Archive for the 'economic theory' Category

Trading Strategy With Bollinger Bands

Thursday, October 22nd, 2009

You have to use Bollinger Bands in the analysis of trading? Of course you are very familiar with this indicator. Bollinger Bands quite popular in the financial world as one tool or indicator to analyze the market. John Bollinger, is the inventor of this indicator, he’s created in the 1980s. This indicator is used to help estimate the range / range of price movement. In this paper we will divide the trading techniques using Bollinger Bands to make a decision to open position Buy or Sell. We often use Bollinger Bands in a way to open Buy position at lower prices through Bands Sell or open position when the price penetrated the Bands. And often the steps above backfired for us. At the moment we open position Buy / Sell, when prices... Read more »

keep your energy bills down

Friday, April 3rd, 2009

Energy companies have been put under pressure by the Prime Minister to lower their prices to reflect the fall in oil and wholesale gas prices. After oil prices reached a record high of $147 a barrel in July, prices have dropped to around $63 a barrel, while gas prices fell by 19%. This winter has been predicted to be a cold one, so consumers and industry watchdogs are urging price cuts to be put into place now. Energy Secretary Ed Miliband has said that he would take action by legislating to force firms to offer more reasonable prices, especially to the poorest customers such as those on prepayment meters. The gas and electricity firms have reacted by saying that the reason for the fall in oil prices is due to fears over consumption levels in... Read more »

About G-20

Friday, April 3rd, 2009

Jobless Claims: U.S. Continuing Claims for week of March 21 increased by 161K to 5,728,000; U.S. Jobless Claims for week of March 28 increased by 12K to 669K compared to survey of an increase by 3K; U.S. Jobless Claims for March 21 Revised to 657K from 652K; U.S. Jobless Claims Highest since October 1982; U.S. Continuing Claims Highest on Record. Factory Orders: U.S. Factory Orders rose 1.8% in February as compared to consensus of an increase by 1.9%; U.S. February Factory Orders, Excluding Transportation rose 1.6%; U.S. February Factory Orders, Excluding Defense rose 0.9%; U.S. February Durable Goods Revised to an increase by 3.5% from an increase by 3.4%; U.S. January Factory Orders Revised to a drop by 3.5% from a drop by 1.9%. At the NYSE... Read more »

A Deep Recession in a Global Economy

Thursday, October 23rd, 2008

Fear and emotion are the rule every day in the global financial markets. We have seen shock and awe financial bailout plans, the overnight consolidation of many troubled financial services giants, and a liquidity crisis that impacts markets across the globe. In Germany, the collapse of the rescue plan for Hypo Real Estate may mean a disaster in that country similar to the recent bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers in the United States. Also, consider that in the Netherlands, Ireland, and Greece, bank rescue has become the order of the day while Iceland is in the middle of an economic meltdown. Recently, South Korea urged banks to sell foreign assets to raise dollars and promised to use its currency reserves to shield lenders from the financial crisis... Read more »

Make Enjoy for Marketing

Wednesday, July 30th, 2008

I have found that marketing is the #1 challenge for most physical therapy clinic owners. In just a few short months I received hundreds of questions about marketing from clinic owners. This tells me it is a challenge for many of you. Did you know that one of the most common reasons physical therapy practices don’t have business coming through their doors is simply because people don’t know about them? I’d like to tell you about four key changes you can make to your marketing approach which will make marketing fun while boosting your business significantly. Read on. The Four Changes That Will Turn Around Your Marketing Success 1. The first change is a mindset shift. I’d like you to change how you think about marketing and start using... Read more »