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Garden Gnome spent many years as a small-cap fund manager before his need to to spend more time with his lettuces got the better of him.
GG now spends rainy days trading equities and currencies. He likes to use a combination of technical analysis and news flow to make trading decisions.
Diageo and HMV
Posted by Garden Gnome on May 7, 2008

Drinks giant Diageo is due to publish a trading update on Thursday.

Some people believe that sales of spirits is a good barometer of the global economy itself, so investors


Mr FT is a self-employed spread better. After 18 years in fund management he was given the choice of moving to London or .. not. ‘Not’ won out.

FT has been trading full time from home for two years, with nothing but four kids and a beach to distract him .

He fills his spare time with weight training and rugby, though more coaching than playing these days.

FT mostly trades the forex markets and although he plays FTSE on occasions his bread and butter market is £$.

He likes to think that his technique is evolving but still hasn’t the temperament or money to back the big calls. He prefers to trade between 1 and 3 times a day, aiming to take regular small gains, but feels part of the evolution is in not dealing if the conditions don’t feel right.
Catching Falling Pound Notes
Posted by FT on May 7, 2008

I wonder what bet size 1000 traders would have needed to get Sterling 200 pips lower. Cos that’s what 1000 bored people in the street managed.

This morning my screens greeted me with a chart of Sterling tanking off; by 7.15 it was already 80 pips from where I left it last night and by half-past nine the rate had dropped to $1.9550.


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