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March 7, 2022
CFD Update: Three Markets to Watch as Markets Open Today
Markets have started the week with further heavy selling as the conflict in Ukraine continued to intensify. From Friday’s crazy reports of Europe’s largest nuclear power plant being shelled to broken ceasefires and trapped residents unable to evacuate. Today’s...
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March 2, 2022
CFD Update: Oil set to retest 2011 highs?
Today we’re taking a look at oil from a longer-term view after price briefly tested $111. We all know the driver for this month’s surge in the price of oil. Our question as price has started to move back to levels not seen since 2011 is how much further does it...
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February 28, 2022
CFD Update: Gold starting to look up after a wild three days of trade
As we look at gold today, we can see price starting to form a range after a wild few days of trade. Since Russia invaded Ukraine last Thursday, there have been some amazing moves on gold as traders looked to the metal as a hedge. Last Thursday’s surge up to 1974.48 capped...
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February 28, 2022
Weekend tensions continue to drive market volatility. Oil, Gold jump higher.
Russia continued its war in Ukraine over the weekend. Reports suggest that the invasion is not going as quickly as first hoped for, as the Ukrainian people have put up strong resistance to the Russian invasion, and there has been news that poor planning has slowed down the...
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February 25, 2022
Your Crypto Focus: 26th February – 4th March
What a week, from crashing lows that started to point towards extensions in current medium-term downtrends to a late-week save that really came out of nowhere and looks to be telling us that price may have hit exhaustion lows? The week started OK for most of the top 10 and 25...
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February 25, 2022
Market Update: NDX100 posts surprise rally reversal pattern starting to form?
Today we are starting to watch what could be, the development of a reversal pattern on the NDX100 D1 chart. I’m sure we’re all aware of the disaster the markets faced yesterday. The script went to que as we watched stock indexes plunge after news that Russia had invaded...
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February 24, 2022
Crypto Update: Ethereum returns to support after a horror day
Today the worst-case scenario happened, Russia invaded Ukraine. This set off another round of heavy selling on the Crypto markets. The top 10 suffered badly with just over 11% taken off their value at the day’s low. Ethereum was one of the worst-hit in the top 10, price...
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February 23, 2022
A background to the Russia-Ukraine crisis and how it has affected financial markets so far
Over the last several weeks, traders would have heard of and watched the unfolding Ukraine crisis. Russia built up a mass of troops and military hardware on the border, which started sending shockwaves through the markets that an invasion and new European conflict could be...
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February 23, 2022
CFD Update: SPX500 holds at support but will we see a rally?
Today we’re looking at the SPX500 after buyers re-held long-term support yesterday. Until yesterday, hold trade had been one way on the SPX500 as markets continued to deal with the ongoing tensions between Ukraine and Russia. Over the last three weeks, just over 5% was wiped...
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