Stock Market Reports

An interesting week with the FTSE going sideways with a one day price spike on Tuesday. This event provided a learning outcome for me as well as a new addition to the Trading Simply Trading Plan. More on that in the month end report, to be published later this week. Stock Markets This Week Its funny how TALK of a … [Read more...] about Stock Market Report wk#39

This week saw the world's leaders still trying to figure out what to do with Greece to stop it from defaulting on its debt and therefore allowing it to stay in the Euro. One thing I have learned this week is to trust my own judgement when it comes to trading the UK stock market. All to often I go through a process … [Read more...] about Stock Market Report wk#38

You know how you say stuff that you know you shouldn't. Well I said in last week's stock market update with a high amount of glee that I 'feel (and enjoy) a sense of smugness when I hear traders going on about what a difficult month August was and how some got creamed.' Well, I got a little bit creamed this week as … [Read more...] about Stock Market Report wk#37

Well I have entered new positions this week after a long time on the sidelines. During this time I have read many different stock market blogs and reports as well as news events to try and get a sense of what traders are up to. Like me some traders have also been in cash citing that 'deciding not to trade is … [Read more...] about Stock Market Report wk# 36

Hello and welcome to week 35 of my stock market musings. We are still in no man's land as far as direction is concerned and I am still (patiently) waiting for my next opportunity to enter new positions. I will not enter any new positions until the stock market gives me a clear signal as to it's likely … [Read more...] about Stock Market Report wk#35

First of all, I need to apologize for naming the stock market report series incorrectly by their weeks. What I mean is that today's stock market report is week 34. The previous three reports were incorrectly labelled as weeks 26, 27 and 28 when they should have been 31, 32 and 33 respectively. Nevermind all sorted … [Read more...] about Stock Market Report wk#34

In last week's update, I reported that I had closed all my positions due to the lack of direction in the stock market. As I watched the stock market every day this week, it became clear that we are probably due another leg down before markets stabilise. In normal economic conditions, I would advocate holding onto … [Read more...] about Stock Market Report wk# 28

An extremely quite week for me this week and that suits me just fine. There is no need to force yourself to trade every day to be a success in the financial markets. If you trade like me at the end of each day after the markets have closed, then there is simply no need to trade every day; if the set ups are not … [Read more...] about Stock Market Report wk# 27

Wow. What a week to start a new stock market portfolio! I could not have picked a worse week to begin trading a new spread betting portfolio. My thanks goes out to politicians in America and Europe for that. I could so easily have been chopped up in the markets this week to the extent that I could have ended … [Read more...] about Stock Market Report wk#26

You know how you say stuff that you know you shouldn't. Well I said in last week's stock market update with a high amount of glee that I 'feel (and enjoy) a sense of smugness when I hear traders going on about what a difficult month August was and how some got creamed.' Well, I got a little bit creamed this week as … [Read more...] about Stock Market Report wk#37