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Is this a scam?

Do you receive cold calls from 'brokers', binary offers and the latest alternative investment? I do, frequently. Once our name is on a share register or a broker leaves taking client information to his next billet, we are seen as fair game.

It used to be Land Banking until the scammers were run out of town. Alternative investments - are still on very fertile ground. The frequency of calls I get has slowed a little but rarely a week goes by without three or four calls that usually start with: "I recently sent you some information...."

My latest call was a little different.

Dan from New York Law Specialists (NYLS) called.

Is Janet Yellen a Hawk or a Dove?

We never really found out what she truly belived. She was both at times and while she was a Hawk telling us she was "minded to tighten rates", Donald Trump was a Dove, saying he wanted a weak dollar so interest rates would have to remain low.

QT - is the next big hurdle for markets.

The ECB is telling us they are running out of bonds to buy and it is widely expected that Mario Draghi will have to taper those monthly purchases. Janet Yellen and the Fed are making the same noises. Deutsche Bank's analyst Alan Ruskin

It's all about the psychology...

"It's not what you make - It's what you don't lose"

Joseph Gibbons, former floor trader.

"Floored: into the pits" is a must see insight into the psychology of trading and how traders transitioned from the Chicago pits to screen trading. Anyone new to trading, and anyone who has traded for years will find the film compulsive viewing!.