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The Week In Small Caps: February 1
01/02/2026
The Battle For Lift Global Ventures, Continued The final date for proxy voting for both the Lift Global Ventures adjourned…
The Week In Small Caps: January 18
18/01/2026
Who’s Company Is It Anyway? As I have said previously here, since I became aware of the stock market in…
The Week In Small Caps: January 11
11/01/2026
Enjoying FTSE 100 at 10,000 It would appear that we are so far above the clouds as far as FTSE…
The Week In Small Caps: January 4
04/01/2026
The 2026 Vibe Another year of Zaks Traders Café and another year, no doubt, of the constant online bashing and…
Zakstraderscafe.com: Stocks For 2026
31/12/2025
The Year Ahead Zakstraderscafe stocks for 2026 is one that I approach with even more trepidation that usual, given how…
Week In Small Caps: December 21
21/12/2025
Self-Proclaimed Vigilantes Continued A few weeks ago there was a heartening article in The Times regarding the London Stock Exchange…
The Week In Small Caps: December 14
14/12/2025
How Logical Fallacies Are Used Against Small Cap Companies Last week I mentioned all that is wrong with the concept…
The Week In Small Caps: December 7
07/12/2025
Stock Market Vigilantes I think that most people who know what they are talking about in the City of London,…
The Week In Small Caps: November 23
23/11/2025
The Trolls This week I noticed something which I perhaps should have noticed earlier: the difference between the real world…
The Week In Small Caps: November 16
16/11/2025
An End of Week Dip It was perhaps somewhat disappointing, but totally understandable that the stock market ended the week…
The Week In Small Caps: November 9
09/11/2025
“Bad News” Budget So far I have not read on article on the forthcoming Budget that seems to understand what…
The Week In Small Caps: November 2
02/11/2025
Record Stock Market Highs I rarely watch Prime Minister’s Questions, as it is normally a case of unanswered questions, swerves…
The Week In Small Caps: October 26
26/10/2025
FTSE 100: Up 18%, AIM-All All Share: Up 8% It would almost certainly be the case that if I was…
The Week In Small Caps: October 19
19/10/2025
Plus Ça Change I have been writing about the stock market in my current form for 25 years, basically from…
Week In Small Caps: October 12
12/10/2025
Stock Market Crash? It is October, so it is crash season. Indeed, we have already had the some of the…
The Week In Small Caps: October 5
05/10/2025
The AIM Awards 2025 I now almost enjoy not hearing about / not being invited to both the AIM Awards…
The Week In Small Caps: September 28
28/09/2025
While politics in the UK has once again been set on edge with the Britcard (which will never happen), and…
Week In Small Caps: September 21
21/09/2025
Firebird Metals There is a saying that you cannot teach an old dog new tricks, or perhaps more accurately, beyond…
The Week In Small Caps: September 14
14/09/2025
There was a certain back to school feeling in the stock market and beyond, something which normally ties in with…
Week In Small Caps: September 6
06/09/2025
The week seemed to be full of very good small cap risers. There were three stocks up over 100%, Defence…
The Week In Small Caps: August 31
31/08/2025
The week’s either side of a Bank Holiday, tend to be dull on the London stock market. Indeed, when you…
Week In Small Caps: August 17
17/08/2025
Record Blue Chip Highs Blink and you missed it, the FTSE 100 on Friday managed to temporarily hit a new…
Week In Small Caps: August 10
10/08/2025
Waiting On The Summer Doldrums Although it may be the case that most market participants have left the asylum hotels…
The Week In Small Caps: August 3
03/08/2025
FCA: Consumers Will Be Able To Invest In Listed Crytpo Securities From October The FCA has traditionally not been known…
The Week In Small Caps: July 27
27/07/2025
The Stock Market vs The Real World One of the best things regarding the whole concept of the stock market…
Week In Small Caps: July 20
20/07/2025
Rachel’s Bitcoin Unfortunately, there are still not enough people who understand how this Labour Government works. The clue is partly…
The Week In Small Caps: July 6
06/07/2025
Bitcoin Treasure Strategy Stocks: The Reprise While the Bitcoin Treasury Strategy boom did not exactly burst, it did have a…
Week In Small Caps: June 29
29/06/2025
Bitcoin Treasure Strategy Stocks If you have been told last month that there was a stock which would go from…
Week In Small Caps June 22: Aquis Finally Comes Of Age As AIM Turns 30
22/06/2025
AIM at 30: Aquis Finally Comes Of Age It has been both interesting and ironic that in the week when…
Week In Small Caps: June 15
15/06/2025
Flaming June Although the shine has been taken off the market with the fresh Middle East conflict, the London market…
The Week In Small Caps: June 8
08/06/2025
AIM Turns 30 Barring any nasty accidents, such as being closed down due to a lack of companies, AIM will…
Week In Small Caps: June 1
01/06/2025
Continued Recovery The saga of UK small caps being both “undervalued and overlooked” as well as participants continuing to get…
The Week In Small Caps: Right On The Line
24/05/2025
AIM: Right On The Line It might be said that every day the FTSE 100 remains on the right side…
The Week In Small Caps May 18: AIM’s New Highs For 2025
18/05/2025
AIM: New Highs For The Year Although it is as fashionable to complain about the state of the stock market…
The Week In Small Caps May 4: AIM’s Outperformance
04/05/2025
AIM’s Outperformance One of the best things about the FTSE 100 index quarterly reshuffles is that removing the bottom few…
The Week In Small Caps April 27: Cutting Red Tape
27/04/2025
FCA To Cut Red Tape There was some good news this week in terms of the performance of London small…
Week In Small Caps April 13: Swiss Cheese Tariffs
13/04/2025
Swiss Cheese Tariffs Although there have been scurrilous historic accusations against President Trump regarding his private life, his latest moves…
The Week In Small Caps: April 6
06/04/2025
Tariff TraumaIt would appear that, just over five years on from the pandemic collapse in the stock market, we now…
The Week In Small Caps: March 30
30/03/2025
Taking The Credit Finally, someone on X has suggested that I do not get the credit or the acknowledgement that…
The Week In Small Caps: March 23
23/03/2025
Bank of England Apparently it was expected that this week the Bank of England would keep interest rates on hold…
Week In Small Caps: March 9
09/03/2025
Grains of Sand A lot of the time, it appears that timing the purchase of small caps is like trying…
Week In Small Caps: March 2
02/03/2025
The City Establishment It has been brought to my attention from clearly a very diligent reader that there are times…
Week In Small Caps: February 23
23/02/2025
UK DOGE(Alliance News) – Ministers are considering scrapping the UK's Payment Systems Regulator and folding it into the Financial Conduct…
The Week In Small Caps: February 16
16/02/2025
Valentine’s Day and the Stock Market One of my own stock market rules is to buy in the first week…
The Week In Small Caps: February 9
09/02/2025
CEO's Quit Just when you thought things couldn’t get any worse, The Times yesterday reported that CEOs and C-suite directors…
The Week In Small Caps: February 2
02/02/2025
30 Years Of AIM Apparently 1995 is the 30th anniversary of AIM. There may not be that many celebrating this…
The Week In Small Caps: January 26
26/01/2025
“No AIM Minimum” This week a corporate broker sent me an email in which he was happily proclaiming the news…
Week In Small Caps: January 19
19/01/2025
Record Highs It can be the case that when charting the markets, the technical analysis, not an art that has…
Week In Small Caps: January 12
12/01/2025
Rachel Goes To China This week, as everyone got back to work properly, contained stark reminders of where we are…
Week In Small Caps: January 5
05/01/2025
It Is Not Yet Time To Revive The City Times Business has sent out an email suggesting that it is…
The Week In Small Caps: December 29
29/12/2024
Lessons From 2024 I see that most of the stock tips for 2025 have been published now (by everyone and…
Week In Small Caps: December 22
22/12/2024
Let’s Look Back At 2024 I was going to leave a review of 2024 until next week, However, having read…
The Week In Small Caps: London 0 Muscat 1
15/12/2024
London 0 Oman 1 Given the way that Bloomberg announced this week that London has fallen below Oman and Malaysia…
The Week In Small Caps: December 8
08/12/2024
Who Shoots A CEO? This week brought the shocking news that the CEO of UnitedHealthcare had been shot dead in…
The Week In Small Caps: December 1
01/12/2024
Assisted Living / Dying There is a degree irony in the timing of the government’s assisted dying legislation this week.…
The Week In Small Caps: November 24
24/11/2024
Small Caps vs Blue Chips Given the day job, I am asked on a regular basis what the state of…
Week In Small Caps: November 17
17/11/2024
Back to the 70’s Four months into what is becoming, as predicted, an increasingly disastrous Labour government, there is an…
The Week In Small Caps: November 10
10/11/2024
Trump Returns For some the return of Donald Trump has all the allure of the film, The Mummy Returns, especially…
Week In Small Caps: November 3
03/11/2024
The Growth Government So, we have had our Budget for growth, a bold and visionary use of £40bn and all…
The Week In Small Caps: October 27
27/10/2024
“No Higher Taxes For Working (Class) People” One would assume that by now, in the run up to the Budget…
The Week In Small Caps: October 20
20/10/2024
Taxing Our Way To Prosperity Just 10 days to go until the Budget, and the information and misinformation continues. Part…
The Week In Small Caps: October 13
13/10/2024
The Cliff Edge One of the best and worst things about the stock market is that it is rarely dull.…
The Week In Small Caps: October 5
05/10/2024
AIM Awards 2024 In June I delivered a rather tongue in cheek pretence of being upset that I had not…
The Week In Small Caps: September 22
22/09/2024
Bank Of England On Hold Just in case one was forgiven for thinking that the Bank of England were not…
Week In Small Caps: September 15
15/09/2024
Autumn Budget As the cliff edge of the Autumn Budget approaches on October 30, we have nuggets of information with…
Week In Small Caps: August 26
26/08/2024
While the past week has clearly had a dog days of summer feel, the lay of the land in terms…
Week In Small Caps: August 18
18/08/2024
It is perhaps more than a little ironic that some of the best times on the stock market are when…
Week In Small Caps: August 11
11/08/2024
Two Tier Stock Market The stock market is of course divided between the blue chips and the rest, who do…
Week In Small Caps: August 4
04/08/2024
Southport After a shocking week, it seems churlish to talk about the stock market. Any parent, as I am myself,…
The Week In Small Caps: July 21
21/07/2024
IT Outage It is perhaps rather ironic, that with the stock market near its lowest in terms of investor engagement…
Week In Small Caps: July 7
07/07/2024
Labour The Saviour? We have obviously had our politics overload in the wake of the Labour victory. Most of the…
The Week In Small Caps: June 30
30/06/2024
The Moment Of Truth After 14 years of Soft Labour, arguably, something we have had since 1997 (New Labour), or…
Editorial: What Makes A Good IPO?
23/06/2024
What Makes A Good IPO? The answer to the question as to what makes a good IPO on the London…
The Week In Small Caps: June 16
16/06/2024
Two Party Tyranny As the General Election comes closer, it may be argued that the electorate of whatever persuasion may…
The Week In Small Caps: June 9
08/06/2024
UK Tech Giants This week we were perhaps reminded why there are few UK tech giants, with the acquittal of…
The Week In Small Caps: June 2
02/06/2024
Exodus The debate over the “death” of the London Stock Exchange continues. At the lower end we have an article…
The Week In Small Caps: May 18
18/05/2024
The Czech Is Still In The Post There are of course many issues in this country that drive one to…
The Week In Small Caps: May 12
12/05/2024
It is all too easy in life to do an Ian Hislop and make a living out of taking potshots…
The Week In Small Caps: May 5
05/05/2024
Local Elections While local elections normally do not mean that much in the scheme of things, they do certainly provide…
The Week In Small Caps: April 28
28/04/2024
Existential Crisis? The tug of war continues between the reports in the financial media, and indeed, a Goldman Sachs warning…
Week In Small Caps: April 21
21/04/2024
Leading The Revolution Sometimes the media (and perhaps the rest of us) needs and enjoys a good punch bag, and…
The Week In Small Caps: April 14
14/04/2024
The Week In Small Caps: April 14 Terminal Decline The doom continues as far as the mainstream financial media, with…
The Week In Small Caps April 7: The 80/20 Rule
07/04/2024
New IPOs This Week: Energy Green Transition / Helix Exploration While the debate over the forthcoming death of the London…
The Week In Small Caps: March 10
10/03/2024
This week the headline was “£10 Billion Leaves The London Stock Exchange”. It was actually mostly kind of good news,…
The Week In Small Caps: March 2
02/03/2024
The Spring Budget is due to be presented by Chancellor Jeremy Hunt and given the lack of any media build…
Week In Small Caps February 25: The Premier African Moment
25/02/2024
Toaster Tax Apart from Lee Anderson being Lee Anderson, this weekend we wake up to the news of a forthcoming…
The Week In Small Caps February 18: Recession
18/02/2024
It took a lot of effort, but the Bank of England’s fiscal policy has finally got the UK into a…
The Week In Small Caps: The British ISA
11/02/2024
The Saviour The ongoing death of the small cap market / AIM continued this week, at least in terms of…
Week in Small Caps January 21: Disrupting the LSE
21/01/2024
Record S&P 500 This week the saga of who killed the stock market and what to do with it continues,…
Week In Small Caps January 14: “Death” Of The Stock Market
14/01/2024
Rule Of Law This week the Post Office was the news headline of note in the UK, and what a…
Week In Small Caps: 24 Stocks For 2024 Part 2
01/01/2024
This is the second part of the 24 stocks for 2024. Just to reiterate, the target prices are the minimum…
Week In Small Caps: 24 Stocks For 2024 Part 1
31/12/2023
Looking forward to 2024 it may be the case that the temptation to be overly negative about prospects is the…
Week in Small Caps: The Forthcoming IPO Boom
24/12/2023
The next week or so will see us inundated with predictions for 2024, mostly from people from little day to…
The Week In Small Caps December 17: The Tesla Factor
17/12/2023
UK Underperformance A few weeks ago I suggested my Buy Bonfire Night, Sell Valentine’s Day rule for the stock market.…
Week In Small Caps: Cornerstone Investors
10/12/2023
The Star Chamber The small boats look to be the Waterloo moment for the government, even after all the bullets…
The Week In Small Caps: Freezing ISAs
26/11/2023
Autumn Statement There was something of a build up to this week’s Autumn Statement. Indeed, I read that the powers…
Week In Small Caps: A Mars Day For Hotel Chocolat
19/11/2023
The Return of Dave It has been a particularly eventful week in politics, and as someone who follows the mainstream…
Week In Small Caps: The Boiling Frog Stock Market
12/11/2023
Resistance Is Futile One of the best and worst things about being alive in 2023, is that you could come…
Week In Small Caps: Buy Bonfire Night, Sell Valentine’s Day
04/11/2023
Now And Then Although the stock market has had a decent week, the highlight of my week was the release…
The Week In Small Caps: Upland, Downland
29/10/2023
The story of the week for small caps came right at the end of the week, indeed, after the market…
The Week In Small Caps: Interview with a Billionaire
22/10/2023
The Waiting Game This week’s mention of the mainstream media is actually a positive one. It is the IC Editor…
The Week In Small Caps: San Leon Roars Back
15/10/2023
Gaza One week on from the renewal of the Palestine / Israel conflict we are reminded of how much of…
The Week In Small Caps: AIM Drops 35%
07/10/2023
The Three Issues Of The Day It is customary to take a nod to the real world at the beginning…
The Week In Small Caps: A Tsunami Of Interims
01/10/2023
Cars We are all aware that cars are a tax magnet, and perhaps this is the way it should be…
The Week In Small Caps: September 24
24/09/2023
Jeremy Hunt The Financial Times is not a publication I have looked to for a steer on anything regarding the…
The Week In Small Caps: September 17
17/09/2023
Truss One Year On There has been plenty of talk given that we are a year on from the ill-fated…
The Week In Small Caps: September 3
03/09/2023
The FTSE 100 ended the week up 1.75%, with the Small Caps index up 1.4%. However, while the blue chip…
The Week In Small Caps: August 27
27/08/2023
FT Alphaville In recent months it has been noticeable in the financial media that there has been plenty of stock…
The Week In Small Caps: August 20
20/08/2023
The Week In Small Caps: August 20 The Golden Goose There is not a week that goes by when the…
The Week In Small Caps: August 13
13/08/2023
There was not much good news on either the political or economic front this week, with perhaps the saving grace…
The Week In Small Caps: August 5
06/08/2023
This week witnessed another interest rate rise to 5.25%. The Bank of England who delivered this has been widely criticised,…
The Week In Small Caps: July 30
30/07/2023
De-Banking The de-banking scandal has been a financial markets related affair to provide some excitement at a time of year…
The Week In Small Caps: July 23
23/07/2023
By-Elections It should be the case that everyone, even political journalists, knows that by-elections mean absolutely nothing in the bigger…
The Week In Small Caps: July 16
16/07/2023
Mansion House It would appear that the powers that be are still concerned that successive Governments, and the EU have…
The Week In Small Caps: July 8
08/07/2023
If It Moves The Ronald Reagan quote of if it moves tax it, if it keeps on moving regulate it,…
The Week In Small Caps: June 25
25/06/2023
Mortgage Furlough It was a memorable week, mostly for the wrong reasons. Much of it was dominated by the tragedy…
The Week In Small Caps: June 18
18/06/2023
Honours It is interesting in life how some things change, but most do not. For each age you are, there…
The Week In Small Caps June 11
11/06/2023
Goldman Sachs The doom and gloom merchants of the mainstream financial media have been commented on here many times. The…
The Week In Small Caps: June 4
04/06/2023
One of the best phrases in the English language, and one that keeps delivering new examples of itself is: hoist…
The Week In Small Caps: May 27
27/05/2023
The Blobs The phenomenon of Britain bashing, by those who want us to give up and go back into the…
The Week In Small Caps May 21
21/05/2023
Recession Although this is supposed to be the Week in Small Caps, there is normally a general, slightly related opening…
The Week In Small Caps: May 14
14/05/2023
Although the FTSE 100 had a quiet week, as investors fret over inflation and growth, the small cap space seemed…
The Week In Small Caps May 7
07/05/2023
London vs Other Financial Centres One of the themes that the mainstream media is currently enjoying is the idea that…
The Week In Small Caps April 30
30/04/2023
May is the month of the Bank Holidays, so it may be somewhat disconcerting for some in the stock market,…
ZaksTradersCafe: The Week In Small Caps April 23
23/04/2023
One of the rules of the stock market which I believe that fund manager Hugh Hendry came up with is…
The Week in Small Caps
16/04/2023
It is normally wise to take off at least one day a week from the stock market, if only to…
The Week in Small Caps
09/04/2023
A Stock Market Spring? Easter of course means we are well into spring, but it looks as though it may…
The Week in Small Caps
02/04/2023
In the next month or so we shall be treated to firstly Master Investor on April 15, and then the…
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