ANALYSIS: Take two! Action! Now I'm a market guru Leo Lewis put his share-tipping skills to the test on Channel 4 and instantly became the Sage of Shepherd's Bush: [FOREIGN Edition]

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ifty million quid may sound like a lot of money to you, but to a finger-on-the-pulse market guru like me it's all in a day's work.

Yeah, right.

Last week, I finally lost my TV virginity by appearing on Channel 4's Show Me The Money, and tipping a chosen share to a panel of contestants. Within a few minutes of my gabbled 90-second plug, Forbidden Technologies had surged a ridiculous 34 per cent. Forget fundamentals. Forget earnings per share, profit forecasts and dividend yield. Leo Lewis had tipped the stock, and apparently, the Sage of Shepherd's Bush is never wrong.

Other pundits, it seems, can make waves before even getting in front of a camera. A hoax phone call tricked the Sun's City editor, Ian King, into revealing his choice before the broadcast, and, though the tip was abandoned, the internet share traders went to town on a...