10 Golden Rules of Spread Trading - Part 1
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 [...]
What Drives the Price of Oil?
02 June 2009
Hi everyone, I hope you all had a great bank holiday weekend and enjoyed the great weather. Most of my posts to-date have focused on equities and various fundamental and technical indicators that influence share prices of various stocks. Of course one of the nice things about spread trading is that it gives you exposure to a [...]
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20 Great Warren Buffett Quotes
29 May 2009
Hi everyone, So I spend quite a bit of time on this blog talking about technical indicators that we should be aware of as Traders which I believe are very important when it comes to spread trading, particularly for short to medium term traders. But what about the Fundamentals of a company? Certainly they should not [...]
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Chart of the Week - C&C Ripe for Picking?
26 May 2009
Hi everyone, It’s “Chart of the Week” time again and this week I thought I’d take a look at a stock a bit closer to home, this is an Irish blog after all! So after the fab weather we had this weekend I’ve decided to that a look at drinks group C&C. Back in the day C&C [...]
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The Importance of Volume as a Technical Indicator
20 May 2009
Hi everyone, In my previous posts, particularly the Chart of the Week posts, I have tried to introduce different technical indicators that traders should look out for like trends, double bottoms, higher highs and higher lows, etc. Today I thought I’d take a look at another very important technical indicator that is often overlooked by traders [...]
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Good Banks, Bad Banks, Eggs and NAMA Bread!
17 May 2009
Hi everyone, In response to a comment from Redmadra on this week’s Chart of the Week which looked at Morgan Stanley this post covers my own personal thoughts on the current state of the Irish banks. Not sure where to start on this one to be honest, along with our falling property prices, ever increasing dole [...]
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Chart of the Week - Morgan Stanley’s More Conservative Outlook
11 May 2009
Hi everyone, It’s “Chart of the Week” time again and this week, following the announcement of the Stress Test results in the US last Friday I thought I’d take a look at one of the major US banking stocks which were under review as part of the Stress Tests. After take a look at the various [...]
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Some Useful Sites
06 May 2009
Hi everyone, In reply to an email received from Sean last week todays post is a short enough one covering some sites I use regularly and which I found useful for finding different types of market information. I’ll probably stick these on their own page on the site at some stage which I’ll update as I [...]
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Sell in May and Go Away??
04 May 2009
Hi everyone, Sell in May? I hope you are all having a great May Bank Holiday weekend. The days are getting longer and at last we seem to be getting some nicer weather, hopefully it will continue! As we move into May it reminded me of the well known investment saying of “Sell in May and Go [...]
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Chart of the Week - IBM to continue higher?
29 April 2009
Hi everyone, Something I wanted to try introduce as part of my regular blog posts is a “Chart of the Week” segment. Basically this would be a post which would (no prizes for guessing this one!) focus on a particular stock. I will attempt to analyse the stock in question from both a fundamental and technical [...]
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Creating a Diversified Investment Portfolio
26 April 2009
Hi everyone, Diversified Portfolio I got a mail in recently from one of the readers of the blog asking about market correlations between different stocks, particularly those in the same same sector (e.g. the Irish banks) so I thought I’d do a post touching on some of the things to look out for in this area. In particular [...]
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