Stockopedia Subscriber Performance Survey 2019

When you strip back all the political and economic turmoil of Brexit, 2019 turned out to be a solid year for UK shares.

That said, things got off to a shaky start. Markets were trading close to new lows as January 2019 got started. But that proved to be the bottom, and the mood turned bullish almost straight away. In fact, this time last year the market was risk-on with investors flooding back into shares.

In the end, it wasn’t quite a vintage year for PIs, but positive momentum was the prevailing trend. A last gasp, post-election rally in the final weeks took the small and large-cap indices up to between 11 and 14 percent for the year. That wasn’t a bad result given the economic unease that still hangs in the air.

But for many savvy investors in the Stockopedia community, 2019 proved to be much more profitable than that.

In recent years we’ve been keen to take the pulse of Stockopedia users. We’ve wanted to find out how confident they are feeling, and of course, how they’ve performed. Last summer, this routine check-up discovered some aches and pains. Markets were labouring and equities were under pressure. Stockopedia’s StockRanks were only moderately...