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Charting the Markets with IG TV: Guest Lee Sandford of London Trading College quizzed again
A regular guest on this 10:30 am slot, host Victoria Scholar slickly puts charting veteran Lee through his paces. Interestingly, he kicks off with FX cross the Kiwi (New Zealand dollar, for the uninitiated) against the Canadian dollar. While these ‘commodity’ currencies (plus the Australian dollar) feature regularly on specialists’ radars, I’m wondering whether the average IG spread-betting fan is really that interested.
Tags: commodities, divergence, MACD, RSI, Stochastics, Swing Trading, Technical Analysis Courses
New market: Fresh charts to work with
Considering how long I’ve been working in financial services, you’d think that one way or another I will have, at some point, covered most internationally traded commodities, stocks, bonds and derivatives. Yet every now and then something or someone alerts […]
Tags: Acid, China, commodities, Methanol
Annual panel debate: A broad-ranging discussion
Rather than the usual monthly format of guest speaker presentation followed by a handful of questions, January’s get together encourages audience participation and debate between the speakers themselves. The STA was lucky to have a panel of three very different […]
Tags: bonds, commodities, FX, Stocks
Seasonality: Does it really exist?
With the British summer social season at full tilt – Queen’s and Ascot this week, Chelsea and Epsom earlier – I was thinking of how this affects markets. Personally I have never been a great one for cycles, agricultural, Fibonacci […]
Tags: commodities, Cylecs, Gann
Thinking in ratios – Untangling price moves
Media wants attention and like any spoilt child, the beast will do anything to get it. So business headlines scream at us with emotive words like ‘slump’, ‘soar’, ‘crisis’ and ‘opportunity’. It’s difficult not to get swept up in it […]
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