Corporate reporting season is in full swing on both sides of the Atlantic. Traders are eager to benefit from potentially attractive share price moves. Often, however, the share price moves seen around results require some deciphering. What constitutes “good results” for the share price? Why would a share price react negatively even after positive headlines? Let’s assume a UK…
Following my blog on Friday, the question “Where do I place my stop loss?” cropped up again. It’s an ever popular question from clients when placing a trade. For which there is no one answer. It’s like asking “How long is a piece of string“. Working out what might make sense, however, is extremely simple….
The UK 100 is back at the floor of a 2-week 6800-7000 shallow rising channel. The culprit is a strong Pound Sterling, which hinders many UK Index members from a currency translation standpoint. If the shares pay a dividend in US Dollars, the stronger that GBP gets the less these payment are worth. And Sterling is…
Client A rings in, identifies him/herself and asks Accendo to “buy £10,000 worth of UK Index stock X“, because the shares are trading multi-month lows. After the usual security checks Trader B obliges, asking “what’s you plan? Would you like a stop or a limit?” Client A says “no stops, no limits, thanks, bye”. From…
If Hollywood ever made a movie about my stock broker career, I would call it: “Dr. Rangelove, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Volatility”. Many of my trading clients dislike the word volatility, thinking it’s a negative aspect of the stock market. My goal is to help investors embrace volatility, master it…
The UK 100 is ebullient, ending the trading week 0.9% higher after a strong 2-day rally that took the blue-chip index +2.7% from this week’s 6796 lows. Moreover, this has taken the index’s YTD gains to +3.7%. Much of the advance can be chalked up to a weak Pound Sterling, which fell on weak UK…