08:35am  ~  I am off up to the cottage in Suffolk at lunchtime for the rest of the week but before then I have 4 Skype calls with guys wanting to learn to trade and I’ll also watch my charts while I am here in the study. The markets are gradually getting back to normal [...]

08:45am  ~  After a nice break away and a day of errands and odd jobs around the house for me yesterday it’s now time to get back to normal life after the Christmas holidays. There was another negative close in the US last night, the third one in a row, but it does not look [...]

I would like to wish all readers of this blog a very happy & prosperous new year. I am back from my Christmas/New Year holiday now and will be getting back to some trading in the next week.  Although the markets were open over this last week, most of the major market players are still [...]

It’s that time of year again – the time where you look back at the last year and also look forward to the next 12 months and access how you’ve progressed in your work and personal life. And also sort out your New Year’s resolutions. Are you happy with your job ?  Did you progress [...]

I would like to wish all readers a very Merry Christmas, I will be posting here again in the new year after a holiday away for a week. I hope you’ve all had a enjoyable, safe and successful 2013 and are looking forward to an even better 2014

08:15am  ~  For most traders this is the last day in the markets before the Christmas break although there will be trading on Monday and a few hours on Tuesday for a lucky few with severely reduced volumes on the main indices and plus foreign exchange markets.  I am at home this morning so may [...]

09:45am (CET)  ~  I am slightly later this morning with today’s market update as I am rushing around before catching a plane back to the UK at lunchtime. Well - The big news yesterday was that the Fed has decided to taper its quantitative easing policy by $10 billion per month, to $75 billion. Chairman Ben [...]

07:55am  ~  Up early and not much time for trading today as I am back to Essex this morning for meetings with builders and solicitors soon and then flying to Palma Majorca later to sort out a property over there. On the markets yesterday there was a rather choppy session – both the Dow Jones [...]

08:05am  ~  No market update yesterday as I was still away in Norfolk on a long-weekend break but I got back home very late last night so will be watching my charts this morning and also doing a few Skype calls with new traders. Over in the U.S. yesterday, their production figures showed a bigger [...]

Customer Bob Brasted sent this email and chart in today. His trade was on the S&P500 4hr chart and was a UTB set-up from my “Any-Time” collection of strategies. He got 301 pips from the trade. Firstly, here’s his email (click on images to enlarge/view)   And here is his chart:   The UTB strategy [...]