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Utility Calculations in Your Trading
Utility Calculations in Your Trading

I suffered a major trading loss recently and I was pondering about my profit and loss calculations. For example, a trading account can start at $500 and be traded up to something like $2000. So that’s a 300% profit on your initial investment. However, what if you have traded your account all the way up to $4000 (or have started your account at that figure) and found you’ve literally burned that trading account down to zero – in your books that would account for a 100% loss.

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How to Defeat Negative Trading Psychology
How to Defeat Negative Trading Psychology

I am confident that many traders go through negative thought cycles while trading. Negative thoughts such as the fear of losing money and the thoughts of greed and being a money glutton may haunt you in your trading career. So how do you defeat your negative trading psychology? You have two choices: to face your negative thoughts or to simply ignore it.

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Risk and the Trading Game
Risk and the Trading Game

Every time you initiate a trade you start a new game in which you assume all risks for playing the game. By choosing to be an active share trader (or forex or CFD trader) you are seeking risk for a larger return on your cash. One of the most important elements of your trading game is managing risk. Smart traders are always on the lookout to reduce their trading risk and watching the risk currently in play on their trades.

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Trading Psychology

Trade Big
Another tip that you have to keep in mind when you trade big is to be extra conscious with price fluctuation. When you happen to see a rapid upward movement of a particular stock, do not aspire to go with the sudden surge.

Stock market traders are of two kinds; those who go for the small boards and those who trade big boards. What I mean for small boards are those listed stocks in mines and other natural resource exploration, while those in trade big boards are the industrial and commercial sectors.

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Forex Trading

Basic Fundamental Analysis in Forex


Learn about the basics of fundamental analysis in Forex

Fundamental analysis is a method of forecasting the future price movements of a financial instrument based on economic, political, environmental and other relevant factors and statistics that will affect the basic supply and demand of whatever underlies the financial instrument. In practice, many market players use technical analysis in conjunction with fundamental analysis to determine their trading strategy. Fundamental analysis focuses on what ought to happen in a market. Factors involved in price analysis: Supply and demand, seasonal cycles, weather and government policy.

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CFD Trading

Successfully Trading CFDs Online Tutorial


This tutorial can teach you how to successfully trade CFDs online, also about profit-loss, win-loss and your profitability ratios

It is surprising to note that most CFD traders trade online without having any specific trading plan with them. They do not fully comprehend the details of any CFD trading system. There are several types of trading systems available that are purely mechanical. However, there are several other systems that also rely on trader judgment which is gained over a period of time and experience in the market.

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Other Stockmarket News

US Jobless Spike

The US has lost jobs for the fifth month in a row at 5.5 percent as the jobless rate spiked (increasing by 0.5%) as a consequence of a class of students graduating schools and moving into the workforce. This is the largest spike in teenage unemployment since 1948. The spike was larger than every forecast from a Bloomberg News survey of economists. Allen Sinai, chief economist at Decision Economics in New York, has said that "Most of the economy looks in recession.'' Also Ten-year Treasury yields dropped to 3.92% in New York, from 4.04% on Thursday.

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Credit Squeeze and Non-Bank Lenders

The subprime mortgage crisis has created a credit squeeze. The credit crisis has led to increased costs of debt and the lack of investor interest to refinance existing debts, which lead to the collapse of RAMS home loans and also the recent end for packaged mortgages (also called securitisation). Higher interest rates are expected as non-bank lenders cannot offer home loans as a result of the credit crisis. Since non-bank lenders are out of the picture, the lack of competition means higher interest rates.

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Aussie Dollar 24 Year Record High
Aussie Dollar Chart

The Aussie dollar hit a 24-year high this morning against the US dollar greenback. At 7am local Sydney time, the Australian dollar was trading at $US0.9565, up more than one US cent from Friday's close of 0.9434. This means imports like electronics and other products from overseas are cheaper. The Australian dollar has more buying power overseas so it is a perfect time to travel or buy up foreign currency, especially the US Dollar.

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Australian Share Trading News

Transurban Declines Takeover Bid, Seeks Better Offer


Transurban Group (TCL), the company that operates toll roads in Australia and United States has declined a $6.7 billion takeover bid offered by two Canadian pension funds. However, the group has kept its door open for a better deal. According to some experts, the takeover bid could hit $7.5 billion mark. The two Canadian pension funds are currently looking forward to restart talks with the toll road giant regarding the takeover.

Woodside Issues $US700 Million in Bonds


The Australian company Woodside Petroleum (WPL), which focuses on operation and management of hydrocarbon exploration, production, marketing, development, and transportation, operation and execution of the North West Shelf Gas Project has taken further initiatives to secure funds for the investments in a number of Australian gas assets by issuing $US700 million worth of corporate bonds in the United States.

Westpac Appeals over Tax Ruling


One of the largest banks of Australia, Westpac Banking Corporation (WBC) has appealed last month’s High Court ruling in New Zealand regarding the structured financial transactions which might cost it as much as $NZ918 million plus penalties. Westpac stated that it had reviewed Judge Rhys Harrison's ruling termed the transaction as an attempt to avoid paying tax.

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Top 50 Public Companies Listed on the Australian Stockmarket as at 29/05/2009

  1. BHP Billiton
  2. Westpac Banking Corporation (WBC)
  3. Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA)
  4. National Australia Bank (NAB)
  5. Telstra (TLS)
  6. ANZ
  7. News Corporation (NWS)
  8. Woolworths Limited(WOW)
  9. Woodside Petroleum Limited (WPL)
  10. Rio Tinto
  11. Westfield Group (WDC)
  12. Westfarmers Limited (WES)
  13. QBE Insurance
  14. CSL
  15. Newcrest Mining Limited (NCM)
  16. Origin Energy Limited (ORG)
  17. Santos Limited (STO)
  18. AMP Limited (AMP)
  19. Maquarie Group (MQG)
  20. Foster’s Group Limited (FGL)
  21. Brambles Limited (BXB)
  22. Fortescue Metals (FMG)
  23. Lihir Gold Limited (LGL)
  24. AXA Asia Pacific Holdings Limited (AXA)
  25. Insurance Australia Group Limited (IAG)
  26. Suncorp-Metway Limited (SUN)
  27. Orica Limited (ORI)
  28. Coal & Allied (CNA)
  29. Stockland (SGP)
  30. Leighton Holdings (LEI)
  31. Lion Nathan Ltd (LNN)
  32. Coca-Cola Amatil Limited (CCL)
  33. AGL Energy Limited (AGK)
  34. Oil Search Limited (OSH)
  35. ASX (Australian Securities Exchange)
  36. Crown (CWN)
  37. WorleyParsons (WOR)
  38. Transurban Group (TCL)
  39. Computershare Limited (CPU)
  40. Toll Holdings Limited (TOL)
  41. Energy Resources of Australia (ERA)
  42. Sonic Healthcare Limited (SHL)
  43. Tabcorp Holdings (TAH)
  44. GPT Group (GPT)
  45. Qantas Airways Limited (QAN)
  46. Amcor Limited (AMC)
  47. Incitec Pivot (IPL)
  48. Australian Foundation Investment Company (AFI)
  49. Sims Group Limited (SGM)
  50. CFS Retail Property Trust (CFX)
  51. Telecom Corporation of New Zealand (TEL)
  52. New Hope Corporation Limited (NHC)
  53. Macquarie Airports (MAP)
  54. OneSteel Limited (OST)
  55. DEXUS Property Group (DXS)
  56. Argo Investments (ARG)
  57. BlueScope Steel (BSL)
  58. Caltex Australia Limited (CTX)
  59. Metcash Trading Limited (MTS)
  60. Lend Lease Corporation Limited (LLC)
  61. Macquarie Infrastructure Group (MIG)
  62. Paladin Energy (PDN)
  63. Fletcher Building (FBU)
  64. Harvey Norman Holdings (HVN)
  65. Tatts Group (TTS)
  66. Cochlear Limited (COH)
  67. Alumina (AWC)
  68. OZ Minerals (OZL)
  69. Arrow Energy (AOE)
  70. Fairfax Media Limited (FXJ)
  71. Nufarm Limited (NUF)
  72. Aquarius Platinum (AQP)
  73. Washington H Soul Pattison & Company (SOL)
  74. Boral (BLD)
  75. Felix Resources (FLX)
  76. Equinox Minerals (EQN)
  77. Platinum Asset Management Limited (PTM)
  78. CSR
  79. SP AusNet (SPN)
  80. Primary Health Care (PRY)
  81. Mirvac Group (MGR)
  82. Ramsay Health Care (RHC)
  83. Reece Australia (REH)
  84. Billabong International Limited (BBG)
  85. Aneka Tambang (Persero) Tbk (Pt) (ATM)
  86. Sino Gold Mining (SGX)
  87. Aristocrat Leisure (ALL)
  88. James Hardie Industries N.V. (JHX)
  89. Bendigo and Adelaide Bank Limited (BEN)
  90. David Jones (DJS)
  91. Goodman Fielder (GFF)
  92. Centamin Egypt (CNT)
  93. United Group (UGL)
  94. Consolidated Media Holding (CMJ)
  95. ABB Grain (ABB)
  96. Downer EDI Limited (DOW)
  97. Auckland International Airport (AIA)
  98. Brickworks (BKW)
  99. Australian Worldwide Exploration (AWE)
  100. Duet Group (DUE)
  101. Commonwealth Property Office Fund (CPA)
  102. Adelaide Brighton (ABC)
  103. APA Group (APA)
  104. Bank of Queensland (BOQ)
  105. SKY Network Television (SKT)
  106. JB Hi-Fi (JBH)
  107. Seek (SEK)
  108. Iluka Resources Limited (ILU)
  109. Macquarie Communications Infrastructure Group (MCG)
  110. Milton Corporation (MLT)
  111. Singapore Telecommunications (SGT)
  112. SKYCITY Entertainment Group (SKC)
  113. Extract Resources (EXT)
  114. Riversdale Mining (RIV)
  115. Perpetual Limited (PPT)
  116. Whitehaven Coal (WHC)
  117. Aquila Resources (AQA)
  118. Macarthur Coal (MCC)
  119. Challenger Financial Services Group Limited (CGF)
  120. Fisher & Paykel Healthcare Corporation (FPH)
  121. Ansell Limited (ANN)
  122. Spark Infrastructure Group (SKI)
  123. Transfield Services (TSE)
  124. Karoon Gas Australia (KAR)
  125. Seven Network Limited (SEV)
  126. Campbell Brothers Limited (CPB)
  127. Energy World Corporation (EWC)
  128. ING Office Fund (IOF)
  129. Infigen Energy (IFN)
  130. Healthscope (HSP)
  131. Asciano Group (AIO)
  132. TOWER Australia Group (TAL)
  133. Navitas (NVT)
  134. Ten Network Holdings (TEN)
  135. Wotif.com Holdings (WTF)
  136. AngloGold Ashanti (AGG)
  137. Austar United Communications Limited (AUN)
  138. IOOF Holdings (IFL)
  139. Air New Zealand Limited (AIZ)
  140. Linc Energy (LNC)
  141. Warehouse Group (WHS)
  142. Macquarie Office Trust (MOF)
  143. Sigma Pharmaceuticals Limited (SIP)
  144. Zimplats Holdings (ZIM)
  145. IRESS Market Technology Limited (IRE)
  146. Monadelphous Group (MND)
  147. Silex Systems (SLX)
  148. Western Areas NL (WSA)
  149. West Australian Newspapers Holdings Limited (WAN)
  150. Centennial Coal Company (CEY)

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