Newspaper Share Tips Tuesday

Stock Trading for Dummies - Tuesday Newspaper Share Tips

FINANCIAL TIMES

BG Group jumps in US natural gas 'land grab'
Investor unrest at D1 Oils faces
Former CEO John Heathcote appears to be getting ready to sell down his holding in Pursuit Dynamics

THE TIMES
Tempus Share Tips

Hold Whitbread
Pass on Spice
Buy RWS Group

Comment

Credit Suisse says CSR is a potential takeover target
Deal of the day: Sylvania Resources
Tiddler to watch - Great Eastern Energy

DAILY TELEGRAPH
Questor Stock Picks

Hold Mouchel for now
Buy Bunzl

Comment:
Exxon betting $41 bn on low-carbon gas
Jeremy Warner: Crash in bond prices is surest bet in town

THE INDEPENDENT
Investment Share Tips

Buy Whitbread
Hold Great Portland
Hold RWS Group

Outlook:
Tullett Prebon staff won't go far

Comment:
Standard Chartered soars in advance of rate rises

DAILY EXPRESS

Rumors of Frontera Resources positive drilling update

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Sunday Newspaper Share Tips Dec13

Stock Trading for Dummies - Sunday Newspaper Share Tips

[Investor's Chronicle and Friday newspaper Share tips see - Friday Newspaper share Tips]

SUNDAY TIMES
Petrofac at high point, time to take profits
Hold Chrysalis

Share watch: Southern Cross Healthcare

SUNDAY TELEGRAPH

Questor Share Tips

Buy Antofagasta at 915p
Buy Centamin Egypt at 115.5p

MAIL ON SUNDAY

Midas Share Tips

Buy Debenhams at 83p
Hold 50% of your Shanks's shares at least

THE INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY

Rents for commercial properties in London are almost £1,000 per square foot for parts of select shops on Old Bond Street

Globespan, Scotland's biggest airline on verge of collapse
Carnival expected to announce good full-year results next Thursday

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Saturday Newspaper Share Tips

Stock Trading for Beginners - Saturday Newspaper Share Tips and Rumours

[For the Investor's Chronicle and Friday newspaper Share tips see - Investors Chronicle Tips]

FINANCIAL TIMES
Afer being propped up by cheap money, day of reckoning has arrived or for Greece, Ireland and Spain. [What about the UK don't we get a day of reckoning before the election ?]

Bankers' bonus tax -- fight over the detail begins [don't hold your breath]
Boeing -- 2 years behind schedule, the 787 Dreamliner takes off next week.

Lombard

Bonus tax will not curb City's self-interest

Comment:

Storm clouds ahead for UK banks

THE TIMES
Tempus:

High street to exorcize ghost of Christmas past (M&Sr, Next, Debenhams, Kesa Electricals)

Other comment:

Poll says UK shoppers will cut spending on Christmas presents sharply for 2nd year, back to beginning of decade levels

Bet of the day: JJB Sports
Deal of the Day: Bango
Tiddler to watch - Imperial Innovations

DAILY TELEGRAPH

Darling's fiction gets shoppers splashing imaginary cash

DAILY EXPRESS

Bid talk boosts International Power
Smith & Nephew up on revvied Johnson & Johnson bid hopes

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Newspaper Share Tips Friday

Stock Trading for Beginners - Friday Newspaper Share Tips

INVESTORS CHRONICLE

Share Tips of the week:

Sell C&C at 284 cents
Sell Rio Tinto at £32.59
Sell ASOS at 479p

Buy Huntsworth at 66p
Buy Falkland Island Holdings at 393p
Buy McKay Securities at 156p

Updates:
Buy Ashley House
Sell Kingfisher -- Carluccio's -- Anite
Abbey high enough

Company Results:
Buy Bango -- Wichford -- Clyde Processors -- Opsec Security -- IS Pharma -- Hogg Robinson

Sell Marston's -- Ashtead

FINANCIAL TIMES

War on greedy bankers -- France follows UK example of a windfall tax on bonuses
Inditex -- has replaced Gap of the US as the world's largest fashion retailer by sales
Drinks companies - recovery seems likely next year .

Comment:
Smith & Nephew takeover rumours again

THE TIMES
Tempus Share Tips

Hold Premier Farnell
Hold David S Smith Chance

Comment
BSkyB upgraded on sales growth prospects
Talk that PartyGaming may be looking at Bwin
Deal of the day: Hunting
Bet of the day: HMV/Mama Group

Tiddler to watch - Firestone Diamonds

DAILY TELEGRAPH
Questor Share Tips

Hold IG Group
Buy Standard Chartered

THE INDEPENDENT
Investment Share Tips

Hold Premier Farnell
Buy Begbies Traynor
Hold International Greetings

Comment:
Wellstream falls as takeover hopes fade

DAILY MAIL
Cadbury waits sweeter suitor
Rumors of imminent bid for Coffeeheaven International grows

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Alternatives to Investing in Stocks

Alternatives to Stock Market Trading - Signed Books and Illustrations

Investing in Stocks for Beginners is all well and good, but you may be looking for something a bit less volatile or a bit more tangible that stocks and shares. Books and illustrations can be very interesting if you can buy them at the right price - to paraphrase Warren Buffett - It's far better to buy a wonderful investment at a fair price than a fair investment at a wonderful price.

(Rare Maurice Sendak Where the Wild Things Are up for Auction)

With that in mind there may be some 'fair investments' on offer at the auction being organised by Bloomsbury auctions  - on Wednesday 9th December at 2 p.m. - at 6 West 48th Street, New York for Original Illustrations and Fine Illustrated Books. The auction includes works by Dr Seuss, Maurice Sendak, Tom Feelings, A A Milne (Winnie the Pooh), Beatrix Potter, Roald Dahl and many others. Estimated prices range from a few hundred dollars to $40,000, so there should be something for everyone.

You don't have to go to New York of course, you can bid online (you need to register first, see the link above), but if you are in New York you can view the works on offer on Saturday December 5, 10 am- 3 pm - Monday December 7, 10 am- 5 pm - Tuesday December 8, 10 am- 5 pm - Wednesday December 9, 10 am- 1 pm - Or by private appointment

In Bloomsbury's own words "The sale will showcase important works from the Golden Age of Illustration to the present day. It will commence with the artistic estate of award winning African American artist Tom Feelings (who) worked as a freelance illustrator of children’s books for over thirty years. ... Among the highlights of the sale is the entire collection of Feelings’ seminal 1996 work The Middle Passage ($250,000-$350,000).

Also offered for auction are Maurice Sendak’s original designs for the Wild Things Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade balloon ($40,000-$50,000) and watercolors by William Steig for the original Shrek! ($15,000-$20,000)

Fine illustrated books include rare Oz titles, Winne the Pooh by A. A. Milne and a privately printed edition of The Tailor of Gloucester by Beatrix Potter, plus limited edition Rackhams and numerous autographed picture books. Books and letters signed by Roadl Dahl. A 1957 first edition of the Cat in the Hat by Dr Seuss with the dust jacket and the price of 200/200 plus a second edition (est. $5000 to $8000)

Plus plenty more - there are 365 lots in all and if you want to bid online you will need to register first. Signed and first edition books can be a good long-term investment.

Alternatively you might want to have a look through your old books to see if you've got the original edition of Dr Seuss's Cat in the Hat as described above - it will be worth a few thousand dollars.

Property is also a wise investment and France is a god place to consider as property tens to be not quite so expensive as in some other countries, especially if you get outside of Paris, in places such as the Loire Valley for example, which is famous for its chateaux but which also has some fine houses on offer.

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Lords of Finance Business Book Award Winner

Stock Trading for Beginners - The Lords of Finance wins prestigious Business Book of the Year Award

Want a break from stocks and shares and online stock trading? Looking for a good book idea for Christmas? Then look no further than The Lords of Finance by hedge-fund manager Liaquat Ahamed. 'The Lords of Finance : 1929, The great Depression, and the Bankers Who Broke the World' has just been awarded the Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award 2009. As the title says, it is a history of how four central bankers brought about the Great Depression.

Peter Mandelson, UK Eminence Grise par excellence, and currently Secretary of State for Business, Innovation & Skills (but who knows where he will end up?), was the keynote speaker at the event (nice work if you can get it - or maybe it's all part of his job?).

Lionel Barber presenting the award said of the Lords of Finance "A brilliant book, which brings to life the 1920s and the role of its great public servants in trying, but ultimately failing, to manage the world financial system. A must for anyone who wants to understand economics.”

The Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World is published by Heinemann/Penguin Press and traces the role played by four central bankers once named the World’s Most Exclusive Club -- Benjamin Strong of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, Montagu Norman of the Bank of England, Hjalmar Schacht of the Reichsbank and Emile Moreau of the Banque de France.

These four most powerful financiers on the planet attempted after the First World War to fix global finances but ended up destroying it instead. When it was too late to stop what they had done Montagu Norman concluded that they had achieved “absolutely nothing.”

Liaquat Ahamed argues that “The Great Depression was not some act of God or the result of some deep-rooted contradictions of capitalism but the direct result of a series of misjudgments by economic policymakers, some made back in the 1920s, others after the first crises set in -- by any measure the most dramatic sequence of collective blunders ever made by financial officials.”

The book is not as dry as it sounds and is in fact highly readable and all the more relevant given the current financial turmoil so a fine Christmas present for anyone interested in the murky world of high finance - The Lords of Finance
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Stock Market Crash Imminent?

Stock Trading for Dummies - Stock Market Crash Imminent?

There are quite a few people who are expecting the stock market to slump back down to the lows seen in March and even lower. I have seen a number of videos with just that scenario, but of course so far it hasn't happened and this market seems to be stubbornly determine dto prove all the doom and gloom merchants wrong. Nevertheless it is worth taking their warnings on board.
The following video - Crash Alert is by Tony Cherniawski, from the practicalinvestor.com - he envisages the possibility of the DOW back at 6000 and the S/P at 600 - Mr Cherniawski's video has the merit at least of being clear and easy to understand. For other indications that the market may be topping out and preparing to crash back down see - stock charting for beginners



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Thursday Newspaper Share Tips

Online Stock Trading for Beginners - Thursday Shares Magazine and Newspaper Share Tips

SHARES MAGAZINE
Plays:

Buy Kiwara

Updates:

Hold EasyJet
Hold ZincOx

Life Insurance

Buy Legal & General
Buy Prudential
Sell Standard Life

FINANCIAL TIMES

Falklands oil rumours around Rockhopper and Desire Petroleum

THE TIMES

Tempus Share Tips

Buy JP Morgan Private Equity
Hold Cranswick
Hold Sportingbet

Comment:
Rumour of the day

RBS shortlist of six European major cos. likely to make a large acquisition in the next 12 months include Diageo and Xstrata.

Bet of the day

Australia is the first G20 nation to raise interest rates, from 3% to 3.25%. The BofE has kept UK rates at 0.5%. Spreadex has a December-based UK short sterling quote of 99.41-99.45.

Tiddler to watch
Intercede reported sales up 40% on last year, its share price rose nearly 10% to 45p. FinnCap says they are making good progress outside its Western European core market and has the potential for further outperformance.

DAILY TELEGRAPH

Questor Share Tips

Buy Petropavlovsk
Buy Cranswick

Amazon takes the Kindle Ebook Reader global as sales soar
Amazon cancels Royal Mail contract

Comment:

Smith & Nephew falls despite talk of break-up

THE INDEPENDENT

Investment Share Tips

Buy Nighthawk Energy
Hold United Drug
Buy Shepherd Neame

DAILY MAIL

Circle Oil up on rumours of huge oil discovery in Egypt

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Online Trading Tuesday Newspaper Tips

Online Stock Trading for Beginners - Tuesday Newspaper Share Tips

FINANCIAL TIMES

Britvic supported by Pepsico bid rumours

THE TIMES
Tempus:

Speculative buy - Lonmin
Solid hold - PZ Cussons
Immunodiagnostic Systems - Pass

Comment:

Price of govt/ help for RBS and Lloyds could be to get rid of 10% of customers

Talk that Innovation Group has rejected a bid from EXL Service Holdings of New York

Rumours that Matalan may be up for sale

Bet of the day: Sainsbury

Tiddler to watch - Animalcare

DAILY TELEGRAPH
Questor Share Tips

Buy CVS Group
Buy Standard Chartered

THE INDEPENDENT
Investment Share Tips

Buy Tesco
Sell Wolfson Microelectronics
Buy Eros International

DAILY MAIL

Punters betting on a 139p/share bid for 888 Holdings by Ladbrokes
Britvic up on Diageo bid speculation
Gulf Keystone Petroleum excited by Chinese bid speculation

DAILY EXPRESS

Rumours that Russian and Chinese predators are looking at Gulf Keystone Petroleum

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Stock Markets at Crtiical Juncture

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The stock market appears to be at a critical juncture right now. There are many people expecting a significant correction or possibly even a crash back to the March lows. The reason being that the markets have bounced around 50% since and that is exactly what happened back in 1929. In 1929 the bear market lasted 34 months, this time round from October 2007 to March 2009 was only 17 months if we add the 6 month since march then there could be still another 11 months to go to make it 34 months of a bear market.

Not everyone is convinced this is going to happen of course, but most people believe this month is critical and in particular this week. If the markets don't sell off and fall below important support levels then the markets could continue on upwards, if they do fall through those critical levels then things could get very ugly. Today was a positie day with the DOW up 112 points and the S&P up 15 to 1040 but tomorrow is another day. So beginners to stock market investing in particular should take care. In this video June from www.tplinvestment.com explains where this support level is

Weekend Newspaper Share Tips Oct3

Online Stock Trading for Beginners - Weekend Newspaper Share Tips

SUNDAY TIMES

Tesco to announce like-for-like sales slowing down in the UK

SFO's phoney war with BAE Systems will end in a settlement

BAE Systems rejected a £300 million settlement on advice that they could be taken to court for misuse of shareholders' funds

A secret run on RBS almost causd the bank to collapse in each of the last 4 trading days before the government bailed it out

Sharewatch: Wolseley

SUNDAY TELEGRAPH

Questor Share Tips

Avoid Smith & Nephew at 553p
Avoid ASOS at 325p
Buy May Gurney at 218p

Comment:

BAE Systems to admit bribe guilt

MAIL ON SUNDAY

Midas Share Tips

Buy Chesnara at 170p

Update:

Buy Coal of Africa at 108p

Other comment:

Scottish & Southern Energy profits set to double

Breweries see profits dry up

Tesco plans to increase sales of plasma TVs and laptops this Xmas

SUNDAY EXPRESS

Goldman Sachs gets nearly £4 million from taxpayers after advising Northern Rock
Emirates airline says recession is lifting

SATURDAY

FINANCIAL TIMES
Lex

US non-farm payrolls report made depressing reading

Anite benefits from Bluesky Travel System's collapse

Renewable Energy blows away its debt -- Carillion misses out on rally

THE TIMES

Tempus:

Renewable Energy shares - good wind from Copenhagen behind them
Bet of the day: Tesco
Tiddler to watch - Arteon
Review of portfolio - 10 share tips back from the brink

Sage, Workspace, 3i Group, Vodafone, AB Foods, Tesco, AstraZeneca, National Grid, Reed Elsevier

DAILY MAIL

Intec Telecom benefits from revived takeover rumours and talk that trading is strong

Kiwara rumoured to have started pre-feasibility study for Zambia copper project

DAILY EXPRESS

Property Investments worth a look at 78.5p
Tuck some Ceres Power away at 191p - potential for growth

Comment:

Britvic up on Diageo bid hopes
Avacta Group - speculation that they are about to announce second order for its Optim product
South African company rumoured to looking to buy large chunk of Mwana Africa's Bindura Nickel holdings
Hopes of Lesotho main pipe stake sale boost Kopang Diamond Developments

What is High Frequency Trading?

How to Trade Stocks - What is High Frequency Trading?

High frequency trading, also called arbitrage trading or HFT, is a form of automated trading employed by professional institutional investors using powerful computers to carry out millions of orders on multiple stock markets in just a few seconds. This gives the institutions that use high frequency trading a significant advantage.

This method of stock trading is of course not for beginners ! The institutions that use it, however, can spot new trends in a fraction of a second. By anticipating these trends institutions that make use of high frequency trading can realize significant profits on their trades as a result of the bid-ask spread.

Although the spreads only provide a fraction of 1% profit per trade, high profits are nevertheless achievable due to the extremely high volume of trades involved.

High frequency trading is seen by many to offer large firms an unfair advantage over smaller institutions and ordinary investors. Basically what these institutions do is use their speed advantage to buy a stock before others notice that it is moving, then when the rest of the pack start buying and the price moves up further they sell the stock back at the higher price. This is of course what happens all the time in stock markets, the difference this time is that the whole transaction takes only a fraction of a millisecond. The gains are small but repeated millions or even billions of a times a day the profits add up. This is the beauty of high frequency trading. It may all sound rather mechanical and boring but when millions are at stake then you can see why people would want to do it.

Andrew M. Brooks at mutual fund and investment company T. Rowe Price, a says “we’re moving toward a two-tiered marketplace of the high-frequency arbitrage guys, and everyone else. People want to know they have a legitimate shot at getting a fair deal. Otherwise, the markets lose their integrity.”

It seems to me that it was ever thus, the guy who gets the information first has an advantage.

Tim Worstall at the Examiner says the real question should be not "what is high frequency trading?" but "what is the problem with high frequency trading?" to which, he argues, the answer is "nothing".

According to Worstall the problem is not high frequency trading, but "flash trading", and unfortunately even people who ought to know better confuse the two.

Flash trading allows a trader to get a "peek" at the orders of other traders. It is, says Worstall, this flash trading that is the problem as it allows "front-running" a form of insider knowledge that can give you an advantage and that ought to be illegal.

Flash trading, however, is not high frequency trading or arbitrage trading.

High speed trading is just another form of arbitrage (buying something cheap in one place and selling it for more in another place). With high speed trading the trades are carried out so fast that the actual physical proximity of the computers involved to the computers on the stock exchange is a factor. Firms with computers right next door to the stock exchange can trade faster than firms with computers further away.

You would think that the Securities and Exchange Commission would know the difference between high frequency trading and flash trading but apparently they don't as the ban they have proposed covers both high frequency and flash trading. Ah well it's nice to know that idiots can make money too, there's hope for me yet !

Weekend Newspaper Share Tips Sep27

Online Stock Trading - Weekend Newspaper Share Tips

September 27

SUNDAY TELEGRAPH

Questor - Share Tips:
Buy Vodafone at 141.75p
Buy Songbird at 3.15p on news of further improvement - it owns the majority of the company running London's Canary Wharf, - after an enormous emergency cash call it is now debt-free - Hold the shares for now and be prepared to buy on news of further improvement.

Buy LSE - shares trade on 14.5 times earnings, cheaper than other exchanges at 18-19 times. Downside is limited due to the fact that if LSE does not deliver, it will soon be a T/O target.

Buy BAE Systems


MAIL ON SUNDAY


Midas - Share Tips:

Buy Indigo Vision at 617.5p

Update: Buy Primary Health Properties new shares

Andy Brough of Schroders:

"I'm putting away the housebuilders for now"

Other comment:

Sainsbury to start voucher challenge to Tesco

Dash for cash might mean end of the rally

THE TIMES

Share Tips
BUY S&U - West Midlands doorstep lender, they are worth a buy for the dividend alone,
Hold Group NBT, formerly NetBenefit, it is one of the dot-com survivors. Biggest business involves managing corporate domain names — buying, registering and renewing corporate web addresses.

Rumour of the day - Mobistar shares get a boost after France Telecoms chief says consolidation activity in Belgium, Switzerland and Portugal is possible

Bet of the day

Tuesday’s trading statement by M&S will test its ability to generate like-for-like sales growth of 4% or more. Its shares have risen from 280p in April to 367p. Cantor Index is offering a December contract-related spread of 367p-368.4p.

Tiddler to watch

Transense Technologies' unit Translogik has signed a deal with Goodyear to supply its tyre tread pressure and depth field inspection kit - to be launched in Q4 and across the rest of Europe next year. It is seen as proof of management’s transformation of the company. The share price rose 13% to 13p.

INDEPENDENT

Investment - Share Tips
Buy M&C Saatchi's - pe ratio of 8 times 2009 is not demanding, and the company is well placed for when the recovery begins.

SUNDAY EXPRESS

Asda fears it may lose Andy Bond to M&S

Microsoft to agree to settle dispute with EU Commission
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Best Online Stock Brokers

Online Stock Trading - Best Online Stock Brokers

Which are the Best Online Brokers?

If you are intending trading stocks online then you will need to sign up with an online stock broker. The following is a list of some of the current best online stockbrokers and discount brokers - but in no particular order, you will notice there is no mention of TDWaterhouse or any TDAmeritrade related companies, you may even wonder why, well in my experience they are useless ! So I haven't mentioned them.

1) Charles Schwab has just been voted best onlike broker overall over at ConsumerResearch.com as a result of its investment product range, the ease of use of its research and trading tools, customer service and customer satisfaction. You will need a minimum opening balance of $1,000. Fees are from $8.95 to $12.95 per trade.

2) Interactive Brokers has been voted 'best for active brokers' by ConsumerResearch.com who say that experts consider they offer the best of both worlds: low costs and state- of the art technology for day traders. Fees are $.005 per share up to 1,000 shares. Interactive Brokers offer direct access trading i.e. trades are sent directly to the market. However this site isn't for people whoe require a lot of support. And you must spend at least $10 per month in commissions

3) Zecco - free stock trading ! - : If you can maintain a minimum balance of $25K or make at least 25 trades each month, then you will be entitled to ten (10) free stock trades a month with Zecco. The regular Zecco commission rate is only $4.50 per trade which is still pretty good. As far as online stock brokers go Zecco is firmly in the cheap and cheerful camp - they offer very cheap trades (you can't realistically get cheaper than free!) but expects its clients to do their research elsewhere.

4) OptionsHouse - $2.95 each trade - OptionsHouse is another very cheap online stock broker at just $2.95 per stock trade. In addition you do not need to maintain a minimum monthly balance and there are no account maintenance fees. OptionsHouse doesn't just do options, you can also trade stocks, and a whole raft of financial products from a major discount broker. At the moment they will also pay up to $100 if your current broker charges a contract termination fee amd if you refer a friend they will pay you $50.

5) TradeKing - $4.95 a trade - TradeKing (voted 'best discount broker' by ConsumerResearch.com), also does not require you to have a minimum balance and does not charge fees for maintaining your account. TradeKing also is very well perceived by both the press and the public. At the moment they are also covering transfer fees up to $150 and offering $50 if you refer a friend.

6) Scottrade - Scottrade charges $7.00 per online trade which is pretty cheap but not as cheap as some. It also does not charge fees for account maintenance or inactivity. It also has a very large network of branch offices that you can visit (430 which is actuall more than Charles Schwab), which for some retail investors is important.

7) TradeMonster charge $7.50 a trade up to 5,000 shares - TradeMonster is a newish discount broker but has already been awarded 4 stars for trade experience, research amenities, usability, and portfolio analysis reports by Barron's. TradeMONSTER's rates are 'competitive' and they offer the latest online trading technology plus a complete suite of trading tools. They have 24 hour a day help via their 'learning center' (doesn't sound like live online help to me) and you get free real-time streaming quotes! Plus they will pay up to $250+ (why the 'plus' it makes no sense) for transfer fees.

8) E*Trade Financial charges $9.99 a trade. ETrade has been voted No. 1 by SmartMoney as best overall broker is not the cheapest of the discount brokers but it is one of the oldest. Etrade has won numerous awards over the years, including number 1 for best overall online discount brokerage in the 2009 best broker survey by SmartMoney. Etrade offers the best investment calculation tools and financial research material. It is competitive but far from the cheapest. Its rates are $9.99 per stock trade if you make 30 trades a month or keep $50K in assets, otherwise they charge $12.99 per trade. At the moment ETrade is offering a bonus offer of 100 commission-free stock and option trades for new accounts. Their site however has great screeds of information in what looks like 8 point font - aargh! Why do they do that ?

Wednesday Newspaper Share Tips

Investing Online - Wednesday Newspaper Share Tips

Wednesday 16 Sept. 2009
Daily Telegraph
Questor - Share Tips

Buy Genus at 700p it has raced ahead but the bull run is not over - based on the US dairy market recovery, expansion plans and trend of increasing demand for food

Buy Hargreaves Services at 643p. The business model has produced an annual compounded rate of EPS growth of 50% for the last four years. Very impressive.

The Times
Tempus Share Tips

Hold Debenhams at 81¾p, - it is in a better position than at the start of the year. The Woolworths and Adams have disappeared so it can build on its low market share in children’s wear.

It is growing in sportswear. However gains will be harder from here, especially given January’s planned VAT rise.

Buy Hargreaves

Brooks Macdonald - at 386p shares have rallied 1/3 since July - look to buy lower down.

Rumor - Tullow Oil up 13p to £10.87 traders have the company as a potential takeover target with Eni, rumoured to be considering a £20-a-share offer.

Deal - Shares in Lamprell rose 15p to 173p, after winning 3 contracts worth $52 million.

Bet of the day - Netcall, is set to announce full-year results, investors banking on company beating expectations by a wide margin. Shares closed up nearly 25%. The company said back in July it would significantly beat last year’s numbers.

Tiddler to watch - Southern Bear has raised £250,000 for expansion and has won a contract with eaga, the residential energy efficiency group. It says trading in Q1 was “very pleasing”.

The Independent.
Investment Share Tips

Buy Hargreaves

Hold fund manager Ashmore for now could be more fruitful in the future - it trades at 16.3 earnings ahead of its peers, which are just under 15 times.
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The Daily Telegraph

Questor - Share Tips
Speculative Buy Antisoma - Antisoma is a loss-making biotech, but it has lots going for it which make it more than a gamble. It is fully funded until mid-2011, has a number of potential treatments at a late stage in development and Novartis is on its side.

Buy International Ferro Metals and wait

Other comments

US credit shrinking at same rate as seen in Great Depression giving rising to fears of double-dip recession


The Times

Tempus - Share Tips

Avoid Helphire At 36½p, or 14 times earnings. - Recovery from recession, even if it slow, will provide relief for Helphire. But can Credit hire, the niche pioneered by Helphire still be considered a growth industry, given its greater take-up since the downturn in 2001, and the willingness of Acromas and others to find alternative means of settling claims.

Hold Antisoma - its appeal is that it has enough cash until 2011. At 28p the recent improved sentiment on US biotechs — usually a lead indicator for European counterparts — should support the shares.

Pass on International Ferro Metals at 58½p, or 10 times 2011 earnings, it is high enough for now.

Rumour of the day - Sprint Nextel Corp rose 10% to $4.16 on speculation it might be acquired by Deutsche Telekom, even though analysts say this would be difficult to pull off.

Deal of the day - Mark Dixon, founder and CEO of Regis, said after the market had closed that he was selling about 3% of the company to institutional investors in what will be seen by many as a sign that demand is picking up. This is about 10% of his stake.

Bet of the day - Debenhams figures come out this morning and are expected to show fall of about 5% in Q4 sales, despite the department store’s best efforts.

Tiddler to watch - Charlemagne Capital, a fund manager that specializes in emerging markets, rose 1½p to 16p after receiving a “buy” recommendation from UBS which set a target of 16½p for the stock. Assets under management rose by 28% in Q2 to $2.4 bn.


The Independent
Investment - Share Tips
Buy Sainsbury's - Potential clouds could be Tesco pricing cuts and CEO Justin King jumping ship to M&S, although he has said he won't.

The shares have fallen slightly over the past year, but long-term Sainsbury's look in a good position to benefit from more spending by core customers after the recession.

Buy Velti - Velti was one of the first mobile advertising cos. to deliver marketing and technology for cos. such as Vodafone and Orange, Coca Cola and Honda. Advertisers are looking to find new ways of exploiting mobile phones and a 2010 PE of almost 6 times, Velti looks good value.

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The Sunday Telegraph
Cheap dollars will bring about the next crisis
Lehman is just a footnote in the East-West globalisation crisis
Darling finally puts Gordon Brown in his place

Questor - Share Tips
Buy VinaCapital Vietnam Opportunities Fund at $1.71
Buy Catlin at 332.8p
Take profits from Cisco Systems at $23.12

Mail on Sunday
Midas - Share Tips
Aga will recover as economy warms up
Cadbury soaring but still has further to go
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Rod Kuusinen

Predicts Possible Stock Market Crash for 2009 starting Sept. 11According to Rod Kuusinen of rsksys.com the crash of 2008 was predictable and certain very skilled analysts saw it coming. Now the markets are rallying and investors see a recovery coming. But it ain't over yet, the recession is not over by a long chalk. Unemployment is still rising banks are still failing. Rod Kuusinen trades the S&P 500 futures and his software shows what he describes as "a frightening truth". The VIX has been falling since the end of 2008. This has caused a predictable stock market rally. The scary part is that gaps are always filled. In his video of July 30 2009 he showed how every gap in the past 10 years on a VIX daily chart has always been filled. The video shot on Sept. 10 shows where the gaps still exist and what you should do to protect your investments (basically get out of the market, get short but at the very least put in stops).

I don't know Mr Kuusinen and know nothing of his software but the video is at least a warning that investors would do well to watch and consider. There are plenty of people who think that a correction is due and some saying that the "dumb money" is now re-invested and the markets are highly overbought so it's high time they headed back down.

So here are Mr Kuusinen's two videos about why the stock market will crash again - one from Sept. 10 and one from July 30



July 30 2009 Video about VIX and Possible Stock Market Crash


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Candlestick charts were developed many hundreds of years ago by Japanese rice traders, on the stock market they are used to show the high, low, open and close of a share price and connect the high and low of the time period being studied with a thin line. The open and close are represented by the body of the candle, which is shaded a different color depending on whether the closing price was higher or lower than the opening price. In candlestick software packages usually if the close is higher then the body is white, if the close is lower than the open then the body is black (sometimes green and red are used instead).

Investing in Stocks for Beginners is made easier by candlestick patterns which show what the supply and demand was for a particular period and show whether buyers or seller were in control. Long white candlesticks mean that buyers were in control whereas black candles show that sellers were in control throughout the period in question (this may be five minutes, five days or a month etc...).

Long wicks show that there was a lot of action but at the end of the period the closing price was close to the opening price. If the body is at top with a wick at the bottom this means that the sellers were in control at the beginning but the buyers got control towards the end of the period. If the body is at bottom with a long wick at the top then the buyers were initially in control but then sellers took control at the end of the period.

Short candlesticks means that there was no action or that there was a battle between buyers and sellers but that neither won. If short candlesticks show up at top of a long uptrend or downtrend then it can show a change in the trend.

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FINANCIAL TIMES

Funds for fridges – a US$300 million rebate scheme on energy-efficient appliances could be in place by Christmas.

Kraft/Cadbury: the US group will have to up its offer

The Times
Tempus - Share Tips

Hold AB Foods
Hold Healthcare Locums
Lupus Capital for the brave only.

Business editor

Cadbury: offer must be increased to secure a deal

Other comment

Blue Cow to grab Red Bull by the horns.

Fears of sale of Alchemy stake overshadows Ath Resources.

Tiddler to watch - Mariana Resources

Daily Telegraph
Questor - Share Tips

Hold AB Foods
Hold Whitbread

Comment

Small companies raiding pensions to survive

RBS appoints Goldman to sell aviation arm, according to market chatter.

Rumours that Greene King may merge with Mitchells & Butlers or Marston's

The Independent
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Share Tips of the week
Buy Serco at 456p
Buy Severn Trent at 962p
Buy Chesnara at 170p
Buy CLS Holdings at 445p
Buy H&T Group at 268p.

Sell Paypoint at 486p.

Updates

Buy Omega Insurance
Buy Heritage Oil.

Sell Restaurant Group
Sell Grafton Group
Sell Majestic Wine.

Johnston Press fairly priced.

Company results

Buy Serica Energy, Fortune Oil, Kenmare Resources, Salamander Energy, Segro, Carillion, Churchill China, Bisichi Mining, London & Associated Properties, Roc Oil, Henry Boot, Quarto, Biocompatibles, Eaga, West China Cement, Dechra Pharmaceuticals, Rheochem, Asterand and Griffin Mining.

Sell Robert Walters, Aga Rangemaster, Bloomsbury Publishing, Avis Europe, PartyGaming, Kazakhmys and Marshalls.

The Times
Tempus - Share Tips

Hays tuck away before recovery
Buy McBride
Hold HMV Group

Daily Telegraph
Questor - Share Tips

Buy Melrose
Buy BP

Comment
Xstrata said to be lining up a new Lonmin bid

The Independent
Investment - Share Tips

Hold Hays
Hold Spice
Buy Playtech

Daily Mail

Abbey admits malpractice.

Daily Express

Lonmin up on Xstrata bid hopes

New public-private partnership deal talk for Rurelec

Caledon Resources up on renewed bid hopes

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Buy Fenner at 115p
Buy Alexander Mining at 7.5p.

Updates

Buy Elementis
Buy Robert Walters
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Emerging markets

Buy IQE
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Trend spotting

Buy Guinness Peat
Buy CVS Group

FINANCIAL TIMES

Cape up on rumours of a takeover bid

The Times

Tempus

Thomas Cook and TUI Travel may need to wait until 2011 for pick-up in consumer confidence
Hargreaves Lansdown up with events
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Daily Telegraph

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Buy Cape
Buy Diageo.

The Independent

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Hold Hargreaves Lansdown
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Daily Mail

Cadbury workers threatening strikes over pay

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The Times
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Retailers must get ready for bumpier ride in 2010
Majestic Wine hold
Avoid Johnston Press until a broad-based economic recovery seems likely.

Comment

Game Group up on Nintendo price drop hopes

Bet of the day: Hargreaves Lansdown.

Tiddler to watch - Kiwara

Daily Telegraph

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Avoid Legal & General
Buy Serco.

The Independent

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Buy Dechra Pharmaceuticals
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Daily Mail

Square Mile to axe an extra 35,000 jobs

Daily Express

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THE TIMES

Tempus - Share Tips
Fresnillo - good bet if you think industrial recovery is imminent, if not, wait for weakness

Michael Page - setback in share price might make them worth a punt, if only because Addecco might renew its interest

Hold on to Dragon Oil - Emirates National Oil Company in Dubai made approach in June, at a modest premium for outstanding stock, but minority shareholders were unimpressed. Worth holding on for more

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Hightex Group may sign a Vancouver stadium roof deal.
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Tiddler to watch - Kewill

DAILY TELEGRAPH
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Buy Hill & Smith.

Comment
Stop bashing bankers – we must all accept blame for the recession [OK - where's my £2 million bonus then ? - Ed.]

Comment

British Land shares down ahead of possible sale of prize assets

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Buy Shaftesbury - short-term wait till the stock falls back before buying, but for buy and hold for the longer term, Shaftesbury is a must

Buy Brinkley Mining - price below group net asset value
Hold Hardy Oil & Gas.

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Fears that prospective bidders are no longer interested in Earthport.
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FINANCIAL TIMES
Lex

Lowe's shares fell sharply amid the sell off yesterday as sales were worse than expected
British housing sales rose in Q2 2009, but were still about half the average.
Swedbank's 2nd rights issue in a year highlights the bad situation in parts of eastern Europe
Japanese economic recovery seems to grow stronger.

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Drax gets Morgan Stanley upgrade
Plant Health Care a 'buy' according to Evolution

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SUNDAY TIMES

Agenda:
Legislation on bonuses could destroy the City [after we saved them ? Ed.]

Comment:

KBC Peel Hunt doubles profit in H1 boosted by rise in company fundraising and a boom in trading volume

Urenco finds path to enrichment

Sharewatch: Thomas Cook

SUNDAY TELEGRAPH
Questor - Share Tips

Buy James Fisher at 455p
Hold Prudential at 516p
Buy Diploma at 149p

Comment:

Icelandic rumours are nothing compared to the truth

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BP, Man Group, Cable & Wireless, RSA, National Grid, Shell, Severn Trent, United Utilities, Standard Life, Vodafone

Comment:
Harry Potter equals success for Cineworld

Protests grow as bargain shops invade high streets

Holiday home owners may have to deal with tax penalties

Rio Tinto to state fall in profits from £3.3 bn to £1.6 bn on Thursday


SUNDAY EXPRESS

UK gyms Fitness First make loss

Hilco profits boosted 500% by pre-packs

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FINANCIAL TIMES

Rumours of major Carillion deal with BT

Trader - Jumps in volume - Alumasc

THE TIMES
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Energy sector's results not good for health of service providers - Lamprell, Petrofac, Wood Group

Comment:

Release of Lockerbie killer would free up BP to grab some of Libya's oil riches

Bet of the day: British Land
Tiddler to watch - Avisens
Prudential in good position for recovery

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Crispin Odey warns that markets are a bit overbought and will probably pull back
Citywire: credit crisis a thing of the past says New Star's Guy de Blonay

THE INDEPENDENT

US Outlook:

ObamaCare equals bad news for Big Pharma

DAILY EXPRESS

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Volga Gas up on talk of positive drilling update

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Hold Mouchel at 186.5p
Take profits at ASOS at 345p


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Accsys Technology can cash in fake hardwood
Andy Brough from Schroders, to add to his holding in Novae Group


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Tempus:
Who will benefit from women's increasing financial power ? (HSBC, Standard Chartered, Prudential, Kingfisher, Cadbury, Unilever, Tesco, GlaxoSmithKline, Diageo)

Other comment:

FinnCap says Ffastfill is a logical target for Thomson Reuters or Fidessa

Bet of the day: Intercontinental Hotels

Tiddler to watch - Avacta

DAILY MAIL

Investment Extra:

Some ideas for your portfolio from Richard Buxton from Schroders (Tesco, Unilever, Burberry, Experian, BG Group)

Other comment:

Borders UK may be next high street casualty

Numis questions accounting policies at Brewin Dolphin

DAILY EXPRESS

Taking Stock:
Hold on for rise in biotechs (BTG, Vectura, Antisoma, GW Pharma, Abcam, Oxford Biomedica, Proximagen, Vernalis,)
Healthy forecast for Immupharma.

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FINANCIAL TIMES

Credit cards: the party is over for card issuers and free-spenders, with the credit card industry set to shrink dramatically.

Northern Rock - retail banking is still a mess

THE TIMES

Tempus - Share tips

Avoid Dray Group
Stay away from Cookson Group
Buy William Hill.

Comment

London property market perks up as off-plan buyers with large deposits return

HMV to suffer from change by shoppers from discs to downloads.

BoA suggests Baleen’s Cameroon assets are prime acquisition target

Bet of the day: Lloyds.

Tiddler to watch - EservGlobal

DAILY TELEGRAPH

Questor - Stock picks

Rexam: take up you rights
Buy RM

Comment

Talk that BowLeven may be a takeover target.

Talk that Dubai International Capital wants to reverse Travelodge into Whitbread.

THE INDEPENDENT

Investment - Share tips

Buy Legal & General
Buy Moneysupermarket.com
Buy Marston's
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SUNDAY NEWSPAPERS
SUNDAY TIMES
Barclays' investment bankers to get £250,000 each in bonuses and salaries for 6 months' work

Eurofighter purchase cuts threatens 20,000 jobs and may lead to the closure of BAE Systems' Warton plant

ITV to reveal its pension deficit almost tripled

Dividend cuts by Aviva and Legal & General threaten market rally

SUNDAY TELEGRAPH
Questor - Share Tips

Buy Morgan Crucible at 128.75p
Buy BAE Systems at 307p
Buy Tate & Lyle at 367.75p

Comment:

Xstrata expected to state significant drop in interim results this week

THE OBSERVER

Banks to write off another £32 billion, but Lloyds will forecast that worst is over

Jaguar Land Rover may soon get state aid

MAIL ON SUNDAY
Midas - Share Tips

International Ferro Metals - buy and hold

Update:

IS Pharma still rising

Comment

Surprise bank figures hide huge losses say analysts
ITV hit by adverts plunge
Ladbrokes and William Hill odds-on to go offshore
A&S Leisure profits fall 27%

SATURDAY NEWSPAPERS

THE TIMES
Tempus:
6,000 here we come - why Europe's stocks will shine

Comment
RBS to deliver £1 billion blow to investors
Cazenove says WPP will tap the market for funds

Tiddler to watch - Henderson Morley

DAILY TELEGRAPH

WPP shrugs off rumours of capital raising

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Financial Services: buy Banco Santander, Fidessa and Old Mutual
Mining: buy Centamin Egypt, Kiwara and MDM Engineering
Oil and gas: buy Afren and Petrofac
India and China: buy Eredene Capital and OPG Power Ventures
Technology: buy Avanti and Intec Telecom
Overrated: sell Debenhams and Mothercare.

Agenda
Buy IMI, Johnson Matthey Victrex, Johnston Press, Shire, Melorio, Game Group and Iofina
Sell Morse
Sell K3 business Technology.

Plays
Buy Vodafone and Johnson Matthey

Small caps
Buy Arena Leisure, Faroe Petroleum, EcoSecurities, Patsystems, Zetar, Vertu Motors and StatPro
Sell Sinclair Pharma.

THE TIMES
Tempus - Share Tips

Inchcape high enough
Buy Morgan Crucible
Hold Rathbone Bros.

Comment
Duchy Originals ready to be engulfed by Waitrose.

Tiddler to watch - Straight

DAILY TELEGRAPH
Questor - Stock picks
Buy Bunge

Comment
Talk that Aviva is selling its back-book business.

THE INDEPENDENT
Investment - Share tips

Buy BG Group
Buy Halfords
Sell Rathbone Bros

Comment
Aviva up on sector consolidation hopes

DAILY MAIL
Plethora Solutions could be an exciting ride say analysts.

DAILY EXPRESS
Synchronica may be ready to sign order for its Mobile Gateway product with a North African operator
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Newspaper Stock Picks July 28

Stock Market Investing - Newspaper Share Tips- July 29

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FINANCIAL TIMES

Lex

USA house prices: the first month-on-month increase for 3 years
Results from Canon suggest the outlook for business technology remains bleak
BP's results look quite rosy, till you look more closely at the numbers.
Morse believed to be a takeover target for Computacenter
Possible equity issue from Gulf Keystone Petroleum

THE TIMES

Tempus - Share Tips
Buy Croda International on weakness
Pass on ARM
Sell Games Workshop.

Other comment

Lamprell said to be delaying several projects in the Middle East.
Bet of the day: Cadbury.

Tiddler to watch - Horizonte Minerals

DAILY TELEGRAPH

Questor - Stock Picks
Buy Randgold Resources
Buy Croda International.

THE INDEPENDENT

Investment - Share Tips
Hold Sage Group
Buy Provident Financial
Hold Games Workshop.

Comment
UK's top accountancy companies are putting hundreds of thousands of pounds of resources and staff into the Tory party, in expectation of a Conservative government

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THE TIMES

Tempus - Share Tips

Wolseley - take profits
Tuck away Beazley
Buy Dialight on weakness.

Comment

RBS considering withdrawing from government lending plan.

Bet of the day: BP.

Tiddler to watch - Probability

DAILY TELEGRAPH
Questor - Stock picks

Buy National Grid
Buy Pearson.

Comment

MPs have introduced new rules allowing them to claim £9125 a year without any receipts - [so nothing new there then]

THE INDEPENDENT
Investment - Share Tips

Buy National Grid
Buy Beazley
Sell Aberdeen Asset Management
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Investors Chronicle Tips July 24

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INVESTORS CHRONICLE

Share Tips
Buy Centrica at 232p
Buy Mears at 235p
Buy Omega Insurance at 124p
Buy KBC Advanced Technologies at 34p
Buy Ashley House at 81p.

Sell Centaur Media at 32p.

Updates
Buy National Grid, William Morrison, and Nighthawk Energy.
Sell Abbey and British Airways

Company results
Buy Kirkland Lake Gold, Domino's Pizza, Spark Centres (speculative) and Colefax (Contrarian)
Sell Sports Direct.

FINANCIAL TIMES
Comment

HSBC helped by rumours of listing in mainland China
Thomas Cook helped by Arcandor stake sale rumours
Earthport boosted IBM bid
Talk of 30p-a-share offer for Coffeeheaven

THE TIMES
Tempus - Share Tips

Get some Imperial Tobacco for the long term
Buy Kingfisher on weakness
Avoid Colt Telecom.

Comment

Bet of the day: Yell Group.

Tiddler to watch - IQE

DAILY TELEGRAPH
Questor - Stock Picks

Buy Capita Group
Buy Compass Group
Buy Scottish & Southern Energy.

THE INDEPENDENT
Investment - Share Tips

Buy Kingfisher
Buy Capita Group
Hold International Personal Finance
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SHARES MAGAZINE

Plays - Share Tips
Buy Brooks Macdonald at 307p
Buy Hargreaves Services at 178.5p.

Update

Hold Central African Gold.

Ten sizzlers for the summer

ASOS, Craneware, China Shoto, Healthcare Locums, Eros International, Mears, Hilton Food, NCC, Melorio, and Penna Consulting.

FINANCIAL TIMES

Lex

Apple's results defy belief almost as rivals struggle to sell cheaper machines.

Flu - the world's misfortune is good news for GlaxoSmithKline's

Comment

Revival of bid rumours help SThree

Morse up on takeover talk

THE TIMES

Tempus - Share Tips

Hold BHP Billiton
Euromoney: avoid for now
Buy Carr's Milling for income.

Business editor

Flu could give GSK another blockbuster
Going gets tough in Africa for Rio Tinto

Comment

Bet of the day: Vodafone.

Tiddler to watch - Dwyka Resources

DAILY TELEGRAPH

Questor - Stock Picks

Avoid GlaxoSmithKline
Buy Galiform.

Comment

Road to recovery appears bumpy but in place

Comment

Microsoft: a lot is riding on Windows 7 after the flop that was Vista

Entertainment One stock overhang cleared

THE INDEPENDENT

Investment - Share Tips

Sell Sportingbet
Buy Galiform
Sinclair Pharma - cautious hold.

DAILY MAIL

Yell's bosses' bonuses cause investor rebellion.

Investors bet on deal for Caledon Resources.
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SHARES MAGAZINE

Plays:

Buy Dana Petroleum at £13
Buy Persimmon at 401.25p

Updates:

Buy Netplay TV
Take profits at BGlobal

Top Tactics:

Buy Johnson Matthey -- Admiral -- Severn Trent

Sell GlaxoSmithKline -- Kier -- Bodycote

Sector Report:

Buy Spring Group -- Penna Consulting -- Michael Page

FINANCIAL TIMES

Reckitt Benckiser down on analyst warning
Wellstream up on renewed bid speculation
Rumours that Central African Mining may be a takeover target

THE TIMES
Tempus - Share Tips

Buy London Stock Exchange on weakness
Buy Business Post for income
Blacks Leisure for the brave only

Anglo American rights issue speculation

Bet of the day: Sports Direct

Tiddler to watch - Nighthawk Energy

DAILY TELEGRAPH
Questor - Stock Picks

Buy Northern Foods
Hold Bodycote

Comment

Stake building in SIG by Canadian trade buyer

THE INDEPENDENT
Investment - Share Picks

Hold Burberry
Buy Northern Foods
Avoid Nordic Land

DAILY MAIL

Killick increases its Wolfson Microelectronics shareholding

DAILY EXPRESS

Speculation that Wellstream has a predator

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Newspaper Share Tips Wednesday

Investing Online - Newspaper Share Tips July 15

FINANCIAL TIMES
Technology stocks, early signs suggest the sector is not as resilient as had been hoped

Facebook -- Digital Sky Technologies reveals offer of $100 million for 1.54% of Facebook's stock

Ever darker clouds swirling round the US economy - retail sales show 4 consecutive months of declines despite price falls

Does Cathay Pacific need recapitalisation, and will shareholders back it?

Comment:

Senior banking figures leave sinking ship and take their irreplaceable talents to independent firms

Heritage Oil up on Genel Enerji takeover talk
Computacenter up on deal talk
Renewed Generali bid talk in RSA Insurance
Encore Oil up on sale of stake

THE TIMES
Tempus - Share Tips

Hold BG Group
Buy James Fisher on weakness
Pass on Alphameric

Dana Petroleum (DNX) rose 32p to 1332p on talk that BP could be interested in it

Tiddler to watch - Plexus

DAILY TELEGRAPH
Questor - Stock Picks

Buy Britvic
Buy Mothercare

THE INDEPENDENT
Investment - Share Picks

Buy Britvic
Buy Melrose Resources
Buy Alphameric

DAILY EXPRESS

Heritage Oil up on Shell bid talk
Computacenter up on talk of big contract
Rumours that Stagecoach are interested in National Express.
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Newspaper Share Tips July 14

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FINANCIAL TIMES
Mini-mergers - the stock market has steadied, so companies can now consider deals that would have been impossible to value just a few months ago

McDonald's to go - uncertainty about taxes in the UK is driving companies out

Comment:

ITV talk of a change to subscription model ! [They must be joking - Ed.]
National Express - rumours of new offer from FirstGroup
Aquarius Platinum - Chinalco rumoured to be buying
Rumours of bid approach for Redhall

THE TIMES

Tempus - Share tips

Hold Dunelm
Buy LMS Capital
Tuck away some Low & Bonar [presumably that means buy - Ed.]

Comment:

Bet of the day: oil price

Tiddler to watch - Hutchison China Meditech

DAILY TELEGRAPH

Questor: Stock Picks

Hold Venture Production
Buy Cranswick

THE INDEPENDENT
Investment Column - Share Tips

Hold Dunelm
Hold Cranswick
Buy Huntsworth

Ccomment:

Potential upside tempts buyers into ITV

DAILY MAIL

BP buzz sends Dana Petroleum higher

DAILY EXPRESS

Rumours of Futuragene deal with Monsanto.

Investing Online Share Tips July 10

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Stock Market Investing

INVESTORS CHRONICLE
Technology shares for the brave

Amphion Innovations
Imperial Innovations
Braveheart Investment Group
IP Group

Tips

Sell Yell Group at 22p
Sell Marston's at 91p
Sell Hallin Marine at 105p

Buy Morgan Sindall at 626p
Buy Informa at 229p
Buy Resaca Exploitation at 28p

Updates

Sell Game Group and Anite
Buy Research Now and Petrofac
Accsys Technologies fairly priced.

Company results

Buy Eros International - IDOX - MDM Group - Opsec - Photo-Me International -Digital Marketing.

FINANCIAL TIMES

Lex

Swiss bank secrecy - Berne may confiscate UBS data so that Switzerland's largest private bank will be unable to release them to US courts.

Quantitative easing - the Bank of England has surprised everyone by halting this treatment.

Comment

European Islamic Investment Bank up on bid hopes
Talk of fundraising at London & Stanford

THE TIMES

Tempus - Share tips

Buy Premier Oil
Sell Computacenter
Hold on to Begbies Traynor.

Comment

PV Crystalox rises on takeover speculation

Bet of the day: Bovis Homes.

Tiddler to watch - African Minerals

DAILY TELEGRAPH

Questor - Stock picks

Buy Croda
Hold Aveva.

Comment

Hays: recruitment in the city gives cause for hope.

THE INDEPENDENT
Investment - share tips

Hold AB Foods
Man Group - tentative buy
Sell Centaur Media.

Outlook

Nationwide offering 125% mortgages.

Comment

Fresnillo benefits from silver price outlook

DAILY EXPRESS

Aviva hit by solvency fears.

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What is Swing Trading?

When investing online or trying to make money from the stock market, traders apply a number of different strategies, such as Day Trading, Swing Trading, or Long-term Value Investing as recommended by Warren Buffett.

In swing trading the idea is to buy stocks (or sell them) for just a few days. The aim obviously is to make money by selling the stocks (or buying them back) a few days later. Swing trading is not interested in long-term trades.

There are however a number of recommendations it is worth following when swing trading

If a stock price gaps 1-2%, you should buy (or sell) half of the position size you intend buying (or selling) then see how the stock behaves before increasing your position. If the price doen't return to its original price, increase your position position.

If a the stock price gaps 2-3%, only buy (or sell) a quarter of the position size you intend buying (or selling).

If the stock price has gapped more than 3%, you are probably better off not bothering with the trade and looking for something else instead - the risk/reward is no longer the same, there is too much risk for too little reward.
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SHARES MAGAZINE
Plays:

Buy BAT at £16.51

Updates: take profits at Smiths News and HMV

Family Jewels:

Buy Abcam -- A&J Mucklow -- Penna Consulting -- Dunelm -- Town Centre Securities

Sector Report:

Buy Pennon
Buy Renewable Energy
Sell Centrica

FINANCIAL TIMES

Plans to cut almost one third of jobs at MySpace are late but necessary as News Corporation faces up to online realities

Comment:

Production woes at Genzyme factory benefits Shire

Rights issue rumours send GKN down

Yell Group hit by fundraising fears

Kofax up on vague bid talk

Morgan Stanley expects Xstrata rally

THE TIMES
Tempus:

Pass on WS Atkins
Hold RPC Group
Avoid Alexon

Other comment:

BP plans closure of alternative energy office

Cookson hit by rights issue fears

PartyGaming rumoured to win auction for Cashcade

Bet of the day: Cadbury

Tiddler to watch - Max Petroleum

DAILY TELEGRAPH
Questor:

Buy Lonrho
Buy Rolls-Royce

Comment:

Debt and rights issue worries hit Cookson

THE INDEPENDENT

Investment

Hold WS Atkins for now
Buy RPC Group
Hold Imaginatik

DAILY MAIL

Dark clouds swirl around solar firm Jetion

Brewin Dolphin up on vague takeover gossip

Cookson hit by rumours of profits warning

DAILY EXPRESS

Shire off the sick list
Arena Leisure boosted by improved weather
Talk that Alexander Mining close to deals for its MetaLeach mineral technologies

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FINANCIAL TIMES
Capita shares about-turn on shorting rumours

THE TIMES

Tempus:

Buy Halma if/when price drops
Hold Whitbread
Hold on to Ted Baker

Comment:

Retailers condemn return of VAT to 17.5% on New Year's Eve as mad

Egdon Resources underpinned by exploration permit hopes in France

Bet of the day: Sainsbury

Tiddler to watch - Lighthouse Group

DAILY TELEGRAPH

Questor:

Buy National Grid
Buy Tesco

Comment:

British Airways: Willie Walsh (£750,000 a year) has a flight of fancy and asks employees to work for nothing [only for a month so that's alright then - he is obviously a great talent and worth every penny of whatever his final salary is - let us hope that B.A. manage to hang on to him - with talent like that he could be snapped up by a bank Ed.] --
Tesco cautious about signs of recovery

Guardian Media Group expect losses

THE INDEPENDENT

Investment
Buy Whitbread
Hold Halma
Avoid Journey Group

Outlook:

Digital Britain - [back to the future - Gordon Brown promises 2 Mbits - and all on copper wires - yum, I can hardly wait ! - Ed.]

Redburn Partners says Lloyds, Barclays and RBS are ripe for picking

DAILY MAIL

UK aerospace - there may be turbulence ahead

PZ Cussons up on Vague takeover talks

Stock Charts for Beginners

Investing Online - Technical Analysis - Stock Charts for Beginners

Stock Charts - DOW Theory
The previous post on stock charts for beginners was about the first 3 tenets of DOW theory as explained by the guys at informedtrades.com - this post is about the last 3 tenets.

Tenet 4 - The Averages Must Confirm Each Other
This means that any rise in the DOW Jones Industrial Average must be confirmed by a rise in the DOW Jones Transportation Average, the reasoning being that if manufacturing companies are making more goods and more profits then the companies in the Dow Jones Transportation Index should also be more profitable as they are shipping the goods - if there's a divergence in these two indices then this is a signal of pending change - if not then it confirms the trend. This tenet is not so relevant today as the US is now much more of a service based economy than a manufacturing based economy.

Tenet 5 Trends Must Be Confirmed by Volume
This is still very relevant today. If the change in price (up or down) is accompanied by large volume then it means lots of people are taking part

Tenent 6 Trends Exist Until Signals Prove Otherwise

"The trend is your friend until the bend at the end" Finding signals showing that a trend is coming to an end is very important and will be covered later.

According to Dow, trends exist despite "market noise". There may be moves against the trend but these are temporary and the trend should be followed until it becomes clear that it has ended. Determining that the trend has ended is of course the tricky part and technical analysts tend to disagree.

In the current context (May 2009) many people were expecting the markets to put in a bottom after the horrendous 45% slump, but people differed about just where that bottom in the markets was going to be. When the DOW reached around 6500 many people were calling for it to go a lot lower, down to 4000 ! But so far it hasn't done that, it has in fact rallied back to around 8500. Now of course we are in an uptrend but most people expect it to end and head back down, which probably explains why it conitnues to go up.

1702 was an important point on the NASDAQ, if the NASDAQ had fallen back through 1702 that would have been very bearish and a signal that the markets were headed back down, but as it turned out the Nasdaq didn't fall back through 1702 and so that is seen as being very bullish. Markets should therefore continue to head higher ! We shall see.

Technical analysis may seem arcane but investing online without some basic understanding of stock charts would be very foolish.




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Investing Online - Technical Analysis and DOW Theory for Beginners

How to Read Stock Market Charts

Around 1900 Charles DOW was analyzing the movements of the DOW Jones Industrial Average and the DOW Jones Transportation Index when he found that these indices tended to move in a predictable way over time.

This is considered by many to represent the beginning of technical analysis and is used by a great many experts and non-experts in stock trading.

There are 6 tenets to DOW Theory, here are the first 3 :-

1. Markets have three trends - an uptrend, a downtrend and a correction i.e. the market moves up corrects then continues to move up.
2. Trends have 3 phases - the accumulation phase (when the experts are taking positions) - the public participation phase (which leads to rapid price increases) - the last phase is the excess phase when rampant speculation catches on but the smart movement starts exiting the trend.
3. Markets discount all news so that once news is released it is generally too late, the markets have already taken it into account - so to beat the market you need to look at technical factors not fundamental factors.

See stock market charts for beginners for the remaining 3 tenents
All this is said so much better than I could say it in this video by informedtrades .com

Investing Online Newspaper Share Tips

Investing Online - Investors Chronicle Tips

INVESTORS CHRONICLE

Stock Tips
Sell Hammerson at 305p
Sell Fidessa at £10.45
Sel Avis Europe at 17p

Buy Connaught at 346p
Buy Pace at 164p
Buy Costain at 26p

Updates:

Sell ASOS -- Thorntons -- Sports Direct

Buy Concurrent Technologies -- BAE Systems

ITV fairly priced

Company Results:

Buy MP Evans -- Egdon Resources -- Hasgrove -- Serica Energy -- China Shoto

Sell Game Group -- Whitbread -- Punch Taverns

FINANCIAL TIMES

Colgate-Palmolive has improved profits by a combination of lower costs and higher prices

Takeover hopes buoy Concateno

THE TIMES
Tempus:

Pass on Cadbury
Antofagasta - there will be better times to buy
Galiform - wait for further progress before buying

Other comment:

Pendragon trying to get new debt deal with banks

Taylor Wimpey may be considering £100M sale of Canadian business and share issue

Bet of the day: platinum

Tiddler to watch - Rea Holdings

DAILY TELEGRAPH
Questor:
Swine flu:
Avoid Lipoxen
Avoid PuriCore
Buy Cranswick
Benefit to pharmaceutical majors is marginal

Comment:

After 20 years Sky has now got ITV's licence to print money
DSG is on edge of cliff

THE INDEPENDENT
Investment
Buy DSG
Hold Cadbury
Hold McBride


DAILY MAIL

Swine flu lifts Lipoxen and Puricore
Rumours of imminent sale lift GKN
Redstone - gossip that large buyer is sniffing around


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Investing Online Eight Tips

Investing Online - Stock Market for Beginners - Eight Things You Should Know

If you are interested in investing online there is a great site you may want to have a look at - The Investing Online Resource Center - www.investingonline.org - the site is in their own words "designed to serve as a valuable source for noncommercial information about investing online .... created solely for educational purposes and maintained by the North American Securities Administrators Association."

They list 8 things you need to know if you are interested in the stock market for beginners and are considering investing online.

1. Start small
   You know it makes sense - don't bet the house ! You can always decide to increase your online account if things work out OK.
2. Diversify
   Online investors tend to focus on stocks, and in particular large-cap domestic stocks. These stocks should be a large part of your portfolio, but to increase risk tolerance you should put together a well-balanced portfolio of stocks, bonds, and cash.
3. Don't ignore mutual funds.
   Mutual funds have the expertise (take care here as they often make mistakes too!). Keep your mutual funds - don't put everything into individual stocks.
4. Keep a close eye on costs they may not always be obvious. Online brokerage costs are lower than offline brokers, but they can still add up. You also must reckon with federal capital gains tax.
5. Make sure your orders work for you.
   When investing online, learn how to use the tools available. (Obvious but true)
   
   Make sure you know the difference between a MARKET order, a LIMIT order, a STOP-LOSS order, "stop orders," "day orders" and "good-till-cancelled" orders.
6. Take care with market orders.
   A limit order limits the price you are willing to pay, a market order means the price when the order is finally placed, which may be a lot different to what it wa when you looked at it.
7. Problems are inevitable.
   Investing online will undoubtedly cause problems - you may be away from your computer, your Internet connection may crash etc... your online broker may have problems etc... In this respect I would recommend anyone reading this to steer clear of TDWaterhouse in my experience you can expect problems - for further info see. TDWaterhouse Problems .
8. Information is power.
   When investing online, you must keep youself well informed. Don't be drawn into hype - make sure you check the facts - I would also add make sure you get to grips with at least the basics of technical analysis and stock market charts.

If in addition to your online investments you have worked hard all your life and have been putting money into a 401K retirement investing then you may wish to consider a 401k rollover to an IRA as a sensible and prudent way of protecting your retirement savings.

You also need to understand about stock charts - see online stock trading for beginners

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Investing Online - Stock Market for Beginners - Is this a Good Time to Invest?

Is the Bear Market Over ?

If you are investing online and have been following the stock markets lately then one of the most overworked phrases you are likely to have heard is "there will not be a V-shaped recovery". The problem with this is that if everybody is convinced there will not be a V-shaped recovery then it is more than likely that that is exactly what we will get.

It is of course important when trading the stock markets to seek stock market investing advice - unfortunately, as we have seen over the last two years, the people who are giving the advice are generally clueless. How many of them actually said back in 2007 that the DOW and the S&P500 would collapse by 50% ? Not many. There were one or two, but one or two out of the many hundreds that are paraded on the TV finance channels is not a lot and not very impressive.

How many of them said "don't invest in the stock market ! Bear Stearns will disappear, Lehman's will disappear, AIG will be nationalized, Fanny Mae and Freddy Mac will be nationalized etc... etc... ? GM will file for bankruptcy ?" I would guess that the answer to that would be none.

So right now most of the experts are saying that there will be no V-shaped recovery and that the recovery will be slow and painful. Most of the experts that I hear on TV expect the stock market to re-test the bottom set in March around 6600 on the DOW and 667 on the S&P500, but so far it doesn't look as if the markets are keen to do this. Which makes us wonder just exactly who controls the stock markets ? Why would the stock market be going up when most people are not buying but are sitting on the sidelines ? Or could it be that they are saying one thing and doing another ?

The upshot of all this is that you really have to make up your own mind. The 'experts' don't know what's going on, as it was the experts that created this mess in the first place. Did they do it on purpose ? Was it all engineered by Goldman Sachs which seems to have been the main beneficiary of this financial meltdown ?

Trust no-one !

Today, despite no V-shaped recovery being expected the markets are still holding up well with the S&P500 up 5 points at 857 and the DOW is up 14 at 8044. Warren Buffett may have got it right by buying in October 2008, so maybe he can be trusted, but even so you need to be a long-term investor and have deep pockets if you are going to hang on in there with Warren Buffett.

The tech sector (+2.0%) has been the liveliest sector as investors buy Google ahead of its earnings report this evening.

The number of jobless continues to increase but this of course could be good news for the stock market as profit margins can increase at the same time,

March housing starts were 510,000, against 540,000 expected. This a reversal on last month where the figures were better than expected.
The stock market is a very confusing place to try and make money with your online stock trades , especially if you are not one of the insiders, and as we have seen the vast majority of them got it wrong