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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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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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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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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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More super heroes needed! George?

The heroics from Ben and Hank that I spoke about in yesterday morning’s Blog were squarely ignored by the markets. Despite the rescue of Fannie and Freddie we sold off harder than any day we’ve seen of late, just from a higher base.
We’re going to start the US session from a low base today, so will we recover? I …

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Fed to the rescue… again!!

Someone should buy Ben Bernanke and Hank Paulson a pair of super-hero suits, because they’ve come to the rescue again!
Back in March (the last time were down at these levels) they stepped in to rescue the markets when they were on key Fibonacci support levels… Today I’m going to post the mail I sent out to all of …

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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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Oil Topping? Probably not! Equities may be, though.

We posted a large red candle yesterday in ICE Brent Crude Oil and if you combine the 9th and 12th May on the Daily Candlestick Chart you get a Bearish Engulfing Pattern. Does this means we’ve seen a top? Hang on a second! The phrase “One swallow doesn’t make a summer” springs to mind!
If anything a bit of a …

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