Archive | April, 2013

26/4/2013 – Blink! The power (and the pitfalls) of instantenous decisions in financial markets – MarketTrader TV show

April 26, 2013

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http://markettrader.tv/ Last week I was fortunate enough to spend the day in Mayfair at the Westbury Hotel (a lovely location if you’re ever in need of one!) The reason?  Myself and Malte Kaub from the Traders Leadership Council were delivering an all- day seminar for ActivTrades on ‘Blink! The power (and the pitfalls) of instantaneous decisions […]

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23/04/2013 Flash-Crash. How to lose (and re-gain) $136 billion in minutes and why we still need humans

April 24, 2013

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So yesterdays market action was all about the Flash-Crash event that happened after (allegedly) the Syrian Electronic Army hacked into the Associated Press Twitter feed and posted a tweet regarding an attack on the White House and Barack Obama. The S&P fell 1% on the news (allegedly wiping out $136 billion in gains) before regaining its previous level. […]

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15/4/2013 – April Gold Update Part 2!

April 15, 2013

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Well, what a difference a few days makes!  I wrote a post on Thursday about price coming down to the 1530 – 1570 Support level. As you can see from the chart price crashed through that the next day and closed the week off at $1489! I’d love to say I timed my post to […]

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April 2013: A quick Gold update

April 11, 2013

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Back at the start of December 2012 I wrote about a comment in the FT detailing the largest purchases of Gold by Central Banks in nearly 40 years and how this could be a contrarian sell signal for Gold  I thought I’d do a quick follow-up with a chart to see how gold has fared since […]

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