Trading is not a mug's game

By Nick Dewhirst, CEO, Investorsroutemap.co.uk Commodities are in fashion as the best performing alternative investment, so it is worth remembering the old warning about three ways to lose money - women are the most pleasant, horses are the quickest, but commodities are the surest. I write that not as a bear eating sour grapes after missing the party, rather as someone who has frequently made good money in commodity shares but not worked out how to do it in commodity futures. As it happens, my very first equity investment was a Cornish tin mine. That made me 50% within three months when...