Looking to Texas for a silver lining

Posted: 02 Feb 12 | Back at the end of December, the Punter was sorely tempted to buy a stake in a revamped silver miner in southern Queensland. |

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Win some and lose some

Posted: 25 Jan 12 | IT SEEMS there are only two players in this market, the quick and the dead. |

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Back to the futures with a tried and true favourite

Posted: 18 Jan 12 | WIN some, lose even more – last week’s purchase of additional shares in Linc Energy (ASX code LNC) is looking good, while the Punter’s pessimistic purchase of June $32 put options on BHP Billiton (BHPYJ8) went bad very quickly. |

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Energy punt may be the significant find of 2012

Posted: 12 Jan 12 | WELL, it has to be said 2011 was not the greatest year in the Punter’s long climb to millionaire status but, undaunted, he will battle on. |

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Looking back on stars, stinkers

Posted: 29 Dec 11 | HAPPY New Year to the Punter’s longsuffering readers. Like the stock market, Punter suspects his hardy band of loyal followers with cash to spare has dwindled somewhat in the past 12 months. |

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Bright star on radar

Posted: 20 Dec 11 | THE Punter wishes a Merry Christmas to his readers, and hopes they haven’t been seduced into buying too many shares in most of the companies mentioned in this column in the past 12 months. |

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Building up steam

Posted: 14 Dec 11 | HAPPY news from South America has at last put a bit of steam behind one of the Punter’s geothermal energy company hopefuls. |

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Waiting for Santa

Posted: 07 Dec 11 | YIPEE! If the stock market bounce at the end of last week really was the start of a year-end “Santa rally”, the Punter – pessimist that he is – will be quick to take any profits. |

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Vintage helps uncork something to cheer

Posted: 30 Nov 11 | NEVER mind the negatives (that’s almost everything in the sharemarket), let’s focus on the positive. One of the Punter’s “investments” rose 84 per cent last week. |

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Backing scooter rebels with a cause

Posted: 23 Nov 11 | THE Punter, somewhat reluctantly, has cast his vote in favour of the rebels who are trying to sack the directors of scooter company, Vmoto. |

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Speculating on golden prospects in lean times

Posted: 16 Nov 11 | ANOTHER miserable week, with the yellow metal providing the only pluses in the Punter’s increasingly pitiful portfolio. |

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Going for gold

Posted: 09 Nov 11 | WITH the Greek tragedy last week playing to packed houses at the home of the Cannes film festival, and likely to go on tour for the rest of the year, this is probably a good time to sit back and watch. |

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Vmoto board battle revs up to climax

Posted: 02 Nov 11 | THE row at the struggling motor cycle manufacturer Vmoto (ASX code VMT) seems at last to be reaching a crunch point. |

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Coal-fired punt on clean technology

Posted: 19 Oct 11 | When the stock market appears to be more than usually irrational, it probably makes sense to make apparently irrational decisions. |

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Waiting for another fall?

Posted: 12 Oct 11 | YET another surge of optimism saw the stock market soar at the end of last week, with the all ordinaries up nearly 3.4 per cent in one day to close at 139.6 on Thursday. |

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Biotechs offer ‘extreme sport’

Posted: 05 Oct 11 | LAST week’s stock market rally was a sudden setback for the Punter’s gamble with Westpac shares (ASX code WBC) heading south along with the other big four banks. His March put options (WBCTL7) giving him the right to sell the shares at $18 had switched almost overnight from profit to loss. |

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To provide an indication of how investors can ride the rises and falls of the sharemarket, The Punter reports on $50,000 invested in Australian stocks.