The Naked Trader's Diary 2013

Robbie Burns

Oct 2012 · Pan Macmillan

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156

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About this ebook

A year with the Naked Trader! Robbie Burns - aka The Naked Trader - is back. And this time with something slightly different: now you can spend a year with him... Let The Naked Trader talk you through the ups and downs, highs and lows, and profits and losses, that come with 12 months in the markets. This compact diary is bursting with market stats, hints and tips for your daily, weekly and monthly trading, dates of companies' results announcements, dividends and AGMs, and of course The Naked Trader's customary anecdotes, borne of years of experience. Major sports events are included too, as well as thoughts on how you might bet on them. As you might expect from a diary, you'll also find all the dates of key events that every trader needs to know. Written in his trademark style, and illustrated with entertaining cartoons throughout, you don't need to face 2013 alone - take The Naked Trader with you through every twist and turn.

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About the author

Robbie Burns is the author of bestseller The Naked Trader (9780857191700), now in its third edition, and The Naked Trader's Guide to Spread Betting (9781906659233).Robbie has been a journalist and writer since he graduated in journalism from Harlow College in 1981. After starting life as a reporter and editor for various local newspapers, from 1988-1992 he was editor of ITV and Channel 4's teletext services. He also wrote ITV's daily teletext soap opera, 'Park Avenue', for five years.He then went on to freelance for various newspapers, including the Independent and the Sun, and also helped set up a financial news service for CNN. In 1997, he became editor for BSkyB's teletext services and set up their shares and finance service. While there he also set up various entertainment phone lines in conjunction with BSkyB, including a Buffy the Vampire Slayer phone line that made him nearly £250,000.He left full-time work in 2001 to trade and run his own businesses, which included a cafe in London that he later sold, doubling his money on the initial purchase. While at BSkyB, Robbie broadcast a diary of his share trades, which became hugely popular. He transferred the diary to his website, www.nakedtrader.co.uk, which became one of the most-read financial websites in the UK. Between 2002 and 2005 he wrote a column for the Sunday Times, 'My DIY Pension', featuring share buys and sells made for his pension fund which he runs himself in a SIPP. He managed to double the money in his pension fund from £40,000 to £80,000 in under three years, as chronicled in these articles. By mid-2011 he had turned it into £250,000. Robbie now writes a weekly column for ADVFN.com.Robbie has made a tax-free gain of well over £1,000,000 from trading shares since 1999, making a profit every year, even during market downturns. His public trades alone - detailed on his website - have made more than £900,000.He lives in a riverside apartment on the Thames with his wife, Elizabeth, and young son Christopher. His hobbies include chess, running, swimming, horse racing, and trading shares from his bedroom, erm... naked. After all, he wouldn't be seen dead in a thong... (you might catch him in Speedos).

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