Last week’s picks*: FX: GBPUSD -50 pips VA: PKG +4.84% SC: INTT +12.15% SH: CHH +1.34% TF: CYY -0.14% My stock picks performed better than my forex picks last week as I vastly underestimated the significance of the Scottish Independence vote in the UK. A Scottish breakaway would impact UK GDP and that is bearish […]
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Last Week’s Stock Market Buys
Shiller CAPE may be elevated and volatility may be low but recent economic data has been improving. This is now pointing to above trend GDP growth in the third quarter, bouncing back from the Winter snap. July and August are usually quiet months for trading and there lacks a catalyst for a downward turn. As […]
24 Best Jesse Livermore Trading Rules & Quotes
Jesse Livermore, aka the Boy Plunger, aka the Great Bear of Wall Street, is one of the great American stock traders. He made (and lost) several million dollar fortunes buying and short selling stocks in the early 20th century and traded through the great Wall Street crashes of 1907 and 1929. His book ‘Reminiscences of […]
5 Cheapest Stock Markets In The World Right Now
How this was created With US stock markets at all time highs, traders and investors are becoming nervous about the steepening valuation of US equities. Everybody is talking about volatility and volume right now and both of these conditions suggest that a significant market correction could be near. The CBOE Volatility Index (VIX) has long […]
Time To Buy 3D Systems?
Last November, at a price of $80 a share, I wrote an article for Seeking Alpha saying 3D Systems (DDD) had entered an extremely overbought state which could only end in a significant share price correction. Although the share price proceeded to fall around 13% after I made the claim, 3D Systems ended up going […]
How to play China like Jim Rogers
If you want to be successful at investing or trading you need to find your own way. I don’t see much point subscribing to any of these stock picking services or ‘Guru’ picks. (Unless of course they are used to educate yourself as to how to find good trades.) That being said, one of my […]
Finding the Next Starbucks by Michael Moe Review
Just picked up ‘Finding the Next Starbucks: How to identify and invest in the hot stocks of tomorrow’ by Michael Moe. It’s not a very new book, it was actually published in 2006 but I’m finding it pretty good so far. As you might guess, the gist of the book is to try and find […]
Stock market warning as volatility drops to historical lows
US stock markets fell yesterday indicating a new stock market warning with the Dow Jones Industrial Average dropping -0.25% while the Nasdaq sank -0.28% and the S&P 500 fell -0.11%. The fall comes after four days of rallies took global markets to a record value of $63.8 trillion and saw the S&P 500 hit another […]
14 tips for share trading online and making it big
I have been trading stocks and shares for at least 6 years now so these tips for share trading come from direct experience in the markets. For me, stocks are the best instruments to trade. There are so many of them that there is always an opportunity to be found. 14 tips for share trading […]
Is Apple stock still a good buy?
US stock markets reversed losses on Monday after ISM non-manufacturing numbers came out and Billionaire investor Warren Buffett spoke enthusiastically about the state of American business. A contraction in Chinese manufacturing, and continuing violence in Ukraine, caused markets to open lower but stock markets were not in the red for too long and managed to […]
