Russian stock market
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It seemed that for more than 100 years of organized trading there have been accumulated so many trader's wisdoms that if people had enough willpower to follow them, they would never lose money in the market, but would earn, earn and earn! The psychology of trading is an important thing, and if your nerves are shot, you're unlikely to get anywhere on the road to financial freedom. But, nevertheless, you should not always blame yourself for nonobservance of exchange wisdom. The fact is that not all of them are applicable to our Russian stock market. Without converting them to your trading instrument and blindly applying them, you may not...
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People often ask me why I don't develop foreign markets. What do you mean by not mastering? I do, and I have accounts for trading American instruments and European shares. But since I opened foreign accounts in 2012, there have been only one or two deals. This year, I also want to concentrate on Russian securities, because I think that there is more profit to be made. But this is no reason to completely forget about the "foreign" market. On the contrary, I will learn and I'm already ready to share my observations on how to trade foreign stocks. How to make the right choice for trading foreign stocks Naturally, as in Russia, to choose a foreign broker...
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Most of the time I present myself to my readers as a medium-term investor. But most of my trading practice is devoted to rather hard speculation according to the rules of intraday trading. Over the years and with the growth of the portfolio in absolute terms, the size of its speculative part has decreased. Now about 90% of funds are allocated for investments in Russian and foreign shares, and the rest for speculations on the Russian futures market. Universal rules for intraday trading People often ask me why I trade on the futures market. At one time I just felt more comfortable this way. If I had to decide where to trade speculatively at the moment, I don't even know what I would choose...
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The end of autumn and the beginning of winter is a magical time. Some are already hunting for a Christmas tree, some are bustling about looking for New Year's gifts, some are in the spirit of tangerines, and some are still chasing profits. After all, this is also a fabulous period in the stock market, it is associated with so many mysteries and legends: the Thanksgiving Day rally, the New Year rally, the managers' race for bonuses. The Russian stock market: a rally in Russian realities We've already discussed more than once that all those stock market signs and wisdoms need to be tested in practice. They came to the Russian stock market from foreign traditions and somewhere they have not yet taken root, somewhere they have been adjusted...
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Summer is coming to an end, and with it the vacation is coming to an end for some people, and some people are just about to enjoy the velvet season. So let's talk about how to do trading during the vacation and how to get back in shape if you didn't go near the trading terminal during your vacation. Tips for vacation traders Personally for me active operations during vacation are taboo. I'm at the monitor all year long, and I have to switch it off sometimes to keep my brain from boiling. In addition, I am uncomfortable with speculation, as my vacation is usually associated with active travel and frequent relocations. Nevertheless, I have time to make investment purchases: such deals are being prepared...
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When information slips somewhere about a new trading methodology, about a stock exchange grail, about a miracle robot that brings super profits, I always treat it with skepticism. Superprofits are most often 100% risks, I can't take them. And if we are talking about a 20-30% capital increase over a year, you don't need much intelligence - you catch a wave, diversify your portfolio, protect yourself with futures or options. So nothing new has happened in the market for me over the last 14 years. Securities came and went, but what happened to them had already happened, if not in the history of our market, then on foreign exchanges. This summer...
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May is ready to come into its own, and I want to update you with a version of my old article on the saying "Sell in May and go away! (Sell in May and Go Away). It was already published on the internet in 2012, but it's time to add some new data. The RTS Index in May: The Language of Statistics Because the saying doesn't specify when to sell stocks in May - at the beginning or the end of the month, or maybe it only works for those who are lucky enough to have caught a tail and sold securities at the highest prices of late spring, I will consider all three options on the example of the RTS Index...
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In this article we continue our exploration of the concept of hedge funds: we will learn about the limitations imposed on them, the work of managers and their earnings, as well as the priority assets for the funds' work. Hedge fund restrictions The formation of hedge funds is based on a limited partnership. On one side are the investors, who are the limited partners; on the other is the fund manager, who is the general partner. The manager is responsible for the fund's trading strategy and is responsible for the stabilization and growth of positive returns. A full-fledged hedge fund has a number of restrictions, the main of which are: the number of participants - not more than 100 investors; the fund's shares may not be in free circulation; the "admission ticket" to the fund - from 200 thousand .....
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After analyzing my condition, I realized that I was somewhat tired of the volatility on the Russian market. To cool down a bit, today I planned to deal with my foreign portfolio. In the near future I will present a review, but now I want to talk about another topic, which suddenly became urgent for me. Before once again "betraying" the Russian fund, I decided to run through the blogs of popular traders. Everyone rescues from the latest twists and turns of the Russian market as he can, the more popular way than an escape to foreign markets - is to buy low-liquid securities for some idea. Lack of diversification - the road to ruin While researching traders' thoughts on the subject, I read an interesting opinion that portfolio diversification is...
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During the global economic crisis, the viability of systematic trading, which was heavily criticized from the very beginning of its existence, was confirmed by numerous facts. In particular, one of the most effective financiers, according to Forbes rating, was the owner of Renaissance Technologies fund James Simons, who managed to earn in 2008. He managed to earn $2.8 billion in 2008. James Simons has successfully put systems trading into practice: at the Renaissance Technologies fund that he manages, all trading is conducted exclusively by computers, and not traders, but programmers and scientists involved in creating trading robots for trading are hired. "Robotic trading is a very current trend on Wall Street, which has allowed a handful of traders to subdue the market by controlling its movements and, by...
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The bubble in the U.S. real estate market has become one of the main catalysts of the current economic crisis. Uncontrolled issuance of complex derivatives and non-transparent system of risk redistribution brought the pride of the American economy - its two-tier mortgage lending system - to the brink of collapse. And only swift action by the U.S. government was able to prevent the collapse of the entire financial system. But during this time, U.S. home prices plummeted, reaching levels five years ago. The economic crisis has led to a drop in home prices in most developed and developing countries. Unfortunately, the general trend did not bypass the domestic market either, especially the Moscow housing segment. According to the index MARPI, from January this year the average dollar...
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Working on the stock market and making a profit, all traders must pay taxes. We will talk about the peculiarities of their calculation in this article. Very often beginners ask the question: do I really have to pay a huge tax on the sum of my trading account? Absolutely not! Double taxation in our country is prohibited. Lucky exchange traders pay personal income tax or personal income tax solely on profit. It is 13% for individuals who are residents and 30% for non-residents. If income is received not from the difference between the purchase and sale of securities on the stock market, but in the form of dividends on shares, then the tax is charged...
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Working on the stock market and making a profit, all traders must pay taxes. We will talk about the peculiarities of their calculation in this article. Very often beginning traders ask the question: should it really be necessary to pay a huge income tax from the amount of the account on the stock market? No, absolutely not! Double taxation is forbidden in our country. Successful traders pay personal income tax or personal income tax solely on the profits received. The tax is 13% for individuals who are residents of Russia and 30% for non-residents. If this income is received not from the available difference between the purchase and sale of securities on the stock market, but...
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Each trader placing an order in the trading system makes public his intention to buy/sell. However, when large bids are placed there is an impact on the market and such event necessarily attracts traders. To conceal the actions of the participant, as a rule, different trading methods of hiding intentions are used, such as "Iceberg" orders, but there is another way to perform large deals without attracting attention of traders: the black liquidity pools. What are Black Liquidity Pools? Black liquidity pools allow making transactions in conditions of complete anonymity leaving unknown: the participants of the transaction, the price of the transaction, its volume and the fact of the transaction itself. A black pool can be organized in one of three ways: - Transaction...
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A very frequent question that arises among beginner traders is: how does the downgame in securities trading work? Everything is more or less clear with up-playing, it is logically combined with a number of situations in life, and it is treated simply: you buy at a lower price, sell at a higher one and gain profit on the difference in rates. Then it is not so simple with the game on decrease. You can use a simple principle: sell the available stock at one price and buy it at a lower price when the market goes down. In the end the investor stays with his shares and has profit from the exchange rate...
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We continue the theme we began in issue 63 on the internal mood of a beginner in stock trading. How does a beginner in the stock market fight fear? I would be a hypocrite if I said that if you have a comfortable amount of money to trade, a well-thought-out trading strategy, and stops set, you will not feel fear. When securities are hovering above or below a landmark boundary, sometimes you want to hit the "panic button" to get out of a position. But attempts to outsmart the market and play against the laws of technical analysis most often end in failure. Lost profits, vainly fixed losses and wasted nerves. What do I do at such moments? Anything - just don't look...
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Every morning traders in Russia, waking up, hurry to look at oil quotes. Our stock market is very dependent on the price of "black gold". Some are checking their current positions, and some are trying to make money on Russian oil stocks on the background of oil price changes. Not only aggressively trading stockists, but also traders with investment horizons of several months and sometimes even several years, are actively watching oil. Often both are greatly surprised by the inadequate, as they think, behavior of shares of oil companies relative to oil prices. The securities may look much better or worse than the dynamics of "black gold. There are many reasons for that: the situation in the company, sanctions,...
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We have known since the "first grade" of stock exchange school that there are stock indexes - they are universal indicators of the direction and rate of movement of a certain pool of securities. Many of us look at stock exchange indices trying to determine the future mood of the stock exchanges, some of us bet on stock exchange indices through futures, and some of us compare our financial results with their monthly or annual change. Indexes have a lot of functions: some of them are universal and some are determined by the type of index. In my trading practice I mostly use observation of our main popular indices RTSI and Moscow Exchange Index, also for determination of general exchange climate I follow main indices of developed markets....
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August 2018 made all holders of ruble assets nervous. Just kidding, it took the dollar/ruble pair only half a month to return to the levels of two years ago and show an increase of more than 19% since the beginning of the year. August Shock In August 2018, like a roller-coaster ride, the heart went "in the heels" not only of ordinary people who care about the dollar exchange rate because they fear the appreciation of household items, but also of stock Russian traders. The dollar's rise against the ruble came amid a 7% drop in the RTS index and a modest 6% rise in the IMOEX index since the beginning of 2018. Some had exchange earnings under threat, some lamented about missed opportunities. At the end of...
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June and July, contrary to the saying "Sell in May and walk", is a hot time for Russian stockbrokers. They are not allowed to rest because of closing of registers for dividends (compilation of the list of persons entitled to a part of the company's net profit in the form of a dividend). Everybody is rushing to buy shares, which are about to be cut off, as this process is called in slang. Analysts and consultants are vying with each other to entice client-traders to participate in the race for dividends. Dividend races and strategy It all looks like an attempt to catch the train that's leaving. Experienced stockbrokers often have to watch the crowd running into the running train: we see how newcomers didn't have time to "sit" in the growth of the market, or how they didn't have time...
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