Getting to grips with the all-new MetaTrader April 9, 2012 THE latest version of the MetaTrader platform has been launched in the UK. MetaTrader 5 offers a raft of new features, designed with the aim of making the professional trading experience available to the retail trader (see below, right). Alpari is one of the first to offer the latest incarnation of the MetaTrader platform. “MT5 [...]
LONG TERM INVESTING IS NO GUARANTEE OF WEALTH April 9, 2012 DIRECTOR OF CURRENCY RESEARCH, GFT THE other day I saw a chart that astounded me. It was a simple chart of the Dow Jones Industrial Average over the past 20 years against a single upward sloping line. The line gently rose at about 6 per cent per year (which is the average historical compounded rate [...]
THE TIPSTER | Vedanta hoping for a silver lining April 9, 2012 Last year was not a good one for Vedanta shareholders, as their company’s share price dropped from an opening level of around £24 per share to a low of around £9 before recovering a little. PR worries, and a rather opaque corporate structure, meant that this company was nevertheless a poor performer. The next update [...]
Overcoming your fear of charting April 9, 2012 THE most important thing to appreciate about charts is that they don’t bite. Any initial fear can be overcome with just a couple of hours of practice. However, this does need to be done in conjunction with watching a few educational videos first. Many basic videos are available online, but it is best to check [...]
Analyst picks for 10 April 2012 April 9, 2012 CURRENCY STRATEGIST JOEL KRUGER My pick: Looking to Buy euro-Swiss franc Expertise: Fundamental and Technical Analysis Average time frame of trades: 1 month to 3 months We don’t usually incorporate fundamentals into our trade ideas, but it’s hard to ignore the Swiss National Bank SFr1.2000 floor. Still, the market is technically in the process of [...]
Treat your feet with these fab runners April 9, 2012 NIKE FLYKNIT £TBA from nike.com The Nike Flyknit have a novel USP: their upper is almost entirely knitted making them, in Nike’s own words, “ridiculously light”. They will be showcased by top athletes at the Olympics before a version goes on sale to the public. They also look so cool they are enough to make [...]
EPISODE 52 – IN WHICH WE’RE LIKE CALVES TO THE SLAUGHTER April 9, 2012 We’re just off the return flight from Venice. Walking through the terminal, I’m speaking to Noel on the telephone. “Were you good for Maria?” “Yes daddy. Of course I was. But Gwennie…” The call is suddenly interrupted by a flurry of incoming messages. “Noel, I’m going to have to call you back.” “But daddy…” “A [...]
Capoeira isn’t just fun, it also helped to hone Man U’s flipping great Nani April 9, 2012 FITNESS & DIET EXPERT The Man Utd player has something of a martial arts past, hence the gymnastic flips when he’s celebrating on the pitch. HOW HE DOES IT: Nani spends most of his time in football training nowadays but admits that he misses the martial art of Capoeira he grew up with on the [...]
Best-Mex: Soho’s sizzling-hot new eaterie deserves the hype April 9, 2012 LA BODEGA NEGRA 9 Old Compton Street, W1 5JF, 020 7758 4100 FOOD ***** SERVICE ***** ATMOSPHERE ***** Cost per person without wine: £50 You know The Box? The impossible-to-get-into night-club, beloved of Keira Knightley and Jude Law and every other Soho-partying A-lister? Well, Serge Becker – who is behind The Box as well as [...]
New Peruvian cevicheria hits the spot well April 9, 2012 CEVICHE 17 Frith St, W1D 4RG, 020 7292 2040 FOOD **** SERVICE **** ATMOSPHERE ***** Cost per person without booze: £25 SOUTH American madness continues apace over on Frith Street, with the really rather excellent Peruvian bar and restaurant Ceviche which – along with an increasing number of restaurants in London – features that most [...]
