After years of investing in poorly performing mutual funds, I decided to take control of my finances and invest in stocks directly instead of paying fund managers to under perform.
This blog contains information about my value and high yield strategies along with general thoughts on the market.
I plan to document my share trades, thoughts behind my actions and the general economy. I also hope to provide dictionary of investment jargon and some uaseful investing tools for me and my readers.
I hope you find this site usefull!
How to select oil exploration shares that will deliver most value for their shareholders
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Post detailing latest note from Hanson Westhouse on the Oil and Gas sector including reviews of deep value Oil EP shares I hold. Another ...
Continue reading "Hanson Westhouse Note and Schiff Video"
Robert Shiller talks about the economic crisis and suggests that it could last for some time.
Continue reading "Robert Shiller Video"
40 minute Jim Rogers video on the credit crisis and a summary of the key points raised by Mr Rogers.
Continue reading "Latest Jim Rogers Video on Bloomberg"
A post about the effects of Darling's fiscal stimulus, its possible effects and how to profit from it.
Continue reading "Thoughts On Darling’s Fiscal Stimulus"
A post detailing oil facts and figures to illustrate why oil price will be far higher in the future. Many of the figures and ...
Continue reading "Peak Oil Statistics - Reasons to invest"
Easy explanation on how to calculate the value of an oil company using Soco international as an example.
Continue reading "Soco Vietnam Oil Company Valuation"
Post detailing my new investment tactic and links to some jim rogers videos which helped me to clarify my thoughts and helped in my decision.
Continue reading "More videos and a Change of Tactics"
A post detailing Peter Schiff's thoughts and links to an excellent radio interview on the current credit crisis.
Continue reading "Peter Schiff Radio Interview"
Jim Rogers video about todays low growth environment and how commodities performed during the 1930's depression.
Continue reading "Jim Rogers Video - Forced Selling and the Crisis"
Given the dreadful performance of the market and my portfolio, it's I think I'm coming to this idea too little too late. I had previously ...
Continue reading "Portfolio Protection - Hedging"
Following the UK and US bailouts, what now lies in store? I found this post on seeking alpha very easy ...
Continue reading "Bailouts, Inflation and Deflation"
The following conversion factors will be usefull in the valuation of Oil and Gas companies.
Oil Conversion Factors and Terms
bbl - Barrel. 1bbl = 158.987 ...
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While reading ADVFN, I've noted many posts referring to an Auction and trades marked as UT. Today on ADVFN, Gengulphus kindly reposted his decription that ...
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Recently, while browsing old posts over at the fool I found this post about about an alternative to the PE ratio that ...
Continue reading "EV/EBITDA - a better measure of value"