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American Greed - Hedge Fund Manager

posted by cbn 12 hours ago in Fundamental, Special, Trading Psychology

Atlanta hedge fund manager Kirk Wright rises from a poor upbringing with a series of chance events leading him to start a hedge fund. However his company, International Management Associates, turns out to be little more than a Ponzi scheme with W

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Monetary Policy Week in Review - 26 May 2012

posted by cbn 13 hours ago in JPY, Fundamental, Weekly made popular 12 hours ago

The past week in monetary policy saw 9 central banks reviewing interest rate settings. Three central banks reduced their monetary policy interest rates: Vietnam cut another -100 basis points to 12.00%, Denmark trimmed -10 basis points to 0.60%,

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How to Make Better Decisions

posted by cbn 7 days ago in Sentiment, Special, Trading Psychology made popular 7 days ago

In finance you are faced with making decisions all the time. Indeed many careers in finance are solely for the purpose of supporting decision making (i.e. analysts, researchers, economists). What's more, the most successful people in finance are

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Making Millions the Easy Way

posted by cbn 8 days ago in Special, Trading Psychology made popular 8 days ago

How can you make millions the easy way? If you want to do what these guys did, first of all you need to be damn smart, you need to be ultra organised, you need impeccable discipline, you need to train hard and rehearse, you need to scope out the

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Monetary Policy Week in Review - 19 May 2012

posted by cbn 8 days ago in USD, AUD, NZD

The past week in monetary policy was relatively quiet on the interest rate front, with just Iceland changing rates; adding 50 basis points to 5.50%, and Chile's central bank holding its interest rate unchanged at 5.00%. Outside of monetary polic

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Europe GDP...and politics

posted by cbn 11 days ago in EUR, Fundamental, GDP made popular 11 days ago

Political uncertainty in Greece seems likely to keep markets unsettled for a while longer. Efforts to form a Government following the inconclusive elections of May 6 have failed. The country now appears headed for a second election on June 10t

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Has China got further to slow?

posted by cbn 13 days ago in Fundamental, GDP, Inflation

Last week saw the release of a plethora of Chinese economic activity data, all of which came in weaker than expected. Money supply and loan growth data dipped down again in April after having put in reasonably strong growth in March. Industrial

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People's Bank of China Cuts RRR 50 basis points

posted by cbn 14 days ago in Fundamental, Special, Inflation

The People's Bank of China (PBOC) announced a 50 basis point cut in the required reserve ratios (RRR) for deposit taking financial institutions, effective 18 May 2012. The new required reserve ratios will average 20.00% for large banks, and 18.0

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Monetary Policy Week in Review - 12 May 2012

posted by cbn 15 days ago in GBP, Fundamental, Weekly

The past week in monetary policy saw three central banks announcing interest rate changes: Poland increased 25 basis points to 4.75%, Malawi hiked rates 300bps to 16.00%, while Belarus cut rates -200bps to 34.00%. Those that held interest rates

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KiwiSaver Investor Behaviour - A Quantitative Approach

posted by cbn 17 days ago in Fundamental, Consumer, Trading Psychology made popular 17 days ago

This research report examines investor behaviour in the context of New Zealand's KiwiSaver retirement savings scheme, and applies a quantitative appro...

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Monetary Policy Week in Review - 6 May 2012

posted by cbn 21 days ago in GBP, Fundamental, Weekly made popular 21 days ago

The past week in monetary policy saw two central banks altering official interest rates; the Reserve Bank of Australia cut its base rate 50 basis points to 3.75%, while the National Bank of Rwanda hiked rates by 50bps to 7.50%. Those central ban

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Monetary Policy Week in Review - 27 April 2012

posted by cbn 29 days ago in USD, JPY, NZD made popular 29 days ago

The past week in monetary policy saw 9 central banks announce interest rate decisions. The only bank to change rates was the National Bank of Georgia, cutting 25bps to 6.25%. Those that held interest rates unchanged were: Israel 2.50%, Hungary

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