Maria Iacob

Where and when should new traders begin to add technical analysis to our trading

Between the lines

After we discover the retail trading industry our natural instinct is to experiment in the market with all the various technical options available on our trading platform. Whereas fundamental analysis requires a completely different skill set in order to learn how to put it to good use, generally after a period of time where it […]

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The Conference Board Leading Economic Index (LEI) for the U.S.A. rose in March by 0.8% to trip over the critical 100 level barrier

Morning Roll Call

In a quiet trading day, due to the extended Easter holiday period, the main indices in the USA closed up on the day in relatively thin trading conditions. The high impact news published in the afternoon session mainly included major mortgage lenders in the USA revamping their forecasts for the housing market. Both federally controlled

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A leading forecasting group in the UK is forecasting 3.1% growth for the UK economy in 2014

Mind The Gap

Britain’s economy will apparently grow by 3.1% this year after a supposed turnaround in household fortunes, but trade and austerity challenges still lie ahead, a forecasting group has said in a report published overnight. The Centre for Economics and Business Research (CEBR) said a rise in disposable incomes, business investment and a construction sector boosted

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Swing/trend analysis for the week beginning Sunday April 20th

Is The Trend Still Your Friend

Our weekly trend/swing trading analysis consists of two parts; firstly we analyse the fundamental policy decisions and news events for the coming week. Secondly we use technical analysis in an attempt to determine any potential trading opportunities. Traders reading our key calendar events for the week should note the predictions, as any deviation, from that

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China new home prices rise slows to 7.7 percent year on year in March

Mind The Gap

The average new home prices in China’s 70 major cities rose 7.7 percent in March from a year earlier, easing from the previous month’s 8.7 percent rise. In month-on-month terms, prices rose 0.2 percent in March, slowing from February’s rise of 0.3 percent. The National Bureau of Statistics said new home prices in Beijing rose

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Is the losing period I’m currently experiencing down to my strategy, or just bad luck through ‘outlier’ events?

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Luck is a very contentious word and equally contentious phenomena in trading. Having spent months and in many cases years to create a winning trading strategy, to then finally commit it to our bullet proof trading plan, it’s incredibly hard for any of us to actually accept that a huge element contained within our long

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SPX rises by 0.14% capping an up week for the index. Canadian CPI rises sharply whilst USA unemployment claims rise moderately

Morning Roll Call

The main USA bourses experienced relatively quiet sessions on Thursday as the Good Friday holiday approached. The latest weekly unemployment claimant count from the USA crept up above the critical 300K level to give a reading of 304K, up 2K from the previous week’s revised figure. In other USA based news the Philly Fed manufacturing

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Solid Wall St. gains yesterday fail to lift Asian markets as European markets open lower as Ukraine crisis still critical

Mind The Gap

Asian markets failed to maintain an upbeat momentum despite the solid gains seen on Wall Street yesterday, Hong Kong stocks outperformed as Beijing cut the reserve requirement ratio for some rural banks. There were solid gains on Wall Street, as a decline in the US dollar lifted the yen and hurt Japanese exporters. A recovering

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Our most memorable trades

Between the lines

When we pose the question to a group of traders; “what were your most memorable trades?” we’re often met with a variety of answers which mainly depend on where traders are on their personal development learning curve. The answers that we’ll receive back from: new traders, traders who have just begun to develop a trading

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Main USA indices rise as investors translate Janet Yellen’s speech as positive for markets

Morning Roll Call

Euro inflation was reported on Wednesday at 0.5%, as many investors and analysts begin to worry that deflation may in fact begin to become an issue for the euro region and the wider EA region, negative annual rates were observed in Bulgaria (-2.0%), Greece (-1.5%), Cyprus (-0.9%), Portugal and Sweden (both -0.4%), Spain and Slovakia

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