09:20am  ~ After some moves up in the main U.S. stock market we are now in a holding pattern waiting for the FOMC economic projections and statement kicking off this evening at 7pm (UK time)  You could see traders going into limp mode last night, the S&P500 began trading in a narrow range soon after [...]

13:10pm  ~  I arrived home from my weekend trip an hour ago and I’ve just had a quick look at my charts to catch-up on what the markets have been doing since Friday. Looks like the U.S. markets have just drifted around today, probably waiting for the FOMC statement tomorrow, and yesterday the markets were [...]

11:30am  ~  There’s no market update or trading news this morning as I am still away on a long weekend break in Le Touquet, but I did receive this email on Saturday which I’ve just read – I thought you may be interested in seeing it. It’s from a new student who started learning my [...]

09:35am  ~  After a week of gains on the world’s stock markets we had a pause for breath and some profit-taking yesterday after a day of small trading volume.   There was not much news to move the markets and going into today we’ll probably have a quiet morning ahead of the U.S. PPI and [...]

09:20am  ~  The main stock markets were in quite a bullish mood again yesterday, apart from the FTSE100 here in the UK strangely ?  Fears are receding regarding an American strike in Syria, so the market rise that began at the beginning of this month keeps up its momentum for time being.  Yesterday’s U.S. Oil [...]

While going through some folders on a laptop this morning I found this interesting email from a customer regarding his procrastination over learning to trade. I hope you enjoy reading it (click on the image to enlarge it)

07:30am  ~  I am up fairly early this morning as I have a guy in Australia who wants to talk to me via Skype about learning to trade – it’s early evening over there.  I’m also going to switch on my MT4 charts now for a few hours (before going off to Southwold) to see [...]

08:15am  ~  After the holiday month of August gives us low volumes in the world’s financial markets I always look forward to the 2nd week of September as it seems as though finally traders are back at their desks and normal trading volumes can resume at last.  Is this the reason we had large gains [...]

10:35am  ~  We had a few friends stay over for the weekend so it’s been a slow start to the week as the last of them only left a short while ago. I’ve not yet looked at my charts for the morning so I’m not sure what they’re up to at the moment, but overnight [...]

09:35am  ~  It has come round to that time of the month again – yes it’s the 1st Friday of the new month so it’s Non Farm Payrolls Day, the U.S. employment figures that give us some small clue as to how the largest of the world’s economies is fairing over the past month. If [...]