As we mentioned last week, the Bank of England’s been avidly working on their social media profile, partly as a consequence, which they still won’t admit to, of their handling of the finances of the economy this century, which have […]
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A peek inside The Old Lady of Threadneedle Street: Mini-series on BBC2 TV
Posted in Finance, Markets, STA news, Technical Analysis, Technical Analysis Courses, Trading, Trending
Tags: Bank of England, computing, Mathematics, Mechanics, Vision
Tags: Bank of England, computing, Mathematics, Mechanics, Vision
Patricia Elbaz on candlesticks for beginners for IG TV: Charting the Markets with Jeremy Naylor
This week’s guest on Jeremy Naylor’s Charting the Markets show is Patricia Elbaz, independent technical analyst and university lecturer. The programme is an excellent introduction to the basics of candlestick charts: how they are constructed, the importance of the bodies […]
Posted in Finance, Markets, STA news, Technical Analysis, Technical Analysis Courses, Trading, Trending
Tags: Candlesticks, confirmation, Real Body, Wicks
Tags: Candlesticks, confirmation, Real Body, Wicks
The Old Lady banks on Alan Turing: The new face of the (polymer) £50 note
At Threadneedle Street they’ve been working on their social media profile avidly for the last year or so. For the launch of the new £50 pound note they’re in overdrive, an opportunity to show off their softer side. For the […]
Posted in Finance, Markets, STA news, Technical Analysis, Technical Analysis Courses, Trading, Trending
Tags: AI, Bank of England, computing, Mathematics, Mechanics, Vision
Tags: AI, Bank of England, computing, Mathematics, Mechanics, Vision
Murray’s minted performance: In tune with our summer party mood
Murray Gunn, currently with Elliott Wave International and previously head of technical analysis at HSBC, told us his talk would last between 30 and 45 minutes. Timed to perfection, he wound up his presentation after 37 minutes commenting on the […]
Posted in Finance, Markets, STA news, Technical Analysis, Technical Analysis Courses, Trading, Trending
Tags: Elliott Wave, Mood, Music, Socionomics, Technical Analysis Courses
Tags: Elliott Wave, Mood, Music, Socionomics, Technical Analysis Courses
Another warm evening for the JP Morgan Challenge: Didn’t stop Team STA from raising money for Cancer UK
Rocking up in time – appropriately on the 4th of July – at the Prince Albert pub by Battersea Park, ready to perform my cloakroom attendant duties, Mark Tennyson d’Eyncourt and Rajan Dhall had already nabbed the best table in […]
When oscillators lie: We often call it divergence
As John Maynard Keynes famously said, ‘’the market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent’’. Markets can also, unlike leopards, change their spots, moving from crushingly boring and lethargic for months to quite the raging tiger. This has […]
Joshua Mahony on IG TV: Charting the Markets on a busy Friday in June
Friday’s regular Charting the Markets slot on Friday the 21st June was covered by IG’s in-house analyst Joshua Mahony. Taking a broad sweep through indices, foreign exchange and commodities, he saved the best until the end. Gold, where the ratio […]
Do you know Aroon? I do, but not very well
I’m not one to promote or push one form or another of technical analysis – especially when it comes to oscillators. I find the choice of what to use – and what’s rubbish – can lead to heated arguments. Personally, […]
Posted in Finance, Markets, STA news, Technical Analysis, Trading, Trending
Tags: Aroon, oscillators, Trends
Tags: Aroon, oscillators, Trends
Tom Hicks and Robert Carver’s ‘fireside chat’: In June and no fireplace
The two have a lot in common, as do I, who also switched between banking and a commodity broker who ran one of the first hedge funds – with a stint of proprietary trading along the way. However, unlike Robert, […]
Framing and tunnel vision: How do you see gold?
Gold bugs are probably a happy bunch this month, as suddenly the spot price of the precious metal on the wholesale markets has perked up considerably. Not surprising really, what with Trump tariffs, trade wars, sagging stock markets and shrivelling […]
Office Politics at City AM: Short, sweet and to the point
I’m lucky in that outside my local tube station there is a metal stand dispensing the City AM newspaper – along with hundreds of Metro ones which aren’t even picked up; does editor George Osborne not understand waste and climate […]
Posted in Finance, Markets, STA news, Technical Analysis, Trading
Tags: Business Meetings, Etiquette, Family Names, Handshake
Tags: Business Meetings, Etiquette, Family Names, Handshake
A specialist’s video from IG: Focusing on hammer and hanging men candles
Today, 24th May, as PM Theresa May tenders a weepy resignation, producer and presenter Jeremy Naylor of IG TV interviews Lee Sandford of TradingCollege.co.uk His focus is on the hammer candlestick, which some confuse with the hanging man – one […]
Tim Harford OBE: The undercover economist
I’ve read the Financial Times newspaper for longer than I care to admit. Over the years our relationship has had its ups and downs, me favouring some writers over others, complaining about coverage of certain topics, and shocked by the […]
Posted in Finance, Markets, STA news, Technical Analysis, Technical Analysis Courses, Trading, Trending
Tags: Exams, Multiple Choice, Technical Analysis Courses
Tags: Exams, Multiple Choice, Technical Analysis Courses
Julius de Kempenaer on IG TV: Interview with Jeremy Naylor for Charting the Markets
Yesterday, Thursday the 16th May 2019, founder of RelativeRotationGraphs.com introduced viewers to this interesting system comparing the relative performance of equity groups. This is not the Relative Strength Index (RSI) that we all know and many use, but a way […]
Posted in Finance, Markets, STA news, Technical Analysis, Technical Analysis Courses, Trading
Tags: relative strength, RRG, Sector Rotation, Technical Analysis Education, TV
Tags: relative strength, RRG, Sector Rotation, Technical Analysis Education, TV
‘Price doesn’t align to time’: Read about Kevin Bull’s presentation Tuesday 14 May
Interesting to hear that Kevin dedicated himself full time to the study of technical analysis in 2009 and passed the STA Diploma exam in 2010; congratulations, say members and fellows. His first year’s trading foreign exchange resulted in losses, and […]
Picking your moving averages apart: tweaking versus crossovers
If I use moving averages at all – and these are certainly not one of my preferred technical analysis tools – I opt for the 9 and 26-period ones of the Ichimoku cloud system; I will also use a crossover […]
Posted in Finance, General, Markets, STA news, Technical Analysis, Technical Analysis Courses, Trading, Trending
Tags: adaptive, crossover, exponential, moving average
Tags: adaptive, crossover, exponential, moving average
An educational and entertaining video from IG: More Charting the Markets
On Tuesday 7th May producer and presenter Jeremy Naylor of IG TV writes this of the episode: ‘Eddie Tofpik of ADM ISI uses his charts SPX, EURUSD, GBPUSD & Nymex. We discuss the Andrews Pitchfork (as well as the modified […]
Watch with IG TV: Charting the Markets
Another of the STA’s educational offerings, here is a programme with Josh Mahoney MSTA, Senior Market Analyst at IG TV on their regular daily Charting the Markets series. Underlining the calibre of IG presenters’ understanding of financial markets, Josh earned […]
Don’t cry for me Argentina: Just look at our stock market
I’ve gone and given the game away. I was going to get you to guess what my first chart was about, but was too tempted to use the line Elaine Page sang in her iconic role in the musical Evita […]
Posted in Finance, Markets, STA news, Technical Analysis, Technical Analysis Courses, Trading, Trending
Tags: Currency Overlay, inflation, Stocks, Technical Analysis Courses
Tags: Currency Overlay, inflation, Stocks, Technical Analysis Courses
Watch with IG TV: Charting the Markets
As part of the STA’s educational offering, here is today’s interview (24th April 2019) with Nicole Elliott FSTA on IG TV for their regular programme. Interviewed by Victoria Scholar, IG presenter and producer, who is also currently studying for the […]
The fine line between maths, logic and technical analysis: Don’t chuck the whole lot out
In this week’s Investors Chronicle column I’m writing about the very basics of approaching charts for technical analysis. My extensive reader-base is well above average age, has well above average income and assets, and often has well entrenched views. Not […]
Gann going on and on: Grips a sceptical audience
Softly spoken, Canadian educated engineer Connie (Constance) Brown CFTe MFTA spoke at our monthly meeting as part of her European tour, which includes Sweden and Switzerland. Promising a tempting array of goodies for STA members, including a free online Q&A […]
Posted in Finance, Markets, STA news, Technical Analysis, Trading
Tags: Confluence, Gann, Seasonality, Technical Analysis Course
Tags: Confluence, Gann, Seasonality, Technical Analysis Course
Fake News: And alarmist headlines
Never mind the ‘fake news’ on social media. Alarmist headlines, sloppy opinion pieces masquerading as reporting, and targeted advertising mean many – like me – are becoming increasingly cynical. On Tuesday morning, in a print version of a free newspaper […]
Eddie Tofpik on IG TV: Interview with Jeremy Naylor for Charting the Markets
Yesterday, the day before the Spring Equinox, MSTA and Head of Marketing for the Society of Technical Analysts Eddie Tofpik, sprang into action with his first interview for IG TV. As part of an educational tie-up with the company, we […]
Gann again: Gazing at the skies
As technical analysts, we are used to working with Fibonacci retracements and projections, moving averages and Elliott Wave counts – ‘magic’ numbers, if you will. Many of us struggle with the latter, and even more so with WD Gann. Both […]
Steven Goldstein: 10 things I learned coaching traders and investment professionals
Steven Goldstein delivered a great presentation at the latest STA monthly meeting at the outstanding new One Moorgate Place venue. Performance coaching and behavioural psychology are becoming more and more important and widespread in the markets. STA members and market […]
Posted in Finance, Markets, STA news, Technical Analysis, Technical Analysis Courses, Trading, Trending
Tags: Behavioural Pscychology, trading
Tags: Behavioural Pscychology, trading
Technical analysis works with trends: As every good fashionista knows
Trends, cycles, circles and surprises – all part of a day’s work for this blogger. Last week I briefly wrote about Robin Wilkin’s presentation at IFTA’s annual conference in London, 2014, attaching the video for visitors to www.sta-uk.org to watch. […]
Robin Wilkin’s video: On the divisive Elliott Wave theory
Robin Wilkin, Director of Global Cross Asset Strategy at Lloyd’s Banking Group, uses R. N. Elliott’s wave count theory as his main technical analysis tool. Market professionals – and amateurs even more so – often find this topic tricky and, […]
Posted in Finance, Markets, STA charts, STA news, Technical Analysis, Technical Analysis Courses, Technical Analysis Training, Trading, Trending
Tags: correlation, Elliott Wave, FX, Wave Count
Tags: correlation, Elliott Wave, FX, Wave Count
Trend channels extraordinaire: See palladium fly and platinum sag
Normally in soaring markets one is guaranteed oscillators that cannot cope, almost non-existent consolidation phases – and therefore few recognisable chart patterns – and moving averages that lag badly. Associated with such moves investors start hyperventilating, suggesting the sky’s the […]
Richard Adcock: ‘When overbought or oversold signals continuation’
The STA is very lucky in that its pool of talent is deep and its contacts list extensive. Because February’s speaker unfortunately had to pull out at short notice (Kevin Bull will instead speak on the 14th May), Richard Adcock, […]
Posted in Finance, Markets, STA charts, STA news, Technical Analysis, Technical Analysis Courses, Technical Analysis Training, Trading, Trending
Tags: divergence, MACD, momentum, overbought, Oversold, RSI, Stochastics
Tags: divergence, MACD, momentum, overbought, Oversold, RSI, Stochastics
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