in commentary

Dow Down 777: Unprecedented markets.

Apologies for not posting any Blogs of late. The current market conditions have made for a busy time at FuturesTechs towers!
I’ve said a few things on today’s reports that don’t usually appear in our comments. Things like this from the Bund report:

“I was around in 1987, and 1992, and September 11th 2001. These were all similarly seismic …

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A quick thought on “evil short sellers”

Short Selling, eh? This is a highly contentious issue, of course, but mostly because there is a lack of real understanding about the mechanics of the market, particularly by politicians and churchmen.
Data Explorers is a fine company that I came across a few years back thanks to an introduction from a good friend of mine in the Stock Loan …

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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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Gold on a big level / Stop Order strategy

I think i did a reasonable job of explaining it on CNBC this morning (you tell me!!) so instead of babbling on too much here I’ll post the link:
http://www.cnbc.com/id/15840232?video=820121614
To summarise I said that 850 is a MASSIVE support level, and that the weakness to here is a buying opportunity, although if 850 breaks you don’t want to …

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in technical analysis

Fibonacci? What’s all that about?

I, like many technical analysts, place quite a heavy reliance on Fibonacci levels, especially for “bigger picture” calls and direction.
So what’s it all about? FuturesTechs members have a couple of articles I wrote a few years back that they can access in our Members’ area that explain things (I hope) quite well.
Take a look at the number sequence …

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in technical analysis

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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in commentary

Is it all change?

We are watching these markets very carefully right now as there is a confluence of events that suggest things may be changing. We don;t often start talking the funny-mentals, and we don’t often worry about relationships between markets, however close they may be. But I’m going to make an exception in this instance.
Price action in Oil is probably tantamount …

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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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