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Any kind of financial opinionating out to 2021 is useless - too long for traders, too short for investors, too vague for everyone. But it might drum up some churn, or frighten some wannabe investors to hand over their money to fund managers.

I had no idea that anything had changed with regards indicators. I didn't use them then and I don't use them now.

Yes and No. Yes I do cut the losers and also add to the winners and also repeat them as the trend progresses. (no trend, no trade) But No, in the sense that if I could only see a 50:50 opportunity based on historic performance of a chart feature, I wouldn't enter in the first place.

I can predict what the market's going to do. Sometimes.

We're traders. What do we care?

I run trend-following trades and almost always attach a trailing stop-loss to them, based on volatility by ATR. If the trade starts to fail it will normally show me some weakening TA which I can use to justify a manual exit well before the volatility TSL is hit. Because the trades are...

These articles are written for three reasons and they're all bad - ego: to look like a smart guy amongst their peers views: to drive traffic to the article and its parent website/magazine etc.: and maybe sell some training or textbooks to scare the uneducated into churning their stocks and...

Great points in a great reply. I simply could not have been bothered but this is great stuff.

I wear the same things every day. Shirts are usually identical pale blue. I vary my cuff-links crazily.

trader5.0, you've got serious misunderstandings about capitalism, what is a welfare state, what is the point of government, what stock markets do, what banks are for. And economics. And the world in general. Please please tell us you're only 12 years old and you've never read a book. I can't...

This is a long-standing tactic to stock-picking. In the UK, a study by Smith’s Corporate Advisory showed that, on average, stocks heading for relegation from the FTSE100 lost nearly 19% in the two months prior to the announcement date. Similarly, companies that made it into the FTSE100 enjoyed...

Good message, thanks. Are the clients in question free to post details here if they wish or are they forbidden to do so by your T&C's or any other mandate from the company?

The town has a basic website and there's a sweet little guide pdf in English. The place looks charming and as quiet as you could possibly imagine. Strangely, the site reports Commander of the town's Municipal Police, Enzo Traina, has recently died unexpectedly, at the age of 60. He sadly leaves...

Sweden always looks like a great place to visit and a terrific place to move away from.

We've all tried telling that story to the HR Manager - Oh, I just got here by accident, honest......

Yes, they are subject to Capital Gains Tax.

The UK permits financial spreadbetting on stocks, commodities, forex etc. etc. There is no tax of any description payable on SB profits. You don't even have to submit paperwork.

The guys who flip bullish within long uptrends just don't understand their own game. On the other hand, the guys who flip bearish within long uptrends just don't understand their own game.

Anti-money laundering laws and policies have a big impact on the way these firms do business. And of course they'e not going to be very forthcoming about how they make their decisions on AML - that would help money launderers adapt their approaches. I don't say you were likely to be engaged in...

I'm only surprised nobody has mentioned Al Brooks on day-trading.