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Mike Estrey - ArticlesTrading Platinum Using CfdsIn our daily reports, we comment on the background and outlook for the gold price, but from time to time we refer to other precious metals. One of these that can be traded using CFDs is platinum, and various contracts are available, as well of course as companies with interests such as Johnson Matthey and Aquarius Platinum, which have long appealed to stock market investors.
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As gold is rare than silver, so platinum is around 35 times rarer than gold and is less widely The Yield Curve and Its Relevance to the StockmarketCFD traders will often hear the phrase ‘yield curve’ used in long and short term evaluation of investment trends, and it is seen as important as one barometer for the outlook for the economy, and thus the stockmarket. The curve itself shows the structure of interest rates plotted over different maturities as measured by government bond prices, from the shortest dated bonds, which usually are related to short term interest rates, to long-dated i.e. 30 year plus maturities.
This enables investor The Benefits of Trend TradingOne of the great themes of investment, whether it is stockmarket, commodity, foreign exchange or indeed any financial instrument, is whether or not what you are trading is in a clear trend. The reason this is so important is that trading a trend creates much bigger opportunities than trying to second guess moves within a trading range.
The problem is that for certain instruments, trends do not occur very often. Indeed for some shares, a clear trend is in place perhaps for less than 30% of th The 1987 Crash – What Was That All About?Long before CFDs became commonplace, we lived in a land of early programme trading, extended settlement and mainly phone based dealing, and almost twenty years to the day occurred what is now known as ‘Black Monday’
This was the session on Monday, October 19th 1987, when the benchmark Dow Jones Index fell by a 508 points, which was then 23% and the biggest one day percentage decline in stock market history, with huge drops also seen right across the world’s equity markets.
The falls actually c Gann Analysis – an Unusual Technical Approach to the StockmarketsIt is fair to say that some modes of technical analysis of the stockmarkets move beyond the purely mathematical and one of these is Gann analysis which has many devotees around the world despite its more esoteric appeal.
The body of work that has built up around WD Gann began with his own series of predictions in the early part of the 20th century which were uncannily accurate, and he soon built up a big following as one of the first real technical analysts. His analysis combined price and tim Volatility and Risk in Stockmarket TradingIf there is one area that is regularly ignored by CFD traders it is that of volatility, which is often confused with risk. Certainly in terms of grading different types of asset classes, the two are connected, and both the risk and volatility of a government stock for instance will usually be much lower than say a dot.com or emerging market smaller company. The Best Secret in Investment and Trading – Compound InterestAlbert Einstein – yes, he of “e equals mc squared”, said that compound interest was the greatest mathematical discovery of all time, and this brief summary might just convince you how right he was. Stop Losses – an Important Part of Stockmarket TradingIf there is one area guaranteed to confuse many traders and lead to multiple opinions on the most appropriate approach, it is the subject of stop losses. More on Moving Averages and a Lesser Known Indicator for Stockmarket TradersFinding a suitable indicator that reliably defines a trend is one of the keys to successful investing, whether it is on the stockmarket, in forex trading or commodities. How Do Stocks Join and Leave the Ftse 100 Index?The FTSE 100 index is used as the benchmark for measuring the strength of the UK stockmarket, and some commentators have argued it has a natural bias to outperform the wider FT All Share index, because it tends to promote to its ranks those stocks which are in the ascendancy and remove others that are falling away.
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