Recent content by Thaumaturgus

Is this not the opposite of received wisdom? i.e. that rolling dailies are suitable for the shorter timescales e.g. < 2 weeks, and quarterlies are for the longer timescales, since in the course of a few weeks the overnight financing charges will overtake the wider spread on the quarterly? This...

Right, seems this is more simple than I thought. You are basically offsetting the entry and exit points by the difference between the SB price and the "real" price. If you were taking this trade, would you use a rolling daily or a quarterly? And if the latter, would you make any further...

Everything I do is based on daily - my attempts to get involved in the shorter TFs have invariably resulted in giving back profits. tomorton - I think from your posts elsewhere that you 1)trade indices and 2) use spreadbets. How do you reconcile what you see on the Sharescope chart(which is...

No, just ordinary P&F signals, i.e. range breakouts; no intermarket cleverness for me. I can go weeks without taking a new position. My dilemma might be better expressed as follows: 1. I can identify an entry signal in the (EOD) chart. 2. Based on the above, I can figure out where to place...

Easter weekend, and I've been trying to get my head around a few things. For the last year or so, I have been spreadbetting on indices - FTSE, DAX, S&P - and made a few quid - not difficult, given market conditions during the period in question. I have been using EOD P&F charts, in their...

Re: Wallstreet1928 Analysis & live calls on FTSE,DAX,S&P...aimed to help New traders FTSE, DOW, and DAX all at round numbers. Long FTSE and DAX, account well leveraged due to withdrawing some spending $, but keeping stops a safe distance away until new support appears (assuming, of course...

Re: Wallstreet1928 Analysis & live calls on FTSE,DAX,S&P...aimed to help New traders DJIA ran out of steam a bit after London close yesterday. DAX struggling to break out as well.

I came across this thread on another forum: http://boards.fool.co.uk/Message.asp?mid=11685117&sort=whole Is this old news around here? If true, it seems a little shoddy.

Order was filled last night. Price has still not broken above 5150, but has been close today. No action on the stop loss, hope I haven't jumped the gun here.

FTSE100 made up most of its lost ground today, looks like it might break above old high after hours. Placed order to enter long at 5052, S/L 4942.

Well, I opened a PartyMarkets account at the weekend to investigate this further- my only other account is with CS. At first glance, the fact that the spreads are twice as wide on both rolling daily and quarterly FTSE makes the ability to stake £3.56pp rather moot. PartyMarkets do seem to be...

I hope WS is right. If I'm not much mistaken, a 3-box reversal (@50) has just occurred and this action below 5000 does look rather like stop-hunting. I will be waiting for (EOD) breakout.

I was investigating PartyMarkets for the same reason; got stopped out of a weeks-old long position yesterday so I have no open positions with CS this morning. Again, the motivation is improved position sizing - IMO anyone betting less than a tenner a point would be better off with fractions...

FTSE quarterly expiring on Friday to boot, good chance of getting shafted on either the long or the short side I would have thought. I'll be sitting on my hands, or at least on a bar stool, until after the weekend.

It appears as if "Popular Markets", "Indices" and "Forex" have become more "spaced out" in the menu bar to take up the space previously occupied by "Binary Bets".