At Last Some Longevity
It has been sometime since we have had any longvetiy in commodity trends. Source – FINVIZ
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A Journalist Gets It Wrong….Again
Whilst I am away I have the annoying habit of looking at other peoples newspapers over breakfast. If there is anything that interests me I make a note in Evernote and then go back and do a bit of reading. Actually a very rare occurrence that I go see anything worth doing any further thinking…
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S&P/ASX 50
I mentioned in this piece that I should get around to looking at the original versus current components of the S&P/ASX 200 just to get a sense of index turnover. As a prelude to this I cobbled together a rough first look at the S&P/ASX 50 to see how much what I would consider to…
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ASX 200 Shares Distribution Of Returns
Recently I had a look at the distribution of returns for a system I run – the aim of this was to give a sense of how systems trading works. The rules of systems trading are very simple and are based around the concept of ride the losses, pump the winners and allow time to…
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ASX 200 Yearly Returns
I have cobbled together a few dodgy sources to build a 35 year graph of the total returns (includes dividends) for the ASX 200. The S&P/ASX 200 only came into being in 2000 so some of the data is of a composite nature. The thing that is always interesting about this is how little damage…
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Classical Versus Modern
I am an old school sort of guy and this is reflected in the way I approach markets. This approach came about in part because of personality but in part because of the limitations of technology. When I became interested in price action as means by which to generate trading signals the PC was in…
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All The Worlds Stock Exchanges By Size
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Markets Are Moving
I posted this in the Mentor Program forum this morning and it is worth sharing because it represents my favourite style of price distribution. This one week relative performance is reminiscent of a smile and it indicates a series of movements that provide ample opportunity for traders. I accept that parts of equities markets are…
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