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See our blogs on the Nikkei here – http://www.spreadbetmagazine.com/blog/is-the-25-year-bear-market-in-japan-over.html and here –  http://www.spreadbetmagazine.com/blog/japanese-equities-dont-miss-the-train.html and also our Buy in levels on the About Us page (8600 & 8850). Very handsome profits have been returned in recent weeks from our Trading Buy Calls on Japan and we don’t expect the train to reverse any time soon, as evidenced by…

Sometimes it pays to “take time out” and so as we wind down to Xmas, after a cracking 1st year for SBM, we are spending some of our hard earned profits (see the About Us page to verify our 90% + success record) and enjoying the ski slopes in Lech!   2013 promises to be an…

18 Dec 2012 Cantor Opening Call The FTSE is seen up around 25 points higher this morning       UK Corporate Announcements Morgan Sindall states that it is trading in line with the board’s expectations Skyepharma also announces that it is trading in line with the forecasts Unite Group details that it remains well…

UPDATE – 17/12/12 – Perhaps 21/12/12 will not in fact herald the end of the world for us all but for Assad? We can see in the chart below that today’s price action is extremely encouraging with the stock rising decisively now through the long down trend that has been entrenched over the last 2…

A rather underwhelming response to the video released on Friday afternoon by Xcite Energy featuring Chief Executive, Rupert Cole, with the shares dropping 3% on Friday and close to 2% today to less than 90p. Like his predecessor, Richard Smith, who had several videos produced with Proactive Investors, Cole appears to have not produced the…

FTSE 100, Daily   In the past few weeks we highlighted how the FTSE has broken through its previous bullish trading channel, red region. We mentioned at the time however that a trend line break does not necessarily equal a trend change, and that often a period of consolidation occurs following a break of this…

Monday, December 17, 2012 UK Reporting:- Aggreko Plc, AGK, (R), Aggreko Plc, AGK, (R), Imagination Tech Group Plc, IMG, (SM), London & Stamford Property P, LSP, (SM) S&P 500 Reporting:- None Detailed Euro Stoxx 600 Reporting:- None Detailed Economic Data:- 00:01 UK December Rightmove House Prices, -2.6% previous 13:30 US December Empire Manufacturing, -0.50 exp. -5.22 previous Economic…

This week, in keeping with the Xmas theme, and deeming myself to be one of the 3 “wise men”, I bring you technical analysis “gifts” of gold stocks! As can be seen from the daily chart of Randgold Resources (RRS), it has not been a happy autumn for shares in the Mali focused mining group.…

It’s been a couple of weeks now since any real news on Bumi and all remains eerily quiet… All the while, the stock remains resolutely pinned to the 260-270p level. We continue to believe that Bumi presents the best potential Xmas or New Year present in the mining sphere given the £4+ that is presently…

With the FTSE hovering close to 6000 (and most likely about to pop it before the year’s out) but still the “fiscal cliff” worries, the Grexit potential, euro sovereign woes etc all still potentially lurking around the corner, perhaps putting on a so called black swan trade via the options market for 2013 is advisable. We certainly…