You may already know that my Stop Orders book was published by respected financial publishers Harriman House. You might not know that they will soon be launching a new website called Harriman Intelligence, to which they have asked a small number of authors such as me to contribute some content. You can find my first […]
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Trade of The Week on London Capital Group
By Tony on February 13, 2013 in capital spreads, ig, intertrader, lcg, position trading, stop orders, trade of the week
Have you seen what happened to the London Capital Group share price in the past few days? The sudden ramp-up in share price allowed me to bank this quick profit: I cashed in those few chips so as to demonstrate the handy IG P&L Breakdown Report that shows you exactly how you did — including […]
Don’t Cut Your Losses!
By Tony on February 11, 2013 in capital spreads, ig, intertrader, motley fool, naked trader, position trading, stop orders
We all know that Warren Buffet is quoted as saying “Don’t Lose Money!”. And that most seasoned traders laugh at the fact that many novice investors avoid losing money simply by holding on to losing positions until (hopefully) they recover; thereby never registering their “paper losses” as real losses… until it’s too late. I used […]
Three Steps to (Trading) Heaven
By Tony on February 7, 2013 in barratt, better spread betting, capital spreads, etx capital, ig, intertrader, position trading, punch taverns, pyramiding, stop orders
Today I noticed in one of my model “better spread betting” accounts that three positions in the same stock (Punch Taverns) had stopped out for modest profits, as shown here: Although profitable, I don’t regard this as a good result. Not only because of the small amounts involved, but also because of the fact that […]
Trade of The Week on Thomas Cook
By Tony on February 4, 2013 in etx capital, ig, position trading, stop orders, thomas cook, trade of the week
This week’s “trade of the week” is one that I initiated on 24 October last year when Thomas Cook broke upwards from its “flat-line”. In the following chart, the lower horizontal line shows the entry price and the higher horizontal line shows the profit I am guaranteed to take (at least) thanks to a guaranteed […]
Trade of The Week on Severfield-Rowen: a Whipsaw Profit
By Tony on January 23, 2013 in better spread betting, ig, intertrader, position trading, stop orders
You might have read over on The Motley Fool (and other places) about how the price of Severfield-Rowen shares crashed this morning, 23 Jan. It gives me an opportunity to demonstrate what I mean by a “whipsaw profit”, which is one of the concepts documented in my Position Trading and Better Spread Betting books. You […]
(Pyramid) Trade of the Week on Barratt
Do you remember my “Trade of the Week” feature from a couple of weeks ago? It was the one in which I told you how I had just pyramided Barratt so that I had one position with a guaranteed profit and another position (in the same stock) with a very manageable worst-case loss. Well, things […]
Trade of The Week: A Tale of Two Pyramids
As it’s the last day of 2012, this “Trade of The Week” feature might be better titled “Trade of The Year”, but I’ll stick with the usual title so as not to confuse you into thinking it was the best trade of the whole year. And in fact it’s two trades, not one. Readers of […]
High Performance Trading (with Steve Ward and InterTrader)
I wonder what you got for Christmas? A surprise present that arrived for me just before Christmas was a copy of Steve Ward’s book High Performance Trading, courtesy of InterTrader. It’s fortunate — and more than a little surprising — that I didn’t already own a copy of this book, because I was well aware […]
Bonus Trade of The Week on Regal Petroleum
Yesterday I told you how difficult it was to choose a “Trade of The Week” example because I was spoilt for choice. And so today, here is a “bonus” trade of the week on Regal Petroleum. Well, it is nearly Christmas. You might have noticed that the share price has been up and down like […]