Traders & Investors Club

Can a charting technique developed by Dr. Alan Andrews over fifty years ago, combined with classic Fibonacci levels, pinpoint an imminent S&P500 top?

Warren Buffet has said that a rising tide lifts all boats. This apparently innocent remark provides us with a clue to one of the most successful yet most underutilised trading strategies of all time, namely Sector Rotation using External Relative Strength Analysis.

Instructus Trading was founded by four City of London trading professionals with sixty-five years of collective experience working for some of the world's leading banks. As well as trading their own accounts, the Instructus team is on a mission to bring professional-standard financial education to both new and experienced investors. In this presentation, Giles and Mat of Instructus Trading discuss how professional traders concentrate on managing risk in order to generate consistent returns

John Hampson of SolarCycles.net is a UK-based Global Macro trader who has developed a unique approach towards trading the markets based upon his proposition that solar cycles drive secular asset cycles.

2012 has not been a good year for stock market bears. Our short positions have been stopped in their tracks and we are currently standing aside dusting ourselves off. Of course, it would be easy to blame our miscalculations on the fact that successive rounds of Quantitative Easing on both sides of the Atlantic have resulted in a very large increase in liquidity with nowhere for the mountains of cash to go except the stock market. But, that would just be sour grapes, wouldn't it?

It looks as though China may well be THE story for 2012. And not necessarily in a good way.

Kevin Barry of the Traders & Investors Club updates us on the progress of his longer-term positions since last month. He expects the economy to deflate over the years ahead and explains his strategy for dealing with it.

Kevin remains bearish on both the stocks and commodities sectors. He is also unfashionably bullish on the US Dollar. This evening, Kevin discussed his market positions for the month ahead as well as presenting our regular summary of the recent global market action.

Alex is a Cross Asset Prop Trader at ODIN, which is a Global Macro Hedge Fund. He is also the Founding Chairman of the London chapter of the Market Technicians Association, which is a global organization providing education and support for those interested in technical analysis.

In this audio presentation, Alex Spiroglou of ODIN Capital Mangement describes several classic technical trade setups. The presentation was delivered at the Traders & Investors Club on 19th July 2011.

Francis Hunt, a.k.a. The Market Sniper, is a passionate Trader of the Markets. He specialises in high-probability, high reward-to-risk, breakout trading. He is one of six Expert Chartists broadcasting on Cantos Charts, a regular Technical Analysis program which is avidly followed by thousands of investors.

The US Dollar has broken the critical support line, which means that the Federal Reserve may be well be on its way to succeeding in its ultimate objective to grind the Greenback into the ground. What ramifications does this have for global commodity prices and the outlook for inflation?