Throughout financial history, traders have countless times engaged in a battle of wit, guts and luck, putting their precious money on a trade in the hope they would outsmart the person taking its other end.
If you look at their strategies as well, they aren‘t very difficult or complex; they stick to basic financials of a company and look for value. If they believe there is value they invest and make profits.
Shane Oliver of AMP Capital Investors thinks that US Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke is unlikely to upset the financial markets as that will undo a lot of good work done by him over the last year in terms of trying to push those markets higher as aid to the US economy