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Fed to the rescue… again!!

Someone should buy Ben Bernanke and Hank Paulson a pair of super-hero suits, because they’ve come to the rescue again!
Back in March (the last time were down at these levels) they stepped in to rescue the markets when they were on key Fibonacci support levels… Today I’m going to post the mail I sent out to all of …

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First time for everything

Things have been a bit frantic since the last Blog post, both for myself and the markets! As well as speaking at the IX Investor Show and the Trading Symposium I have also finished the first draft of my up-coming book; “Candlestick Charts. An introduction to using candlestick charts”. I just hope there isn’t someone round at Harriman House right …

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Spread Betting – What to trade?

We spent Friday at the IX Investor show where there were many people that were looking into the idea of trading the markets using Spread Betting.
A question that often comes up is what to actually trade, when it comes to Indices like the FTSE and the Dow, because on most Spread betting platforms there are several choices of product. …

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Interesting times in Oil… On yer bike!!

$16.80 in 2 days. That’s how much July Brent Crude went up on Thursday and Friday of last week. That’s just under 15%.
A rise of just under 15% in 2 days? Excuse me? Are you serious?
Has anyone dusted off their pushbike over the weekend? If you didn’t you may be by next weekend! Make room for the car …

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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 …

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Short Sterling the pick of the movers!

There’s plenty going on around the traps this week. Let’s just go through a few highlights:
Oil is the one getting the headlines, with ICE Brent Crude getting up to $135 before selling off hard today. The NYMEX WTI* has done a similar thing; selling off $5 from a high just above $135 over the course of today.
As of …

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What are Bund Futures?

The brave new world for FuturesTechs is welcoming new traders into the fold. Whereas we’ve traditionally catered for Professional Traders and Brokers, with our new “per end user” website we can now be accessed by a wider audience.
But a question we’re being asked quite a lot by new subscribers is “What is the Bund?”, amongst other things! (Bobl, Schatz, …

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Oil Topping? Probably not! Equities may be, though.

We posted a large red candle yesterday in ICE Brent Crude Oil and if you combine the 9th and 12th May on the Daily Candlestick Chart you get a Bearish Engulfing Pattern. Does this means we’ve seen a top? Hang on a second! The phrase “One swallow doesn’t make a summer” springs to mind!
If anything a bit of a …

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