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Where did FuturesTechs come from?

We have had our new website available for around 1 month now and we are starting to gain momentum for our new “per end user” offering. Private Investors, CFD and Spread Bet traders are starting to sign up and see the value of our service.

In recent days we’ve seen some interesting moves in the markets:

Gold Futures have turned over and after a plethora of sell signals yesterday we went Bearish this morning, just before the market sold off sharply.

Brent Crude Oil Futures has seen a big sell off but we’re certain this is merely a buying opportunity.

We have remained Bearish in the short term on Equity markets but our patience is being tested on this, particularly in the DAX Future, never one to willingly play the game!!

Interestingly today’s early high/failure in the S&P 500 Futures could be key and suggests that the market can head lower in the short term.

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So to a question we’ve been asked a few times of late: Where did we appear from?

We have been servicing professional traders for 8 years now. The company formed in March 2000, soon after the closure of the LIFFE Floor. The traders who congregated on the LIFFE Floor headed up to different offices around this time, and suddenly they needed an edge, they needed information. I always had a string of traders who used to come and have a chat about the charts when I was based on the Floor, and so it was a natural progression to turn this into a daily commentary. I started by sending out a daily report on Bunds and T-Notes, and it grew from there. We grew with the Industry. Proprietary trading accounts for a good percentage of the daily Volume on exchanges like LIFFE and Eurex.

We wanted to expand our horizons beyond this arena, though, so it was a choice of Banks and Hedge Funds or Private/Retail Customers. Which way to jump!? We have found over the years that “bean counters” at the Institutions can cause problems for services like us, because they see a lot of free technical analysis being provided by the large brokers vying for their business. “Why pay for something that you can get for nothing?” -they say.

So we came up with the idea of a Members website where the reports can be viewed securely, on a “per end user” basis, which allows us to significantly reduce the price without upsetting our existing professional clients who pay for a “Site Licence” and the ability to distribute the reports amongst their traders.

We encourage you to take advantage of the chance to utilise this professional trading tool in your daily trading routine.