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DateSubjectAuthorDiscuss
18/3/2004
22:21
SOME DEN-CHAT, re: Prechter

17:17:00 {Energyi-London} HI DENNERS, just came back from a 2 Hour lecture by Robert Prechter at LSE. Hey, what a great move in Gold!
17:17:51 {Energyi-London} That Gold-in-Euros breakout yesterday was a great BUY signal
17:17:57 {Gregg of Longwood} LSE? Where's that?
17:18:00 {Gregg of Longwood} How's Bob?
17:18:14 {Gregg of Longwood} Big potentially, in gold, yes.
17:18:39 {Energyi-London} London School of Economics. Prechter said it was his first speech since MIT last summer. He has decided to go academic, it seems
17:19:41 {Energyi-London} Wheaton and Cambior are TWO SWEET things today
17:20:14 {Gregg of Longwood} He bought bonds 20 years ago and went academic, Energy. My understanding is that Prechter hasn't put on a trade in years. He's the only guy in the world who trades less than I do, in fact, according to Guiness book of Records.
17:21:07 {Stosh} AU hod
17:21:13 {Energyi-London} MF, I like the fact that Prechter has decided to take on Efficient Markets theory with his Socioconomics ideas. When I was at College alot of what was taught about markets was clearly wrong, but the professors wouldnt admit it. Darkness reigned
17:21:42 {AlanGaynor} gold in euros
17:21:47 {Energyi-London} Gregg, Laughing out loud !.
17:22:29 {Energyi-London} Some say the trade better when they trade less. Not me, I hit the gold market and puts yesterday with both barrels and am a happy camper today
17:22:40 {GoofyGolfer} James, if there was green on top it probably was not a good idea.
17:22:58 {Energyi-London} E.332.3
17:23:06 {maryfrances} and so Prector sees a big picture and says what he sees, then that is his passion and not making specific calls in the market as one must do as a trader?
17:23:11 {Gregg of Longwood} THIS IS A PRETTY GOOD CHART I'LL POST NOW....If you can read it, since the software calculates...notice SYMMETRy between last gold contact pullback and current...one 39 trading bars, the other 35...both 9%:
17:23:17 {Gregg of Longwood}
17:23:49 {Energyi-London} MF, I think he made enough to take a step back. Actually, he would make agood college professor. He talk was clear and convincing
17:24:07 {maryfrances} that's good in economics
17:24:34 {Gregg of Longwood} I agree with Bob's CONCEPT of Social Observation...but, if you've been to his site, his social comments are NUTS....border on Howard Stern-like, and I'm not fooling.
17:24:47 {Energyi-London} Gregg. yeah, I could see $440+. My target is May. After we get thru their fiscal year (next week), the Japs may let the dollar drop
17:24:56 {Gregg of Longwood} I agree with everything Prechter does, in fact, except I 100% disagree with the way he does it.
17:25:09 {Energyi-London} Agree to Disagree?
17:25:35 {Gregg of Longwood} Just check the data on last two swing lows in gold...this last pullback was only 4 days longer than in middle of last year. Very close. We bottomed on 81 days again, it appears, after all.

energyi
18/3/2004
21:51
HERDING INSTINCT in the Housing Market

this from The Smart Tenants thread (BTL):

mi££ions - 18 Mar'04 - 20:42 - 66 of 71

Demographic time bomb!

I sold my house near Leeds for personal/career reasons and am now renting near Middlesbrough. I made a ludicrous profit on the sale after only 18 months of ownership and am now into the stockmarket in a much bigger way than previously - with stop-losses in place in most cases.

Where are the buyers or even renters going to come from? I read an article, over a decade ago which had a profound effect on me:

There were 3.5 million 23-year-olds in the UK (my age at the time), 2.5M 18-year-olds, 1.5M 13-year-olds and only 500k 8-year-olds!

It turns out I was pretty much the last of the baby-boomers. My children (at primary school and pre-school) are the so called echo-boomers.

I believe that the number of first time buyers is dropping off for two reasons:
1. Prices are unaffordable.
2. They were never born...the twenty-somethings,the typical 1st timer!

Unless the credit card government allows in 20 million young eastern Europeans to overstretch our resources (NHS, DSS, etc.), houses are a one-way bet. I will never touch property until the average price drops to less than 4 times average income. If property prices become a falling knife, I may buy one for considerably less!


energyi - 18 Mar'04 - 20:52 - 67 of 71
Hmmm, thnx, Millions

THAT IS AN EXCELLENT POINT...
where are those NEW buyers going to come from, to give those
who are buying now a profitable exit?

THE BULGE OF BUYING IS NOW,
and there may be a DERTH in 5 years, in 10 years,
because the arm of hyped-up buyers we are seeing now,
may just not be around.

More and More,
I am looking at PROPERTY AS A FOOL'S GAME,
when you buy, you are setting yourself up as a TAX TARGET,
amongst other concerns

energyi
18/3/2004
21:27
I was there too, that guy really knows his stuff. I thought the part re our unconscious herding impulses is spot on......most people haven't got a clue about how the unconscious mind work.

If he could just get his timing right ;)

jm99
18/3/2004
19:38
Panic over?
Panicking people are unpredictable -- or are they?
Philip Ball investigates a potentially life-saving computer model.
28 September 2000

How does an orderly crowd turn into an panicked stampede?
A new computer model may hold the answer.

Engineers and architects try to design public spaces and buildings expecting the worst; but the worst is extremely hard to predict. When panic strikes, people do not behave rationally -- they do not calmly seek the nearest exit, nor do they file out in orderly fashion.

New research now offers a chilling insight into how panicking crowds do behave. Physicists from Hungary and Germany have devised a model they claim will allow more accurate forecasting of behaviour during emergencies. They report the first results in Nature1.

Many people have experienced the awful slide from congested but courteous crowd motion into uncontrolled panic. People are trampled, steel barriers are bent -- and the pressure of a crowd has even been known to push down brick walls. But it is difficult to provide a clear, general description of that irrational transition, especially one grounded in physics.

Yet this is what Dirk Helbing, of the Dresden University of Technology, and colleagues have done. In a crowd, people tend to want to move in a particular direction with a specific speed and try to avoid collisions. This can be modelled using a computer: the team ran simulations in which blob-like 'people' tried to exit a room through a single door.

Under normal conditions a steady flow of people pass through the door and a dense, but relatively orderly, mass of people cluster around it. But when the average desired velocity of the crowd increases above a critical point, there is pandemonium.

Quite suddenly, the computerized crowd switches from being well behaved to frantic. The desire for speed overwhelms the desire to avoid collision and the blob people jam up against one another -- just as salt can jam the shaker even though the hole is bigger than the largest grain. The room takes longer to empty even though everyone tries to move faster -- handfuls of people escape in bursts between clogging events.

This classic case of 'more haste, less speed' shows that calculations of room-emptying times based on orderly behaviour poorly predict what happens in a panic situation

@:

energyi
18/3/2004
19:33
But once a market sector begins to stampede,
anyone who tries to go against it gets crushed...
Sheep have a herding instinct,
and once enough of the herd begins to zig instead of zag,
a chance in direction arises

energyi
18/3/2004
19:23
I attended Robert Prechter's 2hour+ lecture at the LSE today.
I thought his ideas deserved a thread- This is it.

Anyone else go?

IT FEELS COMFORTABLE IN THE HERD...
"When was the last time you bucked a trend? Really swam against the tide? Chances are, you never really have – at least, not for long. But don't be down on yourself: it's not your fault. You may not have as much free will as you think.

Most of us are pretty much aware of our tendency to go with the herd..."

PRECHTER's ARGUMENT:
As expressed in the lecture and in "Socioomics in a Nutshell" (December 1999),
demonstrated in brief that in the realm of economics, politics, demographics, war, and even the threat of nuclear destruction, events are not causal to social mood and stock market trends.

In every case, the direction of causality is the opposite of that generally assumed. The performance of the economy does not govern the stock market; the social mood as reflected by stock market trends governs economic performance. Politics do not govern the stock market; the social mood as reflected by stock market trends governs politics. Demographics do not govern the stock market; the social mood as reflected by the stock market regulates the overall rate of procreation. Changes in the threat of nuclear destruction do not affect stock prices; the social mood as reflected by the stock market affects the level of the threat. In each instance, social mood trends as reflected by stock market trends dictate the character of events, not the other way around.

.
What is SOCIONOMICS?
Socionomics is the science of History and social prediction.
It is a field of study encompassing the origins and effects of an endogenous social dynamic called the Wave Principle, a specific sequence of progress and regress that regulates the complex system of collective moood and social interaction. It examines and forecasts market and social tredns on this basis: that the character of social, political, cultural, financial and economic trends are the product of collective human psychology, which is based on an unconscious HERDING IMPULSE.

= = = = =
LINKS:
Website..........:
The WAVES of Life:
Action of BOIDS..:
Mood and Microsoft Case:

energyi
10/3/2004
23:18
I can't see the picture energyi, all I see is a square with a red cross in it. I can see it by cutting and pasting the address into the browser address.
gedy
10/3/2004
22:55
TOP with NOTATIONS...
energyi
01/2/2004
22:58
It makes me laugh. It really does!

Those that know me will also know I have been tipping FPL - First Calgary petroleums since it was half what it is today. That was only a few months ago!

Friday the stock bombs about 10% - after solid gains. It is a canadian stock - and hey what do who you know - after close in Canada the company issues a "what's up with the drop it's all going really well RNS" - or Whatever it is in Canada.

Lo and behold the Telegraph also issue a buy recommendation today.

A quick 15% - yes of course .

What ho for us mere private buyers?

It will double again so buy early.

Spear

assagai
20/12/2003
15:50
Hmmm...
Well any cyclical analyst will tell you...
that Cycles do sometimes INVERT,
maybe this will be one of those times.
And we may be headed for a topping process just where the
bottom should have been.
In fact that March low was where a Top should have been, yes?

Remember the Mantra: ANYTHING CAN HAPPEN

energyi
20/12/2003
09:31
Latest (Dec 16th) from the Sornette site:-




IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT:

WE FIND FOR THE FIRST TIME A STRONG PROBABILITY THAT THE
ANTIBUBBLE DOCUMENTED HERE MAY HAS ENDED. THUS, ALL THE PREDICTIONS GIVEN BELOW
ARE CONDITIONED ON THE CONTINUATION OF THE ANTIBUBBLE. THIS IS DIFFERENT FROM
UNCONDITIONAL PREDICTIONS. AT THE END OF THIS UPDATE, WE PRESENT THE EVIDENCE
FOR THE POSSIBLE END OF THE BUBBLE.
AGAIN, THIS IS AN EXPERIMENT PERFORMED IN REAL TIME AND WE
WILL CONTINUE UPDATING EVERY MONTH TO STUDY IN DEPTH THIS TRANSITION, IF
CONFIRMED, OR THE RESUMING OF THE ANTIBUBBLE.
REMEMBER THAT this analysis is for academic purposes only
and must not be construed as investment or trading advice.



Cautionary note:
Note that extrapolating is often a risky endeavor and needs to be justified. In
our case, the extrapolations, which give the forecasts, are based on the belief
that the theory and equations used above embody the major forces in the market
at the macroscopic scale. This leads to the possibility of describing several
probable scenarios. We do not believe in the existence of deterministic
trajectories but we aim at targeting the most probable future paths.

Theory looking a bit shaky to me energyi.

philmiboots
20/12/2003
02:40
Yes I think you have predicted them very well. Well Done! lol
niggle
29/10/2003
11:14
no problem.
it has been languishing in obscurity, and belongs there,
unless Wall Street turns down FAST.
I still believe that can happen, despite yesterday's nice POP up

energyi
29/10/2003
09:16
Thanks energyi I must have missed it
blackstone
29/10/2003
08:10
Blackstone,
There's a DOME thread on this:

energyi
27/10/2003
20:55
energyi
Have just read a post on the bomb thread by Patel and a quick google search has thrown this old article by Barclay T. Leib

here is a chart from the article
I think that the Nikkie bear posted above looks very similar only in reverse and obviously over a greater time period

chart of the sp500

Blackstone

blackstone
26/10/2003
22:01
Stock market crashes are entirely predictable.
There is just one small problem:
Like with earth quakes you never know when they are going to happen .
There is one small comfort:
if you spend most of your time
trying to predict the next crash
then you will soon be certain
that the next crash is imminent . :-)

harvester
26/10/2003
15:56
Another interesting chart comparison from you, Blackstone!

Do you stay uyp nights looking at charts?

energyi
26/10/2003
15:45
energyi
I like the similarities of these two charts
the first chart is of a sp500 bear market in the 1930's
the second is the Nikkei 225 bear
but does the past predict the future?



Blackstone

blackstone
23/10/2003
09:32
Cor! what a sea of red ... hmmmmm :(
dhedra
23/10/2003
08:58
Is that a head and shoulders i see on the 50 year graph?

Roflmao

Regards

Andy

P.s. I agree with sbs i'm outa here...

renda2
22/10/2003
18:53
Here here! lol!
niggle
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