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Columnist: Daryl Guppy Daryl Guppy is a well-known financial technical analyst. |
Charting the ebb and flow of human emotion 2010-05-04 11:19:39
Price activity is the result of human behavior. People do not randomly buy or sell in the market. The decision to buy or sell may be carefully considered, it may be a poor decision, or it may be an action later regretted. In all cases the decision contains an element of emotion and this emotional behavior is reflected in the movement of prices.
Charts offer best way to find financial fraud 2010-04-26 11:15:41
American financial giant Goldman Sachs has been charged with fraud over one of the subprime investment products it created and sold. The only surprise in finding fraud in the subprime products area is that it has taken so long to bring the charges.
US dollar shows signs of potential development 2010-04-19 10:10:14
It is convenient to point a finger at the yuan, but the behavior of the US dollar index suggests there are other more powerful forces at play in determining the valuation of the US dollar, and ultimately the business prospects of US exporters and importers.
Triangles, cups offer clues to market trends 2010-04-12 09:15:04
Repeated chart patterns are evidence of the behavioral impact on market activity. The patterns reflect the way people think individually and this behavior is repeated thousands of times when individuals buy or sell stocks. It is human behavior that creates chart price patterns and which makes the patterns so useful as an analysis tool.
Charting increasing volatility of the greenback 2010-03-29 07:54:07
In recent months the downtrend in the US Dollar Index has reversed direction and developed a steady uptrend from the low near $0.75 in December 2009. The Dollar Index encountered resistance near $0.81.
Coincidence or not? 2010-03-22 11:18:15
Discovering the dangers in certain trends 2010-03-15 10:03:16
The Greek crisis was no surprise 2010-03-08 07:55:38
Good winds and plain sailing 2010-03-01 10:33:23
Comparing the dollar's value with commodity prices 2010-02-22 10:45:03
Going cup in hand to the Shanghai market 2010-02-08 08:11:06
Platinum market shows its mettle as economic indicator 2010-02-01 08:00:01
Mid-2009 uptrend momentum slowing down 2010-01-25 08:02:41
Psychology able to affect price of gold 2010-01-18 08:04:01
How market behavior will stir up instability 2010-01-11 07:59:19
Qing palace sale attracts State companies' interest
A courtyard house next to Beihai Park that was once part of a Qing dynasty palace is being advertised online for 420 million yuan and attracting the interest of State-owned enterprises.
| Name | Value | Change | Time |
| Shanghai | -0.58% | Thur | 2,794.27 |
| Shenzhen | -0.26% | Thur | 12,392.93 |
| HSI | +0.06% | Thur | 22,530.18 |
| NIKKEI | -0.11% | Thur | 10,071.14 |
| Dow | +0.74% | Thur | 12,719.49 |
| Nasdaq | +1.36% | Thur | 2,872.66 |