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China just took action to reduce stock market speculation – Business …

Mario Tama/Getty ImagesThe China financial futures exchange (CFFEX) just announced a swathe of measures designed to limit market speculation.In a release today CFFEX stated that margin requirements for futures trading had been raised along with transaction fees. They will also restrict trading positions in some stock index futures.Having seen stock futures fall by as much as 10% on both Monday […]

Minds + Machines Issues 350K Shares To Employee at 9P Stock …

According to a regulatory filing, Minds + Machines Group Limited (AIM:MMX), the publicly quoted owner and operator of Internet top-level domains, announces that it has issued 350,000 new Ordinary Shares following exercise by an employee of 350,000 share options at an exercise price of 9p per share.The new Ordinary Shares will rank pari passu with the existing Ordinary Shares and […]

Shanky's Technical Analysis and Market Commentary: 1/1/14

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Kass: 10 Laws of Stock Market Bubbles | The Big Picture

I like this list from Dougie:Debt is cheap.
Debt is plentiful.
There is the egregious use of debt.
A new marginal (and sizeable) buyer of an asset class appears.
After a sustained advance in an asset class’s price, the prior four factors lead to new-era thinking that cycles have been eradicated/eliminated and that a long boom in value lies ahead.
The distance of valuations from […]

Investing with Borrowed Funds: No "Margin" for Error | FINRA.org

With investor purchases of securities “on margin” averaging more than $406 billion for the first nine months of 2013 (a 27 percent increase over the same period last year), we are re-issuing this alert because we are concerned that many investors may underestimate the risks of trading on margin and misunderstand the operation and reason for margin calls. Investors who […]