If you want to know the time, ask a policeman. Don’t bother asking them to attend a burglary though, if plans go ahead to stop attending them. Apparently it’s part of an effort to ‘prioritise’. It’s an interesting move at a time when clearly Osborne’s budget has reduced the income of many quite sharply. I…
As featured in this month’s Master Investor Magazine. Now ladies and gentlemen, following the completion of “Maria’s Golden Rules for Trading CFDs”, it is time to continue with our previous educational articles series, a subject that we last discussed in Master investor Magazine’s April edition. This is the seventh in the series of these educational…
The European crisis appears to have abated for now. Markets seem to be seeing the latest agreement for what it is – a very fragile compromise that could blow up at any step. As such, we have not seen a significant relief rally in the euro just yet. One reason for this is the continued…
I’ve said before that the only reason we’ve appeared not to have a recession in London and the South is because foreign money has parked itself here as a safe haven. I mentioned property in particular before, but in case you didn’t know more than half the stocks listed here in London are owned overseas.…
I used to play online poker quite a lot. Actually there are a lot of similarities between trading/investing and poker. You have to maintain your capital, there’s a cost of being in the game and if you’re going to win you have to try to take a stand with something which has a good chance…
So here we are, after some six months of lethargic action which all and sundry translated into the beginning of the correction. Yet again the market has come around to my way of thinking that there is indeed at least another leg up on the bull market remaining. This is something I have been insisting…
The main news flow this week has been related to the apparent capitulation of Greek PM Tsipras to extremely harsh EU demands. This triggered a vote via the Greek parliament to approve the plan, leaving the Greek population angry and confused – after all had they not just voted to reject the previous bailout conditions…
As regular readers will know, I’ve been avoiding bank stocks for years now – since April 2007 to be precise. As I predicted in ’08, banks have become a cash cow for government as well as a popular scapegoat. The extra corporation tax on banks that was announced in the budget was just the most…
Those of you reading this that are familiar with my trading, and those who follow along with my blog at Diary of a Currency Trader (www.diaryofacurrencytrader.com) will be all too aware that – over the last few weeks – a number of us in the community have had some difficulty with a particular brokerage. While…
As featured in this month’s Master Investor Magazine. The trickier the times, the greater the opportunities for profit (and loss!). And we are now firmly in tricky times. I have spoken and written before about the imperative of seeing through the fog of financial battle in order to achieve success. by this I mean focusing…
