The child in me still looks forward to opening the little windows on her Advent calendar. Not the rather crass ones filled with chocolates and what not, but the traditional type where the fun is just seeing the picture behind. […]
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Long term weather forecast for power trading: Webinar from Refinitiv 17 November 2022
Refiinitiv Eikon presented a very interesting webinar last Thursday, with content provided by their European Power team. Despite being a lifelong fan of the Reuters terminal, now in its new incarnation as Refiniitiv Xenith, I wasn’t aware that they were […]
‘Are you delusional?’: The title of Victoria Shepherd’s recent magazine article
The Autumn 2022 issue of the New Humanist contains this article, written to coincide with the publication of her latest book: ‘’A History of Delusions; the Glass King, a Substitute Husband and a Walking Corpse’’ (Blackstone Publishing). If that doesn’t […]
Larry the lad looking good: Despite trading since 1962
I was so looking forward to Larry Williams’ Fireside Chat with the STA’s Jeff Boccaccio on Tuesday the 8th November. For the first time the web-based presentation was open to STA members, their guests, plus all and sundry as a […]
The Day of the (Living) Dead: Ghosts and ghouls at this time of year
Halloween yesterday on the 31st October passed without incident – despite an unexpected carved orange pumpkin being plonked on my gatepost. All Saints Day today, 1st November, has seen drizzle, sudden downpours and bright sunshine alternate quickly in London. Tomorrow, […]
Premiere of Energy Trading Week’s videos: Shared with speakers and attendees of their event in September
Yesterday, the 24th October 2022, the brains behind Energy Trading Week held a Zoom premiere to accompany the release of videos of the talks they hosted to hundreds, live at County Hall, London in September. Moderated by Marie Féjoz, Content […]
Four UK Chancellors – and counting: Counting the cost of the latest fiasco
A difficult year for the British economy and daunting times for its people. ‘Party gate’ toppled a Prime Minister who had won an election with a very large Conservative majority. It then took months of beauty parades to choose a […]
Jeff Boccaccio’s R-factory: And how it’s been trained to trade crypto
An interesting audience rocked up on Tuesday the 11th October’s STA monthly meeting – in-person at One Moorgate Place. Board member Jeff had probably enticed them with the title of his talk: ‘Simplifying (and Automating) Crypto in 3 Indicators’. Pals […]
Torrid time for Ms Truss and Co: Sterling markets in the eye of the storm
On Thursday the 7th July 2022 Boris Johnson resigned. Since then Britain has been pretty much rudderless with an ugly beauty contest for who was to be the next Prime Minister, no Queen and a country in mourning, a long-in-the-tooth […]
STA Freedom Party II at the National Liberal Club
There was a lot of catching up to do what with lockdowns and post-Covid, which resulted in a great turnout for the second informal STA party. As well as drinks and canapés, we were there for the awarding of Diploma […]
‘Analysing Alternative Data’: A Power Point presentation for the STA
Tuesday the 13th of September 2022 Steve O’Hare had been booked to present a webinar for STA members on his current favourite subject – multi-language research and trade ideas using technical analysis. Beforehand I looked him up on LinkedIn which […]
News and views from the Bank of England: ‘Charts and Fundamentals in the Foreign Exchange Market’
Many central banks are in hot water at the moment. Some, as the saying goes, are like frogs and toads which, when placed in a pan of tepid water and then heated up, boil to death rather than jump free […]
Do you like a Linker? If not, why not?
For UK-based readers it probably cannot have escaped your notice that inflation in the year to July 2022 is sky high. Data published yesterday (17/08/2022) by the Office for National Statistics showed that the consumer price index (CPI) was running […]
‘How to Benefit from Seasonality in Difficult Markets’: An IFTA webinar on Monday the 1st August
The International Federation of Technical Analysts is getting good at streaming interesting talks at times that suit their member societies – all over the world; no mean feat! Introduced as usual by IFTA’s web and workshop supremo Bruce Frasier, he […]
Are you a numbers person? And does that make you a metrologist?
This was a new one on me, so I didn’t just Google it but looked up the word in a proper, big dictionary. It tells me that metrology is the science of weights and measures and comes from the Greek […]
Celebrate International Technical Analyst Day (09/09/2022)
To celebrate INTERNATIONAL TECHNICAL ANALYST DAY*on the 9th of September 2022, we are asking everyone to give a special acknowledgement to any Technical Analysts who have inspired or influenced you. It’s a chance to shine a spotlight on your favourite […]
European Central Bank’s turn to blink: Raises key interest rate from negative to negligible
Madame Christine Lagarde, currently head of the European Central Bank (ECB), was in such a rush to quit her previous job as head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF, where she lent a record $44 billion to serial defaulter Argentina), […]
STA, ACI UK & THE BROKER CLUB JOINT PANEL DEBATE: THE OUTLOOK FOR CRYPTO IN 2022 – PART II
Ironically members of all three societies met in the auditorium at One Moorgate Place on the hottest day so far in London. This, as the expert panel reminded us, was against a background of a freeze in the crypto market. […]
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‘Real Time Risk Management in Volatile Times’: Practical Approaches for Digitising Risk to Gain Trading Advantage
I’ll agree with you that the title of this webinar is more than a mouthful. But bear with me because the content is seriously good and the panel are very experienced insiders. Organised on the 16th of June 2022 by […]
Mind the Gap! As they say on the London Underground
Their trains come in two sizes: bigger, 8 carriage ones on the sub-surface lines and smaller 6 carriage ones for the deep tube lines (the local vernacular). This allows trains to flex but, in doing so, the centre of each […]
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