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Authoritative Independent Monthly Share Selections Using Technical & Fundamental Analysis

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TMI Trader Portfolio - May

May 2005

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 a strong seven months of growth, in which the TMI Trader Portfolio rose more than £60,000  to a high of £221,372, it finally succumbed to profit taking and fell by £16,571 (7.5%) to £204,801, although it remains nearly 105% up since inception. Clearly the momentum enjoyed by even the strongest stocks has been affected; investors' mentality typically being to take profits only when the shares start to fall, which exacerbates the volatility even further. Inthis context, last month's decision to boost our cash reserves through taking profits in Fayrewood, NCC and NETeller looks a good one. Not that NETeller's results were bad, in fact quite the opposite, with Canaccord upgrading this year's earnings forecasts to 64 cents (33. ...

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