Recent content by johnnn

BBP are currently selling Britannias for £845 and buying for £790. Nice work if you can get it! :)

With oil, the foreseeable may not be very long, if the US stops being able to pay its servicemen and military contractors. Gold may be good; common sense says so, but I'm not sure how to read the scale of the rise since Lehman's; haven't lots of small and unwise investors moved in, e.g. in...

If the USD collapses, I don't fancy the chances of the other major currencies, but in the first day or two the speeds of fall might differ significantly. Which isn't to say that moving into any paper would be safe or even sensible. But they say never to let a crisis go to waste :) Breaking the...

After a week, yes. But on the day?

In the event of a US government default and the collapse of the USD, which currency will do best, in the very short term? CHF? EUR? something else? John

Options with what underlying might be a goer? March expiry would be too soon. The election (which may not happen) is scheduled for 4 March; I don't think collapse will take as long as a month after that, but it's possible. An indicator that things are going as expected is if candidates start...

Many thanks for this. I will check them out. The first looks especially interesting. (I've no up-to-date take on Poland, Hungary, etc., so less keen on the second.) Cheers! Johnnn

Argh! I meant to say low five figures, not four. I've got about GBP 25K to invest. Still a small amount, but a bit bigger than just a few grand, as I mistakenly posted before! (I think I must have meant "low multiple of 10^4" :) I'll have a look, but my analysis involves political, military...

Any idea where? I'm small-scale retail (low four figures to invest). Index puts would be great, or CFDs might be better, being without theta... but where can I do either of these?? I'm based in the UK and would prefer to be able to get in and out online. Am watching political developments very...

Thanks. Doesn't look as though forex is the way for me to do it, then. I've started another thread here.

I'm a political analyst and am strongly of the view that Russia is going to undergo hellish turmoil in Russia in the next month and, as a result, major financial turmoil. How can I speculate on this? I'm looking to be in and out within a week or fortnight. Heavy gearing preferred. The currency...

Thanks. No, I didn't know that! So what's the best way to speculate that Russia's going to go down the tubes in the next month?

Bump! Does someone know of some retail place offering any of these pairs? (Even an SB!) I'd like to hold for periods of several days...

Where can I trade the Russian ruble, small-scale? E.g. GBP-RUB, EUR-RUB, CHF-RUB, USD-RUB etc. John

Thanks for this correction. So £15, going down to £10, UK tax free, as against £8.40 UK taxable. But harder to make anything to get taxed on when the charges are higher :) PS seem pretty competitive at volumes of several hundred lots per month. Also people tell me their client service is much...