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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: 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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Why use FuturesTechs?

Whether you are Spread Betting, trading CFD’s, or trading DMA Futures, you need an edge.
Trading is tough, and managing your emotions is one of the toughest things you will have to learn in order to make a success of trading for a living.
The human brain is wired up all wrong for trading, in fact.

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Technical Analysis Tutorial: Ichimoku Charts

Ichimoku Charts are a tool many traders swear by, and which we may occasionally use as an ingredient in our daily analysis. This article explains the basics.
The main source I’m using will be “Ichimoku Charts” by Nicole Elliott, an excellent book which you can purchase from the Global Investor Bookshop by clicking here.
Part I: Construction
We start with …

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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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Even the Press Guys agree – Technical Analysis WORKS

It’s not often Technical Analysis gets a good rap in the national press. I think this is because journalists like to write stories about the markets, so need a reason to explain a move in a particular stock or market, rather than just a plain old “more buyers than sellers” response.
But to be fair the journalist community is getting …

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Technical Outlook in the Footsie?

The FTSE has been making some noises to the downside of late, finally coming to the party on our pullback skew.
Our regular readers will know that ever since we found resistance around 4500 over most of May we have been mooting the idea of a pullback. Will this take us back to or even through the March lows? You …

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