New controls provide enhanced risk management features
If you’re anything like me, you like to be in control. Maybe it’s my type A personality. Maybe it’s because I'm a middle child. Maybe it's my background in finance. But, I like to be in control –...
View ArticleCaught in a Trap
Stock prices moved sharply higher during the summer months, as investors speculated that further central bank action might just return the economies of the industrialised world to a more familiar...
View ArticleDon’t succumb to the temptation to close social trading positions early!
In academic terms, the Disposition Effect is a psychological bias in traders and investors to take profits quickly and let losses run. This is something which has been talked about in the markets for...
View ArticleOn Holiday Trading and Seasonal Market Patterns
It’s that time of year again. No, I’m not talking about time to get your holiday shopping done (though that’s likely to apply to most readers). Rather, I’m talking about the time of year when the...
View ArticleCommodity Super Cycle Running Out of Steam
The dawn of a new millennium marked the end of the secular bull market in stocks that began almost two decades earlier in the autumn of 1982. The magnitude of the subsequent decline in equity prices...
View ArticleIf you’re bullish, could a synthetic long call work in your favor?
Hedging risk is an integral factor in any intelligent investment strategy. Since no one knows for sure exactly where the markets will move, who’s to say components of your equity portfolio won’t crash...
View ArticleConsider the competitive landscape before deciding your Forex market play
Retail spot forex trading is financially zero sum for the market as a whole. That means any profits made by one individual must come at the expense of someone else (or multiple someones). Actually,...
View ArticleCat beats British stock pickers – what does this mean for your portfolio?
Since the Currensee marketing department is approximately 75% Crazy Cat Lady, you know we were excited by the Guardian headline, “Ginger moggy beats the professionals and a team of students in the...
View ArticleJapanese Reflation Hopes
Japanese asset prices have jumped onto investors’ radar screens of late; the return of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) to power late last year has sparked hopes that the new leadership might match...
View ArticleThe ‘Dash for Trash’ is On
The ‘dash for trash’ is on, as the near-record low yields available on safe assets has prompted investment professionals to move further out the risk spectrum in a desperate bid to earn nominal returns...
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