Articles for: Integrated Analysis

Most traders are familiar with CFDs and the concept of paying interest on long positions and receiving interest on short positions.

Top Down Analysis involves determining which stocks have the particular combination of factors – technical, fundamental, economic or political – that constitute a profitable trading opportunity.

When you first decided to start trading the financial markets, were you thinking, “I want to be able to forecast so I can impress my friends”, or did you think “I want to make money and be financially free”?

It has been a dramatic few weeks on global stock markets. The impact of the credit crunch and years of easy debt, that is simply not available now, is really starting to hit home.

It is times like this when many traders are apt to ‘throw out the baby with the bath water’. Or in another manner of speech they ‘throw’ in the towel.

Well much has happened in the last week and if I was writing as I did last week on the mother of all share indices – the DOW – I would probably have taken an even harsher view.

And yes, I might add, we would like it to get better. So true – but we do have to take what the market dishes out.

After rallying strongly for most of 2007, the British pound (BP-SpotV in Profitsource) copped a beating over November and December, falling over 1500 points to the current lows (in early January).

The US markets had an extraordinary move up during the last week or so in anticipation of a 50 point move on interest rates by the Fed.

My recent articles have been focused on the US bond markets and how the prevailing interest rate direction will affect mortgages as well as the continuing threat of the sub-prime credit crunch.