Archive for June 16th, 2008

The facets of investing – fascinating site for anyone interested in the stock markets and Excel

I didn't know how to describe this properly but I found a fascinating site at http://www.gummy-stuff.org/ This site has all sorts of data which show all sorts of fascinating and interesting things to do with the stock markets. The spreadsheets are great, you can use them to do all sorts of stuff... you can do things like download financial data from Yahoo and draw all sorts of graphs, run simulations and generally tweak to your hearts content. I got lost in this site for hours downloading an

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Simon Grinter’s Weekly Breakout trade

Simon Grinter's Weekly Breakout trade

I mentioned that I went on Simon Grinter's Forex seminar not so long ago... well, finally, I got a chance to put on his 'weekly breakout' trade. I put in an order to go long at 211.05 with a 100 pip limit and stop and waited.... I woke up this morning to find that my trade had been triggered and that I was already 20 pips up. By the time I got to work, my trade was about 70 pips up. There was some resistance around 212.00 so I took profit when it eased off (you never know, it may tank from he

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