Author: Guy Bower

Question: I understand the concept of a futures spread, but I get confused when they talk about ‘going long a spread’ or ‘going short a spread’. Given a spread has both a long position and a short...

Question: What is seasonal data? Answer: The ProTrader Digest uses seasonal data in every trade selection. Seasonality refers to a pattern that depends on, or is controlled by, the time of the year. Seasonality appears in many...

Question: How reliable is seasonal data? Is making money from it all that simple? Answer: To answer the second question first – no it’s not always simple. Anyone that tells you they have a trading method that is fool...

There has been much interest in this week’s Australian GDP data, with many waiting to hear whether GDP growth for the first quarter of 2009 was negative, pushing Australia “officially” into recession? Well,...

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Look, I am still not sure about this Twitter thing. I started a page some time ago, followed a few interesting people and companies, posted a few updates of my own – and still felt rather empty. Just because Ashton and...

This is textbook stuff. “Sell fear, buy reality” – that’s my spin on the old saying “buy rumour, sell fact”. It’s been an interesting two weeks in the Hogs pit. The events of the last...

It seems like this swine flu is part of almost every story on the news at the moment. It is however interesting to step back and take a look at how it has affected the market – the Lean Hogs futures market traded out of...

$900 seems like a key level for Gold. The chart shows several points of resistance and support. Generally speaking the more a level is tested either as support or resistance, the most significant a breakaway becomes. Does this...