A kick in the nuts. The mistakes I made to lead me to make a 50% loss on a trade

I pride myself on being a long-term, patient investor. I have in place a strategy which involves buying and holding higher-yielding quality companies so that I can reinvest income and benefit from compounding. I believe over the long term this will produce significant wealth and boost the value of my ISA and SIPP and allow...

September portfolio roundup

In September, the FTSE 100 in the end hardly went anywhere. Meaning for once it beat the NASDAQ, but it’s still hardly a performance to write home about. My portfolio also had a rather lethargic feel to it. September was largely a month of inaction and mostly I just did my usual monthly investing into...