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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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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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Markets or Cricket? The trouble with August…

Markets are often very quiet in August. Although 2007 and 2008 proved an exception to this rule, 2009 seems to be reverting to type. Maybe the Cricket’s got something to do with it, at least in the UK.
I can imagine the UK stock market could be very quiet today as we all watch to see whether our 300-odd for …

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