Contracts for Difference (CFD) Education

Rally or Trend?

DARYL GUPPY With the XJO rebounding from support near 4500 and with resistance near 4900 is important to distinguish between a rally and a new uptrend. A sideways market calls for different trading methods.

Let the index provider be your guide

BIANCA HARTGE When it comes to portfolio construction, what’s hot and what’s not in stocks can generally be decided by watching the index.

Trading and the dividend reporting season

JOHN WASILIEV One of the attractions of the company reporting season is how it can level the playing field for private traders.

2010 Market Trading Strategy

DARYL GUPPY Running technical searches and scans is an important part of trade identification. It has an important drawback.

Buy the Rumour, Sell the fact.

GARY GLOVER If you’ve been in the market a while you would have heard the phrase, “buy the rumour, sell the fact”.

A practical example of congestion, support and resistance

JOHN WASILIEV Those who follow technical approaches to trading often find it remarkable how shares and markets have a sticky memory and hone in on identifiable levels of support and resistance.

Share Trading - how to start

DARYL GUPPY Some people examine their current job with its heavy time demands and decide that the life of a share trader sounds easy in comparison.

Million Dollar Traders : “Joining the Dots”

GARY GLOVER Can a novice trader make it as a Million Dollar Trader? If the recent BBC series of Million Dollar Traders is any guide then yes some of us could make it in the exciting world of hedge fund trading.

Reporting Season 2010 – Let the results be your guide

BIANCA HARTGE You don’t have to tune into the nightly finance report to hear that the economy is in the midst of a strong recovery; there are signs of growing business and consumer confidence everywhere.

Best answer for share market beginners

DARYL GUPPY Recently I was talking with Jack Schwager, the author of Market Wizards. We were discussing one of the most common question we hear in training classes and workshops. We agreed about the best answer to the question.

Trade exit management methods

DARYL GUPPY The management of stop loss methods and protect profit methods changes when the market conditions change. The methods are different in a bear market and a bull market. They are also different when the market begins to develop trend weakness.

Using Leading Indicators to make sense of markets

JAMES GERRISH There is no doubting the importance of historical data as we attempt to make sense of future price action in global financial markets.

The history of market corrections

STEPHEN HOGAN Unless you have been trekking through the Amazon rainforest for the last 2 years, you would be well aware that global stock markets have declined over 50% starting in late 07 and found a bottom in March this year.

Rational Bubble Markets

DARYL GUPPY Financial markets are places of excitement most of the time. This sometimes leads to a market bubble where unrealistic expectations are accepted as normal.

Working your stocks a little harder

CLIVE TOMPKINS Things haven’t quite gone to plan for long term investors recently. With blue chip shares worse for wear despite the rally, many portfolios are back to where they were several year ago.

Patience is a virtue for astute traders

JOHN WASILIEV When uncertainty prevails in investment markets, patience becomes a virtue for astute traders. If there is one area where many traders can come unstuck is feeling they have to be involved in the market at all times.

Trend trading strategies

JOHN WASILIEV Because they operate on short term views and are often in a hurry, many traders place great store on identifying investments that show price momentum.

Practical stop loss trading

JOHN WASILIEV One of the most useful tools for any trader especially of derivatives is a stop loss order.

Prospecting for gold

JOHN WASILIEV For some months now gold has been moving steadily forward with occasional pauses, a trend that market watchers see as likely to continue.

A strategy for setting a stop loss

JOHN WASILIEV Most successful investors use a system when trading. The principal attraction of a good system is that it should automate the trading process by providing traders with answers to the major decisions that must be made including how to deal effectively with a price correction.