How many choices have you made today? It’s suggested that on average, a person makes an eye-watering 35,000 choices per day.  Assuming that most of us spend 8 hours a day sleeping away in decision-free bliss on cloud nine, that's over 2,000 decisions per hour that we...

Which would you rather receive, a large lump sum of cash delivered into your bank account once a year, or a steady stream of much smaller amounts of money deposited into your account each month? Which would make the larger difference to your life? Many traders that I...

Before the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) in 2008, Carry Trades (buying and holding a currency pair for the interest differential) were very popular with traders because they provided an income stream (often quite a generous stream!) with very little risk IF done...

Every year it seems like there are more and more markets for us to choose from, as new stocks are listed and new products come on the market, like the explosion of cryptocurrencies over the last few years. Traders who have been around for a little while tend to just...

I used to love playing the board game Snakes and Ladders. Sometimes, it's the simplest games that are the most fun and exciting, even if they are a little bit frustrating at times! For those who have never played, the game is simple: roll a die, and a number will come...

I remember the first time that I heard about CFDs. I was sitting in my very first Safety in the Market seminar as a student, lamenting the fact that I only had a small trading account and dreaming about the day when I would be able to take larger positions and trade...

When I first heard about the idea of trading for a living, I was shocked that I hadn't learned about it at school. To be fair, though, if students were told "you could work from home or a hotel or even the beach if there's wifi, have no boss, choose your own hours,...

Reprinted from the Safety in the Market Spring 1994 Ticker Tape  I still get labelled with that 'overnight success' tag in the press.  It makes me smile.  You could say it has been a long night, but this “time period” does give me a working knowledge of what traders...