Please accept my apologies in advance for altering a lyric of "You'll Never Walk Alone" a show tune from the 1945 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical Carousel. In the musical, Nettie Fowler, the cousin of the female protagonist Julie Jordan, sings "You'll Never Walk Alone" to comfort Julie when her husband, Billy Bigelow, the male lead, […]
Faced with a vast array of markets and securities to trade it's small wonder that retail traders often ask why they should specialise in forex and not equities, futures, or commodities? What are the major benefits to trading forex over and above trading other markets? What has underpinned the massive growth in the retail forex
La Dolce Vita, Italian for “the sweet life” or “the good life” is a 1960 comedy-drama film written and directed by Federico Fellini. The film is a story of a passive journalist’s week in Rome, and his search for both happiness and love that will never come. Generally cited as the film that marks the
An estimated 200 million people live at or below subsistence levels in China, spending 20 billion euros on them, instead of buying some form of Eurozone bond as part of the EFSF bail out package, would raise their standard of living by half for a year calculations by research firm High Frequency Economics show. The
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So I was at my circuit training class on Monday and during the warm up (a few laps around the gym and some stretching) I got talking to a guy I hadn’t seen for a while. Last time we spoke he was looking for a new direction. Having been an accountant he felt he’d become
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Potemkin villages or Potyomkin villages (Russian: Потёмкинские деревни) is an idiom based on a historical myth. According to the myth, there were fake settlements purportedly erected at the direction of Russian minister Grigory Potemkin to fool Empress Catherine II during her visit to Crimea in 1787. According to this story, Potemkin, who led the Crimean
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Nicolas Sarkozy can’t watch a film released in May exploring why his wife left him on the same day he was elected as he needs to “protect his sanity”. The film, La Conquete, (The Conquest) covers Sarkozy’s second divorce from Cecilia Attias and his rise to power until his election in 2007. It showed at
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Price action is one of the most charismatic and enigmatic definitions to describe a mechanism for trading the markets, particularly the forex market. Whilst many traders and ‘price action aficionados’ may disagree on the interpretation of the ‘raw’ data generated off the vanilla charts they will agree that price action is their only preferred method
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There are times when the mechanics of high finance can leave even the most economically literate amongst us speechless. Whilst there’s an argument that burning through $500 billion is simply emotive and extreme language to describe the ‘spend’ the Bank of Japan has engaged in to support the yen, the fact remains that estimates put
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There is a sub text to the threatened Papa G referendum that’s been missed by the mainstream media and it’s not the obvious fact that he’s actually an American and may have another agenda. He was born George Papandreou in 1952 in Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States and didn’t repatriate to Greece until 1974. George
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