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Articles Tagged ‘FTSE 100’
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Technical Setup For FTSE Looks Very Bearish
Adam Tremaine, September 13th, 2011
Having bounced off the upper trend channel on Friday the technical setup for the FTSE 100 index now looks distinctly bearish. As the chart below shows the stochastics are heading lower and there is now a huge downside gap for the index to fill before it’s likely to find support.
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Stocks Begin New Cyclical Decline As Multi-Decade Bear Market Rolls On
Ben Mountifield, September 6th, 2011
Western stock markets have been in a secular bear market since the year 2000 and as the chart below shows they have just begun yet another cyclical decline. 10 year chart of the FTSE 100 During a secular bear market there are shorter-term cyclical bull and bear phases however the
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Bearish Technicals for FTSE Signal Big Fall if More QE Doesn’t Arrive Soon
Ben Mountifield, August 4th, 2011
Broken Trend Channel The FTSE 100 index has broken decisively out of the uptrend channel it established back in December last year (red circle). The long-term uptrend established after in the wake of the March 09 low (green dotted line) should provide strong support at around 5,000. Death Cross The
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Technical Analysis: Trading the FTSE 100
Adam Tremaine, July 12th, 2011
As the chart below shows, the Commodity Channel Index (CCI) has been providing some excellent buy and sell signals for those trading the FTSE. Developed by Donald Lambert the CCI was first introduced in the October 1980 issue of Commodities magazine (now known as Futures magazine). The CCI is useful
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Market Cycles: Cyclical Bulls & Secular Bears
Ben Mountifield, July 8th, 2011
Global stock markets are in a secular bear market (a long down-trend) which began in March 2000. Within this type of bear market there will be some significant shorter-term up trends, such as the current cyclical bull market (which is getting rather long in the tooth), however the overall trend
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FTSE Remains In Uptrend But Is Now Overbought
Steve Wilson, July 7th, 2011
This first chart is a 1 year daily chart of the FTSE 100 over which I have laid trend channels. Trend Channel Analysis (TCA) is a helpful tool for both short-term traders and longer term trend followers. TCA has an uncanny ability of defining the boundaries of a directional move
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First the Deflation then the Inflation: Is this the start of the Deflation?
Ben Mountifield, June 16th, 2011
At the start of the year in my ‘Predictions for 2011’ I wrote: “If I had to guess, I’d say that we are likely to experience a decent first half of the year, followed by a serious correction, probably affecting all risk assets, and possibly a decent rally to finish