in trading

More tips for new traders – What month is it?!

Whether you’re trading direct market futures, or CFDs or Spread Betting, the lessons you need to learn to become a successful trader are the same, and they’ve been learnt, usually the hard way, by the best traders in the world. The reason they make money trading isn’t anything to do with the type of product they trade, it’s to do …

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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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Marabuzo!! A great bit of Candlestick work.

One of the things we at FuturesTechs towers take very seriously is Marabuzo lines.
What are they? A large bodied candlestick on a Daily chart is the result of a big one way push over the course of a day. In the example of large red real bodies the market often wakes up the next day sure in the …

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A few tips for new traders

We have had our web offering up and running for a few months now and we’ve been speaking with plenty of private traders of all different levels of experience. We have heard a few stories of people losing lots of money, and still not really feeling that they’re swimming above water.
Many of these people got signed up to training …

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First time for everything

Things have been a bit frantic since the last Blog post, both for myself and the markets! As well as speaking at the IX Investor Show and the Trading Symposium I have also finished the first draft of my up-coming book; “Candlestick Charts. An introduction to using candlestick charts”. I just hope there isn’t someone round at Harriman House right …

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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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Where did FuturesTechs come from?

We have had our new website available for around 1 month now and we are starting to gain momentum for our new “per end user” offering. Private Investors, CFD and Spread Bet traders are starting to sign up and see the value of our service.
In recent days we’ve seen some interesting moves in the markets:
Gold Futures have turned …

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Short Sterling the pick of the movers!

There’s plenty going on around the traps this week. Let’s just go through a few highlights:
Oil is the one getting the headlines, with ICE Brent Crude getting up to $135 before selling off hard today. The NYMEX WTI* has done a similar thing; selling off $5 from a high just above $135 over the course of today.
As of …

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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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Viva Las Vegas!!

I’ve just spent the last 5 days in Las Vegas; my first time there. Wow! What a place. I was immediately impressed with the sheer size of it all, especially casino complexes like Caesars Palace and the MGM Grand. While the main reason for the trip was purely for pleasure I couldn’t help but draw a few comparisons between trading …

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