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TMI Trader Portfolio - May 2014

May 2014

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.

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Since December 2012 the TMI Trader Portfolio has risen almost in a straight line but the run had to end sometime and investors took their cue from the sharp falls in over hyped new issues and tech shares to mark our portfolio down 4% but we can’t grumble as the gain since inception is still 436%. Although with the benefit of hindsight we could have top-sliced the likes of Al Noor, which spiked to 1165p and Optimal, which briefly hit 500p, the greatest gains typically come from holding the winners for long periods.On the subject of new issues it’s easy to draw parallels with the dot com madness in early 2000, following the floats of internet electrical retailer, AO World (which reached a trailing PE of 220) and online take-awa ...

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