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omprakash visvanathan Founder, Trade-a-thon.com
 
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omprakash visvanathan
Founder, Trade-a-thon.com
Trade-a-thon.com
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Chennai, India
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omprakash visvanathan's Experience
Current :

Founder, Trade-a-thon.com

Investment Banking
India, chennai

Working from 2009

Brief summary :

Trade-a-thon is a website offering forex and commodities related information such as analysis, charts and trading signals.

Previous :

Founder, Trade-a-thon.com

Investment Banking
India, Chennai

Worked from 2009 to 2010

Brief summary :

Founded http://www.trade-a-thon.com to provide indepth analysis, charts and trading signals to the forex and commodities trading communities.

 
 
 
 
omprakash's communities
35952 members, 590 jobs, 1219 articles, 574 questions, 1505 debates, 422 idea contests.
10208 members, 379 jobs, 894 articles, 282 questions, 934 debates, 319 idea contests.
16092 members, 147 jobs, 347 articles, 208 questions, 671 debates, 251 idea contests.
omprakash's contributions
At first glance, this should be an easy one as equities are alwas the 'riskier assets'. But the high levels of leverage and proprietary trading in commodities does increase the risk somewhat.
Since commodities like crude oil etc have an inverse correlation with the dollar, one way to hedge would be to buy currencies. You don't have to trade derivatives to hedge and trade spot forex instead. Forex trading is suited for both small and large...
The other ideas are just definitions of trend and do not offer anything useful. Identifying a trend at the very beginning is quite difficult and involves studing the charts and indicators carefully. The easier way would be to get on an existing trend...
Metals and bullion are ruled out. It has got to be something from the food commodities like soya bean or maybe turmeric or pepper.   
With the advantage of apriori knowledge, investing in SIP and mutual funds or directly in stocks would be advisable only if you are a long term invstor. Equity markets across the world have run up and could consolidate. So too has Gold. That leaves...
 
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