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Gold Technical Analysis for 21st August

Is Gold getting interesting? We saw a move in Silver yesterday that suggests so…
This is a segment of yesterday’s commentary:
“Ultimately gold remains within a medium term consolidation in a multi week up trend so buyers will likely appear at trend support.
Our Skew remains neutral awaiting 2 consecutive closes above 1328.2-31.6 to back the bulls, or a break …

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Candlesticks & Market Profile – our main building blocks

FuturesTechs has been in existence for over 12 years now. We started life to service traders from the LIFFE Floor who had moved up to offices in and around London and suddenly found they needed a new “edge”, with the noise and “feel” of the Pits suddenly replaced with prices flickering quietly on screens.
Although London moved from Floor to …

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Natural Gas Technical Analysis for 15th August

Our Natural Gas commentary from this morning highlighted a developing pattern that suggests yesterday’s gains presented a selling opportunity. Here’s a snippet from our report:
I’ve added a line to today’s chart which is slightly tentative but may be confirmed by price action today if we keep 2.837-2.857 in the resistance column.
The line is a Neckline, classing recent price …

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Oil Technical Analysis for 8th August

On July 17th Brent gave a buy signal from a “Head and Shoulders bottom” pattern. On that day we finished our commentary thus: 116.65 here we come!!!
Since then we’ve seen a rally to 108.18 then a pullback that held the broken Neckline, followed by another strong rally. Here are a few snippets from our analysis this week:
Monday:

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FTSE Technical Analysis

Three charts to show you today:
Here is a Weekly showing the gently sloping DOWNTREND LINE that can be placed above the lower highs since the failure/high in October 2007.

What this shows is that the recent rise has taken us up a key juncture. This has pretty much defined the recent highs TO THE TICK.
The next chart …

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Brent Crude Oil Technical Analysis – 2011 Review

As per our previous post, where we looked at how we’d done over the year in the Bund, here is a similar excercise for Brent Crude:

Brent has been through a volatile period this year and proved difficult for many investors and fund managers to trade successfully. At FuturesTechs we’ve called things pretty well, capitalising on the move up …

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