All traders are on borrowed time not knowing that there is a disaster waiting to happen. Unless a right step is taken to prevent the impending disaster, the situation will be a disaster. The primary goal of trading should be to diffuse the bomb before it explodes causing damages especially in a time based trading. [...]
Category Archives: Stock Market
Back testing and Data Mining
June 25, 2009 – 1:06 pm
Backtesting and Data Mining are techniques that are influential and worthy if we use them in the approved manner, however traders often exploit them. Therefore, we’ll also explore two common pitfalls of these techniques, known as the multiple hypothesis problem and overfitting and how to overcome these pitfalls. Backtesting is just the procedure of using [...]
A Beginners Guide to Spread Betting
June 25, 2009 – 8:23 am
Financial Spread Betting means to put a ‘bet’ on a financial tool increasing or decreasing. Spread betting is becoming progressively more accepted with investors and traders. The process of opening a position is to place a spread bet. The distinction is that opening a spread bet position means that you trade or invest in any [...]
A Day in the Life of a Trader
June 24, 2009 – 10:55 pm
Trading shares/stocks/options or spread bet, depends on your experience and available time. If you are trading in The States, then market data have to be downloaded the next day as the markets only close at 9.00 pm UK time and update overnight. For the UK, look at the FTSE100 index (250 and 350), for the [...]
The Stock Market: A Beginners Guide
June 24, 2009 – 12:11 pm
Over modern times progresses in technology have made the Stock Market far more available to the general public. Regrettably involvement in the Stock Market is not a one-way street. It is commonly acknowledged that losing a chance in Stocks is much easier than gaining one. The chances are that all you hear concerning the Stock [...]
The allegory of Uncle Joe – How the Stock Market Really Works.
June 22, 2009 – 2:20 pm
One day after a predominantly stunning trading disaster, my Uncle Joe took me aside and consoled me with some hard facts about how the stock market works. Uncle Joe owns a very distinctive company and has an insider’s perspective on how stock price movement is managed. Widgets & Co, is the only company in US [...]
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