It’s always been a question of balance, and after years of massive investment in commodities, culminating in three or four of massive overinvestment  the world is now oversupplied and not growing like many hoped it would. But this has been the case for at least a year now. Analysts and investors now expect to see…

The UK’s high-street banks are again due to update the markets on their quarterly performance as of next week. Banks’ shares are some of the most highly traded on account of their ‘high beta,’ or tendency to move more than the index, and are garnering yet more attention from investors right now following some exciting…

We haven’t just written this special report because the markets are volatile. The concept of protecting your capital is every bit as important as growing it. This isn’t rocket science either – risk management needn’t involve any fancy financial engineering as we’ll see. Risk can be managed both before you even enter a trade and…

BP shares have fallen 30% from their April 2015 highs and are approaching July 2010 lows. With the company having reported Q4 2015 profits down 91%, could these be the worst BP results ever and thus represent a bottom for the share price?

We’ve talked a lot about the need for a diverse range of investments and a trading strategy that includes short selling (something traditional share dealing doesn’t allow you to do). Both approaches will have helped savvy investors beat the market in 2015, and indeed in what’s been a tough start to 2016.

You’d be forgiven for deducing the markets are all doom and gloom after the UK’s flagship UK Index index closed down 5% last year, however, that’s a very one-sided use of a single figure. And more than likely based on headlines designed to sell newspapers. What about the 13% rally from late Jan lows to…