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Authoritative Independent Monthly Share Selections Using Technical & Fundamental Analysis

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TMI Trader Portfolio - May '20

May 2020

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.

I have been writing TMI for almost 20 years, a period that has included a halving in the FTSE-100 twice (and far worse for small caps) in the dot com crash of 2000-3 and credit crunch in 2008-9 but I have never seen the sheer speed and velocity of this sell-off. The COVID-19 pandemic is unprecedented and the Government’s scientific advisory body had rated it just a “moderate risk” barely more than five weeks ago, even though it had reached Italy. The TMI Trader Portfolio bounced this time but is still down 17% over two months, versus falls of 26% for the FTSE-100 and 30% for Small Caps.  Plus500 was the stand-out performer with the wild market swings encouraging customers to trade while Avast is benefiting from people spendi ...

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With small companies there is an above average degree of risk compared to buying blue chips. Please be aware that we have not assessed the suitability of any of these investments for you. The newsletter simply states a personal view and diarises the editor’s investment decisions. Please speak to your stockbroker or other qualified individual to ascertain whether any of these companies mentioned would form useful additions to your own portfolios. Past performance is no indication of future success.

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