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FuturesTechs Technical Analysis February 2012 Review

The month of February was dominated by headlines surrounding the ECB’s second LTRO and further ambiguous rescue plans for Greece. Nevertheless, investment themes impemented in January remained prevalent throughout February with Equity and Commodity markets continuing to trend higher.
FuturesTechs Liam Roberts wrote a review of various asset classes and sectors in this months February review. Click the link below …

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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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Market Profile Basics

We appear to have piqued the interest of a few of you this week by adding the Market Profile charts to our reports. Market Profile is a charting method owned and copyrighted by the CME Group and developed in the 1980s by a chap called Peter Steidlmayer.
Steidlmayer was a trader in the Grains Pits and realised that the market …

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FuturesTechs with Tony La Porta on Naked Trader – Check it out!

Dear All, We welcomed an old friend and buddy from the LIFFE Floor days to FuturesTechs Mews this morning and he insisted we did a webcast together, which was great fun. It can be seen on the Naked Trader website here:
http://www.nakedtrader.com/webcasts/tony-laporta—-please-click-here-to-reach-me-directly-via-email/9-26.aspx
Enjoy!
Cheers,
Clive.

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Gold Technical Analysis

In yesterday’s Gold report we wrote: “Are we on the cusp of something trend changing, or will the bulls rescue things once more by keeping us above 1524? We could well have the answer to this by the end of the day”.
We saw a break of 1524, and on a closing basis, so here’s what we sent …

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Natural Gas big move last night…

Here is a tick chart showing last night’s shenanigans in Natural Gas, where it looks like two Black Box “Algo” systems had a right good go at each other for 2 minutes, steadily increasing the range (on hardly any volume) until one of them gave up!
So I’d call this chart “When Algo goes Bad”…

Have a good day!

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Forex Technical Analysis

For today’s Forex “Lunch” Report we looked at the Dollar Index . As well as covering 4 major FX Crosses every morning we also send out a lunchtime update on anything that’s of interest in FX Land!
Below (click on the picture to get a full size version!) is today’s chart for the Dollar Index, showing reasons to think we …

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Silver and FTSE Technical Analysis

This morning’s reports on Silver and the FTSE would have reaped dividends for our clients, for different reasons.
Here’s the text of the FTSE Futures report:
We have posted the “all sessions” chart today because it’s actually a bit cleaner, and also shows what we’ve seen overnight; selling.
Selling to the 200 day MA as well, this well watched …

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Gold Technical Analysis

We have posted today’s Gold comment below. In European trade we have seen a hold of our key support level of 1486.9-1487.7, so the trendline is holding firm, suggesting this is a buying opportunity. We now need to see 1500 taken out…
Today’s comment, sent to our clients at 07.30am (UK time):
Gold struggled with $1500 yesterday, pretty much …

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