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TMI Trader Portfolio - November '14

November 2014

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.

In little over a week sentiment has seen a sea change through a toxic combination of fears ranging from Ebola to a European  “triple dip” and share prices have begun to fall irrationally. Over the month the FTSE-100 fell 7.2%, dragging the TMI Trader Portfolio 6.1% lower, while since the 1 March peak the FTSE-100, FTSE-250 and AIM All-Share have fallen 7.8%, 12.5% and 21.0% respectively.Showing just how mad the world is even Optimal Payments, whose 2014 eps forecasts have been raised from 21 cents to 39 cents after four upgrades, has fallen 84p from its 18 September high.  Elsewhere, one opportunity that got away was Hargreaves Services, whose shares have followed the collapse in coal prices so we have sold ou ...

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