As mentioned in these two previous posts both the Yen and Sterling are under attack and George Soros (and other fund managers) have been filing their boots with shorting these two currencies. You can see from my previous post on shorting sterling what lovely runs there’s been to south side on Cable (and other GBP […]

This has been across the news-wires a lot today. How George Soros and several other Hedge Fund types have been making serious profits from the weakening of the Yen over these last few months.  This article is from Business Insider and you can read it here What I found interesting is the comment from Green […]

Once we realise that imperfect understanding is the human condition there is no shame in being wrong.  Only in failing to correct our mistakes. George Soros

“The secret behind success is to embrace risk, not to avoid it.” George Soros

I tend not to read the papers as a general rule: too much doom and gloom. However I do make time for the FT Weekend edition.  Whilst perusing this weekends edition (Sat/Sun April 10/11th) in my local coffee shop yesterday I came across a fascinating commentary by Gillian Tett (a well thought of and highly respected FT […]