Articles for: United States

Welcome to part 9 of a new series of articles on the Butterfly. In this week’s article, we will continue looking at the Risk Graph page in a lot more detail.

Here we are near the end of 2009, another year of great trading opportunities gone by – at least on the currencies that is!

After a substantial rally from the March low, US and Australian markets have recently lost momentum.

A very important part of our trading is keeping track of our profits and losses. This is fairly straight forward for a share / CFD trader, as their profits will tend to be in the one currency (for example, if you are trading in Australian share CFDs, your profits and losses will be in Australian Dollars).

In the most recent issue of the Self Directed Investor (a free newsletter for HUBB software users) I demonstrated how the relative performances of the different sectors are likely to change over the next few weeks and months.

As it turns out, this was amazingly prescient, with the market rallying strongly between then and now.

It is best not to trade or invest beyond your ability to control your heart and emotions or nerves – call it what you like.

Welcome to part 8 of a new article series on one of my favourite strategies, the Butterfly. In this week’s article, we will continue looking at the Risk Graph page in a lot more detail.

The last few years have seen Exchange Traded Funds or ETFs, become exceptionally popular, especially in the United States.

Well we know humans are living things and we know animals are and of course plants are too. But are markets really living things?