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For you share traders out there giving forex trading a go here's an article that you interest you, talking about today's Australian Dollar Movements:

Latest entry from Trading Critic:

Tell me that you know how to use the P/E ratio properly?

I've posted a new blog entry at Trading Critic. I look into the commonality between trading, religion and politics. Have a read of the preview:

If you aren't aware: there are stocks in the sharemarket that are very volatile and have their share prices double of halve in the short term.

There are stocks on the Australian Sharemarket that readily double or halve in value the short term. Better yet, there are traded financial instruments that are linked to the volatility of the larger valued stocks which also are highly volatile. The former are simply vanilla stocks. The latter example relates to derivatives, namely warrants and Exchange Traded Options (ETO's).

The Telstra (TLS) T3 prospectus was released today on the Australian sharemarket. Here comes some related commentary:

Ever wondered what a Margin Call notice looks like? With CMC Markets a CFD provider, this is how it works when you go into the red...

When you trade with derivatives, especially utilising Contracts For Difference's (CFD's) your break even price is dynamic.

If you trade with options and similarly with warrants, there is time decay to consider. With CFD's as well as forex contracts, the price of holding a position is much simpler than dealing with delta's that define decay with derivative instruments such as options.

Read the full article: "The Price of Holding a Position"

Interesting news... an Australian court has awarded a shareholder compensation as a result of actions by an ASX listed company...

Imagine getting compensation for the lack of disclosure by a company listed on a public stock exchange. That's what happened on the 6th of September 2006 with Jubilee Mines (JBM), a Western Australia nickel miner.

Read the rest of "Compensation for the Lack of Disclosure"...

I was watching local Australian TV the other day and I cringed when I heard saw an advertisement for investment properties and this voice over stated:

xxx returned 109% over three years for their investors – try to match that with a bank.

Read the rest of "Unrealistic Returns and Benchmarks"...