in commentary

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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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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in commentary

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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in company News

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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