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Sometimes it pays to take a risk and take out a trading position in a company before it releases a pre-close trading statement, especially when one is virtually guaranteed good news that should lead to other investors chasing the stock when the company makes that announcement.
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By Simon Thompson,
14 January 2013
Simon has managed the IC's company coverage for a decade. He's also the creator of the market-beating Bargain Portfolio, an influential stock-picker and the author of Trading Secrets: 20 hard and fast rules to beat the market.
Comment on the ups and downs of property investments, with a particular focus on the perennially popular world of buy to let
