09:05am CET (8:05 UK time)  ~  A nice sunny morning here so far so its going to be a pleasant journey down to Alicante airport – I am taking a neighbour there in half an hour.  Afterwards I’ll be back here in the study watching charts – plus I have got 3 Skype calls booked [...]

08:45am CET  (07:45 UK time) ~  I’ve just got up and after a quick breakfast I’m off for a cycle ride up towards Guadalest, it’s slightly cloudy out the this morning, but the sun is supposed to be out later.  I’ve nothing planned this morning so I shall be watching my charts later and also [...]

11:55am (CET)  ~  After a lazy breakfast, we are off to Palma airport in a short while and going back to Altea Hills after a nice relaxing weekend here in Majorca. The week ahead on the markets are going to be dominated for UK traders with the Fed and Bank Of England releasing minutes, so [...]

09:15am (CET)  ~  The Fed Chief-To-Be, Janet Yellen had a grilling yesterday but came out ok it would appear and as a result pushed the S&P500 towards the lofty heights of 1800. These are uncharted waters as far as the index is concerned, my MT4 charts go back to 1991 and the previous highs were [...]

10:15am CET (9:15am UK time)  ~  We had a another late night (with a poker evening up the road with neighbours) so my day is starting rather later than usual – I’m off on a cycle ride now then back here for an hour in the study doing some emails. The weather here is picking up [...]

09:15am (CET)  ~  After a late night out at the Yacht Club just down the road I’ve had a late start to the day. Nothing much planned for this morning so I’ll watch some charts while doing emails and two Skype calls as well. We are out on the water this afternoon but it looks [...]

08:50am (CET)  ~  Slightly cloudy here in Altea Hills but still warm enough to have a swim outdoors to wake myself up. I have a supermarket run to do this morning but otherwise it’ll be a nice relaxing day in the study catching up on emails and doing some trading – plus a cycle ride [...]

08:45am  ~  I had an early cycle ride this morning, getting out onto the beach and coastal path at 8am, and it seems to me that winter has well and truly arrived, it was bitingly cold this morning. I think it’s time to get out to some warmer climes for the next few months, so [...]

09:15am  ~  The markets will be dominated today by U.S. employment figures out at lunchtime (UK time) but yesterday, after record rises in the Dow Jones Index, traders have decided that the good news regarding the U.S. GDP figures will actually be bad as the Fed’s money-printing exercise may come to an end sooner than [...]

08:05am  ~  The Dow Jones 30 index in New York finished at a record high last night, no doubt buoyed by slowly improving European economic data and the fact that U.S. government tapering is not likely at all this year. My favourite index, the wider S&P500 was not quite at record levels, but a spurt [...]