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Weekly Technical Analysis Commentary: Clive Lambert on CNBC

Clive has recently started a weekly slot on CNBC, where he’ll be explaining concepts in technical analysis and reviewing the current state of play in the markets. Tune in on Thursdays from around 6:30am, or check our archives.
Here is today’s appearance, discussing Marabuzo lines in the context of what’s been happening recently with the FTSE, S&P 500, Bund and …

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Even the Press Guys agree – Technical Analysis WORKS

It’s not often Technical Analysis gets a good rap in the national press. I think this is because journalists like to write stories about the markets, so need a reason to explain a move in a particular stock or market, rather than just a plain old “more buyers than sellers” response.
But to be fair the journalist community is getting …

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Bear Market Rally or The Real Deal?

Neither, I suspect, is the answer to the above question, at least not as far as where we are at this very moment is concerned:
We have been bullish since early March, and have seen the market “climbing the wall of worry” as we predicted, with no-one quite believing the rally. We are not doing the “Harry Hindsight/told you so” …

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Fibonacci and the Dow

Fibonacci retracements have worked like a dream of late in the Dow, and they’re currently causing our recent bullishness a bit of trouble. Let’s first of all reproduce the commentary we’ve put out today for the Dow:

“On March 11th we changed our tack on this market, moved out of the bear camp, and backed the bulls in …

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It’s all doom and gloom… time to get long?!

I have been bearish of this market for a good while now and it’s proved fruitful, but today I am thinking that shorts should be covered.
Why, when the Dow has just printed it’s lowest price since 1997, would I suddenly start to think bullish thoughts?
Because I read the papers and listen to the financial news channels, and upon …

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Analysis – Is this the bottom for Bank Stocks?

We were asked by a trader today (like we often get asked with respect to Banking Stocks) where a good place to buy Barclays would be? For those looking at this after the event let me briefly set the scene:
Barclays topped out just shy of £8 in February 2007. Last week we hit 47p, and have since bounced, …

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Signs of life? – A few thoughts from Clive

If you are a regular reader of our reports, or if you’ve seen me on CNBC any time in the last few months you’ll know that we’re staying right out of the rush to pick a bottom on this equity market sell-off, a rather thankless task that so many people appear to be happy to do. This is how it …

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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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