Oil futures continue with bullish tone – breaking through $100 per barrell
Crude oil futures look like ending 2013 in a positive mood with the March contract currently breaking through the psychological $100 per barrel price point […]
Market Analysis
With the FED roadmap now in place – ‘normal service’ can be resumed!
With markets having been given a more or less clear roadmap for the future of QE, and so removing a degree of uncertainty, it now […]
Take centre stage – the VIX
As we come to the end of another trading year, there is one index that will perhaps receive more attention than most, both next week […]
Gold crashes through the technical tipping point
In the last few days, I suggested the precious metal was looking weak and was approaching some key levels. Yesterday was a particularly torrid day, […]
YM touching key level
In the second of our benchmark charts, the YM (e mini for the Dow Jones) here too we can see this index is also on […]
Bulls still in charge on NQ
With so many market analysts and commentators attempting to call a top to the current bull market in equities, and with the traditional Santa Claus […]
VIX at ‘scary low’
No analysis of equities would be complete without a look at the VIX, and here the picture is extremely interesting, and no doubt worrying for […]
Appeal for help following Typhoon Haiyan
Please make a donation NOW Many of you reading this post, will already be aware of the devastation caused by Typhoon Haiyan which hit the […]
US dollar regains its mojo
A confluence of factors all conspired to give the poor old US Dollar some much needed bullish momentum last week, coming in a variety of […]
The FED delivers a lesson in VPA!
For intraday emini index traders, last nights FED meeting delivered a classic lesson in volume price analysis (VPA). The example here is from the emini […]
The wonderland world of equities!
Much like Alice in Wonderland, equity markets appear completely disconnected from economic reality and continue to trade in their own fantasy world, and for fundamental […]
Markets return to normal – but what’s normal?
With the US government shut down at an end and the debt ceiling crisis kicked into the long grass, at least for the time being, […]
The US dollar : ‘the reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated’
With the brouhaha in Washington continuing to dominate both the financial and main stream media, and the deadline for a technical US default drawing ever […]
The barometer of risk now awaits – stormy seas or sunny weather ahead?
As we approach the end of what could be a defining week for the financial markets, nowhere is this reflected more graphically than in daily […]
Gold now delicately balanced on the tipping point!
For those of you who follow my regular market analysis will know that not only do I enjoy trading gold, I also enjoy writing it […]
Tesla returns in spirit if not in body!
With so much media focus on shutdown & the debt ceiling crisis in the US, I thought that today I wouldn’t add further to the […]
$100 per barrel continues to hold for oil – just!
Another week of restrained price action for crude oil, with the December futures contract closing at $103.84 per barrel, up just over $1.40 per barrel […]
Where have the halcyon days of summer gone, for gold?
For commodity traders, perhaps the opening of the classic novel A Tale of Two Cities, best describes the price action for gold over the last […]