Hi everyone, today I’m going to cover what I believe to be 10 of the most important rules to follow when you spread trade (I’m calling them my “10 Golden Rules of Spread Trading” because it sounds good!). I know there are loads of similar articles, etc out there containing similar lists of rules but [...]
31 December 2010
Hi everyone, I hope you all had a great Christmas and were not too put out by the snow or burst pipes! Just a short post today to wish you all a very Happy New Year and the best of luck with your trading in 2011 and to provide a few thoughts on the year just [...]
04 November 2010
Hi everyone, Just a quick post to mention an upcoming Investor Summit taking place in the new Dublin Convention Centre on the quays next Thursday (11th November) that may be of interest to readers. The summit has an interesting line-up of speakers covering a wide range of different types of investments from stocks, property, cash, bonds [...]
03 November 2010
Hi everyone, It’s a massive week for the Equity and Currency markets with the US Mid-term Elections taking place yesterday, the Fed Meeting wrapping up its 2-day meeting today and a US Non-Farm payroll figure due out later in the week. After a massive 13.5% run-up in the S&P 500 and a 12% run-up in the [...]
06 October 2010
Hi everyone, Just a short post today to mention a Trading Competition MarketSpreads are running which might be of interest to some of you. There is a prize fund of €20,000 so that’s not to be sneezed at, especially in these recessionary times and a nasty budget in December on the way! And for those new [...]
14 September 2010
Hi everyone, I’ve been busy these last few weeks with work, travelling and some holidays thrown in aswell. All of which has meant I haven’t had any spare time to write new posts. It’s been a busy time on the news front during this period and so I thought I’d get back into the swing of [...]
15 June 2010
Hi everyone, A slight change from my normal posts this time round I wanted to share details of an excellent resource I was introduced to recently. A few weeks back I attended an Advanced Technical Trading seminar hosted by MarketSpreads in their offices and delivered by PJ Henry. PJ is a professional trader with many years [...]
14 June 2010
Hi everyone, Work commitments have hit again and prevented me from posting as regularly as I had hoped over the last month but at last I’ve got around to finishing off my look at Q1 earnings and how some of the leading names in tech have reacted in light of what have, for most, been excellent [...]
14 May 2010
Hi everyone, I’ve been side-tracked on a few other things for the last few weeks so only getting around to posting the 2nd half of my look at how earnings season is going now. Click here to catch up on the first half from a couple of weeks ago. Since then we have had some fairly [...]
30 April 2010
Hi everyone, So as we come towards the end of Q1 earnings season I thought as a follow-on from my last post I’d take a look at how the results are coming in overall and take a look at a few stocks in particular that caught my eye. First a quick look at the results themselves, well [...]
12 April 2010
Hi everyone, On Friday the DOW closed just shy of the psychological 11,000 mark at 10,997. In fact as you will see from the DOW JONES Cash Rolling chart below it actually pushed just above the 11K mark in after hours trading. The DOW, along with the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq have all been on [...]
