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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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Weekly Technical Analysis Commentary: Clive Lambert on CNBC

Clive has recently started a weekly slot on CNBC, where he’ll be explaining concepts in technical analysis and reviewing the current state of play in the markets. Tune in on Thursdays from around 6:30am, or check our archives.
Here is today’s appearance, discussing Marabuzo lines in the context of what’s been happening recently with the FTSE, S&P 500, Bund and …

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Analyst or Trader? – My personal journey

We always welcome feedback from clients and free trialists here at FuturesTechs, so we can strive to provide the best possible service to aid your trading decisions.
I thought I’d use the Blog to answer publicly a few questions we have been asked of late, so here goes with one:
Dear Clive,
Re buying Technical Analysis, I always find …

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Bear Market Rally or The Real Deal?

Neither, I suspect, is the answer to the above question, at least not as far as where we are at this very moment is concerned:
We have been bullish since early March, and have seen the market “climbing the wall of worry” as we predicted, with no-one quite believing the rally. We are not doing the “Harry Hindsight/told you so” …

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Fibonacci and the Dow

Fibonacci retracements have worked like a dream of late in the Dow, and they’re currently causing our recent bullishness a bit of trouble. Let’s first of all reproduce the commentary we’ve put out today for the Dow:

“On March 11th we changed our tack on this market, moved out of the bear camp, and backed the bulls in …

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It’s all doom and gloom… time to get long?!

I have been bearish of this market for a good while now and it’s proved fruitful, but today I am thinking that shorts should be covered.
Why, when the Dow has just printed it’s lowest price since 1997, would I suddenly start to think bullish thoughts?
Because I read the papers and listen to the financial news channels, and upon …

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