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I have to say it is great fun and most importantly I am nearly 20% up after just 6 months of trading!
October 29, 2021
I’m blown away by the results it achieves and will not be investing anywhere else.
News
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.
November 22, 2021
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.
Market Activity
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.
In short: yes, and this is how.
November 24, 2021
London is home to 429 Hedge Funds, but what do they do, and what makes them different? And why do the people running them get paid so much?
November 18, 2021
We’ve recently been asked what the difference is between a Mutual Fund and a Hedge Fund and why Hedge Funds, like The Portfolio Platform, have the ability to make so much more money.
November 10, 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.
November 8, 2021
Active stock picking is hard, and for most, it doesn’t work.
November 5, 2021
Trading Guides
The single most important reason for this retail investor underperformance? Emotional human behavior.
October 27, 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
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