Between the lines

From time to time it’s worth taking time out and conducting an appraisal on yourself as a trader in order to ascertain just how far you’ve moved on, not just as a trader, but also as a person involved with trading. How has trading affected your outlook and perspective on many aspects of your day […]

It’s far too simplistic to describe our industry as; functional, black and white, efficient and at times brutal. For those amongst us who have traded for some time we begin to realise that there are many hidden depths to our industry, it is in fact a very creative industry. In recognizing its creativity, over and

There are many recurring themes, that pop up in discussions on trading forums from time to time, and trading without a stop loss is one of the most prevalent. There appears to be two distinct reasons for many traders not to use stop losses; one is born out of ignorance, the other is a form

In many of our between the lines and other blog articles we’ve warned of the over reliance on the various sentiment diffusion indices published by firms such as Markit Economics. The opinion, from a select group of analysts, is that their research data is focused on too narrow a range, which in turn prevents Markit

When new traders enter the world of trading they have an idea in their mind’s eye of what trading should be like; trading should be a miniature version of the pre-conceived ideas they’ve developed by casting a look at traders in action on the television; bunches of monitors, traders shouting across a trading desk, sleeves

There are several organizations, who comment on macro economic policy and when they do publish their thoughts and predictions we should all sit up and pay attention. The OECD, The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, is amongst that elite rank of organizations given that they have an unerring ability to predict economic performance correctly.

Occam’s Razor suggests that the simplest explanation is usually the right one. Criminologists often use it to determine who’s the most likely suspect in a crime, such as a murder. Doctors ­also use Occam’s Razor every day in order to diagnose a patient’s illness when presented with a set of symptoms. It’s also used in

Now that the impact of the ‘no taper’ decision by the FOMC has begun to dilute into the global equity markets a sense of new-order, in amongst the ensuing panic, has prevailed. There was a rash of high impact news events published on Thursday that ensured that the momentum caused by the FOMC didn’t fall

So dear reader, did you feature in the recent Forbes 400 rich list when it was published earlier this week? No? Me neither, but we can’t really say it’s not for lack of trying, as despite our best efforts reaching that elevated position will always be out of reach. Having said that it’s a known

The IMF have published a fascinating paper this week, the title is “New Policies To Fend Off Financial Crises”. It’s notable that the IMF have chosen to use the plural word of “crisis”, acknowledging that the 2007/2008 crisis was not secular and that subsequently, the banking sector in the Western Hemisphere in particular, has experienced