Recent content by Sai

Performance for last week attached. May start to re-balance the portfolio slightly to keep within the optimal weighting ranges for our portfolio objectives. Will update if this happens during the week.

Performance for last week attached. U.S and European Equities have made great gains since October but I believe bulls should be cautious here given that trading volumes need to pick up for this to be sustained. As stated a few posts back the underlying fundamentals are still weak, with...

I have total costs (including spreads) down to 1.22% for this portfolio. Normal costs can go up to 5% for the initial charge and 1.5% p.a management fee for the top performing funds. Obviously reducing your costs depends upon many factors. Assuming you have formulated your risk/return...

Just a quick overview of what I am thinking at this stage. Equities Well it has been another horrid week for the Eurozone. Further downgrades and Angela Merkels comments last week on how ‘Europe needs to do more’ will probably make this another highly volatile week in Equity markets...

No significant changes in the investment policy for the portfolio to report so no trading at this stage. Current performance is attached via PDF.

Sorry but I was not talking absolute returns in my response to NVP I was responding to a specific question about volatility which relates to the gyrations from average returns over a specific period. To simplify it for you the target absolute return is 6.25% after 1 year. The reporting...

Basic rationale for Asia is that there are greater growth prospects in corporate earnings in the east, especially India, given the clients investment time horizon (10+ years).

Variance in portfolio returns over a given period. Technically volatility means the degree to which a variable will deviate up or down from its mean. However in this context we are interested in controlling the deviation (or standard deviation) from average portfolio returns over a year. So...

Hi All, Just thought I would start a new thread and may be help a few people out there that are looking to improve their trading and investment decisions in general. Its all educational and nothing in this thread should be construed as investment advice in any way shape or form. My background...

Hi folks, The position has been filled. Just like to say thanks to the people who responded. Peace..

Will have more details after the weekend. Cheers.

Hi, I am setting up a mini investment fund in Manchester. I require an experienced futures trader to manage client funds. I have access to alot of investment capital. You will be provided with office space to trade client accounts with me. I'm looking for traders with at least 4 years...

Hey, Does anyone use this form of chart analysis? I've found it to be very interesting and thought I'd get the opinion of fellow traders. I'm thinking of furthering my education in this field with these guys: J-Chart Wiki - Home Has anyone used these guys before and if so was it worth the...

Well I'm done for! I've held my position over night and all the american markets have just tanked! The Fed let me down. I hope it isn't complete carnage on the opening tomorrow.. Hoping London takes a calm view on the Fed interest rate cut.. :(

Hi I'm looking for some information on the J-Charts application and just wanted to get the opinion of Traders who have or are currently using it. How does it compare to the market profile philosophy of Peter Steidlmayer? Has J-Charts improved your bottomline? Is it an application worth...