Morty Sill Forex Bias: Northern Rock and hedge funds

July 19, 2009  |  Author: admin  |  Category: forex hedging

Sir Richard Branson’s Virgin consortium is putting a bid together for Northern Rock. This was inevitable given the drop in the share price.

What is puzzling is why a profitable, well-run bank had such a precipitous fall in its share price. Sub-prime debt was not a serious issue, and all banks lend long and borrow short to some degree.

When something dramatic happens in finance, there is usually a hidden story. Behind the smoke screen provided inadvertently by pundits and other outsiders, someone has made a killing. The pension funds and other holders of NR stock lent stock to the hedge funds knowing they would drive down the share price by short-selling.

Short-selling involves borrowing stock, paying a commission for the priviledge and selling it in the market hoping it will depress the price. The stock is then bought at the lower price. The stock is returned to the original lender, and the borrower pockets the difference. The hedge funds have made billions shorting Northern Rock stock in the last 12 months.

No doubt the pension funds charged hefty commissions but why would they deliberately cause the value of their holdings to be devalued?

As Warren Buffet says “if you don’t know who the sucker is in the room…. it’s probably YOU!”

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Automated Forex Trading Software – What You Need to Know Before Using It

May 05, 2009  |  Author: admin  |  Category: automated forex

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Automated Forex Trading Software – What You Need to Know Before Using It
One way of making your life easier in foreign exchange is to let a FOREX expert advisor help you do the trading for you. The foreign exchange is a very volatile market, and with such a lot of factors to determine how the currency will flow from day to day, it is quite difficult to gain financially. It is only recently that institutional investors have begun to tap into the services of these expert advisors (EA) and have drastically improved their chances in earning.

These types of programs are quite a new technology, but the experiences of FOREX expert advisors who developed the system go way back. They were created by specialists in the business who fully understand how the market works and varies, and that is why they have put their knowledge into this product to make life simpler for new and old traders alike.

One aspect is that the buying and selling of currencies is done in several different time zones around the world, which run on a twenty-four hour a day cycle. Without the help of FOREX expert advisors, traders would need to monitor the particular currencies of those who want to bid and sell. And that by itself is a task that is close to impossible to do. They would then just have to make the best out of each days trading. But by employing the aid of a FOREX expert advisor, all the user has to do is set the proper signals and the robot will act accordingly to the tags instantaneously. This also eliminates emotion in trading and gives you better advantage in making those split second decisions that will be the cause of either losing or making money.

Try to stay away from systems that claim they can plot historical data to affect the chances of trades. This is not true at all. No record of past or present transactions can determine the outcome of a future trade, simply because these are independent outcomes not relevant to the trade at hand. There are very many and complex factors that determine the rise and fall of a particular currency value, and its history has no attachment to the present outcome.

Another thing that you can do to help find those correct opportunities is to do research on the currency pair you have chosen. Knowing all events and activities that affect the particular pair you picked to play with will help a lot in projecting or uming a stake at a certain point in time. These factors may include economy of the country, system of government, trade policies, political and business atmosphere, and budget spending and appropriation.

There is really no perfect system but armed with the knowledge and the correct FOREX expert advisor by your side, you will improve your chances of making a profit in this very lucrative and high-stake market.

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New Forex Trading Platform That is Recession Proof

April 05, 2009  |  Author: admin  |  Category: forex trading platforms

http://ForexAutopilotSystem.org – New Forex Trading Platform That is Recession Proof As we all are doing our best to survive through this recession by doing whatever we can do. The best way to do it is to do things that are known to be recession proof and one of them is dealing with foreign currency, which is Forex Trading. But it still can be risky if you don’t know what you are doing… So here’s the solution.. New Forex Trading Platform That is Recession Proof advice advisor analysis auto …

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Automated Forex Trading Software Especially For You !!!!

March 29, 2009  |  Author: admin  |  Category: automated forex

http://ForexAutopilotSystem.org – Automated Forex Trading Software Especially For You !!!! If you want to create reliable indicator or expert advisor (trading system), but you have no time to programming, or you have some troubles in your systems, our programmers can qualified helps you! Well create indicators or systems, according to your algorithm, translate it to: Meta Trader, Meta Stock, Omega Research Pro Suite, Omni Trader, Investor`s Dream and others! Cheap Prices & The Best service …

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Make The Automated FOREX Trading System Work For You – PROOF

March 02, 2009  |  Author: admin  |  Category: forex trading system

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Make The Automated Forex Trading System Work For You
Everybody dreams of making a lot of money with minimal effort. Foreign exchange traders are drawn to this dream, thinking an automated Forex trading system will help them realize it. But is it really possible to just turn the system on and wait for the money to come in? The manufacturers might make you believe so. Yes, it can help you make money. But, the sad truth is, many traders still end up losing rather than earning.

Let us try to see why the promised autopilot fails to make the said dream a reality.

A lot of Forex robots in the market today boast of track records claiming huge profits. What some traders fail to notice is that these claims are based on paper simulation. What it comes down to is that the program simply knows all the market prices. This is not proof that it will bring in profits. To know how much the closing prices are is not all there is to it in trading. So, in choosing a good system, do not go for simulated ones. Choose those that have proven records over a long period of time.

Do you wonder why some traders still do not succeed even if they are using good programs? While the simulated programs do not have real losses in real time, in the existing trading world, you will suffer losses. You do not need to fear these losses, as they do happen to everyone. This does not mean though that your losses are permanent. You can still make profits. For the moment, you will just need to ride out this short-term drawdown.

Some systems put you in a period of drawdown. During these times, avoid making emotional trading mistakes. Keep in mind that markets fluctuate and losses are normal so do not stop adhering to your trading signals. It is imperative that you maintain your mindset and discipline until you gain profits again. You can psych yourself up for this by identifying your worst drawdown and uming at all times that it is just ahead. To add to that, always understand and believe in your strategy as well as your system so you will not hesitate to act accordingly.

Despite what is said in the previous arguments, an automated Forex trading system can work. It is a useful tool and it does work. However, contrary to what manufacturers might say, do not expect consistent profits and zero losses. No matter how intelligent the tool is, you would still need to rely on your own strategy rather than depend on an automated system. Unlike simulated programs, you would need to look beyond short-term and start seeing long-term.

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HEDGING

February 09, 2009  |  Author: admin  |  Category: forex hedging

http://www.kodikos.com Hedging is a practice every investor should know about – there is no arguing that portfolio protection is often just as important as portfolio appreciation. Like your neighbor’s obsession, however, hedging is talked about more than it is explained, making it seem as though it belongs only to the most esoteric financial realms. Well, even if you are a beginner, you can learn what hedging is, how it works and what hedging techniques investors and companies use to protect themselves.What Is Hedging?
The best way to understand hedging is to think of it as insurance. When people decide to hedge, they are insuring themselves against a negative event.
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Portfolio managers, individual investors and corporations use hedging techniques to reduce their exposure to various risks. In financial markets, however, hedging becomes more complicated than simply paying an insurance company a fee every year. Hedging against investment risk means strategically using instruments in the market to offset the risk of any adverse price movements. In other words, investors hedge one investment by making another.

Technically, to hedge you would invest in two securities with negative correlations. Of course, nothing in this world is free, so you still have to pay for this type of insurance in one form or another.

Although some of us may fantasize about a world where profit potentials are limitless but also risk free, hedging can’t help us escape the hard reality of the risk-return tradeoff. A reduction in risk will always mean a reduction in potential profits. So, hedging, for the most part, is a technique not by which you will make money but by which you can reduce potential loss. If the investment you are hedging against makes money, you will have typically reduced the profit that you could have made, and if the investment loses money, your hedge, if successful, will reduce that loss.Every hedge has a cost, so before you decide to use hedging, you must ask yourself if the benefits received from it justify the expense. Remember, the goal of hedging isn’t to make money but to protect from losses. The cost of the hedge – whether it is the cost of an option or lost profits from being on the wrong side of a futures contract – cannot be avoided. This is the price you have to pay to avoid uncertainty.

We’ve been comparing hedging versus insurance, but we should emphasize that insurance is far more precise than hedging. With insurance, you are completely compensated for your loss (usually minus a deductible). Hedging a portfolio isn’t a perfect science and things can go wrong. Although risk managers are always aiming for the perfect hedge, it is difficult to achieve in practice.

What Hedging Means to You
The majority of investors will never trade a derivative contract in their life. In fact most buy-and-hold investors ignore short-term fluctuation altogether. For these investors there is little point in engaging in hedging because they let their investments grow with the overall market.

So why learn about hedging?

Even if you never hedge for your own portfolio you should understand how it works because many big companies and investment funds will hedge in some form. Oil companies, for example, might hedge against the price of oil while an international mutual fund might hedge against fluctuations in foreign exchange rates. An understanding of hedging will help you to comprehend and analyze these investments.

Conclusion
Risk is an essential yet precarious element of investing. Regardless of what kind of investor one aims to be, having a basic knowledge of hedging strategies will lead to better awareness of how investors and companies work to protect themselves. Whether or not you decide to start practicing the intricate uses of derivatives, learning about how hedging works will help advance your understanding the market, which will always help you be a better investor.

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