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FuturesTechs – Past, Present and Future!

FuturesTechs celebrates 10 years in business this year. Back in March 2000, exactly as the NASDAQ 100 peaked above 4800, I set up FuturesTechs to provide analysis for Caboto Securities, the firm I had just left, plus any other ex LIFFE traders who were interested. The LIFFE Floor had recently succumbed to the rise of Electronic trading and the “Locals” …

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FTSE Trading Update – May 4th

Our clients are short the miners and banks – are you?
Over the last few weeks our viewing of the Technical Analysis charts has seen us increasing our bearish slant on the FTSE, mainly citing Financials and Miners as the sectors looking most vulnerable.
Last week we issued short trade recommendations in BHP Billition at …

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FuturesTechs wins “Best Fixed Income” Award

Thought you might like to know we won the “Best Fixed Income Research and Strategy” category at this year’s Technical Analyst Awards.
The dinner was at the Sheraton Park Lane last Thursday, and I can assure you I almost fell off my chair when it was announced!
We were up against some strong competition including RBS and UBS, …

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Futures Roll-over – How it works

Our clients who trade Spread Bet and CFDs often seem rather perplexed around this time because the Futures are rolling over and all the talk is of “expiry”, “triple witching”, “quadruple witching”, “roll-over”, “new front month”, “rolling off the board”, “options expiry” and the like.
The Spread betting firms have simplified things over the years so you can trade something …

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