All Entries Tagged With: "ftse options trading"
Trade101 Week Ending 12October
Oh My! Some Drop, Who Saw That Coming? Er, most of us, But Not That Big The drop since 03 October- 6.66% when FTSE was 7510 and it all looked ok. Warnings abounded- “bond yields!” They screamed, FED rate hikes they exclaimed. Markets drop from highs-only the fund managers buy at the top. The classic ‘they are […]
Trade100! Week Ending 05 October
Our Maiden Century(With thanks to Giphy.com) What does it mean? Statistically 100 events can have some meaning attached for analysis. I think we have about 5 losing trades, by the way. In due course a summary of these 100 trades will be made available. A lot to get through this week as the interminable FTSE […]
Trade 98 Week Ending 21September
Friday Frenzy Laugh? The media tell us it’s all doom and gloom, the High street and retail are finished. Then we have Bl***y Brexit, as I’m sure history will name it. Or perhaps the inglorious devolution. I have to factor it in to trading, but how? Nobody has done a Brexit before, except with violence,and […]
Trade 95 Week Ending 31 August
Some Graphics To Pore Over, and a Great Exit for Trade 94 As we ALL know- don’t we, volatility rises when the market falls. It can rise when the market rises but it is a measure of the cost of risk. For premium sellers it is a thing of beauty, for those already short premium, […]
Trade 94 Week Ending 24 August
The Week That Time forgot Actually the whole of August has been pretty lame, for FTSE, though August 15th served us well with a 1.5% drop. August is the month when movers and shakers are away. The office cat is actually managing your funds! I like the ‘up day/down day‘ measure and August has 50% […]
FTSE- What’s Really Going On?
FTSE Up 7.6% on The Year Actually if you look at the price on Dec 8th it was 7320. We finished on 7688,so there was a rise of 368 points. FTSE opened 2017 at 7142. So….. 5.2% of that 7.6% rise was accounted for in the tiny volumes in the last 3 weeks of the year. […]
