyst and shrewd stock-picker. He is also a highly opinionated commentator on everything from TV shows to food. Therefore I expected his seminar to be 75% entertainment, 15% general exposition for beginners and-- if we were lucky-- 10% of something I could use to help me invest. But I could not have been more wrong.
The opinions on food and politics etc. though genuine, are I believe a bit of disguise or misdirection for there is a real touch of rebel genius here. And in the seminar, which is 95% hardball, he actually takes you candidly right into the mental process involved in his successful trading, making it a pretty amazing display, even showing his own investment accounts right there on the screen. You can see at once why so many of us are merely stabbing in the dark with our investments.
This is a genuine coaching session in how to trade like him if you put in the graft. I have only bought one stock since, as I am waiting for the tools he recommends, but I got the price down by using his tactics and I cannot recommend the seminar too highly if you are going there to learn. It must be taxing on him to let us at such length and in such detail into the process, which has made him so much money (for--unlike so many other so-called experts the seminars are not a day job). My advice therefore would be to sign up for this while he is still prepared to do it.'
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One seminar attendee Clare wanted to write a testimonial about her experiences at the seminar which follows now!
"I've just come back buzzing from one of Robbie's seminars. What a day! He's just brilliant, and manages to pack an awful lot into one day, and with his enthusiastic and humorous delivery the day just flies by. There are no gimmicks, no sell, no "˜get-rich-quick' promises, just his own solid, sound approach which he has learnt over the years and which works.
He shows you how to minimise the risks and maximise the profits and points out the banana skins on the way. Where the seminar really comes into its own is when he teaches using live level 2. Hearing him talk through his thought processes and reasoning is invaluable, and really brings home everything from the book. He has endless patience answering peoples' questions, and really seems to care that everybody understands.
On top of that, you meet some really nice like minded people and swap e mail addresses, you're plied with
chocolates and coffee all day, have a great lunch and spend the evening getting tiddled with Robbie in the
bar afterwards!
Don't worry about the cost, it's easily worth it, and you'll soon make it back with your new-found investment skills, and in what you're no longer losing. If you're thinking of going along to his next seminar, whether you're a novice or an experienced trader, don't hesitate ""just go!
Thanks Clare, did you want the tenner in cash, or will a cheque do?
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of HM's opposition.
Actually they may as well keep him going
till a year before the election. Might give them more chance of winning
getting David Milliband back in 2019.
It is quite amusing seeing the lunatics getting hold of the asylum - last time this happened was back in the days of Michael Foot. I guess Labour moderates will have to soldier on till they can dump him but in the meantime it is weird pretty much having no real opposition party.
I wonder who'll get Cameron's gig. Of course none of us knows what
Dave really thinks, he's just a good PR guy.
But maybe a pragmatic guy
is what's needed as PM? Osbourne is never going to be likeable and
Boris is simply too likeable. Theresa May is simply scary.
How's about Sajid Javid then? He seems likeable.
And even better,
bald. It's high time we had a bald PM - this country is very baldist.
Go bald, down with hair! He will spend no time on his hair while
every other possible will spend an hour a day on it.
That's a whole
365 hours a year not working for the country. Vote Sajid! I might
have a bet on- 12/1 at the moment, good value compared to Osbourne
at 5/4 fav.
I know Star Wars mania is about to break out. But I just never
got it. I liked Star Trek. But Star Wars and Dr Who? No good for me.
I even tried watching Star Wars two or three times but gave up after 45 minutes
of total boredom.
Now everywhere it is star wars this and that. Given the amount of
merchandise needed to be shifted and ads the papers and mags get from Star Wars don't expect to see any bad reviews. I bet it's as terrible as the last James Bond movie...
I keep hearing people are giving up on Facebook. Quite right, as you can sum up Facebook in two words: Electronic narcissicism. (Did I spell that right? Looks like one too many sses in there)
Twitter? I can't be bothered to sort the small amount of wheat from all the chaff. (What the hell is chaff anyhow?)
Hilarious that they played "Goldigger" when Duncan B was reunited with
is 35-year-old lady after his stint in the jungle.
ITV had to apologies afterwards.
I try to be charitable but what does she see in a grumpy 66-year-old..erm multi
millionaire? How long before she ditches him for the money I wonder. No such fool
as an old fool as they say.
Frankly no woman half my age is going to fancy me
unless she was after the money. So I may be old now but hopefully no fool!
I got bored with The Apprentice but watched last night's interviews. My goodness, shocking to see not one single original idea among them.
Every one has been done to death already. Franchising hairdressing and plumbing? So done. Dating site? So competitive. Discos? And goodness only knows what the other one was about. The hilarious part was Richard being outed as a B
. And then even agreeing he was and that his business plan was not up to snuff.
"Your plan is waffle and bull****" he was told. "I think I am agreeing with you" said Richard honestly.
Bizarre. So Lord A is left with a choice between a plumbing franchise which will never work and been done to death or a new dating app which will never work and if it did would need a couple of million more than £250,000.
He'll probably go to the dating thing but expect never to hear much about that ever again... Bet he engineers an argument with whoever wins, he'd better as frankly he's going to kiss farewell to that £250,000. Still worth it for being on the telly eh?
The TV surprise hit for me and the Mrs was "The Affair" - which we rated the best thing on this year.
It
started off a bit "meh" but soon really surprised by being an intricate exploration of family relationships, very nicely written and better every week,
If you didn't catch it yet then download, or DVD or whatever, it's on Sky Atlantic so they will probably repeat the whole thing.
Of course Game of Thrones series 5 proved highly entertaining and we all look forwards to series six in the new year.
Loved both series of "Fargo" - hugely entertaining characters and highly recommended!
Homeland came back with a fine new series after a bit of a duff one last time. Though you have to ignore a lot of silly gaping plot holes but ride along with it and it's great drama. Peep Show came back for one last time and was fun, though it is time for the end for that.
On Netflix, House of Cards, Better Call Saul and Narcos were the highlights.
Long-running series have really reached their sellby dates. I'm A Celebrity looks pretty tired now as does Big Brother. I don't watch the karaoke X-Factor (never got that one) and speed through Strictly on record.
I feel I was robbed on my bet on Anita Rani. I was so close. I only needed fourth for a good payout. Boo! Yeah, the whole thing is rigged!! I'm done with it!
I had a look at Xmas TV and we'll ignore all of it - surely a time for fun with relatives and close ones not watching the dire Eastenders.
Good place for spreadbets and fixed odds for sport is here...
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Dave writes :
I agree with comments about Dr Who and Breaking Bad. I used to enjoy Dr. Who years ago but I think it's worn out, it's all about celebrity now, like everything else on telly.
I recently was enjoying the Sopranos a friend let me borrow (fascinating story lines) and my son Rob in Australia (an irrelevance to you of course), he said if you like Sopranos you'll love Breaking Bad. Wow was he ever right. I got the full set from Amazon (apart from the last season). I'm having to eke it out it's so brilliant I don't want it to end, that's the sad bit. What about the uncle in the desert in the wheelchair with the bell strapped to the arm of the chair, the missus and me just fell about and many more just brilliant set ups dragging out every emotion.
Agree Dave, love Breaking Bad. Only five to go for me and I won't spoil what happens for you except it gets more and more addictive!
Gary writes :
"For throwing your heart, soul and energy into one fact-packed, full-on and exhaustingly educational day: FIVE stars with no hesitation!!
Met some really nice people too - like me, nervous that it was the most we'd ever spent on a whole day of anything (had we made arses of ourselves?) But no one felt short-changed, especially when you were still going strong when we all wanted to go to bed! One of your delegates, Susan, back for a second time, said to me unequivocally, "you will go away absolutely inspired." I can't disagree.
Thanks Gary, hope you make some money!
Duane writes:
Wanted to say a big thank you to you and Mrs NT for an amazing day of learning and fun at your seminar.
The way you explained the share trading from start to finish was understandable and really interesting, well worth the seminar fee!
It was great to hear such down to earth and honest assessment from a successful trader like yourself. The way you explained everything was good revision from your book and gave further insight into successful share trading.
I particularly liked your live trades and going through your accounts when you gave snippets of why you invested in certain shares and why you kept/dumped them. Also helpful was the way you searched for prospective shares and within minutes discounted them or put them on a short list for further examination and correct entry points. Amazing!
You could really tell that you loved doing what you do and your energy levels to keep going till 10pm was well....... I had to leave at 9pm I was shattered!
Thanks again Robbie I am keen to put into practice what you have taught me. Even though you make squillions from your trades and I am sure don't need to do the seminars for financial gain, but please keep doing those seminars for newbies like me!
Thanks Duane! Don't expect to be doing them foreever but very rewarding for me to help people so expect to carry on for a while longer.
Gabriel writes:
If you are reading this, you are perhaps considering going on one of Robbie's Seminars. You maybe asking yourself (like I did) the testimonials are all well and good but once the euphoria and excitement of attending a Seminar has died down ..... and I am back home in my normal routine and faced with the "graft" of putting it all into practice... will I become a better trader and be financially better off?
Let me tell you that in my case it certainly has!
Book your place pretty sharpish....... is what I say !
Thanks Gabriel!
Terry writes:
Fantastic seminar.
I have always been sceptical of the public testaments you see on web sites
saying how great an event was. Now I'm one of those people!. I
genuinely believe that the tips and techniques as well as the overall
approach you demonstrated will radically improve my trading performance
Thanks Terry, well all the testaments are real but know what you mean and glad you feel it was worth it!
Dan writes :
'It's obvious from his site Robbie Burns is a good market analyst and shrewd stock-picker. He is also a highly opinionated commentator on everything from TV shows to food. Therefore I expected his seminar to be 75% entertainment, 15% general exposition for beginners and-- if we were lucky-- 10% of something I could use to help me invest. But I could not have been more wrong.
The opinions on food and politics etc. though genuine, are I believe a bit of disguise or misdirection for there is a real touch of rebel genius here. And in the seminar, which is 95% hardball, he actually takes you candidly right into the mental process involved in his successful trading, making it a pretty amazing display, even showing his own investment accounts right there on the screen. You can see at once why so many of us are merely stabbing in the dark with our investments.
This is a genuine coaching session in how to trade like him if you put in the graft. I have only bought one stock since, as I am waiting for the tools he recommends, but I got the price down by using his tactics and I cannot recommend the seminar too highly if you are going there to learn. It must be taxing on him to let us at such length and in such detail into the process, which has made him so much money (for--unlike so many other so-called experts the seminars are not a day job). My advice therefore would be to sign up for this while he is still prepared to do it.'
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EMAILS: I do beg you not to send me emails asking me for advice on a particular share. It isn't legal for me to give you individual advice and all I do is send you a mail saying that, which wastes a lot of my time and yours too. This includes asking me what to do with a share, what I might "think" about a share, or deconstructing any of the buys I mention here. I would be grateful, see FAQ for more on this. Of course more than happy to answer general questions not related to specific shares.
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COPYING TRADES: I can't stop you from copying a trade I made but remember the price may already be a lot higher than I paid indeed I hope it is as buying at good prices is what I do for a living. You may be buying at the top and could easily lose money. Also I can make terrible mistakes and have done in the past. I could also sell before you or before the share tanks. I may still be holding in a year when you sold at a loss. Always do your own research, don't jump in blindly. Market makers are very clever at knowing how to make you pay top dollar and then push you out at a loss. This site is about sensible investment and learning how to trade sensibly and is not a tipping site. Beware. Never push buy on anything till you've done proper research and got yourself a sensible price.
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It has been an interesting year on the markets. I've made some nice gains overall. As ever of course ups and downs but on the whole I'm happy with this year which even after withdrawing some money to buy more property I'm still one of only 200-odd ISA millionaires. (very odd most of them I bet)
A bit of a problem with that as it means I have 65 positions open in
the isas! I have to to ensure one dud doesn't hit my capital. However
most are in good profit and I intend to run them for years longer in some cases.
Main thing for me is always to not lose capital at the very least and ensure losses are never too big while trying to get big gains out of a small selection of shares.
An in depth review of the year coming up including some thoughts
on what I did right and wrong and some changes to the
market and how I've changed things a bit.
Thanks to some amazingly good suggestions that came up
at the two seminars I just did, I have enough likely decent trades
to last me well into next year.
Thanks so much to those of you
who came up with some inspired suggestions, you know who
you are. I'm not going to publish them all here. Some things are
best kept to yourself...
Talking seminars I booked a new date, February 1st - so if
you fancy a fun day out with me and live markets and hopefully
a decent trade or three arising email me at robbiethetrader@aol.com
with "Feb seminar interested" in the subject line. Giant very early
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And before I forget one of the things we noticed at the seminar live
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First off the Santa rally. I tried a couple of times to enter around the
6,000 mark and lost £200 twice trying it. We had a go at the
follow up on Monday and well done to Ben who got the best
entry price of all!
The best price I got was 5939 and I bought heavily all the
way up to just under 6000. As I write I've made about
£20,000 on paper. I've put all stops into at least
break even or small profit now which is fantastic, worst comes to worst
I shall make something.
Exiting? Tricky one - would love it to be 6400 where I am
sure I would take some profits. If it comes back I'd probably be
silly not to bag at least some of that profit.
As we discussed on the day if history repeated itself last
year the rally started Dec 14th, petered out Dec 30th
but then carried on in January. We are entering
the second strongest week usually then it is the
strongest.
Interest rate rise in the US has been well received. Anyway
who knows? This isn't my area! Next two weeks should
be strong with the strongest day of the year Xmas Eve!
I have had a giant clearout of stocks that weren't performing,
some that just weren't moving, and some that have done very
well long-term and time to bank final profits and some that
were losing. All in all banked some giant profits, and then
moved that cash into some new ideas, quite a few,
or which I will discuss a handful now.
I really like the packaging sector at the moment - the low
oil price is really helping them a lot.
The packaging company I like the most and I bought some is
Robinson (RBN) (Here's to you.. er... Mrs Robinson....)
No not the stuff they drink at Wimbledon this is packaging and this one came up at the seminar. I hadn't come across it but like what I see. Lovely company, great prospects and it looks cheap too.
I suspect the low oil price helps companies like this and they make the packaging for a lot of popular products and some very big names.
I also noted Robinson said higher plastic resin prices were causing
problems but looking at those prices they have come down a lot
recently so I think Robinson should be benefitting bigtime.
I do also wonder whether a bigger company might snap up
Robinson at this cheap price - any bid would have to be around
the 3 quid area. But on its own I do feel it is worth a lot more.
Anyway I have packaged up a nice parcel of shares. And talking
packaging I also bought shares in larger packaging company RPC
(RPC).
Possibly not so much upside as Robinson but they are doing well
and I like the acquistions so I've bought there too.
I also like the look of Total Produce (TOT)
This is a good looking Irish company that distributes mainly
healthy food to outlets including fruit and veg. Many
people are trying to eat more healthily and that shows
in the rapidly increasing share price of total.
The company looks in good shape and is in the middle
of share buyback programme which should at least support
the share price or even increase it.
Looks cheap around a quid and I'm looking for upside to 125-30p.
I've bought into Softcat (ScT) - a very interesting new issue. And
I bought a few more live at the seminar.
A recent update shows it is expanding everything it does,
hiring new staff, expanding premises which all leads me
to think the company thinks there is big growth to come here.
It seems to be in a decent growth area of the market
so I am in!
I have bought into NCC - now this one is in a huge growth
area of the market, that's internet security. I already
had some free shares from when they took over a company
I had shares in - Accumuli. I really like the big acqusition
the company has just made and it raised a bundle for
that in its rights issue and I got a few shares in that at the
rights offer price.
One riskier one to mention! That's Cyprotex (CRX) bought
some for the sipp recently and topped up for the isa today
after a superb trading statement.
CRX expects results to be "significantly" ahead of market expectations -
this nice under the radar company is helping to stop cruel
testing on animals and is producing systems to phase out
animal testing altogether. Admirable, and potentially profitable
too, what you might call a win win.
Risky but a potential doubler.
I bought some new shares in Entertainment One (ETO) as it
seemed to be terribly oversold, unfairly in my view.
ETO - my goodness who'd have thought what I'd considered to be a safe quiet share would turn into such a crazy one. The interest rate they got on borrowings seemed to spook the market but I don't see why.
Actually it was probably some shorting, some stops getting hit more than anything else and a lot of fear.
I didn't want to sell any but my hand was forced and couldn't go against the falling market - so I had to sell some. Difficult to know what to do for the site because I bought a load a lot lower down and a few higher up so for the site I'll cancel out some of the trades bought higher and one bought lower to bank a loss of £470.
In real life I sold some and kept the rest including the rights shares - when the shares got to 140 ish that was enough for me and I bought some new ones at prices around there. Anything under 2 quid looks way too undervalued.
I can imagine these hitting over 350 in time.
I also have bought some new shares in QP. after having to sell
the original ones for a loss.
This one has proved a puzzle, there seemed to be no buyers around so I took a loss of £3,032 overall. However I have bought some back lower as the fundamentals look good. I made an error of sticking with something for too long that the market didn't like - I'm usually pretty good at avoiding that but of course we all make mistakes. Main thing is when you do that to learn from it and reinforce why it's best to sell up when things aren't going right with a share.
The Vlk trade never worked out, I could have taken a nice profit as it went higher for a while but failed to and ended up bailing out for a tad over breakeven.
It's always hard to know when to sell some of a share that's in good profit but I figured IOM had had a fantastic run so I sold about half for the website that yields a profit of £5,950. Happy to hold onto the rest where an excellent profit still builds and chance of a bid.
I also sold a part of my holding in NFC after a good run but again holding onto the rest, for the website then a profit of £2,313. I ran into boredom with non mover Caretech so exited for a profit of £436. Ald kept falling and had to be sold and that went for a loss of £418. Last of Nah went for a profit of £896 (Budget worries). Time to exit the final bits of two long-termers, e2v for a profit of £2,725 and sfe for £1,275. OPG has gone for a profit of £2,220. Sdm wouldn't go up so exited for breakeven (sold in two lots at116.17 and 117.01)
With all those losses and profits the website gets a profit of £11,895
Year Review:
One thing I would say has changed a lot this year is volatility on everything which makes a change in stop loss policy essential. Just a reminder that personally as I'm around all day I only use real stops with higher level
spreadbets and not in ISA stocks. But of course I have an
idea of where I want to exit. Beginners though I think should have
auto stops on not just ideas where I might cut manually like me.
As discussed in the book (and in more depth in the next one) and at seminars is my new strategy
of "Get out Quick" if in at the wrong price (say top of a spike up) and treat stops as something like a bottom line insurance policy way below the current price just in case. In other words I would never expect a stop to really be hit. nI should already be gone.
It's more a question of just getting out with a very small loss and then evaluating a new re-entry. I usually try three times then call it a day. It's not possible for me to replicate on the site (well I could but that would be a full time job updated daily). I'm working on lots of examples on this for the next edition of NT.
The reasons for volatility rests with market movers and shakers and brokers and spreadbet firms etc all need volatility to make money - they need to force everyone to press sell and buy buttons as much as possible as each time they do that there is a profit of some sort.
There are so many reasons for prices to be manipulated and on mid cap stocks it is incredibly easy for robots to be programmed to push prices up and down to depress investors into selling up.
Then inevitably panic sets in causing crazy falls in good companies as stops get hit.
So either you decide "I definitely have a good one" and hold on grimly or get out fast and wait for re-entry lower.
And sod's law always comes in - whenever you are depressed about a share and you finally decide to throw in the towel, you should of course actually be buying it!
Generally this year I had a few very big gains and some smaller losses - the big gains easily outweigh the losses. And a lot of shares just remain long-term holds and I hardly look at them.
Spreadbetting in particular has made me at least £200,000 as those of you who come to seminars know - but I can't put up the trades here as again, it would be a massive job for me and indeed I'm trying to run the site down a bit.
As I said at the top very happy with this year - I'm not a spreadsheet guy
so I don't know but going on two new Isas money this year
I started with 30k which is now 38k so if that pretty much
mirrors it, I've done around 25% which is exactly and all
I am after every year. Add in dividends and over the
years if you can manage 20-25% your money will
grow nicely.
If you try for more, that's when trouble usually ensures.
Best to make money slowly and cautiously. I managed to
avoid stuff that went bust (a lot of those this year)
and as usual steered clear of oil, energy and commodity
and concentrated on quieter companies with good
prospects.
Overall I would say the best money came
from six or 7 big winners and I tried to take smaller
losses on ones that didn't work out. If I could pick out a
mistake I made this year was holding onto one or two
for longer than I should and losing some paper
profits that I could have banked.
Thing is doesn't matter how long you've been in the
markets, mistakes will always happen and a bigger
loss or two will inevitably happen however careful
you try to be. Overall though 20-25% is achievable
even given some errors.
Best gainers of the year for me came from ones that got bid for,
in particular AGA where I gained personally by more than 30 grand as I got a lift from 80p to somewhere like 180p. A lot also gained from Al Noor which was bid for.
Optimal Payments now called Paysafe made me a fortune in spreadbets as those who came to seminars saw, roughly up over 50 grand at the mo.
New issues really went my way with some very nice winners such as Kainos, Worldpay, Equiniti, Ibstock. Disappointing newby was Aldermore.
A bit of a risky one, Xeros trebled for me. Pets At Home was a massive winner especially on spreadbets for me. Dignity has produced big profits.
No really terrible stinkers this year - you'd always expect one or two. My worst stinker ever still remains Coffee Republic in 2001 when I did eight grand!
Probably the worst was Quantum, looked good fundamentally but the market hated it giving me the biggest loss. I played Shoe Zone terribly losing more than a grand. A dip into India cost me a few quid. I lost a lot of nice paper profits on ETO which surprised from being a safe solid stock into a crazy oil type stock (amazing how the market can surprise). However on the
whole I managed to get out of shares that started to slide badly
in time.
Looking at longer-term ones, Renew has been a massive winner
this year now pushing 400. Fantastic one. Powerflute has been
wonderful and a bidding war might be on the cards. Avon
keeps heading higher. Dignity has been marvellous with
massive profits - if I added them all up probably over £50,000 now.
Tep has provided wonderful dividend income.
There are others but I have things to do and people to see
so signing off now till mid January. I wish you all the
very best in your trading and I wish you all a very
happy and prosperous 2016.
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Trade tables follow! Trades are current open and recently closed trades. Closed trades feature the closing price and the amount I won or lost. All others are open. Trades get updated a little later than the narrative. Trading costs are ignored, however I also do not add in dividend payments and with the kinds of companies I buy, dividends tend to equal or outweigh costs. Spread rollovers ignored for web purposes. Tables as accurate as poss however a mistake or two can creep in and very occasionally if I forgot I sold or bought something it will be added at a later time. Trades first reported in the diary under Markets every other Thursday afternoon.