Your Top share for 2011

Jonbvn

mr_fishbulb wrote: »

If we had bought 1 share in each before the markets closed on 31st Dec 2010, we would have made £5.54 by now (excluding trading costs)

Before anyone goes out and puts their life savings into these stocks, please bear in mind that the last few months have quite good in the stock market. It is not always like this!

IronWolf

ChrisEvanson wrote: »

How much have you made in shares then? Robbie Burns is making around £80-100k a year trading shares from home and one of his biggest tips is to make money you have to accept a loss and thus set a price to get out and move on.

How many people do you know who sadly say how their shares fell from £8 to 50p but now they are at £3 and they hope to recoup the losses eventually? Why? Get out when they fall below your floor. Sure it is easy to think they will go up soon, they will go up soon....that's the problem though isn't it, people get emotionally attached to their shares.

I'm not talking slight movements, and yes it depends on the share and whether it is a long term recovery share, a short term risky one etc or if it is temporary bad news or major pooo hitting the fan. I wouldn't ALWAYS observe the stop loss but you have to have some 'rules' in place even if they are slightly fuzzy ones.

I dont make £80k a year trading, and its pointless to play that game because I can name investors that make £80k a day and dont use automated stop losses.

When I buy a share at a price, I dont do so lightly, I believe its worth more than that, and I never invest in shares I consider risky, so if it drops 50, 80, 90% that does not mean I sell, I still believe its worth more, just that now I must possibly wait longer for it to realise its true value. The only thing that will cause me to sell at a loss is new information which causes me to revalue a company, and therefore setting some arbitrary price to "stop losses" at the point of buying makes no sense to my investment plan.

thriftychap_2

mr_fishbulb wrote: »

I went through and grabbed as many codes as I could from this thread and stuck them in a Google portfolio.

If we had bought 1 share in each before the markets closed on 31st Dec 2010, we would have made £5.54 by now (excluding trading costs)

Here's the table:

So basically it appears we have all given some good insight. The return of £5 based on 1 share is good. Multiply this by a more realistic number of shares - say £1000 per company (anyone want to do the maths, not as simple as 1000x the
£5) then we have a good portfolio.

Good work guys!!

Fishbulb - could you do the same based on £1000 per company?????

thriftychap_2

Interesting that the top 3 are all mining co.

Jackop

Just to let you know Sirius Exploration (SXX) are now known as Sirius Minerals. It has kept its SXX ticker. I think it changed back in Oct/Nov time.

WHITEVANMAN

thriftychap wrote: »

So basically it appears we have all given some good insight. The return of £5 based on 1 share is good. Multiply this by a more realistic number of shares - say £1000 per company (anyone want to do the maths, not as simple as 1000x the
£5) then we have a good portfolio.

Good work guys!!

Fishbulb - could you do the same based on £1000 per company?????

A quick run through on a bit of paper I make it with a £23000 investment a £4100 return to date approx based on each shares percentage gain / loss which is almost a 18% return, not bad for the first 3 weeks.

But ive had a couple of glasses of Vino

adrian2000

My top share for this year is

AGQ Arian Silver Mining Currently .51p Bought at .27p Hoping for some announcement later this month or early next month to say they have found lots of Silver. The silver price is also on the rise as well. Target price for the end of the year £1.50

sabretoothtigger

Tell me about AGQ why do you think they would do well apart from the fact silver can only go up in price
HER is another one I need to look into

mr_fishbulb wrote: »

I went through and grabbed as many codes as I could from this thread and stuck them in a Google portfolio.

If we had bought 1 share in each before the markets closed on 31st Dec 2010, we would have made £5.54 by now (excluding trading costs)

Here's the table:

Thats great, this thread appears to be investment genius nirvana. Either that or this market is running full bore and anything works

purch wrote: »

Waaaay too much spare time on your hands :eek:

It only takes a minute, just a part of google that is. Main thing is knowing the EPIC codes or not. Even then google is pretty good on finding companies





My January choices got me ranked #11 so far on stockchallenge out of 200 entries. Regardless of success I think its best to stay liquid, usa market was down today though most likely only profit taking


[not penny stocks ]



VGM had a bit of a reversal today not on great volume so uncertainty to continue. FPM is another smallish stock, partly owned by booming but mostly shell company PMG, FPM advancing nicely I think along with many north sea oilers recently.

Overall on commodities, sterling has gained from its lows and dollar still playing dead. Tunisa troubles linked to higher food prices hence SXX and soft commodities well supported I think but also maybe linked to CEY fall as its in nearby Egypt and previously seen trouble in 2008 from high wheat prices

Audiman7

sabretoothtigger wrote: »

Tell me about AGQ why do you think they would do well apart from the fact silver can only go up in price
HER is another one I need to look into

AGQ has been a great little share for me, was lucky that I got in quite early at 9p. Obviously with hindsight, wish I'd put more in lol. But I've topped up along the way.

It's main attraction is the potential to greatly increase it's resources. They're currently only producing within 10% of their license area at San Jose. They have 60m oz of AG-EQ in this 10% and they're hopeful of adding at least another 200m oz once the other 90% has been drilled.

Drilling is well under way with the first batch of results due before the end of the month.

At the moment their share price seems to be tracking silver very closely.

ChrisEvanson

IronWolf wrote: »

I dont make £80k a year trading, and its pointless to play that game because I can name investors that make £80k a day and dont use automated stop losses.

When I buy a share at a price, I dont do so lightly, I believe its worth more than that, and I never invest in shares I consider risky, so if it drops 50, 80, 90% that does not mean I sell, I still believe its worth more, just that now I must possibly wait longer for it to realise its true value. The only thing that will cause me to sell at a loss is new information which causes me to revalue a company, and therefore setting some arbitrary price to "stop losses" at the point of buying makes no sense to my investment plan.

I'm sure many investors felt the same in 2008 early 2009....?

Sorry, I honestly don't mean this to come across as personal, as it isn't, I am just picking up on comments which I feel I need to give another side to, as I am sure you do.

It amazes me how many seasoned investors there are commenting on message boards on share sites such as iii saying how they bought shares at say £1.35, then bought more at £1.00 as they came down and looking wistfully at the £0.70 price explaining why it should come higher, but it doesn't. It probably will in many cases, in time, but I don't understand the logic of catching a falling knife with shares you hold at £1.35, buying more as they fall. Would have been better to get out completely, take the loss and buy back in at the 70p.

Ok so the 2008-9 period wasn't a stable trading period and with 'safer' stocks it is usually some bad news that causes them to drop significantly, I will give you that. But we only know the market has crashed afterwards, surely the skill is to get out before they reach the bottom, as it is then a bit late, and you have a lot more to do then to get your money back.