I am in the process of playing a Doom clone for Linux, and decided to look back on some old notes to get some tips. In the process, I looked through some investment notes I had made nearly a year ago. After all, there’s no law that says your CAN’T keep game tips in the same notebook as investment ones!

Quite interesting it is, too. Here’s some interesting tidbits.

* I was quite keen on Regenersis (LON:RGS) at 110p. Glad to hear it!

* I had noted Greenblatt’s and Premsa’s interest in RIMM (Research In Motion), at $7.50. This doesn’t seem to be one of their better ideas, as it changed its name to Blackberry and now sells at only $7.95. It did reach a high of around $18 – although whether you would have been that good at knowing the high seems unlikely

* Nuveen Mullinex said that growth stocks are a coiled spring – a call that seems pretty much on the money in retrospect

* I sold Judges Scientific (LON:JDG)  … waaay too soon, as it turns out

* Goldman Sachs rated Schroders (LON:SDR) a “conviction buy”. It’s up 68% over 1 year – so it may be worth looking out for their conviction buys in future

* I sold Micro Focus International (LON:MCRO) and ITE (LON:ITE) because they were “too boring”, and I wanted to buy Lamprell (LON:LAM) . The first two companies actually gave sterling performances of the year, with MCRO handing back cash, too.

* Lamprell (LON:LAM) is interesting (BTW, I bought back in recently). I see that I had made a note when the share price of LAM was 77.5p. “I could see this doubling”. I don’t call them this good all the time – honest. I had made a note of some of the reactions on the boards, which included “next thing will be a discounted rights issue”, “the share price is just being pushed sideways as big fish unload at this this range, this is going to crash again”, and “sitting on the sidelines, waiting for an uptrend confirmation”. All wide of the mark.…

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