Recent content by NewThought

Thanks for your advice. The ISAs in the MoneySavingExpert link I gave only allow users to buy and sell funds. On the basis of your reply, I looked at MoneySupermarket, and found some ISAs that allow trading of shares (British and foreign) and ETFs - link.

Consider starting a business. Your youth would be a fantastic advantage (I personally cannot name a single person who wanted a business and still didn't have one after 10 or more attempts to start one - those who keep trying seem to get there in the end) and if you later decided to give it up...

Hi Everyone, At this time, I don't have an ISA for the current financial year, and I'd like some basic information about a trading ISA, please. I've seen some good starting information on the Money Saving Expert website (trading ISA link), but I have a few more questions: * am I right in...

For example: for Lloyds Banking Group, see http://www.google.com/finance?q=lloy.l Under the chart, there is a link saying "Sector: Financial > Industry: Money Centre Banks". Clicking on Money Centre Banks yields the data for that sector (http://www.google.com/finance?catid=uk-63765713).

How about "Factors That Influence The Property Cycle". Recommended reading: chapter 22 on Keynes's famous book from 1936, "The General Theory Of Employment, Interest And Money" (click here).

IMO, there's not much point in doing that: the data in the spreadsheet is "in memory" anyway - so referring to it directly using the cells() method will not take significantly longer than referring to it in an array (assuming the program does not contain a loop that will need to refer to each...

In Toni Turner's short term trading book, she suggests taking 10% of the profit from every winning trade out of the trading account. Is this what you mean by "the fixed ratio method"?

I haven't done the test myself, but I know that some good mathematicians have. An obvious way to do it would be the kind of tests that are used to check the quality of a pseudorandom number generator (e.g. a spectral test: when the numbers are mapped into multidimensional space, they should not...

IMO, if people who are in a position to manipulate the market (if anyone actually is) do so, then they will actually create money-making opportunities in the process! They would probably also reduce the "randomness" of the market. The above is an opinion (in contrast to my previous statement in...

It is very easy to demonstrate that market movements are NOT random, so I am mystified as to why that book title carries so much credibility. Does anybody know what tests for randomness are used in that book, please?

In your situation, when reading a book, if a point arose that I wanted to memorise, I would put it in a flashcard program (useful link below), and play the flashcards until I had the desired level of recollection. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_flashcard_software

The link below shows that, at time of writing, MSFT has a market cap of $210 billion. For a different company, just replace MSFT in the URL with the company's symbol. http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=MSFT

A router (you will need one even if you only have 1 pc). If one of the computers is to be in a different room, then make it a wireless router.

Many fund managers who found it easy to outperform with small amounts of money then go on to under perform when they move to larger funds. The key problem is that the more money you are trading with, the more you move the market against yourself when you try to trade.

As the proportion of trading which is automated relentlessly increases, I would expect this to become less true. Any veterans have any opinions on whether the market has become less psychological over the last decade or so, please?