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Retail investors are driving up the price of heavily shorted stocks and getting rich, while hedge funds are hit sideways…
If you decide to try to beat the market by stockpicking, you’ll need to avoid these common return sucks…
Are you a new share trader? Do you want to see a path to making profitable investments? Read on!
I started life as a passive investor and I’ve become a market-obsessed stock picker. What changed, and why?
ISAs and SIPPs enable you to avoid tedious paperwork, as well sheltering your cash from tax.
If you’re worried that you’re getting turned for a few basis points by high frequency traders and you’re not a hedge fund manager, you’ve bigger fish to fry.
Do you want to get rich through day trading? Does the old 9-5 seem like hard work? Yep, to you and everyone else.
It’s been a frantic time in the Monevator demo HYP, what with watching paint dry and studiously doing no trading at all…
Want online brokers to up their game? Then do your bit by letting Interactive Investor know what you’d like to see from one.
Retail bonds seem to be being slightly underpriced at launch, despite the firm demand from investors for these higher-yielding investments. This might mean an opportunity.
Our battle of the trackers reaches its fifth installment, as ETFs and index funds go head-to-head in a fight for control!
Directors share dealing – particularly buying their stock when it is showing value credentials – can signal superior returns for up to two years.
It’s extremely easy to fool yourself when it comes to share trading. My Lloyds trade could hardly have looked better at first blush, yet it’s barely broken even.
Small cap stocks can increase your portfolio returns, but they’re also more risky investments than large caps. In this post I’ll outline the six key advantages of investing in small caps versus bigger companies, and I’ll also point out some of the extra risks. Advantage #1: Smaller companies are less well researched An army of [...]
Important: What follows is not advice to buy or sell ANY shares. I’m a private investor, storing and sharing my notes. Read my disclaimer. Just a quick update to my share write-up in November on London-listed The Clapham House Group. (Google Finance: LON: CPH). The shares have moved from 53.5p to 93.5p, so my caution [...]
Stock markets have been falling for months, led by a collapse in confidence in the financial system and plunging bank stocks. In the UK we’ve seen Northern Rock crumble, while in the US the investment bank Bear Stearns lived up to its name after jitters led to rumours which led to a run on its [...]
Rather than whimpering, if you’re well positioned you should be whooping with joy that you’ve got an unlooked for chance to buy the same shares you were buying last month for 10%, 20%, or even 50% less than you expected to pay.
You’ve bought a share and – ye gads! – it’s gone up 30%. Should you sell it and take the profit? It sounds like a simple question, but the answer, my friends, is complicated and controversial enough to give us the stock market we know and love, with all its wild oscillations in share prices, [...]