Market Performance
This goes some way to explaining why my domestic equities portfolio has been a little lacklustre. Could be worse I could be investing in UK stocks.
Are We There Yet?
Whilst travelling during the week I was asked by someone what is the single most practical thing a trader can do to give themselves an edge. The question has an easy answer – trade in the direction of the prevailing trend. As easy as it is most people ignore it completely and all fund managers…
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Do Investors Have Too Much Information?
This is the title of a CNN Money article. The issue is in many ways hidden by the title and the accepted belief that we live in an era where information overload is the default setting for any and all activities. Undoubtedly information overload is an issue for traders. This is a natural consequence of…
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A NIghtmare On Wall Street – Beware the Autoplay
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Narrow Index Versus Broad Index
Interesting juxtaposition between the Dow and the Russell 3000. You cannot argue with new highs….although some people do.
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VIX
As the chook shed fire that was the us governments shut down unfolded the press was full of words such as calamity and disaster without actually understanding what those words meant within the context of the shutdown. Many (read most) commentators missed the fact that the US was not Greece, Ireland, Spain, Portugal or Italy…
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Overwrought
I am sometimes intrigued at the breathless commentary that accompanies each move in the market. As is my habit I flicked on my ipad whilst waiting for the kettle to boil and was greeted by Bloomberg jabbering about the impact of the US government shut down. To put this into context this is the state…
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