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First Derivatives - Beneficiary of Big Data phenomenon in financial markets

February 2013

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.

  • Epic Code:
  • FDP
  • Price:
  • 590p
With stock markets around the world rallying in the New Year and trading volumes growing, one company, which looks irresistible, is First Derivatives, a supplier of specialised IT consulting services and software to banks. We first tipped the shares at 260p in March 2010 and although they have doubled since, we think the best is yet to come.One easy way to grasp the opportunity faced by the company is to look at the almost exponential growth in stockmarket trading volumes in recent years. The relentless use by hedge funds of algorithms to trade means that the number of actual trades transacted by real humans is only a small fraction of a day's total trading volume. At the same time, investors have found more and more ways to p ...

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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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