The novice investor or trader often obsesses about where to get into a trade or investment and may spend much time trying to refine this process. Indeed there is a whole industry around the perfect entry signal; buy now or miss out on massive gains, XYZ share cannot go any lower… Of course, we all…
Last month saw some interesting statistics concerning the US stock market. Unless you have been living in a cave in recent years, you will be aware that the major US indices have continually pushed to fresh all-time highs. The latest leg higher within that multiyear trend started after the US election last year – markets…
Some people will dismiss technical analysis and charting as just squiggly lines on a chart – and I for one am not the biggest fan of the chart pattern approach to trading or investing. That aside, there are often sound changes or shifts in investor sentiment that underpin the various patterns that are a major…
One of the appeals – and drawbacks – to technical analysis for some are the many, many ways of analysing historical data on a chart. Before home computers and sophisticated investing software, many charts were either in paper format or on dedicated terminals, primarily used by City institutions. Now of course, you are only ever…
In my opinion, investors/traders don’t spend enough time on putting together a strategy that helps them decide when to get out of a profitable position. All of the effort gets channeled into finding a perfect system for where to get in – which of course doesn’t exist! But where you finally get out is what…
Back in 2015, when I was raising funds for my FinTech start-up CityFALCON, I mentioned that our most active user on the platform is a woman who trades from home while her family is out. I would never have imagined of the reaction that I got then: “this clearly can’t be one of your target…
Cap-XX (LON:CPX) seems to be sending some mixed messages out on the fundamental front. But at least on the technicals we are looking at a situation where the longs are on the front foot. The 7 June update from supercapacitor designer and maker Cap-XX was a good news/bad news affair in the sense that while…
It would appear that the optimists are back in charge as far as Petrofac (LON:PFC) is concerned. The question now is whether or not this can last… Although it is difficult to be entirely precise when a stock or market is under the influence of controversial newsflow, it was possible to suggest that below 380p…
I was keen enough to attend a presentation of URU Metals (LON:URU) earlier this year when the shares were trading above 4p. The question now with the stock below 2p is: What are the technicals saying? For a company which was seemingly on everyone’s lips to start 2017, there appears to be something of a…
It has been a rather rough ride to say the least for shareholders of Ncondezi Energy (LON:NCCL). The question now is whether or not recovery is finally in the air. In terms of how nasty a small cap situation can be, there have been a few in the recent past where the share price has…
