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Let's have a wee shoogle on the Germans 🤓🐻

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Trading is too difficult.  I'd rather just sit back and make 15 - 16% a year doing nothing in an S&P 500 ETF 😘 

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Got stopped out but it went in our favour afterwards 😢

 

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Let's try a wee short on the FTSE 100 toots 😘

 

[EUR/USD]

Go on Kathleen

 

[GBPUSD re-emerges from the cloud!]

Let's do it properly and buy a future.  

 

[Indices]

Look at where the Nasdaq found support, Geoffrey.  Isn't it curious? 🤓

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I'm already getting the 'itch' to go back into live trading, but I won't do it!

After the U.S. election results I might start putting £500 a month into the S&P 500 ETF tracker again though.  After all the S&P 500 only ever goes up 😘

 

[EUR/USD]

I closed my position (even although I'm trading in demo), because it's not ideal to keep a spot contract open for that long.  Since I'm bullish I should probably open a future instead.  (An option might be the best 'option' haha)

Here we go, it's consolidating at 50% and the tedious moving averages are lining up into the proper order (price > 20 SMA > 50 SMA > 200 SMA)

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The FTSE 100 has been bouncing off that downward sloping line.  I wonder how far it will go.  5714 as least.

 

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Hoorah 😘

 

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Short:

 

[Have you got gas?]

How much more gas?  🤯💨

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Selling pressure building up on Nasdaq? Must be because no one is buying until after the election.

 

[Goldman's got skin in the oil game.]

There's an RSI divergence and an impending MACD crossover to consider first.

 

[Goldman's got skin in the oil game.]

More downside to come Geoffrey, if not $36 then at least $38.

 

[GBPUSD re-emerges from the cloud!]

Oh no 🥴

[EUR/USD]

Yikes 🤯

 

[Indices]

That 88.6% is mysteriously significantly yet so few people talk about it ... thanks @Mercury for alerting me to it 🤯

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Ouch.  Might need to redraw the Fibs

 

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Price bounced off the Fib.  RSI says buy but MACD doesn't agree.

 

[BP]

Are you seeing what I'm seeing, Jasmin? 🤯

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Look, I will gladly get paid to do technical analysis and never put another trade on in my life 😘

[Vanguard S&P 500 vs SPDR S&P U.S. Dividend Aristocrats]

Here's the value of the Vanguard S&P 500 ETF tracker at the start of February and most recent price:

 

 

Here's the SPDR  S&P U.S. Dividend Aristocrats by comparison

 

 

 

The SPDR index has an annual yield of 2.53% and a five-year annualized return of 12.19%

The Vanguard index has an annual yield of 1.47% and a five-year annualized return of 16.39%

 

So my question is, why would anybody choose the Dividend Aristocrat index over the S&P 500 index?

 

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This is fun Kathleen 😘