The MoneyWeek Trader 2012 trading quiz

Based on recent market action, spread betting expert John C Burford offers his 2012 Christmas trading quiz, and suggests a New Year's resolution for traders.

This is my last post for 2012 and in keeping with tradition, I am offering a 2012 trading quiz for the holidays, which is based on very recent market action.

Before I start, I must mention the staggering overnight collapse in several markets gold already being in its own and that somewhat changes my quiz that I had prepared yesterday!

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John is is a British-born lapsed PhD physicist, who previously worked for Nasa on the Mars exploration team. He is a former commodity trading advisor with the US Commodities Futures Trading Commission, and worked in a boutique futures house in California in the 1980s.

 

He was a partner in one of the first futures newsletter advisory services, based in Washington DC, specialising in pork bellies and currencies. John is primarily a chart-reading trader, having cut his trading teeth in the days before PCs.

 

As well as his work in the financial world, he has launched, run and sold several 'real' businesses producing 'real' products.