07:55am CET (06:55 UK time)  ~  Early start for me today as we have friends arriving from the UK this morning and this means no trading for me again and I’m away from my charts now until next Tuesday as we are also going to Minorca for a 3-day break. Yesterday it was again the [...]

09:55am CET (08:55 UK time)  ~  An unusually late start for me today after an extremely busy night out so I can see a relaxing day at home mainly doing emails and a bit of chart watching. As a general rule U.S. and European markets move broadly together albeit with some lag occasionally but recently [...]

08:10am CET (07:10 UK time)  ~  At home today as the builders are back so I will be chart watching and doing emails for most of the day. There are now quite a few reasons for equity traders to be wary of the record highs that have been the norm recently and many indices witnessed [...]

08:10am CET (07:10 UK time)  ~  I shall mostly be here at home today doing emails and chart watching but there is also a cycle ride to Cala Sant Vincenc with a group of neighbours this morning. The Euro group meeting are continuing today and yesterday’s get together in Brussels honed in on the problems [...]

08:15am CET (07:15 UK time)  ~  A quiet day at home for me today after an extremely busy weekend. If I do have any trades I will report the details here. As you know, the latest U.S. jobs report was out on Friday in the form of the monthly ‘Non-Farm-Payrolls’ numbers and once again it [...]

I’ve just had a Skype call with a South African guy who now lives in Spain and has been trying to trade profitably for around 18 months – and it struck me again that most new traders go through exactly the same problems in learning to trade. First of all they will buy the cheapest [...]

07:55am CET (06:55 UK time)  ~  A day away from the charts today as it’s the first Friday of the new month again – which means U.S. employment figures out after lunchtime local time although I have got a lot of email catching up to do together with 4 Skype calls this morning with new [...]

08:00am CET (7:00 am UK)  ~  Another bright sunny day and there is talk of a fishing trip at lunchtime – but before then I shall be here in the study catching up on emails and doing some chart watching. All eyes and ears will be on ECB President Mario Draghi at 2:30pm (UK 13:30) [...]

08:20am CET (07:20 UK time)  ~  A nice quiet day at home for me today – I spotted that around 300 incoming emails have not been downloaded onto this laptop so I shall be catching up with those primarily today – if you’ve written to me in the past week and not had a reply [...]

08:05am CET (07:05am UK)  ~  Off to Palma this morning to do some essential shopping but before then some emailing and Skype calls and chart watching. U.S. equities hit another all time high yesterday on the back of rising consumer spending data which shows that the economy over there is still moving in the right [...]