Stockopedia video and presentations from the UK Investor Show
After a busy Friday running around central London, the Stockopedia team were ready for the UK Investor Show. The show saw several thousand investors leave the sunshine outside and pour through the doors of the QEII Centre in Westminster. With more than 90 companies exhibiting and some of the UK’s top financial speakers on the main stage it’s little surprise most of the attendees stayed for the full day.
Among the highlight speakers were the ever-popular UK fund manager, Mark Slater, Britain’s Buffett Nigel Wray and bear-raider Evil Knievel. Stockopedia’s Ed Croft took to the main stage before lunch in an interactive session that illustrated how our self-defeating behaviours can cripple investment returns. It may have been the first time a main stage session ever included live interactive polling and somehow we managed to pull it off without any technical glitches. For those that are interested, you can watch a video below - sorry for the slightly shaky video but I left the tripod in the car!
Download the 'Managing the Monkey' slides
As always, the Stockopedia stand was packed throughout the day. Passers by had the chance to explore the application, ask the team questions and listen to on-stand presentations on how to get the most out of the site.
After lunch, Ed took a pair of 1 hour seminar sessions in the main breakout “Analyst” room. The first was an introduction to the philosophy of Stockopedia and how to orient the site. The irrepressible Paul Scott took a cameo to highlight a few selections, after his previous year’s picks had stormed to a more than 30% return.
Ed was back on stage shortly after with a reprise of his StockRanks inspired NAPS webinar. Unsurprisingly after such a standout year’s performance in 2015 (+43%) this was an extremely popular talk and standing room only. He updated the slides from the December webinar and added more performance details… so for anyone who couldn’t quite see, hear or even get into the presentation, here are the slides.
There are only a few shows worth going to each year and the UK Investor Show is one of the best. It was great to meet so many subscribers in person for the first time and catch up with some old faces. If you couldn’t make it we do encourage you to come next time - we’ve such a feature packed website that revelations are often only a click away and sometimes you’ll only find them if you watch our staff in person !
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4 comments
I've just watched the video of the presentation and it is excellent. It is very slickly done and covers a huge amount of material in 36 minutes.
But plotting the exhibitors on the Q-V bubble chart was a brave move!
Many thanks for your contributions to the show. I was pleased to hear (when I visited the stand) that you have plans to be able to see how the ranks have been trending over time on the stock report. I feel this is particularly appropriate as the trajectory of the rank may also be as important as the absolute value (one for your techies to analyse perhaps?).
I had heard some of your talks before but was v. good to revisit the subject again.
I echo the comment about the breakout rooms made above - you're going to need a bigger one!!
To Adam, Ed and all the Team
Thanks for these slides and Vid link. I endorse 'Grindertrader's' sentiments entirely.
The Stockopedia's presence at the show was excellent on all fronts and it was a delight to see how the leaflets flew off the shelves of the stand after Ed's afternoon session. I particularly like 'The StockRank Style Guide' and have referred to it frequently since last week as I am rebalancing my portfolio. Also, many thanks to Alex for the 'Getting started in Asia-Pac Shares' and the US Shares version booklets. I am looking forward to exploring them and extending my investing using the new SP international coverage.
Regards
Howard
In my opinion the UK Investor Show is the best investor show of the year. This is in no small part to Ed Croft and Stockopedia. Not only was Ed Croft here to promote Stockopedia, but he also took to the main stage to educate us all in our behavioural biases. He educated us all in many factor of investing that many of us don't do. For instance diversifying across a range of stocks and how we can all benefit from rebalancing our portfolios.
Also the important of being a checklist investor, having a strategy, cutting losses and running winners.
It was great to finally meet Ben Hobson and Alex Naaman, both work and write for Stockpedia. I was surprised when I thanked Alex for his excellent articles that he did respond to say 'Your the first to say that to me!' I was some sort of surprised. Alex has written about investing in foreign stocks like Hong Kong, but also he is a fan (like me) of the Zulu Principle. I think we all need to give Alex a cheer! He deserves it!
I asked Ben some questions about the future development of Stockopedia and I was delighted that he gave us some information as to some of the major improvement. I would love to see a configurable Stock Report for instance ;>
On the NAPS portfolio again it just keeps surprising and so far doing extremely well. I was going to attend Ed Croft's seminars in the break out rooms but they were full. I gave up my seat for someone else since I have followed Ed's seminars and online presentations in the past. i wanted to let someone who has not seen the Stockopedia presentations to see it.
I assume next year Stockopedia will be back to the UK Investor Show. We have seen how popular Stockopedia has become and hopefully the break out rooms can be enlarged to accommodate this popularity.