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 […]
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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 […]
IFTA South East Asia Webinar Collaboration: ‘Second Semester from Cycle Perspective’
Following on from a similar live Webinar in January this year, IFTA member technical analysis societies in South East Asia put on a great show on the 18th June 2022. Timed to try and incorporate viewers from many time zones, […]
June is party time in London: The STA gets in on the act
When I holiday abroad my favourite time has been Easter and the October school half-term. Now that my daughter is grown up, I’m a lot more flexible but prefer dates around the equinox as I find the weather in most […]
Candles at night time: But wait and see what they look like first thing in the morning
In the 1960s my family lived in Rio de Janeiro which had sudden power cuts all too often; my sister and I regularly did our homework and then had dinner by candlelight. Homes, rich and in the poor favelas, had […]
‘Replication crisis’: Why academic research struggles in the real world
I read a lot – and widely. In part out of sheer curiosity, sometimes to delve into a new subject and then again to find interesting information I might use in articles and social media. Today I present one of […]
‘Talking about Risk’ – ‘’one of those topics nobody wants to talk about.’’ A webinar by Perry J. Kaufman for STA members
For an experienced market technician who prefers to stick with the trend, Mr Kaufman’s timing was impeccable. ‘’Today [10th May 2022] I bailed out of everything’’. This was because, as per his trading rules, when annualised volatility rises above 32% […]
Central Banks ahoy! How will markets react?
The media, the world and his mother are well aware that all sorts of consumer prices have been rising sharply since Q3 2021; now it’s the turn for central banks to sit up and smell the roses – and pretend […]
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