Articles for: United States

Sorry to be back to the dour side of investing life.

In the current volatile market conditions the spread on the bid/ask of options has widened to reflect the uncertainty that traders are feeling.

Where you stand determines your perspective. Remember the story of four blind men and the elephant?

I’m writing this article on Wednesday and the Dow Jones has fallen 381 points overnight. In these days 381 points doesn’t sound like much, but with the DOW trading around the 8000 level it did represent a 4.5% drop.

Have you ever “fiddled” with a trade and then looked back later and wished that you hadn’t? So often we can get impatient with the market, expecting our move to happen today!

Gold has certainly had another nice little run up over the last few weeks and maybe we have to ask ourselves, did we miss an opportunity to profit from this?

The Euro (EC-Spotv in ProfitSource) looks like it may have commenced its next move to the upside.

Welcome back to Safety in the Market in 2009 as we kick off the year!

I am sure most of you will recall how Noah let out a white dove from his ark after he thought the great floods were over.

I hope all our readers have had a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year and that 2009 will bring you all the happiness and success that you could possibly wish for!