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Stock Markets Christmas 2012 & New Year 2013 Schedule
Here is the changes in market opening hours for the UK, USA and Germany: Mon, 24 December 2012 (Christmas Eve) UK – Close at 12pm USA – Close at 1pm Germany – Closed Tue, 25 December 2012 (Christmas Day) UK – Closed USA – Closed Germany – Closed Wed, 26 December 2012 (Boxing Day) UK [...]
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Here is the changes in market opening hours for the UK, USA and Germany: Mon, 24 December 2012 (Christmas Eve) UK – Close at 12pm USA – Close at 1pm Germany – Closed Tue, 25 December 2012 (Christmas Day) UK – Closed USA – Closed Germany – Closed Wed, 26 December 2012 (Boxing Day) UK [...]
The Santa Rally is renowned for pushing share prices higher during the Christmas period in December. Some reasons given to the existence to the Santa Rally is that, investors and fund managers start buying up shares they think will give good returns for the coming year, and thus injecting more cash into the markets. Another [...]
Due to a technical bug and ongoing website upgrade the next update on JTrades.com will be on the 3rd March 2012.
The past week has seen mainly bad news but there still has been no major fall that everyone is expecting. Most of the US forecast targets had been missed especially for the Jobless Claims and GDP. Midweek UK GDP had missed forecasts and the Eurozone is still in the news with Greece in the [...]
I have an extensive shortlist of shares but there are a few reasons that I have not bought any this week. One of the main reasons is that the FTSE 100 has been rising to levels that would not be believable a few months ago. It would look like that the Dow Jones will be making [...]
JAY'S SHARES TRADING BLOG
My name is Jay and welcome to my blog. This blog shows all my trades in the financial markets. I mainly trade shares and occasionally spread bet. This site is updated every saturday which summarises the weeks trading. Use the top navigation to access portfolios of my shares and spreadbetting. For an extensive introduction go to the about page where you can find out more about me and this site.