All the best for 2016
Last month the International Monetary Fund released their World Economic Outlook. It expects the world to expand in 2016 by 3.6 percent up from this year’s estimated 3.1 percent growth. It is marginally slower than the growth rates of 3.3 percent and 3.4 percent seen in 2013 and 2014. 2016 will begin with a well-defined and anticipated pattern of More...
Where next for the Oil Price?
Where is the oil price going? The Saudi game of flooding the market with cheap oil to try and put the US shale industry out of action hasn’t yielded any real scalps yet which suggests that we probably have More...
Best 8 Wall Street Movies
In no particular order, this is the list of my 8 best Wall Street and trading related movies. Beyond the entertaining value, there’s always some trading wisdom to be gained by watching these movies. Wall More...
How to profit from Seasonality Effects in Trading
If you’ve been involved in trading the markets for some time, you’ve most probably heard of sayings like ‘sell in May and go away’, ‘January effect’ or ‘Santa Claus rally’. More...
Young City Trader who earns 1 million a year
The world’s top traders ages 30 or below are named today, with young guns picked up five of the coveted positions. They represent the changing face of the modern City. None went to Oxbridge, some turn up More...
Downsizing the USA Military
With US sequestration cuts now taking effect and Barack Obama ordering US $85 billion in defence cuts, Colin Cieszynski assesses the impact on the stock market. The latest budget cuts will shrink the USA army More...
Rogue Traders
As the last of the City bonuses are paid in January, the inevitable comparisons are once again being made between traders as to whether their bonus sufficiently recognises their contribution to their respective More...
Understanding Bonds
A bond is a financial contract usually between two parties. These are financial securities and are classed as fixed income securities. The bond market is massive and can be applied to financial intermediaries, companies More...
Double Bottom and Double Top
Double bottom and double top are a chart reversal pattern. In other words, the pattern displayed will signal a reversal of the trend. Below we have explained how to identify these chart reversal patterns. Double More...
All about Exotic options
This article requires a bit of background reading on what options are so it is advisable to read our previous article. Options are a type of derivative. Exotic options are the most complex out of all the option More...