8:20am    Beautiful day out there so will mainly be in the garden today but I shall be watching my charts from time to time as well – and there is already a possible ‘long’ trade on my Brent Crude chart. More details below in my Trading Diary. This will be my last trading day [...]

08:10am  Back home after a short break away so I will be doing some chart watching on and off through the day – any trades I have will be reported below. Market Update: Main market news of the day is the upcoming Federal Reserve’s interest rate decision later today and this is already having an [...]

08:50am   At home this morning so will report any trades I have below. Market Update: U.S. markets ended up last night mainly on higher oil prices and this sentiment swept across to Asia overnight where the Nikkei 225 and Hang Seng indices also finished positively. In the U.S. the Dow Jones index of 30 [...]

08:25am   Nice relaxing day at home so any trades I have will be reported below. Market Update: Asian markets overnight ended mixed as pressure from the oil sector and weak Chinese performance weighed on equities, the main Shanghai Composite finished down 70 points (-2.3%) at 2,972 although the Japanese Nikkei 225 faired slightly better [...]

09:05am   After a short break away I am around the house for most of the day so any trades I have will be reported below. Market Update: The weekend meeting of major oil producers failed to come to any concrete agreement to lower production levels and this had an adverse effect on most markets [...]

09:20am   Late start and a nice relaxing day at home and I will be watching my charts from time to time as well. Any trades I have will be reported below. Away for a long weekend break early tomorrow so back here Tuesday morning Market Update: Markets are mostly looking quite bullish on the back [...]

07:30am  Early start today and no trading as I am away for most of the day on a clay pigeon shoot. Back trading the markets tomorrow. Market Update: Some good news from China has boosted markets in Asia overnight, the latest export data released by their General Administration of Customs showed that exports increased by [...]

07:55am   Back home after a short break away so will be watching my charts now and then today, any trades I have will be reported below. Market Update: U.S. equity markets ended yesterday’s session on a bearish note with nothing to excite buyers and the earnings season just around the corner. The S&P-500 finished [...]

08:10am  At home for most of today so any trades I have will be reported here. (No Market Update next Monday, back home for Tuesday) Market Update: Overnight the Asian trading session ended mixed with the Japanese Nikkei 225 ending up after a choppy session but both the main Chinese indices closed in the red with [...]

08:25am  Late market update as I’ve had a busy morning – friends staying for a few days and a WTI Crude Oil trade just entered (details below) Away tomorrow so back trading on Friday Market Update: Traders concentration at the moment is angling towards the Fed meeting minutes later tonight so markets could be quieter [...]