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OK, stating the obvious quickly, if bond yields rise (on inflation fears, more rate hikes or whatever) your average investor/hedge fund will note that bonds become comparatively more attractive than stocks when weighing up risk/yield. How high would bond yields need to creep in order to see a...

Amazing. All I want is a website which has data collated to tell me the returns over the past 100/50/25/20/5/1yrs for the major markets in Europe, US and Australasia. I just want real, inflation adjusted figures including or excluding dividends Graphs would be nice too though... Can...

Ha ha ha, not surprisingly it seems as though they may be as twisted as the rest of the charlatans that walk around selling the holy grail. Has anybody had actual first hand exerience with them- if so, what was it?

Anyone heard of these guys or had any experience of them? I occassionally nip in to the odd free seminar to either have a good laugh at outright lies or impossible claims attached to expensive products but was reasonably surprised at the simplicity and lack of salesmanship from these guys...

Successful scalping has absolutely nothing to do with maths. It's the hardest thing to learn and be consistently good at but as long as you have the connection speed and data feed it is the best way to make a lot of money very quickly. Sounds like you need to start viewing trading as a...

Fast arithmetic means nothing if you're trading, especially if it is in something like futures. At Refco, we were given a series of tests where the answers are simple (like in an arithmetic test) but given under a high pressure scenario i.e. time restraints and over emphasis on importance of...

I hate to play Devil's Advocate here but I want to give the doomsayers of the past 18months or so some more scope to look around for reasons why the bullish nature of global equities doesn't necessarily have to be all hype and that the billions of billions that gets invested globally everyday...

He was into his 60s. Lovely fella- nearly died a few years ago of diabetes (and thought he was going to die) but pulled through which gave him the drive of his last five or ten years. He had a heart attack last Monday. Honestly, a top top man, very kind ang open. Used to bring his own...

Zoran Gayer died of a heart attack on Monday. Real nice guy who liked to share his ideas but really strugled to truly express how he used his theory. I think that a lot of his work will go with him but he tried his darndest to be as transparent as possible.

Hi guys, This is really basic stuff and it is something that you should really know if you're going to play the game. If you haven't already, one day you might find yourself making some very silly decisions without realising it. The principles are extremely simple so I will spell it out...

It's amazing though, isn't it. Human curiosity is something that ensures that there is always room for some kind of snake oil salesman, whom you've never heard of that can make money out of nowhere and he's willing to pass on the wisdom. Everybody wants to believe they can pick up this ability...

Paper trading, even when done so on a good simulator is mildly useful for getting comfortable with platforms/reaction speeds/theoretical strategies but it is worlds apart from actually trading. Even if you were the most disciplined robot in the world (which you are not), the difference in...

I will take a look at this. You'll either be receiving a Kangaroo Steak + cold beer in the post or an off emu egg, depending upon performance! Thanks for the suggestion.

Thanks segv, appreciate the advice. My first reaction was to simply use the cheapest instrument and be done with it but thought 'd educate myself as to how to make money doing it along the way! I think you misinterpreted what I mentioned about "buy and hold" strategy. I intend to buy...

The 'one' option trade can be on anything- does not have to be related to any other position I hold and can be on any instrument. I basically want something that is not going to be very volatile and I can get out of if with my shirt still on my back I dont like it. What Donna said was...

Hi guys, I'm a futures/spot trader and I have just set up an 'investment account' to accumulate some long term stocks for the benefit of my future wealth. Basically a buy and hold account. Anyway, in order to get the best research out of the broker I use (an Australian firm) I either have...

I'm glad I started this as this is exactly what I wanted to talk about and there's a lot of thought out stuff coming out here. Cheers guys. NicenEasy, thanks for taking the time out to really get the ball rolling. Now, I'm all for the theory that the US account deficit really doesn't mean...

Probably a subject that will cause a great deal of different views but really interested to hear from anyone concerning... 1. What people believe are the key economic 'perils' of an excessive current account deficit of a major country like the US and 2. What would need to happen for...

To the original poster... If you had a genuine argument, I'd let this slide but you've not offered any food for thought at all. I've got a degree in Maths so I am no advocate of Economists because there never is a definitive answer to aim for. I think, because there is so much ambiguity...

First things first, I'm not American and I don't live in America so I've no political bias or agenda- simply a viewpoint from a distance. I think worrying about foreign ownership of companies in the US is completely ridiculous- you guys have your own fingers in pies all over the world (most...