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FuturesTechs wins “Best Fixed Income” Award

Thought you might like to know we won the “Best Fixed Income Research and Strategy” category at this year’s Technical Analyst Awards.
The dinner was at the Sheraton Park Lane last Thursday, and I can assure you I almost fell off my chair when it was announced!
We were up against some strong competition including RBS and UBS, …

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Technical Analysis Tutorial: Volume Analysis

Let’s go back to basics: technical analysis is the study of market action, i.e. the interactions of buyers and sellers. Rather than the merits of what is being bought and sold, we analyse these interactions in search of patterns and trends that will identify profitable opportunities.
But the information available to the technical analyst does not need to consist merely …

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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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Technical Analysis Tutorial: Candlestick Compendium!

This is a quick summary of important candlestick patterns. It’s presumed that you know the basics of candles: if you don’t, see the article links in our Members Area.
Without further ado, let’s begin.
1. Bullish Marabuzo
Number of candles: 1.
Description: long green candle which opens near its low, and closes near its high.
Implications: BULLISH.

2. …

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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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Technical Analysis Tutorial: The Stochastic Oscillator

As part of our continued efforts to explain the major technical indicators to our clients, what follows is a simple explanation of the Stochastics momentum indicators often used in our analysis.
Originally devised by George C. Lane in the 1950s, the Stochastic oscillator is one of the easiest indicators to interpret. It tells us where the price sits in relation …

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