Standard Life plc (Standard Life) is a UK based long term savings and investments company. It provides life assurance and pensions, investment management and healthcare insurance products to individual and corporate customers. Standard Life conducts its business activities through five segments namely, UK, Canada, Europe, Asia and Global investment management. The company has 1.5 million shareholders in more than 50 countries. The companys...more
Argo Group International Holdings, Ltd. (Argo Group) is a property and casualty company, which is engaged in providing specialty insurance and reinsurance products. The company commercializes its products through a range of distributors, agents and brokers. It operates through three business segments namely: International Specialty, Excess and Surplus Lines and Commercial Specialty. Through its segments, Argo Group offers a comprehensive line of...more
Position sizing is determining HOW MANY contracts to trade when a trading system gets a signal. It is one of the most powerful and least understood concepts with many traders. Its purpose is to manage risk, enhance returns and improve robustness through market normalization. Position sizing can end up being more significant than where a trader buys or sells! Most trading systems and testing platforms either ignore position sizing, or use it illogically. A big problem with many trading systems is that they risk too much of a traders equity on any given trade. Most professionals agree that traders should never risk more than 1% to 3% of their equity on any given trade. This also applies to the risk for each sector. For example, if a trader is risking 2% a trade in highly correlated markets like 2yr bonds, 5yr bonds, 10yr bonds and 30yr bonds, this is essentially like risking 8% in the same trade. Overtrading this way can produce incredible looking results with returns of 100% or more, but this is usually just a case of using too much leverage and taking too large a percentage risk on each trade (or sector) and or "cherry picking" the best starting date (like right before a series of...more
Slat wall display is an approach that grabs the shopper's attention to promoting the goods. A seller wants to increase his sales and shoppers purchase more products that he used slat wall display to show his products features in suitable forms. It is used for selling and adverting of products to shoppers. Buyers can be easily seen and...more
PT Indocement Tunggal Prakarsa Tbk (INTP) - Financial and Strategic Analysis Review PT Indocement Tunggal Prakarsa Tbk (Indocement) is engaged in the manufacture and sale of cement, ready mix concrete and aggregates. Its product portfolio comprises Ordinary Portland Cement (OPC), Portland Composite Cement (PCC), Oil Well Cement (OWC), White...more
Public Bank Berhad (PBBANK) - Financial and Strategic Analysis ReviewPublic Bank Berhad (Public Bank) is one of the leading integrated financial services providers in Malaysia. The bank is engaged in offering various financial products and services, which include investment banking, commercial banking, wealth management products, and Islamic banking services. Public Bank is an industry leader in hire purchase financing, home mortgage financing and commercial lending to SMEs in Malaysia. The bank has a strong distribution network comprising 242 full service branches in Malaysia and 97 overseas branches in Hong Kong, China, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos and Sri Lanka. Public Bank is headquartered in Kuala Lumpur, MalaysiaThis comprehensive SWOT profile of Public Bank Berhad provides you an in-depth strategic analysis of the companys businesses and operations. The profile has been compiled to bring to you a clear and an unbiased view of the companys key strengths and weaknesses and the potential opportunities and threats. The profile helps you formulate strategies that augment your business by enabling you to understand your partners, customers and competitors better.This company report...more
For those who are interested in making money commodity trading or just simply diversifying their investment portfolio trading in stocks, forex and even commodities poses a great opportunity. For those who dont really know what commodity trading is...more
A swing trader looks for short-term opportunities in the market to go long at a relative low, or get short at a relative high, with the expectation of closing their position in one to several days.Swing trading involves a longer time...more
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If todays troubled national economic situation has you more than a little fearful of investing any of your limited cash reserves in real estate right now or you, too, are one of the millions that have gotten pink slips from your employer, but you...more
*Stocks were generally strong in Asian trade. The Nikkei and Hang Seng both gained about 1.25%, Australia was up three quarters of a percent, but Shanghai lost a fraction. European indexes are also generally higher on the day; at the...more
Todos sabemos que não se pode reduzir uma análise estratégica a considerações sobre o ambiente externo em que está inserido o seu empreendimento, mas seria muita inocência, para não dizer falta de profissionalismo, abstrair...more