BREXIT – Hard Exit
Apparently this is what a hard exit looks like. For the FTSE it seems to be a case of coming home and finding all your stuff on the front lawn….
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No Man Is An Island
So said John Donne and the same is true of markets. One of the most fascinating features of trading is that markets at times they display interesting interrelationships and that these relationships tell you something about the underlying emotional state of the market. Below are three markets I am currently involved in and all seem…
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Looking For The Next Amazon
I came across this piece the other day. It is a good bit of work because it highlights neatly the interplay between returns, risk and drawdown. This triumvirate holds sway over the trajectory of our investing but it is continually ignored by most, as all traders in some way shape or form seek the biggest…
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FTSE 100 All Time High
It is interesting to note that the FTSE 100 has made a new all time high (yet another market doing better than our own). The FTSE presents an interesting lesson in how markets can behave and how long it can take for a market to recover. The FTSE made a new all time highest close…
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The Year That Was.
It is that time of the year when everyone involved in this business looks in the rear vision mirror and attempts to make sense of what happened. And of course to everyone involved everything is so obvious and predictable. What is worse is that they take this data and attempt to make some form of…
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More ETF Magic
About the only joyous thing about Christmas is that there is a marked slowdown in the amount of junk mail that hits my inbox. And to be honest I do miss the emails telling me that people have the ideal job for or that Svetlana from Kokshetau in Kazakhstan is desperate to send me pictures of…
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The Year In Money
Bloomberg have been busy – click the image below to be taken to the full infographic.
Be Careful What You Wish For
Traders are an odd bunch – we have to be because of the nature of our profession and shock events such as the recent US election tends to amplify this odd behaviour. When we trade equities we all want a rising market, a market that goes up day after day with nary a pullback in…
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