It was great to meet some Market Maven and What Really Profits readers at the Roxanne Cross seminar on Friday. Someone said that it’s nice to be able to put a face to the name and it’s the same for me. It was a fascinating day and I’m looking forward...
Here we go again folks… As I write this, the US markets are down around 3% overnight and the FTSE is just opening down by 1.5%. What an incredible week. I must admit I’ve been mesmerised by it all from a trading perspective and a study into human...
I hope you are well and are continuing to enjoy the wild ride we’re still on. Stock markets continue to go nowhere fast, taking one step forward and one step back. The advantage of short term trading is that you’re not shackled to a traditional buy and...
Phew, time to breathe! It may be too early to say that we’re out of the woods, but at least things have quietened down a little. I hope you came out of the wild period from the last two weeks unscathed. Just a short note this week, as I’m going to give...
I’ve had lots of feedback from Market Maven readers who seem to be having the same problems with their trading. Many readers have expressed their desire to find a trusted person as they start trading: someone who can walk them through their trades as they learn...
I hope you’re well and surviving this wild ride we’re on. We managed to survive the weekend with just one bank going bust (Germany’s Hypo Real Estate), the trouble was that there was a whole country also on the brink (Iceland). My friends in the city...
I hope you had an enjoyable (and DIY free) bank holiday weekend. Inspired by Britain’s Olympic cyclists, Mrs Market Maven and I took the train to Windsor then cycled the 25 miles back home along the Thames. Even without sunshine, it was an enjoyable day out,...
I hope you escaped the worst of the bad weather. I can still see the last remnants of the snowman I made last Monday. The bad weather hasn’t been a bad thing, it’s forced me to knuckle down and do review of my trading. Like doing my tax return, it’s...
There’s been a big buzz around an old video documentary by PBS in the US on the trader Paul Tudor Jones. Not least because one of the scenes has Paul sipping on a beer while trading massive positions in the forex market. Paul is a legendary trader who made his...
I want to share a very important trading tip with you so that you might avoid what I experienced this week. Have you ever had one of those weeks when you’re busy going nowhere? It’s not that I did nothing, just that I didn’t have time to get stuck...
There are so many trading courses out there that it’s often difficult to know what to look for to assure yourself that you’re going to get value for money, and that the person giving the course is truly an expert. Having mulled this over, a recent trip to Oxford to...
Over the last couple of years I’ve been working on a number of trading systems and now trade forex based on some of the patterns I discovered myself. I’m currently trying to simplify these patterns so other people can follow them. They work, there’s not doubt about...
I’m a bit of a self-improvement addict and I think you need to have a degree of interest in this to make trading work. I’m not talking weekend-long retreats doing yoga and eating wheatgrass; I mean the ability to reflect on your strengths and weaknesses...
I’m yet to join the iPhone club, but it’s getting more and more tempting, with every friend and contact I speak to extolling its virtues. One of the main draws with the iPhone is the large number of “apps” available to download. As you are probably aware, these are...
I’ve put together a list of some of the best free financial trading tools available which could help you improve your trading profits. Top 4 Free Financial Trading Tools – Charting 1. www.igindex.co.uk These guys are the Granddaddy of the spread betting...
A few years ago when I was at school, I remember we had some retired gent come in from the army talking about the lessons he’d learned for real life. I don’t know why, but one of those lessons stuck in my head and it might just help you when you begin a...
Every trader wants to learn how to trade more profitably. But could our very desire for winning be the biggest obstacle to us making money? One thing that I thought would be interesting to share with you is a recent study I read on the behaviour of experienced vs...
Financial fraud scams are on the rise at the moment, with boiler room scams a particular favourite for the scammers. There were some articles in the papers just yesterday about how boiler room scams are on the rise. The average boiler room victim loses £20,000! Nearly...
There are a number of good commercial trading strategies out there, but if you do a little digging, you can also find some really useful free trading systems & methods floating around. Whenever I come across something interesting I make a note of it in my...
Do you have a forex trading strategy that you stick to religiously? What’s your biggest trading mistake? Do you have one trap that you fall into again and again? Mine is knowing when to stop. I love making money from my trading, but even more, I just love trading. I...
I get a fair number of emails each day with questions about trading on the Internet, so I thought it would be useful to share a selection of these questions and my answers with you. Your trading on the Internet queries answered Q. I’m considering either to order...
I’ve been spending some time testing new system ideas and have been getting encouraging results. I thought it would be worth sharing some of my findings so far. Trend trading mainly falls into two categories: 1. Trend following 2. Contra trend Trend following...
I hope you are well and that you survived manic Monday! It was certainly one for the history books. For the record, here’s what happened to global stock markets yesterday: Dow Jones: -777.68 (-6.98%) S&P 500: -106.62 (-8.79%) Nasdaq 100: -175.89 (-10.52%)...
Last week as markets were tumbling I was saying that I’d like to see a decent one day collapse with an accompanying doom mongering headlines in the Evening Standard before I’d get interested in a snap rally. We didn’t perhaps get the almighty one-day...
