Good morning!
Brand new Stockopedia charts
The technical guys at Stockopedia HQ have been busy working on completely new charting software, for a long time now. Well, today is launch day! I had a preview last night, and it's a massive improvement on the existing charts on this site.
Ed is doing the launch in a webinar at 1pm today. The webinar sign up link is here. There are already a large number of people signed up, so there's clearly lots of interest in the new charts.
Whatever you think of charting, it does measure investor sentiment. So combining some analysis of the chart, with strong fundamental analysis, makes a lot of sense to me. I've certainly been more willing to run my winners, and tolerate more stretched valuations (in certain circumstances) recently, after reading the excellent Mark Minervini book on super-performance stocks - don't be put off by the spivvy-sounding title to the book, as it's an excellent read, highly recommended. He relies on some simple charting techniques to time his buy & sell points.
There are a lot of interesting trading updates & results out today in our small caps universe. Therefore both Graham & I will be writing reports today. I know it's a pain when we deliver 2 separate reports, but the logistics of it currently necessitate that, otherwise chaos will ensue if we try to merge lots of sections into one report.
Graham's report is taking shape here.
This is our plan of action today:
I intend reporting on
Revolution Bars (LON:RBG) - in line interim results & outlook
Boohoo.Com (LON:BOO) - due to popular demand, I'm continuing to report on this, even though it's now a mid-cap. Yet another positive trading update, and completion of Nasty Gal acquisition.
Graham intends reporting on;
Waterman (LON:WTM) - interim results
Redde (LON:REDD) - interim results
Avanti Communications (LON:AVN) - interim results
Swallowfield (LON:SWL) - interim results
Then, if there's time, we'll try to more briefly mention:
Johnson Service (LON:JSG) - interim results
Avingtrans (LON:AVG) - interim results + acquisition
I notice that Keith Ashworth-Lord writes in the latest fact-sheet that he has added Revolution Bars (LON:RBG) to the UK buffettology fund: http://www.castlefield.com/media/1780/cfp-sdl-buffettology-february-2017.pdf He's not infailible, but it's certainly one of the top performing UK equity funds over the last 5 years, and he doesn't often add new holdings.
(I hold both UK buffettology and £RBG)