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FTSE Technical Analysis – Neckline holds

Last week we posted a Blog about the potential Head and Shoulders pattern forming in the FTSE Futures. Things got interesting with respect to this yesterday, which was the crux of our morning report, reproduced below.
The fact that we’re not breaking this line PROPERLY does suggest the market’s ambilvalence is set to continue.
Towards the European close yesterday …

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S&P 500 Technical Analysis

Below is the Comment and Chart from today’s FuturesTechs report. As well as this we provide Support and Resistance levels from our own analysis, as well as “Automated” levels referencing Market Profile, Pivot Points and Moving Averages.
If you would like a free trial of our daily technical analysis reports please click on one of the links below:
“Professional Trial”, …

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FTSE Technical Analysis – Head and Shoulders forming?

We have sent an extra report to our customers this morning, outlining the POTENTIAL sell signal that’s looming in the FTSE Futures. Here is the text and accompanying chart:
We have a potential “Head and Shoulders” pattern forming in the FTSE, although the sell signal has not been given yet.
The sell signal comes if we break the “Neckline” …

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Technical Analysis Training with Clive Lambert

FuturesTechs has delivered seminars for 7 City Learning for many years, and their latest public course is on October 14th 2010.
This is a full days training with FuturesTechs’ Director Clive Lambert, introducing a wide range of Technical Analysis methods on a 1 day course at 7 City’s HQ in the City of London.
The day will …

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Technical Analysis Tutorial: Market Profile (1)

Market Profile (c) is a distinct way of charting and analysing price action. It has a very different feel to normal methods of charting, so be prepared to look at markets in a very different way after reading this tutorial! Hopefully you’ll see why there are so many traders who swear by it.
Let’s jump straight in and have a …

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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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Technical Analysis Tutorial: Bar Charts

Bar charts were the most popular way of depicting price movements until Japanese candlestick charts invaded Western technical analysis during the 1970s, but are still as useful as they’ve ever been.
They depict the same information as candlesticks, merely presented in a different way. They have their own terminology, and are most commonly used in conjunction with classical chart patterns …

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Technical Analysis Tutorial: Chart Patterns (Continuation)

In this article we’re going to have a look at continuation patterns. These are in contrast to the reversal patterns we’ve already treated in a previous blog post here. My main source is the comprehensive Technical Analysis of the Financial Markets by John J. Murphy (purchase here in association with FuturesTechs).
As the name suggests, continuation patterns imply that the …

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Technical Analysis Tutorial: Chart Patterns (Reversal)

One of the premises of tecnical analysis is that price patterns tend to repeat themselves. But what are these patterns? Today, we’re going to lookat reversal patterns, i.e. where a change of trend is indicated.
Perhaps the most famous of these is the Head and Shoulders pattern.

Here is the Dow weekly candlestick chart, showing how this topped out …

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