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By Filipe R. Costa While a lot of attention is focussed on America’s Quantitative Easing programme, there is another side of this story, developing on the other side of the balance sheet, on the other side of the world. This concerns the pace of asset creation on banks’ balance sheet. In America bank assets have…

By Zak Mir. One of the main reasons I asked to write for Spreadbet Magazine in the summer of 2012 was its no holds barred approach to the financial markets. I believe this attitude is vital for traders if they are to stand any chance at being successful. Without this edge, even the best strategy…

While US investors continue to drive their money away from the bond market in the direction of the ever rising stock market to exploit what they think is a great profit opportunity, everybody’s favourite Central Banker – Mr Ben Bernanke is most likely having a glass of California’s best whilst congratulating himself on the achievements…

By George Leong Technology and growth stocks have been the go-to stocks this year, as the NASDAQ broke above 4,000 on Monday for the first time since September 2000. But recall that 2000 was also the year the tech sector and NASDAQ collapsed after the index traded above 5,000 in March of that year. Now,…

By Zak Mir. It is very often the case that one should keep an eye on what is bubbling up on the bulletin boards, if only so that you look at the charting position/newsflow to check if there is a possible opportunity that you might otherwise have missed. In the case of the three shares…

We’ll, we been banging on about the latent value in much of the mining spectrum for the vast majority of this year and, as the year draws to an end, for us resolute bulls, it seems that Santa will not be making his entrance in this particular sector of the market. This blog has made…

There is a certain market doctrine that in order to rise stocks are meant to climb a “wall of worry”. Along with other immutable laws of free market economics this market has completely ignored this age old adage. Forget climbing any walls of worry. That is for wimps. This market just smashes through them! Now…

By Dominic Picarda. The FTSE remains the ugly duckling among the index swans right now. The UK index has come off noticeably harder in the last couple of sessions than either the DAX or the S&P, both of which were in much stronger uptrends beforehand. My gut feeling is that the FTSE will play catch-up…

A running theme here at Spreadbet Magazine has been this market’s refusal to revert to the mean. Mean reversion is the quintessential characteristic of price movements but thanks to the hugely distortive effects of quantitative easing, today’s investors/traders/speculators seem largely to have forgotten this. At some point they will be reminded of it, but the…