Monthly Archives: December 2016

’tis the season of bringing out profit warnings, and hoping that everyone is too busy cramming down the Quality Streets to notice. Housebuilder BVS (Bovis) certainly seems to have adhered to this line of reasoning when it made, I think … Continue reading →

My tweet on UK Smaller Co ITs (Investment Trusts) gathered a lot of interest. I said that I was seeing a lot of trusts on discounts over 20%, which I thought was unusual. I would have expected 10-15% to be … Continue reading →

The “spread” between platinum and gold make the former more attractive. Here are the prices of both commodities in USD/Oz: Decade ago today Platinum: 1104 895 Gold 605 1133 —- —- Spread (diff) +499 -237 According to denvergold  the average spread … Continue reading →

In “Two Ways To Improve The Momentum Strategy”, the authors found that momentum delivered 14.4% annual returns, 4.5% better than the S&P 500. Volatility was high, though. The authors note “if you never buy the expensive, junk stocks, then the … Continue reading →

I had a chance to play around with momentum strategies on 58 shares I had data for. The basic strategy I had in mind was to buy at a 52w high, and sell at a 52w low. I also combined … Continue reading →

Anyone who reads Stockopedia will surely have heard of BOO (Boohoo.Com). The shares suffered a nasty 42% gap-down in Jan 2015, bringing the shares down to 22p. If you were smart like Paul Scott, you would have been picking up … Continue reading →

Door-step lenders IPF (International Personal Finance) saw its shares marked down 44% today. It released an RNS stating: This morning, the Polish Ministry of Justice published a draft bill on its website aimed at strengthening anti-usury legislation in Poland. Amongst … Continue reading →

Now that I’ve got some of my programs working (in Fortran, SQL turned out to be too complicated and slow), I decided to take a look at CHG – Chemring. Over the last decade, CHG seems to have experienced more … Continue reading →

In my last post I gave a momentum strategy for beaten-down shares. I thought I’d take a look at HSV, which had a disasterous fall in June 2010, and a lesser one in October 2011. If you had applied the … Continue reading →