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Trader portfolio - September 2007

September 2007

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 good news is that the TMI Trader Portfolio comfortably outperformed all the major indices, in a period where the FTSE-All Share fell 7.1% and the Small Cap was clipped a hefty 12.5%. But as Warren Buffet once said "you can’t eat a relative strength sandwich" and we did succumb to an actual loss of 3.8%, albeit the gain since inception is still an excellent 235%. Long-term bears are obviously having a field day right now with scare stories abounding of an imminent credit crunch. We would also point to August as a month where senior fund managers go on holiday leaving the shop in the hands of their trusty lieutenants who are fearful of buying anything in case they get it wrong. In spite of our high cash ...

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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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