Labrokes betting on success June 18, 2012 OVER the coming months, Ladbrokes will be looking for favourable odds. The UK’s largest betting company is likely to benefit from a year packed with international sporting events. A heavily criticised decision to walk away from acquiring 888 Holdings may be a gamble set to pay off. The stock is on an uptrend, so a [...]
FXCM trading masterclass June 18, 2012 On June 22, FXCM will be hosting an exclusive spread betting forex seminar on automated trading – demonstrating the opportunities to simplify and maximise your trading experience using the FXCM platform. Taking place at the Grange Tower Bridge Hotel from 8am-10am, the seminar will look at automated trading as a way of taking the hassle [...]
Analyst picks for 18 June 2012 June 18, 2012 CURRENCY STRATEGIST JOEL KRUGER My pick: Buy dollar-Japanese yen Expertise: Technical analysis Average time frame of trades: 1 day to 1 week We continue to see this market very well supported into additional setbacks, with the greater risk of the formation of a major longer-term base, after setting record lows in 2011. As such, any [...]
Quit yoyo trading to help consume healthier profits June 18, 2012 A YOYO trader is one who shows the same destructive pattern as a yoyo dieter. After a series of successful trades, the yoyo trader suffers repeated losses. If not warned, he or she will get stuck in this pattern, often with detrimental results. But there is hope. About one third of UK adults are obese [...]
Can you dodge the reaper? June 18, 2012 In David Cronenberg’s latest film, Cosmopolis, Robert Pattinson’s billionaire asset manager undergoes a daily health check-up, including a rather grueling prostate exam, in an attempt to fend off any potential ailments. There are, however, more practical ways of staying abreast of your health. Medicine has reached a level where we can discern a baffling amount [...]
EPISODE 59 – A QUIET-ISH MOMENT June 18, 2012 If the Queen gets cross with someone, dad, can she just cut off their head?” “I don’t think the Queen’s ever actually cut off anyone’s head Noel.” “So does she have someone to do it for her? Like soldiers? And then she can watch. And laugh at them. And not get loads of blood all [...]
RUN FOR A REASON June 18, 2012 JAMES FATTAL, 25 MEDIA AND COMMS WORKER WHAT’S my max? The physiologist came through the door with news: “Your VO2 Max is 49”, he said, looking down at a clipboard. I studied his face for clues, something that would get me through the next few minutes, at which point I could go to the toilet [...]
Wizz Kid to prove too speedy in King’s Stand June 18, 2012 CONSIDERING six of the last nine winners of this afternoon’s King’s Stand (3.05pm) have been overseas raiders, I am a little surprised that only four of the 23 runners are trained outside of Great Britain and Ireland. Ortensia, winner of the Al Quoz Sprint at Meydan in March, flies the flag for the Australians who [...]
Excelebration set to chase unbeaten Frankel’s shadow June 18, 2012 FINDING a horse good enough to beat Frankel has eluded me on every occasion I have tried to date and I have no intention of attempting it again this afternoon. Sir Henry Cecil’s superstar is the highest-rated racehorse in the world and is simply impossible to oppose in his attempt to make it 11 without [...]
Born To Sea and Lucayan can go close in St James’s June 18, 2012 IF the opening two days are anything to go by, this year’s Royal Ascot is going to have record breaking field sizes. This afternoon’s feature race, the St James’s Palace Stakes (3.45pm), has 16 declared runners, the largest in over 60 years. It makes for fantastic racing, but finding winners is going to be even [...]
