in commentary, technical analysis

Silver Technical Analysis for 26th September

Our clients will be well aware that we have been getting increasingly bearish of Silver in recent days. Let’s have a look at what has prompted this shift in sentiment.
“Bigger picture” charts have a major Fibonacci resistance at 35.16. This is 38.2% of the sell off from the 2011 high. Shorter term Fibonacci retracement analysis suggested 35.12 might be a reference …

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in company News

FuturesTechs – Past, Present and Future!

FuturesTechs celebrates 10 years in business this year. Back in March 2000, exactly as the NASDAQ 100 peaked above 4800, I set up FuturesTechs to provide analysis for Caboto Securities, the firm I had just left, plus any other ex LIFFE traders who were interested. The LIFFE Floor had recently succumbed to the rise of Electronic trading and the “Locals” …

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in trading

Analyst or Trader? – My personal journey

We always welcome feedback from clients and free trialists here at FuturesTechs, so we can strive to provide the best possible service to aid your trading decisions.
I thought I’d use the Blog to answer publicly a few questions we have been asked of late, so here goes with one:
Dear Clive,
Re buying Technical Analysis, I always find …

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in commentary

It’s all doom and gloom… time to get long?!

I have been bearish of this market for a good while now and it’s proved fruitful, but today I am thinking that shorts should be covered.
Why, when the Dow has just printed it’s lowest price since 1997, would I suddenly start to think bullish thoughts?
Because I read the papers and listen to the financial news channels, and upon …

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in company News

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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