Posts made in August, 2017

Cold War II is already having a far reaching impact on investing

Posted By Darren Winters on Aug 27, 2017

Cold War II is already having a far reaching impact on investing from defense to the Agriculture sector. Cast your mind back to the early 90s, the Cold War has come to an end (1991), the Soviet Union has broken up and there is a euphoric feeling, albeit in the West that “freedom” and “democracy” has triumphed over its ideological opposite, communism without an apocalypse of a nuclear showdown. The Soviet Union (now Russia) would taste...

Trump’s trillion dollar infrastructure plan

Posted By Darren Winters on Aug 14, 2017

Trump’s trillion dollar infrastructure plan could be a smoke screen for massive privatization. Investors and the construction world are gearing up for Trump’s trillion dollar infrastructure plan but with each day passing it is becoming increasingly intriguing to figure out just how will this massive investment in US infrastructure be financed. There is no evidence that the government debt crisis is abating, in fact, total...

Investing – A lost decade?

Posted By Darren Winters on Aug 12, 2017

Is a lost decade approaching? The economy works in a simple mechanical way, it is made up of a few parts and a lot of simple transactions repeated over and over again many times. There are three main forces driving the economy; productivity growth, short term debt cycle and the long term debt cycle. If we chart these three forces, then superimpose them in one chart we create a template for tracking economic movements and forecasting...

Darren Winters Reviews – Training Course

Posted By Darren Winters on Aug 9, 2017

I just finished teaching my two day stock market and forex training course. It’s my favourite event, as it’s where I teach, step by step, exactly how anyone can use my best strategies. We had a great mix of abilities there. The biggest part of the group were complete beginners, but there were also quite a few immediate investors and several very advanced traders (including someone with over 20 years trading experience who said he’d...

Electric cars – are you ready to invest?

Posted By Darren Winters on Aug 6, 2017

It is a hot button topic of our age; how to reduce pollution (particularly greenhouse gasses) and wean ourselves off fossil fuels by moving over to electric cars. The promotion of alternative sustainable energy is seen as a solution to reduce our dependency on fossil fuels which are finite and allegedly contributing to global warming, according to United Nations-led Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change....