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Disclaimer: this posting is for general education only; it is not trading advice.

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Trade of the Week: The AGA Saga continues...

For this week's trade-of-the-week posting (yes, I know they're monthly) I thought I'd bring you the next installment of the AGA Saga. Things have gone from strength to strength as the price of this stock has appreciated, as evidenced by the chart below:







Sorry it's so small due to a technical hitch; but anyway the two horizontal lines show the original entry price at 60.6 (lower line) and

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Trade of the Week on H&T Group

Remember the last Trade of the Week on Albermarle and Bond? In the end it stopped out at a profit as per the position trading strategy. But the trade on its peer H&T Group that was placed around the same time is still open, and it looks like this:







The solid blue line shows the entry price and the dashed red line shows the amount of profit currently locked-in by the guaranteed stop order.

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Trade of the Week: Albemarle & Bond

Because I last posted in mid-September, this one might be better titled "Trade of the Month".



At the very end of September, shares in embattled pawnbroker Albemarle & Bond fell off a cliff, so I bought some at the 'bargain' price of 71p-per-share on the basis that I would make a killing (if they regained their former glory) or would not lose too much (if they didn't, because I had a modest

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An Example Trailed Stop Order

Note that I have titled this post An Example Trailed Stop Order rather than An Example Trailing Stop Order. The distinction for me is that I like to trail my stop orders manually myself (by periodically adjusting them) rather than by utilising (automatic) trailing stop orders.



I thought long and hard about how I could best demonstrate a stop order than had been trailed manually over time, and

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Will TradeFair+ be a plus?

Like me, you might have received an email telling you that from 12 December 2013 your TradeFair account will no longer be accepting new trades. It's a shame, because this was one of my favourite spread betting accounts that showed stop order levels right alongside the trades (see below) and which -- along with other London Capital Group platform providers -- allowed you to apply guaranteed stop

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Trade of The Week: Renewed Confidence in Renewable Energy

You've heard of multi-bagger stocks; those stocks that return many times your original stake. Well, here's one in the shape of Renewable Energy Holdings.



The share price of this stock had fallen massively in recent years, before flat-lining. As per my position trading philosophy I was happy to establish a small exploratory position on the basis that the price would either multi-bag (returning

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