Dear Trading diary: That question must be at the forefront of the minds of investors and analysts. Just like the highly polarised politics today, investors are two camps with diametrically opposed outcomes. It is a binary choice, according to the MSM. At Wednesday’s FOMC we
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While stocks suffered hugely volatile up/down swings last week (and were a nightmare to trade), traders in the oft-neglected agricultural commodities that are continuing their spirited recoveries (as I have pinpointed in recent blogs) enjoyed sleep-full nights. Stock index traders have not had such restful
How do you make money in the markets? It’s simple: a) choose the right direction and b) get your entry timing as perfect as you can. It’s no good if you get the direction right and get your timing wrong. Sitting on a losing trade
I confess I am stunned. And I am sure I am not alone. The AI mania I call the Nvidia Effect is in full swing and has done most of the recent lifting of the rocketing Nasdaq. And yesterday, not to be left out, the
The question in last week’s blog title – The News Is Grim So Will Shares Bounce Now? – was answered in the affirmative as I suspected. While there was much talk of a looming recession in the MSM with US and UK fuel prices at
Stocks held up in the early part of the week but I suspected it was just a ‘dead cat bounce’ and wrote this in my Thursday Trade Alert to VIP Traders Club members: ” Another pretty quiet day in stock indexes – trading volumes on
Yesterday’s volatile stock market action was telling. For the first time in weeks, the Dow suffered a significant fall – but then recovered. The VIX Volatility Index was likewise volatile (sharp up and then sharp down) The news items that emerged were that a former