Monday, 14 March 2011

"Picking Winning Shares"

Well, at last my book is published - you can now buy it on Amazon HERE!




The back cover image is here ...


I hope you enjoy reading it and that it helps with your investing.

Kind Regards, Mick.

Wednesday, 9 March 2011

A real good price move!

Real Good Food Group closed at 37.5p today (up 8.3%), breaking through the overhead resistance (see chart below).


The preliminary results are due on 29th March and based on the last RNS, we can expect a pleasant surprise. If the forecast turnover of £220m is met and given todays MCAP of £24.4m, RGD is still on a paltry PSR of 0.11. Expect a re-rating if the results are good.

Looking at the longer term chart, the next serious price resistance is expected at the 80 to 81p price level.

Will this one double again in the next year? What do you think?

You may also have noticed that RGD is available as a free case study HERE.

As ever, do the DIY-Investors thing and "make up your own mind!"

Wednesday, 16 February 2011

Is Uniq unique?

Uniq (SP=13.25p) underwent an explosive breakout today, closing up 5.75p (+74.92%). Of the 115million total shares available, 9.96m changed hands (8.7%), making this a significant move.


Was any of this foreseeable? Well we thought so, hence UNIQ was one of our picks for 2011. Another one of our picks for the year went up 21.18% today on a very impressive set of annual results. Want to get details? Join our community of DIY-Investors Here.

Monday, 7 February 2011

Pendragon (20.5p) - Start of a new upward move?

Fully listed Pendragon (PDG), closed today at 20.5p, up 2.5p or 13.89%. With the preliminary full year results due on 28th February 2011, is this the start of a new upward move?

On a fundamental basis, PDG is currently on an exceptionally low PSR of 0.04 (compared to the sector average of 0.87). Similarly, its PER is currently only 5.31 (sector average is 13.7). Analysts are expecting the eps for y/e 31.12.2010 to have grown 203% to 2.53p, with another 34% growth in earnings expected for 2011 (to 3.39p).

What of the technicals? Well have a look at the grapth for the past 9 months (below):


From this, you can see that the closing price (20.5p) has nudged through the resistance line, extended from the two previous highs (Aug 2009 & April 2010). Similarly, it has broken through the shorter term resistance line (September 2010 to present).

Of particular note is the strengthening OBV, giving a positive divergence with the falling shareprice. Also, we have buy signal on the Stochastic Indicator. Similarly, the RSI and OBV have kicked up nicely today.

All of this bodes well for the future, as it mirrors the breakout that took place early in January 2009 (see graph below).


What you think about the prospects for Pendragon?

Friday, 4 February 2011

DCD Media (SP=9.625p) - Buying Opportunity?

DCD Media (AIM: DCD) ticked up 0.75p (6.9%) today. The share price graph (below) shows a clear reversal signal ...


Note also that the on-balance-volume (OBV) is very strong. Couple this with oversold indictions from RSI and MACD and we seem to have a good opportunity to buy into a small company with improving prospects.

The longer term graph (below) shows the price history.


The decline from 2007 to 2010 indicates a classic depressed stock. However, after a period of "bottoming out", there now seems to be some indications of a resurrection in the share price. Our interest started when Taya Communications increased their holding to 12.145 million shares (19.87%) - clearly they had spotted some value here! DCD Media has nine operating companies producing and selling television programmes and licensing various rights to third parties. The accounts for the year ended 30th June 2010 showed an improving balance sheet, with £4.9m in cash - not bad for a company with a current capitalisation of £5.9million!

With a low PSR (0.17) and improving prospects, we believe that this is well worth adding to our DIY-Investors portfolio.


What do you think?

Monday, 31 January 2011

API - Breakout (after double bottom)

API Group closed at 19.5p today (up 3.5p or 21.88%). This comes following the recent news about the disposal of API's joint venture interests in China. Since the release of the much improved interim results, on 2nd December 2010, API has been hovering around the 15 - 16p level. The chart (below), shows the recent action...


The volume yesterday (6.73m shares) was quite decisive and was followed by todays rise, on lower volume (527 thousand shares). As you can see, with good technical indicators and now with the fundamentals seeming to be on an improving trend, this is one well worth watching for us DIY-Investors!

Thursday, 13 January 2011

Luminar Group Holdings (LMR) - Breakout?

Luminar closed at 15.75p today, breaking through the short-term resistance line and showing the first signs of life since its last minor high on 20th October 2010. The sharescope graph (below) shows very clearly the gradual splutterings of life beginning to appear.
The on balance volume (OBV) has remained strong since October and, until today's announcement about recent trading, there really hadn't been any significant response to LMR having refinced its debt in December.

However, Luminar made it into the DIY-Investors.com picks for the year and so we are not too surprised to see signs of life. For the list of ten sharepicks for 2011 and details of last years market beating performance, check out the newsletter on the DIY-Investors.com website HERE.