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Technical Analysis Tutorial: Chart Patterns (Continuation)

In this article we’re going to have a look at continuation patterns. These are in contrast to the reversal patterns we’ve already treated in a previous blog post here. My main source is the comprehensive Technical Analysis of the Financial Markets by John J. Murphy (purchase here in association with FuturesTechs).
As the name suggests, continuation patterns imply that the …

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Technical Outlook in the Footsie?

The FTSE has been making some noises to the downside of late, finally coming to the party on our pullback skew.
Our regular readers will know that ever since we found resistance around 4500 over most of May we have been mooting the idea of a pullback. Will this take us back to or even through the March lows? You …

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Bear Market Rally or The Real Deal?

Neither, I suspect, is the answer to the above question, at least not as far as where we are at this very moment is concerned:
We have been bullish since early March, and have seen the market “climbing the wall of worry” as we predicted, with no-one quite believing the rally. We are not doing the “Harry Hindsight/told you so” …

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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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