Highlights from my Portfolio:

Alterian (LON:ALN) continues to stay strong into interims next week. Clearly the market expects them to be good. I wait.

Avanti Communications Group Plc (LON:AVN) put out an early RNS to say that the 39th consecutive Ariane 5 launch success for Arianespace took place yesterday evening. Hurrah. The trouble is, there was a problem with the Satellite itself and it was 'lost'. I asked yesterday what could possibly go wrong; today we have the answer! AVN price fell on the news. The Hylas Satellite is, I believe, made by someone different and besides....how likely is it for the same fault to occur twice? I took two actions. On the one hand I bought more and on the other I took out a small short to cover the period before now and launch. IG were not accepting controlled risk. Gulp.

Carclo (LON:CAR) was the star of the day but I doubt we will wake up to a bid price of 220 vs offer price of 219. Still, it's looking strong for a rise over 200.

Medusa Mining (LON:MML) shot up and then didn't do much. Safe to say I haven't quite got that right this week but since I first bought at 77p I am fairly relaxed. A terrific low cost miner with strong management and, I hope, a lot of gold.

Northern Petroleum (LON:NOP) has managed 8% (after costs) in two days. Delightful.

Senior (LON:SNR) has fallen quite a bit this week and is technically now a sell on two out of three of my metrics. Having bought and held most of the way up from 25p, I am happy to wait for all my metrics to say sell.

Solomon Gold (LON:SOLG) - continued upwards in the hope that news of other drills would arrive before the end of the month. That of course is today but that there is often a…

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