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MSCI goes beyond BRICs

  
Analysis, Education
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MSCI has launched the MSCI EM Beyond BRIC Index, a new subset of the MSCI Emerging Markets Index.

The new index comprises seventeen countries and excludes the ‘BRIC’ economies of Brazil, Russia, India and China, which currently represent around 40% of the wider emerging markets index. MSCI said the new index offered a way to ‘track and evaluate the emerging markets opportunity set for those wishing to invest in countries outside the BRIC region’.

The index is market cap weighted, but the weighting towards the larger markets of Korea, South Africa and Taiwan is capped on a quarterly basis at 15% to ensure greater diversification. This gives greater prominence to smaller emerging market countries.

As it stands, after Korea, South Africa and Taiwan, the largest weightings in the index will be towards Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia. Chile, Columbia, the Philippines, Turkey and Poland all have a weighting in excess of 2%.

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SIMPLIFY

  
  Education
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simplifyWhen we follow a standardized process for trade execution, we help negate the impact that emotions can have on that process.  And when we create a set of rules within which is a subset of rules that allow for less mechanical, more intuitive management of our trades, we can potentially realize additional profits from those intangible insights into market direction without over-exposing our account to risk.  Here is how it works:

  S – Scan your charts .  Create a “Watch List” to help manage your inventory of trading opportunities.

I – Identify a high probability set up.    

 M – Map out the trade’s entry point, stop-loss exit point, and profit exit point. 

P – Pull the trigger.  By systematizing the process as we are talking about here, the anxiety associated with executing a trade is greatly reduced.  Instead of focusing on whatever issues keep you from pulling the trigger, your focus is on following a procedure, a set of instructions.  Mapping out and understanding exactly what our risk is also reduces the anxiety of entering a trade.    

 L – Let the market do its thing.  It’s not very often that you won’t have to take some heat on a trade.  It’s a great feeling when a trade goes in your favor immediately and stays that way.  But that’s the exception and not the rule.  As a good friend of mine would say, “Let it breathe!”  (more…)

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