If the whole “Brexit” nonsense has you itching to trade something UK-related, allow me to introduce to you an ETF with the world’s most comic ticker symbol…….
Slope of Hope Blog Posts
Slope initially began as a blog, so this is where most of the website’s content resides. Here we have tens of thousands of posts dating back over a decade. These are listed in reverse chronological order. Click on any category icon below to see posts tagged with that particular subject, or click on a word in the category cloud on the right side of the screen for more specific choices.
Critical Mass of Talent
I stumbled upon this by chance: it is a video from 1974 documenting National Lampoon Radio. Can you believe the concentration of talent here? Every single one of these people went on to great success in entertainment. 100%. To me, that’s incredible.
Three Day Rule – Day Three
I’ve been watching the coverage of this month’s potentially market moving crisis du jour which is the Brexit campaign. How long will this remain ‘important’ even if the Brexit camp wins? That’s hard to say. Anyone remember Ukraine? The campaign has been funny in places though, I thought the concern that Britain’s growth prospects might be damaged long term by leaving the slowest growing region in the world was particularly witty, though that may not have been intentionally the case.
How does that impact trading this week? Well I think the Remain camp will most likely win the vote. The status quo always has a big advantage in this kind of poll and fear of the unknown is a potent message, even if uninspiring and suggestive that there is no positive message to sell instead. As you can see from the video below (thanks to @busculture on twitter for sending me this), the Remain message hasn’t really changed since the last Brexit referendum in 1975. They won then, and they’ll likely win now. That should favor the bulls at least initially. Crisis du Jour:
