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Trader Portfolio

January 2006

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.

The year ended with a bang for the TMI Trader Portfolio, which rose a massive £20,468 (8.2%) to a brand new high of £271,182, which makes for an overall gain of 171% since inception. The strongest gains came from two of our oil stocks, Burren Energy and Dana Petroleum, which rose 161p and 109p respectively. In Burren’s case, the re-rating was mainly due to improving sentiment in the oil sector. News just in is that OPEC are forecasting oil to stay above US$50 next year, helped by long overdue maintenance shutdowns to several large refineries in the US. Dana was boosted by its first exploration well in Mauritania striking oil and with results from further testing expected soon, the shares could hit fresh highs shortly. < ...

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