09:25am (CET)  ~  No market update from me today I am still away on a long-weekend break, but I will be back home in the UK late tomorrow

09:35am  ~  A happy St.Valentine’s Day to you all. It’s a late start for me after an extremely late night and I have a few errands to do before going off for a long weekend skiing. The Dow Jones index seems to have hit resistance at the 16000 level and yesterday retails sales numbers was [...]

08:15am  ~  Up to the cottage in Suffolk later this morning to sort out some reported storm damage and then off Skiing in Chamonix tomorrow with some trader friends. Yesterday on the markets both the Dow Jones 30 and S&P500 formed reversal candles at resistance levels on the daily charts and already in overnight trading have [...]

08:25am  ~  It looks as though I am going to be at home for most of today as I have meetings with builders and the accountant this morning, a clutch of Skype calls this afternoon plus the obligatory cycle ride at some stage. I shall report on any trades I have as well, when I [...]

08:15am ~  I got back here from a weekend away late last night, so there will be an easy start to the week for me today, I’ll be watching some charts later this morning while doing emails and a few Skype calls this morning.  A bracing cycle ride first along the (overflowing) river bank. Over [...]

15:55pm  ~  No market update earlier this morning I’m afraid, I am still away on a long weekend break in Le Touquet, but I shall be back later today so normal service will be resumed tomorrow.

08:20am  ~  It’s that time of the month again, the first Friday of the month and the U.S. employment numbers are out at lunchtime.  As usual this means I shall not be trading today as the markets will be flat this morning followed by volatility after the U.S. trading session open. The U.S. Labour Department [...]

07:55am  ~  Up quite early this morning, I’m driving upto the cottage in Suffolk as I’ve got a clay-pigeon shoot at a friends farm this afternoon. Overnight the Asian trading session was quite buoyant which should rub off on today’s European markets. Over here the two main events are going to be the Central Bank [...]

08:15am  ~  I’ve got a quick trip up to London this morning to visit Snow+Rock in Kensington High Street to get some Skiing stuff, I shall be back at lunchtime I should imagine. There was a mixed day on the markets yesterday, the Dow Jones and S&P500 managed a slim rise and the German Dax [...]

07:35am  ~  As we rushed out last night for Chinese New Year celebrations I did not have time to complete yesterday’s Trading Diary.  My last trade of the day kicked off just before 6pm and ended quite abruptly at a quarter to seven as everyone else was ready to go out. The trade was a [...]