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October 5, 2021
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September 29, 2021
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Market Activity
If you don’t have an American based strategy, this is one of our best and is a great addition to any portfolio.
October 25, 2021
News
Stock and bond markets have for weeks been dogged by worries about surging energy prices and companies failing to pass on higher costs to consumers.
October 20, 2021
Headline US price rises have topped 5 per cent for three consecutive months while inflation has also hit a 29-year high in Germany.
October 11, 2021
GDP figures showed that the UK economy grew faster than expected in the second quarter of 2021, jumping 5.5% compared to forecasts of 4.8%.
US stocks fell on Friday to their lowest level in almost a month while Treasuries were knocked, as investors grappled with signs of slowing global economic growth and the implications for monetary policy.
September 22, 2021
Stocks are down amid tapering fears, a slowing recovery, talk of interest rates going up one day, and whatever else anyone can think of to justify a down week.
For performances this week, Cambridge Futures managed another 2% for their autotraders, having got in early in the week but then cashing out before the FTSE sank back down to end the week pretty much unchanged.
Markets ticked up yesterday afternoon, but we remain cautious at this point as the world digests the consequences of his upbeat tone about jobs and personal spending.
The Times reported that £30 billion is ‘languishing in consistently underperforming funds’. It sounds a lot like the article we wrote a week ago about just how many make almost no money at all for their investors.
It’s no surprise that on the back of this, the stock pickers, and the long players came out on top this week.
Quite nice to occasionally have a quiet week but it’s not always the best environment for our traders.
Stocks have been steadily moving sideways for a couple of weeks now, even though we’ve seen some great earnings reports from the UK banks and bumper GDP projections.
Last Friday, the shorts were crowned as the afternoon sell off gathered momentum.
This team went short the S&P and the Nasdaq just over a week ago, but they have also been buying the dip in Europe against the position.
On the last trading day of the week though investors shrugged of these concerns and Wall Street’s stocks rebounded back to record highs.
The European traders have been knocked off the podium this week by an old favourite, The American Research House.
After a nasty drop last Friday, most indices across the world are up this week. The two Cambridge teams have once again recorded some fantastic numbers.
We all expect our portfolios to take a hit when the market falls like this, which is why anyone following the European Stock Basket will be pleased to hear that they have been short all week waiting to catch this drop.
If we look at performances for June so far, we can see that the strategies run by London Equities have had the best few days.
At TPP we have a 3x FTSE market tracker that will autotrade an account with as little as £20,000.
Take a moment out of your day, sit back, relax, and have a look at some of these performances by the top traders on The Portfolio Platform.
A trader’s job is to not only make money, but to minimise losses when the bottom falls out of the markets. So, how have the traders done this week?
These are 3 of the platforms favourites, so lots of happy customers out there this week.
The two most notable strategies who went short this week were the European Stock Basket and the Cambridge FX School.
This particular team perform regardless of market direction.
The American Research House offer a great option to hedge your stock portfolio as well as boost your returns.
It has been a turbulent week in the markets. The Nasdaq opened on Monday with a little optimism, only to see it be the worst hit and drop 5% over the next 4 days. In the trading world, that’s a lot.
One thing we’ve learned from answering how our traders make money when the market has had a bad week is that a little bit of knowledge is a bad thing.
There is plenty of inflation and labour market data out this week for the US, India, France and the wider EU which could have a broader impact on prices.
September 17, 2021
The goal of investing is to put your capital to work in one or more types of investment vehicles in the hopes of growing it over time.
October 22, 2021
At one end we have the old world; the one that everyone knows and the one that anyone born before the new millennia, grew up with.
October 15, 2021
The most common question we get asked as traders is, why didn’t we sell higher up, before it dropped.
October 7, 2021
Here is a brief outline of what the differences are from an investment management point of view:
Let’s have a look at the top of the table superstars in the investment world and see how they have done in the first half of the year.
September 26, 2021
How Autotrading on The Portfolio Platform can help you find what you’re looking for
We have been incredibly accurate on how the pandemic would play out in the stock market.
For those of you who missed the ‘fun’ this week, this is what happened
Nothing can just keep going up forever, and we’re seeing another necessary drop being triggered out of the States.
There is no doubt in anyone’s mind that what he has done over the years is worthy of a place in the money manager’s hall of fame, but times are changing in the investing world
For starters, this ‘bubble’ very specifically relates to US tech and nothing else.
Sometimes, it is good to get into a rallying market, but that can also be the time when most money is lost even though the company itself is still performing.
Within the last couple of weeks, 2 large UK tech companies have floated, one in the US and one in the UK, and this is what happened
The financial world has changed and TPP are at the forefront of the financial technology revolution.
This excess of liquidity and free money in the system cannot now come out without consequences, despite attempts by the Federal Reserve to say otherwise.
While the IMF and OECD have endorsed looser fiscal policy to aid the recovery, the vast scale of stimulus planned in the US goes much further than most had envisaged.
Wall Street may sell out profits and look for value, and that causes the price to drop, but if nobody is selling, it won’t.
The first week of 2021 was full of optimism in the market. During the week the FTSE actually outperformed its peers for the first time in a long time. Can we read into this that a majority believe it is an undervalued index?
Social trading is a form of investing that allows investors to observe and discuss the trading behaviour of their peers.
September 15, 2021
Terms and their definitions
Is a riskier portfolio one that holds more equity and fewer bonds? Or is the real risk to any portfolio is that it can only buy stocks, and not short the market if it’s going down?
The Platform has been running for a while now, and we often get many of the same questions. There are no silly questions
September 2, 2021
September 16, 2021
Investing is a way to set aside money while you are busy with life, and have that money work for you so that you can fully reap the rewards of your labour in the future.
