This magazine has been a big bull of Japan, largely since the start of the year and we took the opportunity to add to positions during the late summer sell off that took the index down to the 8600 region. Check out the Japan tab on the right for an overview of our investment case…
And so we enter the seasonally bullish month of December – a period that bull traders hope will deliver the traditional Santa Rally and that we have written about in the last edition of our magazine (Link here, page 14 – http://issuu.com/spreadbetmagazine/docs/spreadbet-magazine-v11_generic) We have been bullish of the FTSE, Japan, China and the Mining sector…
John Paulson is probably one of the most well-known hedge fund managers in the world due to his infamous call on shorting US Sub-prime mortgages through a complex instrument called CDO’s (basically out of the money put options on the value of these bonds). He racked up a stellar performance in2007 and 2008 as the…
Cantor Opening Call The FTSE is called to open down around 20 points this morning UK Corporate Announcements Tui Travel reports 2012 sales of £14.5bn from £14.7bn and an underlying pre-tax profit of £390m from £360m and states that Winter and Summer 2013 bookings are encouraging ITE announces full year revenues of…
In the past few weeks we have highlighted how the FTSE has broken through its previous bullish trading channel, red region. We mentioned at the time however that a trend line break does not necessarily equal a trend change, and that often a period of consolidation occurs following a break of this nature. Consolidation areas…
3 Dec 2012 Cantor Opening Call The FTSE is called start the week around 10 to 15 points higher UK Corporate Announcements Balfour Beatty ahead of its Investors Day today states that it is implementing plans to access Brazil and India and that it is developing positions in South Africa, Australia and…
Monday, December 3, 2012 UK Reporting:- Balfour Beatty Plc, BBY, (SM), Bp Plc, BP, (SM), Glaxosmithkline Plc, GSK, (SM), Henderson Fledgling Trust Pl, HFT, (SM), Randgold Resources Ltd, RRS, (SM), Wpp Plc, WPP, (Pr) S&P 500 Reporting:- None Detailed Euro Stoxx 600 Reporting:- None Detailed Economic Data:- 09:00 November PMI Manufacturing, 46.2 exp. 46.2 previous 09:30 UK November…
I think it’s fair to say that both the best thing and the worst thing about the mining sector is that it enables you to stress test your technical analysis/trading techniques. We can see this theory put through its paces in particular with Eurasian Natural Resources (ENRC). Even though we have a deep 2012 downtrend,…
Watch the fifth episode of Trading Academy now! Still reeling after the explosive ending to episode 4? Can’t wait to see what happens next? After a turbulent meeting in the boardroom at the end of episode 4, the next thrilling instalment of Trading Academy is upon us. The remaining traders are now hurtling their way towards…
Given the deathly environment in the Oil Explorers sector at present, we thought it useful to look back at what we said about our picks during the summer to see if the circumstances that underpinned the ideas then still apply. Beneath each company below is the original text with our updates in bold. Gulfsands Petroleum…
