I enjoy receiving email messages from my readers worldwide, and I do try to answer each and every one of them. A frequent question I get from readers goes something like this: “Here is my own trading system (or trading plan) and what do you think of it?” The reader then explains in detail the [...]
Archive for April, 2008
Formulating Your Own Plan of Action
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Volume; The Flow Beneath The Surface
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It’s like reading tomorrows newspaper today! How many times have you heard that expression describing a market leading indicator or stock trading system? Well, truth be told, there aren’t many that live up to their name and some simply take a great deal of practice to be able to interpret them consistently. Today though, we [...]
Mutual Funds With Hedge Fund Ambitions
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Do you have a million dollars in your back pocket, or $200,000 a year in income? If not, you can’t qualify as an accredited investor according to the SEC, and it means you are completely shut out of investing in hedge funds. If you lack the buy-in, but still want a taste of what hedge funds have to [...]
Tough Times Create Rich Consultants
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Accenture (NYSE:ACN) saw profit surge by 37% as the company saw more demand for its consulting business. As other businesses search for solutions in a tough economy, Accenture has been there to offer a hand and rake in the cash. Recently the company’s growth outstripped market expectations and led to a gain in the shares. [...]
Common Sense and Stop Losses
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If you have been trading commodities for any time at all, it is not uncommon to give stop losses a certain mystique, reverence, or maybe fear and loathing. This month I’m going to spend some time demystifying stop losses and show you two different ways to use VantagePoint to set stop losses. Stop losses are [...]
Sharia on Wall Street?
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Undated, post 9-11 photo at the NY Stock Exchange – possibly the Turkish flag and definitely with the Islamic crescent…regardless of what flag it is, why is it flying at the NYSE? Maybe it’s a precursor to the significant investments in US companies by Islamic entities? Creeping sharia? CEOs are begging for loans from oil-rich [...]
Standard & Poors Submits to Sharia
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“The launch of these indices underlines Standard & Poor’s commitment to providing Islamic investors with the widest possible investment options which were screened for Shariah compliance and equipping them with the tools they need to quantify their performance,” Alka Banerjee, vice-president (index services), S&P, said.Standard & Poor’s Shariah Indices are screened by Ratings Intelligence Partners, [...]
