in Trading

FTSE Trading using Levels

We often get asked “How can I use your product?”
FuturesTechs provides support and resistance levels to professional traders across a range of different Futures markets. They use our levels as the basis of their day trading.
Unfortunately I often come across traders using them in different ways, so it’s tough to give a definitive answer to that question. …

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in Technical Analysis

The Sentiment Cycle – An interesting perspective

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The first speaker on the  Society of Technical Analysts (STA) annual diploma course, at least for the last few years, has been Julian McCree, who always extolls the idea of Market Sentiment, and in particular the Sentiment Cycle, a theory developed by Justin Mamis (author of The Nature of Risk, Stock Market Survival and …

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in Commentary

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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in Commentary

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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in Company News

Spread Betting – What to trade?

We spent Friday at the IX Investor show where there were many people that were looking into the idea of trading the markets using Spread Betting.
A question that often comes up is what to actually trade, when it comes to Indices like the FTSE and the Dow, because on most Spread betting platforms there are several choices of product. …

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in Company News

Short Sterling the pick of the movers!

There’s plenty going on around the traps this week. Let’s just go through a few highlights:
Oil is the one getting the headlines, with ICE Brent Crude getting up to $135 before selling off hard today. The NYMEX WTI* has done a similar thing; selling off $5 from a high just above $135 over the course of today.
As of …

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