Once Upon A Time

I often ponder the ability of society to deal with the challenges that it faces, everything from alienation of the individual to degradation of the environment gets a look in. My general conclusion is a depressing one, to put it succintly we are screwed – the reason for this conclusion is simple….IKEA. That’s right a…

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Clarity

When I started trading there was one market – the local one, it was impossible to trade anything else because the technology simply didn’t exist to allow it. Any orders from overseas came in via telex and everything was done by paper transaction. One of the brokers I worked for even had a an employee…

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Breakaway Wealth

I have heard the expression legalised theft in relation to the redistribution of shareholder assets that is occurring in the US. What is amazing is how out of touch business seems to be in the US with what is happening in the economy, the mood of the market towards outrageous behaviour and more importantly what…

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Bye Bye HFT

This should be interesting – (Reuters) – U.S. securities regulators have taken the unprecedented step of asking high-frequency trading firms to hand over the details of their trading strategies, and in some cases, their secret computer codes. The requests for proprietary code and algorithm parameters by the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA), a Wall Street…

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Breakouts

There has been much chatter on our mentor forum  lately regarding the breakout in the price of gold. I have mentioned several times that I had been long gold and short equity indices via our advisory service. I am now neutral with only one remaining short position in the market which is a carry over…

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