Almost exactly 10 years ago – 6 May 2010 at 14:32 US Eastern Time – the Dow Jones Industrial Average suffered its second worst ever intra-day loss of 998 points – in just 5 minutes; it then took half an […]
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‘Crush it with Clouds’ by Sankar Sharma MSTA: If only we could do the same with Covid-19
As a handful of countries start lifting corona-virus related restrictions, Britain looks set to enter another 3 weeks of lockdown. Tuesday the 14th April was the second STA Monthly Meeting that was held online due to limits to the size […]
Posted in STA news, Technical Analysis, Technical Analysis Courses, Technical Analysis Training, Trading, Trending
Tags: Ichimoku Clouds, return, reward, risk, stops
Tags: Ichimoku Clouds, return, reward, risk, stops
It’s my birthday this month, so I’m looking at monthly candles: Not blowing them out though
Many markets this January have been a ‘Tale of Two Cities’ – or halves anyway. This has created a series of very interesting, and sometimes rare, single or two-candle patterns, reminding me of the song ‘Candle in the Wind’. Like […]
Charting the Markets on IG TV: With IG’s Senior Market Analyst Joshua Mahony
The TV and media team and IG are a slick lot with a busy production schedule. As well as producing text and video content, they coordinate news feeds for the platform and do their own analysis. From Monday to Friday […]
Dow and the Decennial Cycle: Article by David McMinn in Market Technician magazine
Like it or not, we are closing in on the end of September and the third quarter of 2019. Some are scurrying around the Federal Reserve Bank of New York desperate for cash to tidy up their books coinciding with […]
Posted in Finance, Markets, STA charts, STA news, Technical Analysis, Technical Analysis Courses, Technical Analysis Training, Trading, Trending
Tags: annual, cycles, decade, Quarterly, year-end
Tags: annual, cycles, decade, Quarterly, year-end
Charting the Markets with IG TV: Patricia Elbaz goes to school
I think that Patricia Elbaz MSTA just might be IG TV host Jeremy Naylor’s teacher’s pet. In his own words: ‘’through an interesting summer…and a difficult time ahead, it’s back to school’’ – especially for Patricia who lectures at several […]
It’s all in the price – as every technical analyst knows: But how good is your arithmetic?
‘’A basic premise of the technical approach is that market action discounts everything: all that is known, or can be known, is ‘in the price’. Technical analysis is therefore not concerned with the underlying value of a security, but with […]
Posted in Finance, Markets, STA news, Technical Analysis, Technical Analysis Courses, Technical Analysis Training, Trading, Trending
Tags: Mean Regression, ratio, relative, scale, spread, Standard Deviation, value
Tags: Mean Regression, ratio, relative, scale, spread, Standard Deviation, value
Technical Analysis by Clive Lambert MSTA: A journey through a career in the City using Technical Analysis
Technical Analysis is the study of the markets using price action and data. That’s probably the simplest way to describe it, but what does that mean? To explain this I thought I’d take you through my own journey; my 30+ […]
Putting doji candlesticks into practice: Recent real-life examples
On the 19th of July Jeremy Naylor’s guest on Charting the Markets for IG TV was Patricia Elbaz, independent technical analyst and university lecturer. She gave an excellent introduction to the basics of candlestick charts: how they are constructed, the […]
Watch with IG TV: The fourth in the Charting the Markets series of videos
As part of the STA’s educational offering, here is today’s interview (5th April 2019) with Nicole Elliott on IG TV. Many will recognise her as a regular attendee at our monthly meetings, and Jeremy is a veteran, and ex-Bloomberg presenter […]
Posted in Finance, Markets, Technical Analysis, Technical Analysis Training, Trading, Trending
Tags: oscillators, Outlook, trading
Tags: oscillators, Outlook, trading
Watch with IG TV: The third in the Charting the Markets series of videos
As part of the STA’s educational offering, here is today’s interview (29 March 2019) with Ron William, of Ron William Advisory, with Jeremy Naylor, on IG TV. Many will recognise Ron as a regular attendee at our monthly meetings, and […]
Posted in Markets, Technical Analysis, Technical Analysis Courses, Technical Analysis Training, Trading, Trending
Tags: moving average, S&P500, Seasonality, Vix
Tags: moving average, S&P500, Seasonality, Vix
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 […]
Watch with IG TV: A new educational service from @STA_ORG
Over the years, STA members and members of the public, will have seen television interviews with technical analysts on commercial and business TV channels. The society has agreed to a tie-up with IG TV, where we will post editions of […]
Posted in Markets, Technical Analysis, Technical Analysis Courses, Technical Analysis Training, Trading
Tags: Cable, Education, euro/dollar, gold, S&P500
Tags: Cable, Education, euro/dollar, gold, S&P500
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
Robert R Prechter: Speaks on Socionomic Theory: An Alternative to EMH
One of technical analysis’ great legends, and a slick speaker, Robert Prechter enthralled his audience – even the sceptics among them – with his presentation at IFTA’s annual conference held in London in 2014. As part of our effort to […]
Alexa gives a helping hand: Volunteering informatio
Today at the office I was given a new telephone. I hadn’t asked for one, and it wasn’t just for me; everyone was warned by email that they were on their way. (Please look at the photo attached for details.) […]
Posted in Finance, Markets, STA news, Technical Analysis, Technical Analysis Courses, Technical Analysis Training, Trading, Trending
Tags: Computers, jargon, Technology
Tags: Computers, jargon, Technology
And the correct answers are: To our special Christmas quz
Just before Christmas we posted the quiz questions, organised by Clive Lambert, on our blog – an entertaining game for the holidays. Testing the ‘specialist skills’ of the audience at the STA’s December party, they got into the spirit of […]
Posted in Finance, Markets, STA news, Technical Analysis, Technical Analysis Courses, Technical Analysis Training, Trading, Trending
Tags: Christmas Quiz
Tags: Christmas Quiz
AGM and Christmas Party: Complete with quiz and a new Fellow
Yesterday, Tuesday the 11th December, the STA held its last meeting at CISI’s offices in the ‘walkie talkie’ tower. As from January 2019 monthly meetings will be held at the Chartered Accountants’ Hall, 1 Moorgate Place, London EC2R 6EA. Half-way […]
‘First Impressions Count’: Advice from Dotmailer.com
Today, when so many are working in the so-called ‘gig economy’ (myself included), a good grasp of new technology, marketing, sound bites and so on are needed. Often frightening, worried about putting a foot wrong, these can become obstacles to […]
Posted in Finance, Markets, STA news, Technical Analysis, Technical Analysis Courses, Technical Analysis Training, Trading, Trending
Tags: email, Promotion, Social media
Tags: email, Promotion, Social media
‘Do equities outperform bonds?’ Ask Terry Smith
FTMoney, one of the sections of the Weekend Financial Times, has guest contributors writing on a regular basis. On Saturday 10th November City legend Terry Smith posed the question above, and the article was so very good I urge you […]
Posted in Finance, Markets, STA charts, Technical Analysis, Technical Analysis Courses, Technical Analysis Training, Trading, Trending
Tags: bonds, Fundsmith LLP, Indexing, T-Bills
Tags: bonds, Fundsmith LLP, Indexing, T-Bills
Offering for the festive season: A gift for all from the TA
For years now STA members have had access to videos of guest speakers’ talks at our monthly meetings, available in the members’ section of our web site – www.sta-uk.org Now, thanks to the efforts and industry of a STA Committee […]
Posted in Finance, Markets, STA news, Technical Analysis, Technical Analysis Courses, Technical Analysis Training, Trending
Tags: Blog, Educaiton, YouTube videos
Tags: Blog, Educaiton, YouTube videos
Halloween horrors: Or just a bit of a scare?
Earlier this month an STA member wrote to me suggesting I look the relative breadth of the US stock market because his proprietary model of US-Generating Factors had instigated sell signals in the Growth and Momentum subsets. Reminding us that […]
More secondary technical indicators: But do you care?
Last week we looked at the NYSE Arms Index for the S&P 500, a technical tool I hadn’t used in years and couldn’t remember what it was. It set me thinking: there must be lots of people like myself who […]
Secondary technical indicators: Their moment in the limelight
Being a ‘fear and greed’ sort of technical analyst, I’ve been having a great time with stock market indices this month; big moves, punchy candlesticks, speechless equity analysts backpedalling. Such fun! One thing that did make me sit up and […]
Posted in Finance, General, Markets, STA charts, STA news, Technical Analysis, Technical Analysis Courses, Technical Analysis Training, Trading, Trending
Tags: Arms index, NYSE Tick, oscillators, volume
Tags: Arms index, NYSE Tick, oscillators, volume
Dr Van K. Tharp: And his Super Trader Programme
Over to the conference centre at America Square yesterday evening, to an event jointly hosted by the Society of Technical Analysts (STA) and the Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst Association (CAIA). A great layout with semi-circular tables for the many attendees, […]
Posted in Finance, General, Markets, STA charts, STA news, Technical Analysis, Technical Analysis Courses, Technical Analysis Training, Trading, Trending
Tags: Books, Psychology, rules
Tags: Books, Psychology, rules
Ambiguity: “When nothing is sure, everything is possible”
Said author Margaret Drabble who came to my school to give a talk years ago. The quote was used recently by Penelope Freeland, a teacher at another school of mine, who was writing about how uncertainty is a condition of […]
Posted in Finance, Markets, STA charts, STA news, Technical Analysis, Technical Analysis Courses, Technical Analysis Training, Trading, Trending
Tags: Ambiguity, Choices, Decisions
Tags: Ambiguity, Choices, Decisions
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