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We are pleased to announce that our ipad/iphone App is now available to download from the App Store (simply search for “Futurestechs”).

We would like to invite you (client or otherwise) to download the App.

We are running a 2 week Free Trial Period when you can look at all the reports (After that access will be limited to 1 “sample” report per day).

We would ask that you pass this e-mail on to any friends or colleagues who you think may be interested.

Also any reviews of the App would be most helpful and appreciated, so if you like it please take the time to add a review to the App store.

As you can see from the screen grabs below (click on them for a full size view) the reports look really good on the ipad and, thanks to our friends at wordflow, navigating around the App and finding the reports you want is really easy.

Anyone who decides to subscribe will also be given free access to our Website Member’s Area (in case the kids are hogging the ipad!!) where all the reports are also posted daily.

Cheers,

Clive.

When I first started FuturesTechs in 2000 the Bund was the main contract that our clients were watching. I still think of it as our “Flagship” report to this day (even though we probably have more readers for our commodity and Equity Reports!) , and we won the Technical Analyst Magazine Award for Fixed Income in 2010 (reaching the final shortlist again this year), so our peers think so too.

Bunds have been travelling higher steadily since bottoming out in mid April. We have managed to ride this trend most of the way, and have seen a number of positive developments in recent sessions, not least yesterday’s break of 123.84-95.

Here’s what we said this morning, on our report that is always on Traders desks by 6.30am:

Another day, another green candle, another day where worrying resistance was seen off, in this instance 123.84-95.

The resulting green candle has Marabuzo support at 123.94, close to the broken resistance, so this becomes a strong support today and a potential buying opportunity on any dips.

125.02-10 is our next target “zone”; a 50% retrace level and resistance from early January.

As well as a short comment (we don’t believe that Analysis has to go on and on if it can be summarised in a few lines!) we also post a number of support and resistance levels in an easy to read format, with important levels highlighted in bold type. Alongside this we have our unique “SkewBar”, giving an indication of short term trend and the prices at which this is changing.

If you are trading or Broking Bund Futures this could be an invaluable tool. Click here to request a Free Trial.

After a strong session on Thursday that saw us back into positive territory we had a weak day on Friday, but we held above the 130.67 level that has now become our reference point to stay with the bulls.

So this looks like a buying opportunity in a market that is embarking on a resumption of an uptrend, a market that has just seen a pullback within the uptrend, and a market that should now be thinking about retesting the highs at 133.26.

If 130.65 fails to hold the bulls have one more opportunity to salvage things, a gap at 130.25.

Below are the short term support and resistance levels, the important ones highlighted in bold type.

As well as the Bund we also cover the Bobl, Schatz, Euribor, Short Sterling, US 10 Year Notes and 3 month Eurodollars, offering a comprehensive coverage for Futures days traders. Please ask us for a free trial to see if we can complement your current daily routine.

Thought you might like to know we won the “Best Fixed Income Research and Strategy” category at this year’s Technical Analyst Awards.

The dinner was at the Sheraton Park Lane last Thursday, and I can assure you I almost fell off my chair when it was announced!

We were up against some strong competition including RBS and UBS, so it was good to see that a little firm from Southend can impress!!

I didn’t get the chance to do a speech, which was a good job really, so can I now publicly thank Graham and all the guys and girls here for all their hard work.

A nice way to celebrate our recent anniversary of 10 years in business!

To all of our customers we would like to thank you all for your continued support.

If you’re not a client and wish to have a trial of our analysis please click here register your interest.

Cheers,

Clive.

http://www.technicalanalyst.co.uk/conferences/Awards10.htm

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, Euribor, Short Sterling, GasOil, to name but a few!).

We have been writing Technical Analysis in the Bund Future right from the start. It is one of our original reports from 2000 when we first set up. It has an interesting history actually, because Bunds were traded on the LIFFE Floor until about 1999, at which point they suddenly migrated to the DTB, now called Eurex, which was one of the early pioneers of Electronic Trading. As it was one of the biggest Futures contracts in the world at that time (and still is today) this was quite a coup, and can be classed as the death knell for Floor traded Futures, not just in London, but around the world.

As I said above the Bund Future is one of the biggest contracts in the world, regularly trading over 1 million lots per day. It is the benchmark for 10 year Bonds in Germany. Even though Europe “became one” in 2002 the financial markets, still to this day, reference the Bund for transactions in the European money markets.

The 5 year Bond Futures is the Bobl, and the Schatz tracks the 2 year part of the curve. All three trade very good Volume each day and are excellent contracts to look at if you are accessing the market directly. By definition the shorter dated contracts have less volatility.

When choosing a contract to trade (direct to the market as opposed to Spread Betting) Volume and Volatility are the two things you need to look for. Volatility is specific to your needs: For some people the DAX Future is a rampant animal that they would never dream of trying to tame. To others it’s a perfect challenge and the Volatility is welcomed.

But Volume is important because you need to be able to get out of a trade if it’s going against you, and if you trade something that’s very thin you may have trouble doing this.

So to new visitors of our Members area I urge you to have a look at these products and discover if there’s something there that suits you.

Most spread betting firms have quotes for these contracts, and the spreads will likely be reasonably close, because one of the things the Spread betters base the size of their spread upon is their ability to “trade the other side” if they want to.