Wednesday January 31st saw a rare super blood moon – turning a fabulous red colour in some parts of the world as the earth passes directly in front of it.  The moon also appeared to be bigger and brighter than […]

Last week we looked at how to organise, spruce up, or Spring clean one’s office.  Now I’ve come across a piece written by an acquaintance of mine which involves doing Feng Shui on your trading desk.  She suggests: ‘Create harmony […]

As a journalist, I am bombarded with unsolicited mail; the various email inboxes I have are a complete disaster with anything up to 10,000 missives requiring attention.  Much as I’d like to, deleting the lot is not an option.  Sometimes […]

This @STA_ORG blogger wears several hats, all of which have the #technicalanalysis moniker.  I write for a tip top professional audience, Society of Technical Analyst members and some of their friends, in a weekly where I scour for articles, trends, […]

For some years now the STA’s January meeting takes the format of a panel of experts outlining their views for different markets over the coming year.  This week it was a team with a twist, thought up by Head of […]

Straight from the vampire squid’s mouth, I kid you not.  For a firm that traditionally has eschewed technical analysis, this piece is quite an eye opener, both in terms of the quantity and range of charts used and the interesting […]

As technical analysts we well know that a picture is worth goodness only knows how many words.  Charts are just one type of picture though; we have photos, video, fine art and cartoons – a list that to which I’m […]

Yesterday, Tuesday the 12th December 2017, the STA held its 31st annual general meeting.  Some members of the board were lined up in a row at the front of the conference room, desks their only defence against members facing them, […]

This week a familiar face at STA monthly meetings, Ron William, sent me a piece he had co-authored with Robin Griffiths FSTA.  I’m sure they’ll be at our Christmas party on Tuesday 12th December so, if you have any questions […]

Free newspaper City AM is my morning tube-ride read of choice.  Topical, relevant, and mercifully concise I can usually get through it by my destination.  On the 31st October, they ran an interesting article called: ‘Why cutting through noise is […]

New rules as to how investment research is distributed and gets paid for come into force on the 3rd of January 2018.  They’re called MiFID II because this is the second version of the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive.  Dreamt […]

The Old Lady of Threadneedle Street, as Britain’s Central Bank is fondly known, was founded in 1694 but only moved to its current premises in 1734.  Public subscription had raised £1.2 million and it was open for business as the […]

Context is the critical element in your search for opportunities, not a price and direction forecast. Enthusiasm, what Greenspan called back in the 90’s “irrational exuberance” is the hallmark to a late stage of a Great Bull market, like it […]

Some months ago I was invited to speak at an investors’ conference in Mayfair.  Several familiar faces were there but I was interested in listening to a new one, so I arrived extra-early to hear her talk.  It was not […]

Yesterday, the 15th October 2017, the 30th IFTA annual conference wrapped up in Milan and, based on posts and comments in social media, delegates and speakers judged it a success.  In case you didn’t get to go, here is a […]

Tuesday the 10th October 2017 the STA invited Dr Dmytro Bondar to speak at its members’ monthly meeting.  His topic: detecting market cycles using ILSA – the spectral analysis of the title.  His logic was sound and his mathematics rigorous, […]

This is the shortened link to the interview with Raoul Pal on Jesse Felder’s series of Superinvestors and the Art of Worldly Wisdom.  It’s a podcast recorded about two months ago and rated highly by Charles Newsome, deputy chairman of […]

I don’t know about you but my email use is fairly chaotic.  Not only do I have two Gmail accounts – I could of course have more but I struggle as it is – but as well as my mobile […]

A familiar face at STA monthly meetings, on Tuesday 12th September (the first chance members had to catch up after the summer holiday) it was Trevor Neil’s turn to stand at the podium.  Bravely admitting to 40 years’ experience trading […]

Considering how long I’ve been working in financial services, you’d think that one way or another I will have, at some point, covered most internationally traded commodities, stocks, bonds and derivatives.  Yet every now and then something or someone alerts […]