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Trade132 Week Ending 17May

That Was The Week On a personal level I had to make a few trade exits. Whilst I was aiming to get the 100 max on each, I was happy to settle for 23 for a put trade and 14 for a call trade. However max profit for me was at 7150 and 7450, so […]

Trade131 Week Ending 10May

  Tweets And Chinese Takeaways Obvious headline really. Yet again someone let the iPad loose and the world’s premier tweeter tanked the markets. From 7380 down to 7189 on Friday. Curious market action solely on the Trump/Xi challenge. Tariff or not tariff, that is the question. More vexing than a Shakespeare quote. We are told […]

Trade130 Week ending 03May

That Was The Week We Nearly Saw a 1.5% Move! FTSE 7428-7380  VFTSE 10.01 -10.68 Statisticians tell us that 66% of the time markets go nowhere. You would not want to be strongly directional on that basis, it would make little sense. Options give us so many more facets to trading, we can adapt for […]

Trade 129 Week Ending 26April

That Was The Week Something of A Nothing. FTSE opened the week at 7459 and closed at 7428, the high was 7528 the low 7398. Another week bounded by 7400 and 7500. Another week of protests inspired by a teenager. Without getting too political it just seems obvious that tackling climate change hurts nobody. Our one […]

Trade 128 Week Ending Friday the 19th………….

That Week in Pictures- Market flat Vol decreasing. Expiry week was a damp squib, but that’s what we have come to expect. Traders know volumes are not terrible but not exactly setting the pulse racing. A sobering thought- those Extinction Rebellion protesters may know Friends of the Earth started 50 years ago. A powerful lobby […]

Trade127- That Was The Week Ending 12 April- Nobrexit Day 2

That Was The week We watched as more verbage gushed from the mouths of our glorious leaders. We remain in the EU. Then, the market shows its utter contempt by going……….. nowhere.  We see volatility is crushed virtually to a single digit once again. Central banks are ensuring the smooth running of markets. However, we […]

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  • Trade 126 That Was Another Odd Week, Ending 05April

    Trade 126 That Was Another Odd Week, Ending 05April

    The Week’s Charts: My simplistic view of price and volatility of the underlying- do we need more? I accept I have a bias towards the downside which does not often coincide with market action. Trading with a bias is like cycling no-hands. It’s no problem until you hit a major curve or a bump in […]

  • Trade125 Week Ending 29 March Ex-Brexit Day

    Trade125 Week Ending 29 March Ex-Brexit Day

      That Was The Week We were supposed to leave the EU, at the moment we have no consensus on voting on which bits to vote on. I hope when I leave my energy supplier the process is a tad less tortuous. Voters on both sides of the ‘B’ debate are hacked off. This trader […]

  • Trade 124 Week Ending 22March

    Trade 124 Week Ending 22March

    Return Of The Vol That Was The Week Curiously while everyone is running around proclaiming Friday’s move is a game changer, FTSE is actually up 22 points on the week. Investors cannot stand a down day- just look at the track record of up days this year. I did say last week it makes no […]

  • Trade 123 Week Ending 15March

    Trade 123 Week Ending 15March

    That Was The Week We noted that Brexit hysteria was conspicuous by its absence. In fact the market was positively serene. So, 5 consecutive up days, up 1.74% and on the week the £sterling is up 2.16%. Don’t worry, be happy. Thus, bewildered does not even come close to the Brexit sentiment, and this trader is sidelined […]

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