Dec 8

New trades set up this week from the Spread Betting Strategies are…

 

Buy QinetiQ @ 165 (Total risk £19.95)

 

Buy VT Group @ 561.2 (£19.43)

 

Buy Smith DS @ 122 (£19.95)

 

Buy DSG Int @ 39.6 (risk £19.52)

 

Buy Halfords @ 422.2 (£19.6)

 

Buy Stobbart @ 126.7 (£20.1)

 

Buy Salamander @ 286 (£17.75)

 

Buy Burberry @ 597 (£17.25)

 

Buy Hikma @ 506 (£20.25).

 

All these trade were set up on my online trading platform on 6th December.

 

As I am writing this I have remembered I should’ve analysed gold. I forgot to do it this week but will remember to next week. I only get about an hour or so each week to do the analysis and set up the trades so if I miss my opportunity I have to wait until the next week.

 

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Dec 7

After 2 weeks of decline I had a positive week. Not as positive as expected. The week ended at £1,884.11, so an increase of £26.49. I’m going to start tracking the performance against FTSE All-Share. The way things are going I would be better off buying an index tracker!

 

So to the action this week… Inchape and Galiform where I amended the stop losses to just below the weekly close were sold.

 

The only other sale this week was Rightmove. These showed a sharp decline which I think had something to do with the announcement from Google. Good job my stop loss kicked in as they are a lot lower than when I sold.

 

There were 4 buys this week – Pearson, Home Retail, Aegis and Meggitt.

 

The two best performing shares I have are Tesco and Mothercare (Mothercare flew this week). They are in the black to a tune of £78 in total. I am thinking of adding another element to my Spread Betting Strategies about moving my stop loss when in profit.

 

My new spread betting strategy will be to move the stop loss to breakeven once the stock has moved into profit by twice that of the amount risked. Tesco has satisfied this condition so I will move the stop loss to 390.4.

 

Melrose were on my warning list last week and closed down lower which means I will amend the stop loss to just below close.

 

New accounts on the warning list this month include BT, BBA Aviation and Brown Group.

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Dec 2

Not many on the list this week. I set up the following with my online trading broker on 29/11/09.

 

Buy Meggitt 258.8 (£19.92 total risk)

Buy Dairy Crest 411.8 (£21.8)

Buy Tate & Lyle 461.2 (£21.45)

Buy Smith DS 124.8 (£19.35)

Buy Home Retail 312.3 (£19.88)

Buy Aegis 112.2 (£20.1)

Buy Pearson 856 (£22.75)

 

I have amended the stop losses of Galiform and Inchape to just below the close of last week. I also deleted my orders which weren’t executed last week.

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Dec 1

I like the gold story and would like to test my Spread Betting Strategies on gold. So far I have been testing stocks but I’m sure they will apply equally well (or poorly!) to commodities. From now on when I do my analysis I will include gold.

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