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Trader Portfolio - November '11

November 2011

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.

Although the FTSE-100 achieved a 0.6% rise the Small Cap index fell almost 4.5%. This probably explains the TMI Trader Portfolio's 3.2% fall, with shares exposed to UK retail and a potentially slowing Chinese economy - i.e. oil & mining producers and related service companies - the most affected. However, good firms simply don't become bad overnight; for instance, amongst our holdings Hargreaves' eps is forecast to rise from 104p to 150p by 2013 while Telecom Plus posted a 20% increase in services in Q2. Amidst the gloom it's also easy to lose sight of the appearance of some amazing bargains. Take this month's front-page write-up, old favourite Photo-Me, which said that its seasonally stronger first half (c. 70% of profit) is running ...

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