Articles for: Chart Patterns

Looking back through articles from earlier this year How Sold Are We and A Standard Rally, it is clear I was initially skeptical of the March low and subsequent rally.

I was interested in the comments made last week by a senior bureaucrat about the prospect of a second recession wave in the GFC – global finance crisis.

The gold buffs have not had a riveting time of late – well at least compared to equities. And gold stocks have not had such a great time either.

A diversified approach is important in any investment strategy. There are varying levels of diversity from Macro to Micro levels.

Sometimes you just don’t have clarity. And when that happens I always find it is best not to do anything.

Discipline is the last of my series on the ‘Seven Deadly Sins of Trading’. But it is by far the most important of all.

Over the past few weeks I had the pleasure of visiting different parts of mainland China. What becomes immediately apparent to any visitor to the major population centres in the eastern provinces is the large scale industrialisation and urbanisation that is occurring.

As we turned the corner into the new financial year its seems the market is performing a U turn when compared the first 6 months of 2009.

There has been much written about the origin of candlestick charting and its uses so I won’t bore you with the standard story.

Anyone who has attended the Hot Commodities Summit in 2008 or 2009 would be aware of the profit potential of trading commodity futures. However, for many, particularly new traders, futures can seem inaccessible, perhaps because they require more capital, or perhaps simply because they are too confusing.