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More tips for new traders – What month is it?!

Whether you’re trading direct market futures, or CFDs or Spread Betting, the lessons you need to learn to become a successful trader are the same, and they’ve been learnt, usually the hard way, by the best traders in the world. The reason they make money trading isn’t anything to do with the type of product they trade, it’s to do …

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The most common question of 2008

Have a look at this “mystery” chart and tell me what you think?
Does anyone think this (whatever it is) is going down any time soon?

Hopefully we’re all thinking the same thing: That it looks very much like something that’s got a bright future, something that’s going up in the world. There doesn’t seem to be too much …

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Gold on a big level / Stop Order strategy

I think i did a reasonable job of explaining it on CNBC this morning (you tell me!!) so instead of babbling on too much here I’ll post the link:
http://www.cnbc.com/id/15840232?video=820121614
To summarise I said that 850 is a MASSIVE support level, and that the weakness to here is a buying opportunity, although if 850 breaks you don’t want to …

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Fibonacci? What’s all that about?

I, like many technical analysts, place quite a heavy reliance on Fibonacci levels, especially for “bigger picture” calls and direction.
So what’s it all about? FuturesTechs members have a couple of articles I wrote a few years back that they can access in our Members’ area that explain things (I hope) quite well.
Take a look at the number sequence …

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Marabuzo!! A great bit of Candlestick work.

One of the things we at FuturesTechs towers take very seriously is Marabuzo lines.
What are they? A large bodied candlestick on a Daily chart is the result of a big one way push over the course of a day. In the example of large red real bodies the market often wakes up the next day sure in the …

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Is it all change?

We are watching these markets very carefully right now as there is a confluence of events that suggest things may be changing. We don;t often start talking the funny-mentals, and we don’t often worry about relationships between markets, however close they may be. But I’m going to make an exception in this instance.
Price action in Oil is probably tantamount …

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A few tips for new traders

We have had our web offering up and running for a few months now and we’ve been speaking with plenty of private traders of all different levels of experience. We have heard a few stories of people losing lots of money, and still not really feeling that they’re swimming above water.
Many of these people got signed up to training …

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More super heroes needed! George?

The heroics from Ben and Hank that I spoke about in yesterday morning’s Blog were squarely ignored by the markets. Despite the rescue of Fannie and Freddie we sold off harder than any day we’ve seen of late, just from a higher base.
We’re going to start the US session from a low base today, so will we recover? I …

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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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