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Market Comment - August '18

August 2018

Investing in shares may lose you all or some of your money. Past performance is no indication of future performance. Some of the shares recommended here may be small company shares, which can be relatively illiquid and hard to trade and this makes such shares more risky than other investments.

Markets were analysed through the prism of Elliott Waves last month, with an optimistic bent. Sure enough the FTSE-100 has moved higher, but not confidently. Both UK and US smaller companies have been moving ahead confidently for an extended period.Russell, the US index provider, has measured the length of previous small cap bull trends in the US and found that the average duration was 750 trading days, whereas it is “only” 572 trading days since the last 20% correction. That’s encouraging so far as it goes.If you overlay a chart of the FTSE-100 index from March 2009 with one of the S&P 500, you will notice that the US stock market has moved ahead very confidently, with little hesitation, and no signific ...

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With small companies there is an above average degree of risk compared to buying blue chips. Please be aware that we have not assessed the suitability of any of these investments for you. The newsletter simply states a personal view and diarises the editor’s investment decisions. Please speak to your stockbroker or other qualified individual to ascertain whether any of these companies mentioned would form useful additions to your own portfolios. Past performance is no indication of future success.

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