We are apparently on the brink of a no-deal Brexit, which if the media, social and professional, is to be believed means the end of civilisation as we know it. Really! I suspect that most people will hardly notice, which I realise could be famous last words. But what most amazes me is the lack of confidence of those who regard continental Europeans and their ossified customs union, now known as the EU, as a role model.

The number of exciting, explosively growing companies in the world is incredible. I have been investing and writing about investing for a long time and I have never seen anything remotely like the present period. As I noted in the last issue you can build a portfolio of 100 shares in today’s stock markets and every single one will be a star performer. Indeed, I strongly recommend subscribers to build exactly such a portfolio. The trick to doing this incidentally is just to buy the good ones. If you read the newspapers, which I mostly don’t, especially the financial pages, they are always worried about values being too high, bubbles, short-term negative factors, which happen to be in the news at the time, you can become drawn into their world of worry.  Don’t be.

In the last issue of Chart Breakout, as the full fury of the Covid-19 pandemic and its likely consequences for the world economy were becoming apparent I wrote “that it would be crazy to make any share recommendations when there are no chart buy signals and we are facing a global pandemic”.