Time is short

After some rumination on the state of the markets, my prognosis on the terminal condition of the stocks markets has not changed since the start of the year. In this Sunday update, a memo to self to try and catch a move in the equity markets to the downside and [...]

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Video summary of this week

I am invested in “QID” the Proshares Ultra Short fund (2X gains for declines in the Nasdaq)

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Trading review since opening capitalspreads.com account

Since opening the account my result are as follows (in GBP£ – double this to get US$)

This is on discretionary/ my choice of tradeswith no system for entry or exit other than when I feel like it.
I am aiming to eliminate all losses over £100 and ideally have all losses falling in range £0-£50 (US$100 [...]

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You heard it here first…

Commodities Higher Before Fed Decision
By STEVENSON JACOBS – 4 hours ago -associated press
NEW YORK (AP) — Commodities prices climbed broadly Thursday as expectations of another U.S. interest rate cut and rebounding global equities markets boosted investors’ appetite for gold, grains and other hard assets.

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Account review time

Decided to reign back in any impulses to trade the main stock indices and concentrate on building up a stake trading commodities – until its time to short the S&P500 again.
Performance review since opening my account with 2 lots of £300 (US$1,200) on 11 December 2007 here is the performance over 90 or so trades [...]

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