“Good to see that idiot Quicky’s not lost his touch” I hear you sigh as a return to Snapshot duties (having started writing them to an audience of 7 in the very darkest days of the pandemic before handing over to a far more informed Courteney and others) sees me jinx the (still very promising) Coiled Springs product. A reminder that doing the end of day wrap is a humbling task but hopefully we get it right more often than we get it wrong and at least we have a view. Another day of bumping along…

“I prefer the term coiled cobra….” said an Indiana Jones inspired client today when I was talking him through the new Coiled Springs product that one of our rising star traders (in cc for any questions) has produced in conjunction with our IDEAS team. In a nutshell, it looks at heavily shorted shares that are due to report and screens for where our IDEAS team are flagging improving earnings momentum. They are at a 10 out of 11 success rate currently with an average return on the day of the ea…

I’m going to guess that I’m not the only one who has a Sunday-Evening-Process. All about setting yourself for the week ahead of course and I find a routine helps put me on the right path mentally. My S.E.P involves watching my youngest at her swimming training before we go home for baked beans on toast, a pint of ice cold milk and an hour reading the Sunday Times (me not her). The News section until it gets too depressing into a bit of Sport then a quick rifle through all the Homes I’d buy if I…

So amidst a sea of important questions (are we heading into Stagflation? what will the Fed say next week? Is Bitcoin really a safe haven?) possibly the most important question of the day is have we reached peak gilet? I ask because having watched all the cool kids wear gilets for the last few years I have finally taken the plunge and may well be responsible as a result for calling the top of the trend. You wear a gilet for one of two reasons imho – either because you’re a bit skinny and want to…