Worldwide Financial Planning

Much of the talk of the next few weeks will be if this can last the year as various bits of the investment industry publish their new years forecasts.

It isn’t. No one can value it. It’s valued at what speculators push its value to. It isn’t ‘up’ at that price and it hasn’t ‘risen’ to that price. Someone has simply paid that for it.

Whilst Bitcoin could go further, you have to understand the basis on which you are buying it and how it’s valued, and I have yet to meet anyone who could provide me with that answer – anyone.

This week yet more problems for Theresa May have come piling out of the Brexit clown car.

Having made significant progress by securing an agreement on the first phase of negotiations, any momentum was promptly halted through a series of unforced errors.

Selling winners and buying losers has rewarded investors for many years and if you do not have a strategy with your investment portfolio, now is a better time than any.

Theresa May has brought us back a traditional European fudge for Christmas this year.

Wishful thinking and our natural tendency to see what we want to see means that just about everyone is happy with the ambiguously-worded agreement on the Irish border.