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TMI Trader Portfolio - August '09

August 2009

Investing in shares may lose you all or some of your money. Past performance is no indication of future performance. Some of the shares recommended here may be small company shares, which can be relatively illiquid and hard to trade and this makes such shares more risky than other investments.

Just when many analysts were writing off prospects for shares in the quiet summer lull, the FTSE-100 and All-Share indices have roared back, posting a gain of 2.4% over the month, while the TMI Trader Portfolio gained 0.8%. In what has been a quiet period for news flow there were still bright spots, with Cape hitting a new high following a positive trading update and Marks & Spencer also rallying after a sharp turnaround in like-for-like sales. In terms of change, shares in NCC have now increased 80% since we added them to the portfolio at 194.5p and with its current rating allowing little room for slip-ups, we felt it prudent to take some more profit, selling 1500 shares at 349p. For this month's issue we have u ...

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