Swen Lorenz

“Very few people have the patience, conviction and endurance that it takes to survive the volatility of a bear market bottom. This is especially true when everyone else they know is making money buying into the latest bubble. But human nature never changes, and those people always get caught when the bubble pops. Tech investors,…

In the financial markets, it is perhaps understandable that what can be a somewhat grey subject (finance that is!) needs to be livened up a little sometimes (hence the good looking female commentators!) However, in the wake of the latest March non-farm payroll data last Friday with the delivery of the so called “Goldilocks” figure…

Last week saw one of the occasional meetings in London between Messr Mir and  Messr Jennings, our ‘umble founder of Spreadbet Magazine and now Chief fund manager at Titan. Something I half forget is that as well as being a man who is passionate about trading the markets and putting his money where his mouth…

It’s safe to say that notwithstanding a small drawdown in equity at the end of the quarter, that we are very pleased with the return generated in the portfolio during the period, especially against our benchmark some 9 months into the funds life now. As with our Global Macro account, the positioning of the fund…

From Credit Suisse Indeed, not only has the market all but achieved our 1900/10 target (Friday’s high was 1897), but the subsequent rejection from there has seen a bearish “reversal day” complete on increased volume. Below 1863 is needed to keep the immediate risk lower for a test of key price support at 1844/34 – the March…

Certainly at least in theory, one of the best things about being a “chartist”, is that as far as the state of a company’s shares is concerned, you should, in theory, be more objective than most in “the market”. Indeed, the only real bias you may have is that after making a certain call on…

In the not-too-distant future, it is quite possible that the combination of the letters AA will not refer to Alcoa Aluminium, or indeed “Alcoholics Anonymous”, but quite possibly the bold monetary experiment that has been undertaken by Shinzo Abe – the “Abenomics Adventure”! Since being newly re-elected at the end of 2012, Japanese PM Shinzo…

Japanese equities were dragged lower overnight following yesterday’s steep declines. Health-care and technology stocks remained under pressure in Japan whilst Chinese stocks climbed to a six-week high on speculation the government will take steps to bolster economic growth. With speculation the government will introduce measures to stabilize growth; investors will be keeping a very close…