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Technical Analysis of Equity Markets – Pullbacks

In Brief: All I keep hearing at the moment is how we will have a 10% correction, so, let’s have a look:
The “funnymentalist” community, particularly Stateside, seem pretty happy with the idea that this pullback will be a “normal” affair and will pull back 10% from the January highs, at which point you can happily …

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FTSE Technical Analysis – 22nd January

Below are some “general thoughts” on the FTSE that I sent out to our “Pro” client base this morning:

I was sticking with the trend until yesterday, and looking for levels like 5400 in FTSE Futures and 1127 in the S&P Futures to hold firm. Alas they didn’t.

Obama changed all that.

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Technical Analysis Tutorial: Candlestick Compendium!

This is a quick summary of important candlestick patterns. It’s presumed that you know the basics of candles: if you don’t, see the article links in our Members Area.
Without further ado, let’s begin.
1. Bullish Marabuzo
Number of candles: 1.
Description: long green candle which opens near its low, and closes near its high.
Implications: BULLISH.

2. …

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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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Weekly Round up – 19th October

Every week we send out a weekly round up e-mail to our database, and we figured it would probably be useful to post it here as well, so here goes!
FuturesTechs Weekly Round up – 19th October.
Here is your latest roundup of price movements on the major asset classes in the Investment arena. As regular readers will …

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