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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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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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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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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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