DIY Investor Magazine
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2015 Issue
42
About 0.25% of Tesco shares trade on an average day
and 0.2% of Optibiotix Health; however after the Daily
Mail tip, nearly 3% of the share traded and the shares
shot up.
Small cap stocks are far more likely to move in relation
to a stock tip than a large cap and large caps will move
relative to noise from the big guns, so make sure you
have good sources of information and track stock tips
and news as best you can.
It is difficult with our busy lives but I track stock tips
from well-known publications and sources and it helps
me in my investment strategy.
I bought £5k of Optibiotix Health which is now worth
£7k in a few months so I am happy with that; if the Daily
Mail changes its advice to ‘sell’ then I’m out as fast as I
can be, but I have to make sure I can see what tips are
made.
That is why I launched Stockomendation, the UK’s only
stock tip aggregation and comparison site, which tracks
over 160 tipsters and journalists and has over 11,000
stock tips and other information listed on the site.
I get an alert when a tip I am interested is made from
our tracked sources and it works well as I simply
haven’t got the time to look at the main publications in
the UK all day long.
I want the tip for the company I am interested in then
I will look for the research and go to the sites that are
making the specific tip.
Take a look at our site and we have created a special
offer for DIY Investor readers at
You can see for yourself if stocks you are invested in
have tips made about them, you can set alerts, you can
see performance of tipsters and journalists or if you are
simply looking for new ideas use the site to get to the
sites of the most popular journalists and tipsters in the
UK.
To allay any fears that the big boys have it all their own
way and out-muscle markets to their own advantage,
the ‘Sage of Omaha’, as billionaire investor Buffett
is known, had a less than happy outcome to his
investment in Tesco.
Despite four profit warnings, Buffett was too slow
in getting to the checkout (he admitted to being
embarrassed by his ‘thumb-sucking’) and his
investment tanked, losing Berkshire Hathaway £287.6
million.
I think it is almost impossible that such a smack in the
chops didn’t elicit a modicum of schadenfreude from
the little guys although some of them could have been
spared a stuffing had the Sage realised that the Tesco
stock was past its sell by date.
Don’t get too misty-eyed on behalf of Berkshire
Hathaway; that huge loss represented just one fifth of
one percent of the value of the investment business
which is valued at $212,000 a share!
