Archive : Investing

Last year NFC winners New York Giants won the Super Bowl. Within the context of the Super Bowl Indicator this meant that the stock market should have declined for 2012. However it finished up on 2011′s close. So it was not such a good indicator as it was in for 2011. This year we have the

You would be forgiven for thinking buy and hold investing is not all that great given the last decade’s sideways range (albeit a big range). The reality is buy and hold does work but you need to be buying consistently through out your life time and, as we all know, you need to be re

Super Bowl XLV is just around the corner (6th Feburary 2011) and this year it takes place between the Pittsburgh Steelers (AFC) and the Green Bay Packers (NFC). The Super Bowl Indicator states that “that if a team from the AFC wins the Super Bowl the stock market will decline during the

Now we are in 2011 we can review the statistics mentioin earlier last year. The fire one was the Super Bowl Inidcator. This stated last year that “the New Orleans Saints win Super Bowl XLIV on 7 February the stock market will rise”. The Saints did win and the FTSE did rise during

I came across this article on our sister trading articles site and thought it was worth re-printing here. Although it is about stock trading I thought it might spark a debate in day traders and forex traders alike. Have a read. Are Stops Really Necessary in Stock Trading? Are Stops Really

“An exchange-traded fund (ETF) is an investment fund traded on stock exchanges. An ETF holds assets such as stocks or bonds and trades at approximately the same price as the net asset value of its underlying assets over the course of the trading day. Most ETFs track an index, such as

The super bowl stock market predictions usually start circulating this time each year. There is statistical evidence that ‘states’ that if a team from the AFC wins the Super Bowl the stock market will decline during the year and if the NFC team wins it will be a positive year for the

I was just going through some information I had on my PC with regards to the Dow Jones Industrial index from 2007. In short, the period after US midterm elections are generally quite strong. These elections happen every 4 years and the last one was in 2006. The next one is in 2010. Obviously,

In a series of stunning editorials for the Wall Street Journal at the turn of the century, Dow laid out the foundation of his own theory on the stock market. Among them were: The market is always to be considered as having three movements, all going on at the same time. The first thing to

If you are buy and holder of stocks and shares this may be of interest to you. I am sure most have heard of ‘sell in may and go away’ but do the stats support such a claim? Apparantly so…….. “In an average year, the winter has produced a total return of 7.9%,