GLOBAL EQUITY MARKETS – February 10, 2018

REVIEW


Global equity benchmarks deviated far from the averages that a 10% correction in 2 weeks is still considered a reversion to the mean. With this week's continued sell-off both benchmarks for Global equities, the iShares MSCI All Country World Index ETF and the iShares MSCI Emerging Markets Index ETF reached their respective 200-day (40 week) moving averages. The 200-day moving average and the lower boundary of multi-month long upward trend channels are forming support around the same levels. Read More

INTERIM UPDATE – February 9, 2018

PREMATURE & FALSE BREAKOUTS

Below two paragraphs are taken from Peter L. Brandt’s Diary of a Professional Commodity Trader – Lessons from 21 weeks of real trading. “premature breakout is different from an out of line movement in the sense that a premature breakout can close outside of a predrawn boundary line and even spend several days in breakout mode. Prices then return back to the geometric pattern. However, the initial breakout was only a harbinger of things to come, and within a few weeks a genuine breakout occurs. I call these subsequent breakouts secondary breakouts or pattern recompletions.” – Ch 3, page 38, Identifying the trades and the trading vocabulary Read More

INTERIM UPDATE – February 8, 2018

SIBANYE GOLD LTD (SGLJ.J, SBGL.K)

Sibanye Gold Limited is an independent, global precious metal mining company. The Company is engaged in producing a mix of metals that includes gold and the platinum group metals (PGMs). Its projects are grouped by two regions: the Southern Africa region and the Americas region. Its products include gold, platinum group metals and by-products. The Company’s gold project in the Southern Africa region includes Beatrix, Cooke, Driefontein, and Kloof. Its PGM projects include Kroondal, Rustenburg operations, Mimosa, and Platinum Mile. Its other projects in the Southern Africa region include Burnstone, Kloof Decline, Driefontein decline, The West Rand Tailings Retreatment Project (WRTRP) and The Southern Free State (SOFS) project. The Company’s PGM project in the Americas region includes East Boulder, Stillwater, and Columbus Metallurgical Complex. Its other projects in the Americas region include Blitz, Altar and Marathon. The stock is listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange as well as on the New York Stock Exchange via depository receipts.

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