“I missed that 10% rally; I’m so angry“. I hear this a lot. But rarely does it mean missed in the sense that the client was totally unaware. More often than not it means the client has been watching the share price bounce and rally, and regrets not having bought into the recovery. But you can’t always…

The  UK 100  is holding above 7130 twin support (horizontal, shallow rising) but remains in a falling channel from 7373 highs. Drivers of the decline since mid-month are US-China trade dispute (and now US-Mexico) and increased appetite for bonds rather than equities. After a 3% sell-off, however, has the correction run its course? Are we…

Dividends: your share of profits; reward for taking the risk of investing. But not all payments are equal. While traditional shareholders must wait for the payment date others can be paid up to 50 days earlier. How? CFDs are a cash-settled derivative, based on the underlying share price. You can trade any rise (or fall) in the underlying share…

The  UK 100  is both off its lows and its highs into the long weekend. We are sideways, and uncertain whether this is the beginning of a second bounce from 7210 towards prior highs of 7500. Or is today’s bounce petering out at 7300 for another leg down, for a revisit of 7210, perhaps even 7129. Bulls…

The Tuesday before the first Friday, of the last month of the quarter. That’s the week after next. But why is it so important? It’s the 4th of June – the cut-off for determining who will be promoted to and demoted from both the (mid-cap index) and UK 100 (bluechips) indices on 24 June.  The…

  The  UK 100  is alive and she is kicking! after several weeks of pullback since its 2019 highs, the index managed to bounce off a 7129 support and reach right up to the floor of the previous multi-month range that we have seen so much of this year. Is this 3.2% bounce off the…