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TMI Trader Portfolio - Jan '09

January 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.

After five consecutive months of decline it's pleasing that the TMI Trader Portfolio has bounced by 0.5%, while the FTSE-100 and All Share indices rose 3% and 2.6% respectably. In terms of news flow it was a quiet month and the only transaction to report was the sale of half our holding in old favourite Telecom Plus. Nothing wrong with the company, with H1 results again solid but following a strong performance since we added them in February it seemed prudent to lock in part gains and we raised just over £8,700. The fact that the market rose at all is remarkable given the continuing torrent of poor economic news as well as the shocking US$50 bn. “ponzi†fraud perpetrated by hedge fund magnate Bernard Madoff, which had amazingl ...

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