Dax vs FTSE Discrepancy Trade
no responses - Posted 04.16.09
Our discrepancy trade for FTSE and DAX is down as the gap widens - now 620 points at the time of writing. This gap makes the DAX (4625 at the time of writing) 15.4% higher than the FTSE (4005 at the time of writing). We open another $5/point short DAX (4625) and ...continue

Close Long Dax Position
no responses - Posted 04.15.09
Dax long position $5/point (entry 4040) closed (stopped out) at 4500 (4505 at the time of writing) - realising a profit of $2300. Our stops were raised to protect our profits. We have also closed Silver at 1270, realising $300 profit. Again we expect Silver to slide further but lets ...continue

Made $1k in 24 Hours
no responses - Posted 01.07.09
Gap narrowed very quickly as FTSE crashed to 4514 whilst Australia 200 stayed strong at 3760. The Inflationist has decided to take profit (even though we think FTSE has got a long way to fall - the gap could easily close up to 700), but $1k for one days "work" ...continue

Discrepancy Trading
no responses - Posted 01.06.09
A very profitable and relatively safe way of making money that the The Inflationist subscribes to is in Discrepancy Trading. We take two opposite positions (ie long X and short Y) to take advantage of temporary decoupling between two prices (index, commodity price etc). This style of trading is not ...continue