For this week’s trade-of-the-week posting (yes, I know they’re monthly) I thought I’d bring you the next installment of the AGA Saga. Things have gone from strength to strength as the price of this stock has appreciated, as evidenced by the chart below: Sorry it’s so small due to a technical hitch; but anyway the […]
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Trade of The Week: Renewed Confidence in Renewable Energy
You’ve heard of multi-bagger stocks; those stocks that return many times your original stake. Well, here’s one in the shape of Renewable Energy Holdings. The share price of this stock had fallen massively in recent years, before flat-lining. As per my position trading philosophy I was happy to establish a small exploratory position on the […]
Trade of the Week: The Persimmon Precipice
You shouldn’t try to catch a falling knife, right? So it would have been dumb to have bought into housebuilder Persimmon on Thursday last week when it suffered the price-drop shown at the end of this InterTrader chart: Except that this is what happened next (it bounced right back): It means that within a day […]
Trade of The Week on Tullett Prebon
By Tony on July 10, 2013 in capital spreads, intertrader, position trading, stop orders, trade of the week
It’s been some time since I posted a “Trade of The Week” feature– sorry about that, but I’ve been busy with other things. Anyway, here is one that went right… but probably for the wrong reasons. A nominal £1-per-point exploratory trade on Tullett Prebon has performed nicely since it was opened as a potential position […]
Today’s Biggest Surprises!
By Tony on April 19, 2013 in barratt, kazakhmys, polymetal, position trading, stop orders, trade of the week
I was going to title this posting “Today’s Biggest Gainers”, but it seems more appropriate to title it “Today’s Biggest Surprises”. This is what I woke up to on a couple of trades that I opened in the past couple of days: They were surprises because mining stocks seem to have been on a perpetual […]
Trade of the Week on Sainsburys (profit is sanity)
What a pity I missed out on today’s (14 March 2013) surge in the price of Ocado shares, and the related (but possibly short-lived) boost to the Morrisons share price following the announcement of a tie-up. Fortunately, I have had my fingers in another supermarket pie, metaphorically. I’m talking about Sainsburys which has been on […]
The Result of Yesterday’s "Trade of The Week"
Well, that will teach me to go out on a limb and post a trade “in advance” of seeing the outcome 😉 I’m referring to yesterday’s (failed) Trade of The Week. On the second day, the price rose to meet my guaranteed stop order, and stopped me out for a loss of 9.40 “pips” (e.g. £9.40 per […]
(Short) Trade of The Week on Aviva
I reckon it’s been more than a week since I last posted a “Trade of The Week”, and this one is different in two respects: It’s a short trade, which is pretty unusual for me considering my predominantly-long position trading approach. I’m documenting it in advance rather than after-the-fact, so I really have no idea […]
Trade of The Week on London Capital Group
By Tony on February 13, 2013 in capital spreads, ig, intertrader, lcg, position trading, stop orders, trade of the week
Have you seen what happened to the London Capital Group share price in the past few days? The sudden ramp-up in share price allowed me to bank this quick profit: I cashed in those few chips so as to demonstrate the handy IG P&L Breakdown Report that shows you exactly how you did — including […]
Trade of The Week on Thomas Cook
By Tony on February 4, 2013 in etx capital, ig, position trading, stop orders, thomas cook, trade of the week
This week’s “trade of the week” is one that I initiated on 24 October last year when Thomas Cook broke upwards from its “flat-line”. In the following chart, the lower horizontal line shows the entry price and the higher horizontal line shows the profit I am guaranteed to take (at least) thanks to a guaranteed […]