Trade of The Week: Centamin Sentiment

Not so long ago I edited a book (not this one) for a guy who postulated that one sure way to make money in the markets is to bet against the recommendations of a particular investment bank; not straight away, but a few weeks later.



It is in this context that I re-read this article, dated 15 October, in which Goldman Sachs cited Centamin as a favourite stock that offered "inexpensive exposure

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Start with Stops! (at Spreadbet Magazine)

The other week, I dropped in on Richard Jennings -- editor of Spreadbet Magazine. We talked about some of our mutual acquaintances in the industry, and our favourite stocks. We also popped out for a "steak sandwich" at the local Italian (as you do at an Italian restaurant).



The upshot is that I found myself contributing an article to this month's edition of the magazine. My original title of

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Trading with the Market's Money

Over at TRADERS' Magazine you can find my latest article Trading with the Market's Money. The tag line pretty much summarises the article:


"You're profitable when you take out more than you ever put in!"



And if you're interested, I can tell you that the real-life account used to demonstrate the point was an IG account.



Enjoy.



Three Steps to Better Spread Betting:

1) Buy the Better

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SOUND FX : The SOUND Approach to Foreign Exchange Trading

I told you several weeks ago that I was embarking on a project to write a new introductory book about foreign exchange (forex or fx) trading based on the MetaTrader 4 (MT4) trading platform provided by RPD FX -- a sister company of spread betting firm ETX Capital. Well, here is is:



Now Available as a Kindle Edition from Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk, and as a Kobo book.
Now Available as a PDF

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Is the London Capital Group a Flatliner?

I noticed that one of the casualties of today's heavy sell-off was the London Capital Group. A quick look at its longer-term price chart (see below) caused me to notice also that it might now be categorised as one of the Flatliners.






According to the Peter Lynch principle, I should now be taking up a long position. Not because it appears to be flatlining, though that's good, but because it's

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Spread Betting the Flatliners

It shouldn't take a rocket scientist to figure out what I mean by a "flatliner"; it's a stock that has fallen a long way over a long period of time and whose price is just bumping along the bottom now that all the sellers have sold and no-one (for the moment) wants to buy. The best way to illustrate is with the following price chart for Aquarius Platinum (courtesy of InterTrader, don't miss out

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Rave Reviews of Ravee's Book

A few weeks ago I introduced you to Ravee Mehta's new book The Emotionally Intelligent Investor, which I had helped edit and publish.

Since then, I see that it has been selling well and attracting rave reviews on Amazon.com, so you might like to take a look at it. Of course, you can also get it from Amazon.co.uk. And before you ask: no, I don't get any royalties from sales of the book;

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