Recent content by HairyMoose

But the Technical Analysis charts are constructed from numbers and and formulae.

Just a question, what percentage is AAPL of the Jow Jones, Nastac etc, ? Thanks !

Not much comfort adz2k11 but at least you kept your original €35000 :) IG may have done you a huge favour. But I still hope you get the rest of the money back too !! The no foal, no fee solicitor route would seem the best way to proceed. But the spread bet providers have so much small print &...

Become a dairy farmer for mega riches !

Having looked at this strategy, I am concluding that it is not a perfect strategy. The non sells mean that the overall position gets rather large with a lot of money tied up in it. So now I'm working on another variation of the above strategy.

Trade No. 1 on Mon,08/01/2007 , bought €6,246.00 FTSE100 Profit = €124.92 on Wed,07/02/2007 , Running Total = €6,246.00 Running Margin Total = €2,082.00 Running Profit = €124.92 Running % Profit = 2.00% Trade No. 2 on Mon,15/01/2007 , bought €6,279.70 FTSE100 Profit = €125.59 on Wed,14/02/2007 ...

Trying posting the figures again with a few additions. Hopefully a little clearer this time. This is only trying out an idea with historical data for 2007/2008 here. I'm assuming I have nearly unlimited funds, I'm buying in at open every Monday morning and selling at 2% profit If and when hit...

Some figures for 2007/2008 buy in Monday morning @ open and sell at 2% gain whenever that happens. I'm working on getting data into a more readable form ! Prices in Euros because I trade in Euros per point ! Trade No. Date Buy/Sell Bought @ What Target Sell{H} Date hit Days for trade Year 1...

I'm looking at historical figures for the FTSE from Yahoo Finance and testing out the following strategy in Excel. Dollar Cost Averaging buy in at open every Monday morning , then selling when a fixed percentage gain is reached. (2% gain is the figure i'm mainly looking at) I'll try and get...

Sean Quinn is in the Irish news an media almost permanently at the moment. He was once Ireland's richest man, but he dabbled a bit in CFD's and loss an awful lot of money, his businesses and maybe even his family home, eventually. He bought CFD's in the now delisted Anglo Irish bank at the...

Yahoo Finance has nice information on the constituents ^FTSE Components | FTSE 100 Stock - Yahoo! Finance

Hi i'm just looking at the Yahoo Data now too. I'm not sure how to work out this Volatility thing but I subtracted month low from month high and divided by month close. (High-Low)/Close It's interesting how much movement there is even in the quietest of months.

I'm just looking at the FTSE in total , not indivual stocks. Yahoo has historical stuff going back a good while , but not 50 years http://uk.finance.yahoo.com/q/hp?s=%5EFTSE&b=2&a=03&c=1984&e=9&d=06&f=2012&g=w

@ Kate7777 Just in case you don't know, here's a very simple explanation of spread betting. 1. Most of the prices on spread bet platforms are quoted in pence or points. 2. For shares £1 per point buys you the same Risk as 100 shares. ie. one hundred times the quoted price in pence. Risk could...

I've been wondering who this Lulz character is ? It turns out he's more of a what than a who. Lulz is laughter at someone else's expense (from the German concept of "Schadensfreude"). Sometimes you may see the word spelled as luls or lolz if the writer doesn't know what they're talking about...