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04/08/19 August and the week ahead

August 4, 2019 by The Stop Hunter Leave a Comment

Stock Market board close-up

I’m back from a short summer break and ready to get stuck in to August after a positive July’s trading results.

The month starts in a bit of a mess globally, with a US interest rate cut (maybe not as large as some wanted) by the FED, inversely impacted by Trumps enthusiasm for more China tariffs and US stocks at the tail end of an interesting earnings season. On top of this it’s looking like a hard Brexit is looking more lpossible and we’re still seeing continuing troubles in the Gulf. All makes for a fun start to the month!

FX longer term currency strength strategy: Bearish: #NZD #AUD, Weak Bearish: #GBP, Neutral #EUR, Weak Bullish #USD #CAD,  Bullish #JPY #CHF.

Indices: Volatility strategy: All global majors in bearish territory currently with volatility levels increasing. Seasonality strategy: bearish #SMI $GER30, bullish #bovespa, $NSDQ100


Commodities: COT strategy: $OIL $COPPER $NATGAS bearish. $PLATINUM weak bearish. $SILVER weak bullish, $GOLD bullish. Softs: #Cocoa #Cotton #Coffee bearish. Seasonality: $GOLD #Wheat bullish, $COPPER #Palladium bearish.


I will be deploying some further proactive trade and portfolio management enhancements that will make trading look more active and slightly different to the last couple of months.


Regards
Stephen

Filed Under: Trading Tagged With: trading, technical analysis, commodities, Gold, FX, Indices, oil, results, dax

A systematic trading approach: 1 year, over 1000 trades, and nearly a 300% return…….

May 11, 2018 by The Stop Hunter 2 Comments

A systematic approach to trading

The FinTech arm of our business started in mid 2016, built on the foundations of many years of experience working for banks, brokers and trading houses. We take on many different assignments in this space: We design, test and build systematic trading systems and analytical tools. After initially coming up with an idea for a technical analysis based trading system, testing it on a couple of assets and getting amazing backtest results toward the end of 2016, we decided to do something a bit different and create an all encompassing systematic trading approach that we could trade for ourselves using our own money, and truly put our ideas to the test!

We decided from the outset, that once live, we’d run it for one whole year and then publish what we found. This article outlines our year of trading the system, the background to it, issues and problems we faced and most importantly, the end financial result (which is sort of given away in the title!)

 

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Filed Under: News, Trading Tagged With: technical analysis, trade management, stops, equities, forex, commodities, FX, Renko, Indices, systematic trading, algorithmic trading, algo, algorithmic, systems, AI, EA, risk managemant, portfolio optimisation, back test, value at risk, profit and loss, cryptocurrencies

Mastering the mindset of an FX trader: IG Index presentation

April 19, 2017 by The Stop Hunter Leave a Comment

Next Thursday 27th in the evening (17:45 to 21:00) I am giving a presentation at IG’s London office, as part of a larger event on FX trading. My talk is about the mindset of the FX trader. There are also two other speakers – one who will be talking about the tools you can use to better aid your trading and another giving an overview of the current market in FX. There will also be a Q&A session, the opportunity to get some strategy and trading ideas, to network with fellow traders as well as learning how MT4 could help your trading. Refreshments are provided.

The event is free to IG clients. If you’re interested you can find out more or sign up by using the following link: https://www.ig.com/uk/improve-your-trading-on-mt4

 

Filed Under: News Tagged With: trading, technical analysis, FX, IG Index, mindset, mt4

Chart of the day (29/03/17): GBPUSD

March 29, 2017 by The Stop Hunter Leave a Comment

Trading the financial markets
Chart of the day: GBPUSD – Welcome to Article 50 day! Ahead of any announcement, a quick look at the FX pair. Unsurprisingly weaker leading into today’s events but action probably priced in? Should though anticipate that there will be some volatility. In the longer term weekly chart still bearish / range bound between 1.27 and 1.20 at lows. This mornings 15 minute chart shows prices coming off overnight but have now gone flat and stabilising around the 1.24 level.

Filed Under: News, Trading Tagged With: technical analysis, FX, GBPUSD, Brexit, may, article 50

Property Investors – Time for a rethink?

November 26, 2015 by The Stop Hunter Leave a Comment

Houses for Property Investors

The news yesterday, that George Osborne is imposing a 3% rise in stamp duty on all buy-to-let properties, will have an impact on property investors everywhere. The new rules, which come into force in April 2016, will mean that the stamp duty cost on a £300,000 property will rise from £5,000 to £14,000. Not great news.

This, coupled with reductions in tax relief due in 2017 and capital gains tax changes due in 2019, will make it harder and harder for property investors, who traditionally purchase buy-to-let properties as an alternative investment, to make any decent returns. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Education, News Tagged With: spread betting, trading, trader, financial markets, forex, property investment, investment strategy, risk profile, FX, UK Property, housing market

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