Recent content by Lemstaboy

Linda Bradford Raschke used to say that she too had absorbed enough from indicators to be able to glance at a chart and sense what an indicator would tell her, without needing to see the indicator.

Technical Analysis is a field of study so wide that it's possible to spend more time arguing about it than usefully applying it. And people do (Here am I doing the same by adding any comment at all!). Delve into bulletin board discussions from 30 years ago, and the questions being asked are the...

Just came across this negative assessment published a few days ago regarding Wynnstay. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/returns-capital-wynnstay-group-lon-073242493.html Returns on investment are low and shrinking.

Wynnstay (WYN) is back on my shorting watchlist ..

THG (formerly The Hut Group), which has just hived off its Ingenuity wing (having previously boasted it as their jewel-in-the-crown), is a company whose shares I shorted frequently last autumn, and which has remained on my watchlist while I waited to see how that splitting of the company panned...

Tracsis (TRCS) I increased my re-opened downbet today. Having chatted throughout the day with various friends who are more familiar with how the company is responding to the government's establishment of Great British Railways, I think they are in real trouble. The company argues that GBR...

I see investors occasionally discussing how to protect their investments from the effects of catastrophic events. But 20+ years ago I had a friend who traded only catastrophes! He was very successful at it. I didn't have the fast connections that he had, so I could never mimic what he did -...

Maybe take a look at Kinovo (LSE:KINO) who stand to benefit from compliance requirements which the government are continually imposing.

"Barring a nuclear accident, this is going to be a many multiples move." you said. There will indeed be the occasional nuclear accident - and each one will indeed dent the price (creating a buy opportunity perhaps) - but my own suspicion is that something far bigger than an accident poses a...

I caught less than half of the Pets At Home (PETS) fall from £3 to £2. I see no obvious reason why it should fall any further (I didn't expect it to drop as far as it did) but it remains on my watchlist, just in case. If it continues recovering I shall delete it at the end of the month. EDIT...

Added to my downbet on Vertu (VTU) the car dealership. Price can lurch about a bit but still a downward trend. Down 5% in this first 2 weeks of 2025 and 20% down on a year ago. Iomart (IOM) is another that I followed downwards in the second half of 2024 (no position since but still on watchlist...

Throughout 2024, Etsy (Nasdaq:ETSY) was my most profitable spreadbet (repeatedly downward over several months.) I hold no position there since late October when it came back up through $50 but it remains on my watchlist as an easily traded stock (spread <1%).

Experienced spreadbetters who sensibly go for indices or stocks with a very tight sub-1% buy/sell spread will find it odd (nay, laughable!) that I bother with stocks where the spread is sometimes 2%, 3%, 5% (a whopping 9% for a rolling bet on DNM for example!). I totally understand that...

Anyone who watched episodes of the TV programme 'The Weakest Link', presented by Anne Robinson from 2000-2012 will know that the key to making money involved shouting "Bank!" at appropriate moments. A failure to do so (hanging on instead for a possible greater gain) could see gains collapse. I...

I have been spreadbetting for many years; sometimes upwards, sometimes downwards. Mainly UK stocks but occasionally US stocks. Most of my best gains have come from downbets - some held for just an hour or two but mostly a few weeks. I trade mostly via IG.com and Spreadex, both of whom I find...