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!
This excellent fool thread is worth reading in its entirity, I thought I would log it here for future reference. It ...
Continue reading "Market Outlook May 08"
Over the last few week I have been following a discussion over on the fool of a small oil company called Encore and have subsequently ...
Continue reading "Encore Oil: A Gas Storage Play"
Following a question about why an individual should want to own shares in a company that doesn't pay dividends, Emptyend produced a ...
Continue reading "Are Dividends Overrated?"
The following was taken from a fool post, that was originally found in a viral email. Excellent stuff, and explains the precarious position our ...
Continue reading "Asset Bubble on a Small Island"
Another must read post, speculating the direction of the current crisis and how it may unfold. Many of the ...
Continue reading "Credit Crunch Dynamics"
Today I came across a great snippet of information about short selling while following a thread about the subject over at the Fool. The ...
Continue reading "Short Selling to Minimise Sector Risk"
I have been considering investing an amount into a commodity ETF (HOGS), and was thinking about ETF Securities leveraged ETF. However, I've now changed my ...
Continue reading "Beware Short & Leveraged ETFs"
Recently I have been buying Small Cap shares, often fairly illiquid and have found it difficult to place an order of a ...
Continue reading "How to buy Illiquid Small Cap Shares"
This post by BertEEE on the Fool website describes the banking system and many of the terms that I've been reading ...
Continue reading "Understanding How Banks Work"
I have recently taken a position in Accident Exchange, a company that specialises in replacement vehicles to motorists involved in accidents and specialising in the ...
Continue reading "Buy Accident Exchange – ACE"
The following are terms that I frequently hear on the Oil boards on fool.co.uk. Hopefully it'll help me understand what the knowledgeable posters there ...
Continue reading "Glossary of Oil Terms"
Gengulphus raised an interesting point regarding going long/short and things to bare in mind when doing so. To paraphrase:
Dangers of going short:
the big danger is having the stock ...
Continue reading "Dangers of Going Long, Dangers of Going Short"
While researching a small cap value share, I found a couple of posts over on advfn which I thought I would keep for reference, the ...
Continue reading "Share price action"
Today I read an interesting article in the FT, summarising an article from the American (Bear) economist Nouriel Roubini predicting the end ...
Continue reading "Meltdown Alert"
Following on from my earlier post regarding my trades of Aminex and Soco, I thought it would be interesting to post this link from Morgan ...
Continue reading "Morgan Stanley Oil"