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Alpesh Patel
Alpesh Patel's columns :
04/13/2005Cap and Floor
04/04/2005Misery of Joy?
03/23/2005Time for Timestrip?
03/09/2005Thinking about Investment Courses
03/02/2005Thinking About Mistakes
02/25/2005Itchy Teeth
02/16/2005When does a stock story get old?
02/07/2005Return Free Risk
01/24/2005What You Need To Know
01/12/2005What You Need To Know
12/21/2004Year End
12/14/2004Of Mountains and Markets
12/08/2004Strong Dollar Policy and Other US Macho Nonesense
11/30/2004Irish Eyes Are Smiling
11/22/2004Oil. Oh it's so last month >>
11/15/2004Eat my shorts
11/08/2004Big Rally Big Fall
10/31/2004Big Week
10/25/2004Vacuum
10/15/2004Dip and dive or dip and rise: 4600, 4700�4500.
10/11/2004Oil making us boil.
09/27/2004The Trends Re-Appear
09/27/2004Oil
09/21/2004No Retail Therapy Here
09/14/2004Do you feel lucky punk?
08/23/2004The Market Wants To Move Higher
08/17/2004August a good swing trader's month
08/06/2004Where are the jobs?
08/02/2004August a good swing trader's month
07/26/2004Takeovers abound
07/19/2004What does Branson tell us?
07/12/2004Well valued FTSE?
07/02/2004Well hello July
06/28/2004Summer aint bad

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Alpesh Patel – A weekly look at market opportunities and pitfalls
Alpesh B. Patel is one of the UK's best-known traders and financial journalists. He writes a regular column for the Financial Times, has written seven bestselling books on trading, and makes regular television appearances for Bloomberg, Sky Television, Channel 4, The Money Channel, and the BBC.

Oil. Oh it's so last month

11/22/2004

With oil off highs, it is no longer the key story affecting the markets. However, with a uptick in the price, if it continues a couple of dollars higher it will return to being the main thing moving stock prices.

The market is thinking: "earnings are good from companies, interest rates seem on hold now that property prices are likely to fall so that will help company growth too." All this is suddenly bullish and positive for stocks. My bias shifts again to being positive in the short-term. As I write, over the preceding 14 trading days 75% of the UK's largest stocks were up.

Value-Growth

On my value growth criteria which are based on stocks meeting revenue and profit growth and good value based on criteria such as price earnings growth, the following names come up. Remember they are for a 6 month outlook: BHP Billiton, DTZ, Titan Europe (a new one), Associated British Foods (new one), Erinaceous, Speedy Hire.

Crazy Small Stock

These are high risk volatile stocks which could move sharply higher or move sharply lower in my view, but will almost certainly not stand still. Names on the radar include Supercart, Western Canadian Coal, Crosby Capital Partners, Cambrian Mining.

If you're an ADVFN reader and would like to join me for New Year's Eve, this is where I will be: www.puccinosnorth.com - and I am happy to talk about the markets. I hope to see you there! Also, If you would like a free multi-media CDROM on 'Investing Better' posted to you then drop me an email with your postal address to alpesh@tradermind.com.

Spreadbetters

Spreadbetters and futures traders often look at hard and soft commodities. Here's my quick take on the action for the week ahead - and boy was I right last week - now where's that trumpet? If you'd like to know more about how to be as accurate, drop me an email with your name and address.

  • Copper: up (called v right again last week) - toppy for forthcoming week, watch for any falls. Keep stops tight.
  • $/£: mixed to lower (called toppy last week and was correct)
  • Crude Oil: Picked up last week. Looking for some upward moves before down again.
  • Dow: Down
  • Gold: Mixed to Up (called right by me last week). Watch for any falls.
  • FTSE 100: Down
  • Soyabean Oil: Mixed (called right last week)

Alpesh B Patel, author of “Alpesh Patel on Stock Futures” available from the ADVFN bookstore.

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