The Last Straw

If you have never seen That Mitchell and Webb Look do yourself a favour this Christmas break and check some of it out.  One of my favourite skits of theirs is ‘NumberWang’. The running gag of a game show with glitz, glamour and indecipherable rules [-1.873]. I am lucky that my wife loved the show too.  She is a successful […]

I remember being read the story as a kid.  I could tell even from the pictures that Jack was in all sorts of trouble just for accepting those jelly beans from a complete stranger.  The accompanying narrative confirmed this, and Mum must have been really fond of that cow too.  I didn’t have the cynical vocabulary at the time, but […]

“If you are going through hell, keep going.” Winston Churchill Sage words of wisdom that I find comfort in when my micro cap positions are consistently down in double digit percentages. Words from a great leader, intended for far more desperate times, when the stakes were much higher. Only he didn’t actually say them [1]. For some of these positions […]

I’m not the fanciest person. I’m one of the last people you’d want to hear from if you wanted to know more about abstract art. There is, apparently, a Picasso hanging in the National Gallery in London called Fruit Dish, Bottle and Violin [1]. I know this because I looked it up (and just FYI, that’s an experience that will […]

Selling is a big blind spot for investors. For every thousand articles about when to buy a company, we’re lucky to find one about when to sell. Yet selling has a huge impact on our long-term performance.