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Volatile markets can make you sick – literally: John Coates on viruses and volatility
Published on the 10th April 2020 in the Financial Times newspaper, this wasn’t the first time Mr Coates had contributed an article. Acting on a hunch he had had when running a trading desk for Deutsche Bank, he then retrained in neuroscience and physiology at Cambridge University. He wanted to find out whether ‘the rollercoaster of physical sensations a person experiences while immersed in the markets alters their risk-taking’.
Tags: Information, risk appetite, Stress, Technical Analysis Courses, volatility
How the markets worked a long time ago: And how staff dressed for work
Quite by chance, about 10 days ago, someone put me on to a video available (to those who pay a television licence fee) on BBC iPlayer. Called ‘The Markets’, it was released in 1976 and is an interesting vignette of how things used to be in the City of London, and how the plumbing really works. I don’t go back that far, though I did study at the London School of Economics, but many of my work colleagues in the early 1980s were around then and regaled us with tales of the old days – not the ‘good old days’ mind you.
Tags: Banking, Jobber, Stockbroker, volatility
Charting the Markets with IG TV: Lee Sandford MSTA speaks to host Jeremy Naylor
I must say, I don’t envy men these days; sartorial decisions are so very nuanced. IG TV host Jeremy Naylor this week invited Member of the Society of Technical Analysts’ Lee Sandford of tradingcollege.co.uk onto their regular slot, looking at […]
The fine line between maths, logic and technical analysis: Don’t chuck the whole lot out
In this week’s Investors Chronicle column I’m writing about the very basics of approaching charts for technical analysis. My extensive reader-base is well above average age, has well above average income and assets, and often has well entrenched views. Not […]
Beta Group makes a Vix pop: Trevor tells all
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 […]
Tags: Automated Trading, Bollinger Bands, Vix, volatility
Low, low volatility: Vix versus the rest
The Vix index, originally developed by Menachem Brenner and Dan Galai in 1986, was launched as a futures contract in 2004 on the Chicago Board Options Exchange (then options on this future introduced in 2006). It followed the stock market […]
Tags: options, Portfolio, volatility
Mantras peddled by the fund management industry: Spot and avoid
The wild gyrations in global markets since the Brexit vote to leave the EU have brought out the best and the worst in markets and pundits. Volatility in UK shares following the vote to leave the EU is “no reason […]
Tags: Brexit, Cash, tracker, volatility
The value of volatility: Measures and comparisons
Approached by an STA member recently at a monthly meeting, he showed me a very interesting report by FTSE Russell, an organisation producing equity benchmarks and research on these, wholly owned by the London Stock Exchange Group. Of the five […]
Tags: large cap, small cap, stock markets, UK indices, volatility
Secondary, tertiary, and other indicators
We all know that the prime mover of technical analysis is a time series analysis of market prices, sometimes labelled as ‘descriptive statistics’ by statisticians. They then call all further analysis based on this data ‘inductive statistics’ which include forecasts, generalisations, and extrapolations.
Bumping into Heikin Ashi: Pleased to meet you
At November’s STA monthly meeting we were treated to a very interesting talk by motivational coach Steve Ward (do watch the video which is now on the STA website). But there was an added extra in store for me over […]
Tags: averaging, candles, noise, volatility
Trend following Wilder’s RSI trendline breaks
Since my last blog post regarding Fibonacci Extensions for profit targets, I have received some great feedback, so I would like to say thank you to everyone who took the time to read it. In this post I will be […]
Tags: relative strength, RSI, Stock market, volatility
A blast from the past: Bubbles, baths and blood
Founder member of the STA Philip Gray treated us to a no-holds-barred look into manias and the madness of crowds last night. Warning us: ‘this lecture will seriously damage your wealth’ he regaled us with interesting, and many hilarious anecdotes […]
Tags: Bubbles, overvaluation, volatility
When markets shift two per cent: in a day
There are many rules of thumb involving market moves and the size of these; a ten per cent stock market decline is called a correction and 20 per cent drop a bear market. But what can we conclude when markets […]
Tags: percentages, Price moves, volatility
Secondary Indicators: Skipped so often
How many roll up their sleeves in a hurry, study the price chart of their favourite financial instrument, using the same old methods and time frame, all the time. When questioned, the usual retort is that this is their preferred […]
Tags: margin debt, open interest, short-selling, volatility, volume
The element of surprise: Can technical analysis help?
This week the euro rallied five US cents in 65 hours, despite on-going Greek drama, and all too many financial analysts were stumped, slaughtered, and lost for words. I have been wondering whether technical analysis can help in predicting surprise, […]
Tags: countertrend, FX, open interest, polling, volatility, volume
Three-D printing – Been there, done that
You will have probably heard of the great new technological leap forward that is the ability to print in three dimensions. Not only will we eventually be able to make body part replacements, but I have been warned that the […]
Tags: election, Foreign exchange, FX, heat maps, UK, volatility
An old-fashioned line chart For today’s volatility
Only economists use line charts. We technical analysts have developed far more sophisticated methods, first bar charts, then bar charts with opening and closing levels which morphed into candlesticks, not forgetting those with no time scale along the bottom like Point & Figure, Renko, and the Japanese Three Line Break.
Tags: bar chart, candles, FX, line chart, options, volatility
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