Recent content by Benjameanie

I wasn't thinking of trading on this, just getting started looking at this field. And I understand that there are many other things to consider. This is geek heaven! My expectation wasn't based on anything much other than my novice's assumption that it wouldn't be possible to extract anything...

Thanks Martinghoul, that's what I wanted to hear. Calinor, I've just run a simple linear model with the day-on-day change in closing price as the dependent variable and day-on-day change in closing price at a lag of 1 day as the sole independent variable. The result says that the series are...

Hi All, I hope this is the right forum for this question. I've run a test to see if the % change in an index from Day 1 to Day 2 is related to the % change from Day 2 to Day 3. My expectation was that there would be no relationship, but the test suggests I was wrong. The regression diagnostics...

OK, it seems I've opened a can of worms here. But what I'm going to take away from it is that completely ignoring fundamental analysis is a bad idea - perhaps analogous to ignoring a longer time-frame on a chart. That's part of the reason I thought trading UK stocks was a good idea - so that I...

Thank you all for your advice - some interesting points. Raysor, I'm committed to using technical analysis, partly because I'm a data analyst by profession, partly because it seems to me that trading opportunities based on fundamentals are relatively rare, so I would need to be more familiar...

Hi All, I started looking into this trading malarkey at the weekend and have found myself quickly hooked. I just wanted to post an outline of what my initial plan of attack will be so I can hopefully get some feedback on any major flaws in my thinking, or anything you think I've overlooked...