The US Federal Reserve published some encouraging news as it stated yesterday evening that nearly all major US banks can survive a market crash; 29 out of 30. All of the big banks with the exception of Zions Bancorp stayed above the 5% requirement for top-tier capital in the latest round of stress tests. Russian […]
We’ve devised a method that ‘works’ well; the drawdowns are minimal, the losses are small and very manageable. Like any trading method it experiences short, but manageable losing streaks. We’ve back tested the method for approximately six months now and the question remains is this a long enough period in order to make a realistic
There was mixed data coming out of the USA on Thursday, however, the main indices brushed off any lingering doubts regarding the Ukraine/Crimea crises and any negative readings emanating from any USA publishers to close up on the day. Existing home sales came in below expectations at an annualised rate of 4.60 million for February.
In the overnight session very positive news came courtesy of the New Zealand’s stats office as the economy enjoyed a 0.9% rise over the quarter up to December 2013. In Europe Germany published its latest producer prices showing a fall of 0.9% year on year. As the Swiss central bank announces no change to its
There’s a strange phenomenon taking place in the UK’s premiership title race at the moment and its relevance to our trading world will become apparent as we expand this article. The current champions of the league, Manchester United, are lying seventh in the league having been humiliated by one of their fiercest rivals Liverpool over
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The USA central bank announced on Wednesday that it was lowering its monthly bond purchases under its quantitative-easing stimulus strategy from $85 billion last year, citing improvements in the job market and economy. The Fed has undertaken three rounds of bond buying since 2008, swelling its balance sheet to a record $4.2 trillion. Federal Reserve
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The UK’s unemployment count was published earlier this morning and it revealed that the unemployment rate remained the same at 7.2%, this despite more persons being employed although there was a marked drop in the amount of full time employees, versus an increase in self-employment. The ONS is claiming that there are in fact an
There are many figures published regarding the win loss ratio of traders. Some writers and publishers put the losing rate as high as 95%, certain brokers cite a 75% losing rate, others will suggest that it’s much smaller, at perhaps 50%. What is for sure is that you’d have to be an exemplary supreme human
Germany’s confidence has apparently been hit by the Crimea crisis according to the latest ZEW reading which fell by a highly significant 9.1 points to 46.6. As to whether or not this is a convenient excuse will not become apparent until the next reading is taken. The USA published its latest inflation figures on Tuesday
Overnight the RBA published its recent policy meeting minutes in which it committed to more of the same whilst noting the slight weakness reappearing in the USA economy. However, analysts and investors failed to take anything contained in the report as an open door for rate rises or asset purchase schemes, therefore the Aussie has
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