The STA Blog - Tag: Speculation
Retail traders embrace volatility: Zero-day options and penny stocks on today’s menu
Early this month the London-based Financial Times newspaper brought to my attention two important trends happening in the main stock markets of India and the USA. There are many reasons being put forward for the surge in volume in specialist […]
Tags: options, Speculation, Voltility, volume
Top to toe Crypto: An IFTA presentation by Alessio Rutigliano
Thursday 23rd March 2022 Alessio gave an excellent webinar for the International Federation of Technical Analysts (IFTA) entitled ‘Crypto Markets and the Wyckoff Method: A Top-Down Approach’. He’s a teaching instructor @WyckoffAnalysis whose website is www.wyckoffanalytics.com. Not being exactly au-fait […]
Tags: Crypto, Sector Rotation, Speculation, volatility, Wyckoff
Stupid spikes and Johnny-come-latelies : follow on from extreme rectangles (last week’s blog)
Almost 40 years ago I started on my quest to learn about derivatives markets and how to use technical analysis on their price charts. My ‘speciality’ – if one can call it that – was being a few steps ahead […]
Tags: Excess, momentum, Speculation, Spikes, Stupid Moves
Bubbles, busts, and how to spot them: Books at bedtime
Rather than chamomile tea and a collection of soothing fairy tales for your night table, I have better ideas as to what you should read this winter. Not horror stories or fantasy gladiators, but cautionary tales; sort of in the […]
Tags: Excess, history, Speculation
Towering figures in finance: Take a tumble
Isn’t life funny? Last week I wrote about Charles Mackay – he of the Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds 1841 book – who said, ‘those who sound the alarm over an approaching railway crisis have somewhat exaggerated […]
Tags: Biography, crash, publishing, Speculation
Tim Harford: The undercover economist
Writing for the Financial Times stable as I do, you might assume I’m biased. More realistically, as a technical analyst you’re probably going to ask, why on earth have I chosen to focus on this chap, this week? Because he’s […]
Tags: Bubbles, Economists, Prediction, Speculation
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