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  • Alpesh Patel OBE
  • Ben Hobson
  • Bruce Packard
  • David Stevenson
  • Jamie Ward

Author Index

  • Jason Needham
  • Maynard Paton
  • Michael Taylor
  • Phil Oakley
  • Richard Beddard

The Trader: What can traders learn from Warren Buffett?

Warren Buffet is one of the greatest investors of all time. He has acquired wealth through relatively simple investing rules and sticking with them. Investing is completely different to trading, but I’m always open to reading about others’ successes and learning from them. In this article, we’re going to explore some of Warren Buffett’s secrets.

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When the facts change…

Events at Luceco and Oxford Metrics may tell us more about the companies’ strategies, and whether they might make good long-term investments. Richard investigates. It is hard to believe Luceco’s share price is below the price it floated at in 2016, when turnover was 71% higher in the year to December 2021 than it was

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Weekly Market Commentary 06/06/22|SFOR, IPX, OMG|The Price of War

Bruce looks at the performance of the UK economy muddling through WWI and the Spanish flu pandemic, an era when global trade flows and productivity also went into retreat.  Stocks cover SFOR, IPX and OMG. The FTSE 100 rose +1.3% to 7592, in a short week due to the Platinum Jubilee. The price of oil

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Has the Stock Market Sell-Off Ended?

A brutal 2022 continues as the S&P 500 continues to face downward pressure. But is the stock market sell-off over, or is there more pain to come? The market began the year overpriced by many measures like the P/E ratio. Once the fiscal and monetary stimulus was reined in and the Fed announced an interest

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The Trader: Trading through a bear market

In this article, Michael offers some thoughts on trading through a bear market and how to protect yourself. Technically, the FTSE 250 is in a bear market. The FTSE 100 is not. At the moment, neither are the Dow Jones and S&P 500 indices. What if we bounce back and continue the epic bull run

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Tuning Out Of The Day to Day Noise| Big picture levels

In this article I want to run through some interesting areas I’m seeing in the markets by zooming out of the day-to-day noise to get a more meaningful big picture viewpoint. Big Picture Levels The markets are currently in a correction that is testing our patience, sit-out power, and also giving our risk management a

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JDG V SDI: The Battle of Buy and Build

Shortly after Judges Scientific makes its biggest-ever acquisition, Richard sets out to discover whether the pasture is greener over at SDI, a smaller listed business that does much the same thing: buys and builds companies that make scientific instruments. If I were to use one measure to compare highly acquisitive businesses it would be Return

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Is a Stock Market Crash Coming? – Let’s Look at the Evidence

The stock market has declined substantially since 2022 began. It’s fallen more than I expected on January 1st. Whilst I waited each week for some upward momentum to deploy cash – that never came, instead monthly S&P500 MACD just accelerated lower. Whilst I needed to think quick (wish quicker) to look at energy and healthcare

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