The Trading week ahead: Update Monday morning UK 10/10/22: China back from holidays, tensions in Ukraine rising, talk of possible further interest rate hikes, OPEC+ oil wars! Watch out for US financial services earnings all this week. Trending on Social Media this morning: USA: Tilray (TLRY), Snowflake, Cardinal Health, TWTR, GME, TSLA, PYPL, Sectors: Weed stocks UK: TSCO, Credit Suisse, Sectors: Weed stocks AUD: $Tesla Motors(TSLA)$, AMZN, BHP, Sectors: Weed stocks Stock markets: Slightly higher generally from where we were last week but off to a weak to flat start for the week: FTSE 100 -0.2% at 6965, S&P500 -0.3% at 3642, DAX +0.54% at 12339, Nasdaq100 -0.53% at 11043. Commodities: Mostly about WTI! It's trading 92.35 -0.

The Trading week ahead: Update Monday morning UK 31/10/22: INTEREST RATES in focus this week, Australia (Tues), US (Wed), UK (Thu) all expected to rise again. End of week also sees non-farm data release. Euro inflation keeps climbing to new highs. $Wheat - main 2212(ZWmain)$futures spike up (see attached chart) on Russia abandoning grain deal. $Tesla Motors(TSLA)$want to buy into $GLENCORE PLC(GLEN.UK)$?! US earnings fail from the big boys last week. Another busy US earnings week ahead - see below for my picks. Earlier today: AUD Retail Sales (MoM) (Sep) as expected. Chinese  Manufacturing PMI (Oc

The Trading week ahead: Update Monday morning UK 30/01/23: OVERVIEW: - Some key economic data releases this week: US interest rate decision Wednesday – expect increase to 4.75% from 4.5%. ECB rate decision Thursday – expect increase to 3% from 2.5%. UK Interest rate decision Thursday expect to rise to 4% from 3.5%. Non farms US data out Friday. - Oil fundamentals still bullish although technical a bit weaker. - Gold still shining for the bulls. - Chinese stocks bullish after come back from holidays. - Crypto complex picking up bullish momentum. - Big week for tech earnings – could shape US stock markets shorter term outlook. The ‘big boys’ report Wednesday / Thursday. Trending on Social Media this morning: USA: Adani, INTC, AXON, TSLA, C3 AI, BBBY, AMD, Sectors: Hydrogen UK: MSFT, GOOG,

$Light Crude Oil - main 2208(CLmain)$$Micro WTI Crude Oil - main 2207(MCLmain)$ Looking to break long term fibonacci zone - key area to watch out for 88 USD area - if it can hold = more bullish. Is though breaking out down through longer term 2.33 SD regression channels to the south. If goes properly bearish, longer term downside targets:Currently Bearish. (See attached chart)Targets & Risk Management....Bearish Downsides: T1 78 T2 72 T3: 62 (possible 30% price gains)Stops:  Bearish 93 areaVisit my YouTube channel for loads of free educational content / courses / tips / analysis /ideas via: Intro Post & Links THE STOP HUNTER (Links at bottom of po

Why Learn Technical Analysis & Use It For Your Trading & Investing??I’ve noticed the general rise in interest in the subject of Technical Analysis (TA) over the last few years, not just from market professionals but from the wider public. Why though should you learn it and use it for your trading and investing? In the UK I teach the professionals how to use TA as well as at Universities and have used it successfully in my own trading.Why the increase in popularity? Maybe because of advances in technology that have brought technical analysis to the mainstream; social media where charts are thrust into our faces daily, or maybe the perception that technical analysis can hand back some control to your finances and investing in a world desiring more control.These are just a few of the

Japanese Ichimoku charts are becoming ever more popular for today's trader and investor. Ichimoku in its own right is a fantastic analytical trading strategy tool. Often, the basics of Ichimoku are misinterpreted, and users struggle to deploy successfully this system in today's trading world. What is also not dealt with so well, is how you should be able to adapt, dissect, change and use the Ichimoku traditional approach more effectively to create even more powerful trading strategies and systems. When I first came across Ichimoku back in the 1990's I thought it was a complete un-translatable mess of tools and indicators and couldn't possibly help you with your trading - how wrong was I!! I am going to quickly take you through the basics of Ichimoku in this article and give you some ideas

The Trading week ahead: Update Monday morning UK 03/10/22: Welcome to October!! China on Bank Holiday's all week for National Day. Another big week for scheduled economic news - look out for Australian and New Zealand Interest rate rises and then on Friday from China Manufacturing PMI results and from the US Non-Farms payroll numbers.  Earlier today - looks like the UK Government after making a complete mess of $British Pound - main 2212(GBPmain)$are now reversing some of their tax cut ideas! German manufacturing results worse than expected. $Light Crude Oil - main 2210(CLmain)$- note OPEC+ are meeting Wednesday and looking to put large output cuts through

It's looking good for $Gold - main 2302(GCmain)$ so far in 2023, so has it got its shine back? Battered by Bitcoin, out of love with investors and traders can it push through 2100 highs and head toward 2500 or will we see it fizzle out once more and head back to the 1600's? I take a look at a host of variables to see where the price of Gold may be heading next!! Watch the full video analysis on my YouTube channel here:   GOLD PRICE TO $2500 IN 2023 - WHERE NEXT?! [ANALYSIS & PREDICTIONS] Summary: Overall BULLISH The charts: Variables: Dollar weak, Commitment Of Traders Bullish, Seasonality Bullish (see video for detail) Key price zones: (see weekly line

Hello Tiger Community!! I'd like to introduce myself: THE STOP HUNTER aka Stephen Hoad!I'm an algorithmic, quantitative, technical analyst trader who founded THE STOP HUNTER, a financial markets training, FinTech and trading company, in 2015. I have 25+ years global financial markets experience as a PM, proprietary trader, options trader, quantitative analyst and senior risk manager. Im also the CIO of my own fund.I have previously held senior roles at Koch Industries, Merrill Lynch, WestLB and Mitsubishi UFJ Securities, where I specialised in commodities, technical analysis, systematic/automated trading, derivatives products, financial & quantitative theory and risk management.I'm one of the UK's leading Technical Analysts and I teach the pro's how to use the charts! I teach on t