Shares and Trading

An investor was telling me recently about an investment he made back in the early 1990s as a way to demonstrate his skill. Seriously … he used one example more than 20 years old to qualify his ability as an investor. Reviewing the quality of an investment decision solely...

Iron Ore prices have risen almost 50 percent across most markets since the lows of November 2018, with spot prices for the ferrous metal now trading around $90 US a tonne. Much of the recent gain in prices can be put down to the collapse of a dam at...

As the US economy has finally recovered from its post-GFC malaise, so have US interest rates risen from historical lows. This is a natural progression; policy makers keep interest rates low while economies are weak – in order to stimulate borrowing and investment, and raise interest rates as economies...

Like most things in finance, a market downturn is impossible to predict with any certainty. When will it happen? How severe will it be? What will trigger it? No one really knows the answers, even when looking back in time as a guide. What we do know is that,...

Coming from an institutional background has advantages when working in the retail industry. But in the case of China, it can also present challenges. One of the fascinating things about the Forex market in China is that it’s almost entirely retail based. The market there has been built from...

Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Big Data. Unless you have been living under a rock, you would have heard these terms mentioned a lot in the last few years. But what real-world applications do they provide? Self-driving cars, brick-laying robots and even Siri to help navigate your way through...

At a time when there is so much geopolitical and economic uncertainty- the threat of an attack on USA by North Korea, Europe’s political turmoil and unprecedented global debt, it seems ironic that the measure of market expectations, the VIX Index, remains stable and calm. It appears investors are...