Market Video Overview: FTSE 100 Futures
Tim Fairweather’s weekly report on the FTSE 100 futures market.
FTSE 100 report transcript
Hello everybody. Welcome again to a different Brooks Trading Course weekend market report. My identify is Tim Fairweather and we’re going to undergo the FTSE 100 futures. Let’s get to it. So final week on the FTSE 100 futures was a bear bar closing on its low. It’s principally a reversal bar after the prior week’s small inside bar.
It was a small bull bar above the transferring common. So it was an affordable purchase entry. The issue is the context. On the left hand facet, we’re in what appears like a bull breakout and nonetheless hasn’t gone up. And that creates a bit little bit of an issue as a result of The place that purchase sign is triggering is within the high third.
So you may see not a number of bulls had been keen to purchase for any greater than the scalp to shut that hole. And a number of merchants had been really trying to promote up there, betting we might get again to the transferring common. Now the bears have a promote sign, however in all probability what’s going to occur is identical that simply occurred with the bulls.
We’re going to go down a bit bit and go sideways of the transferring common. This tight buying and selling vary to the left hand facet goes to be a magnet for the foreseeable future. What are the bulls want? Properly, the bulls want an out of doors up They want this bear bar to set off and to get a reversal and to create perhaps one, two, three legs up.
So this could be one other bull breakout. Bull spike and channel as much as the all time excessive. The bears really want to observe via bar and it’s acquired to look actually good. And it’s acquired to shut on its low and it’s acquired to persuade bulls to cease shopping for excessive on the month-to-month chart. We’re in a bull channel. And since we had a bull exterior bar final month with a really small physique and a giant tail, It implies that there’s gonna be extra merchants across the midpoint versus shopping for above that bar for cease entry merchants.
There hasn’t been that many trades aside from this bull spike in channel out of breakout mode, uh, which was a few months in the past. In the previous few weeks, it was principally shopping for beneath a bull bar. Promoting above a bear bar was the one manner, and scalping we’re beginning to kind a triangle right here as nicely. And in a triangle we’ve acquired a bull breakout and a wedge bull flag.
And we’ve acquired a bear breakout and a wedge bear flag on the similar time. So it’s doable to be on a bull swing from down right here. It’s doable to be on a bear swing from up right here and your stops have nonetheless not been hit. And so long as nobody stops have been hit, we’re going to maintain going sideways. The bears had an excellent alternative to shut this hole down right here, or unable to, so it appeared like this was the measuring hole to go up.
The bull’s acquired a spike and a few pushes up. The bears would love this to be a breakout and a pullback, however sadly it’s gone manner too excessive for the bears. They’d have needed to really promote above that bar. And that’s going to be an issue. The bears need this bar to set off down right here, however if you happen to’re promoting right here, you’re promoting in the midst of a buying and selling vary and your cease is up the place these different bears are.
I believe a number of bears are ready for a robust shut, a pullback, after which doubtlessly
they preserve working into a complete number of doable development strains. On the FTSE 100 each day chart, you may see that sideways titrating vary. That is what it appears like when it’s been magnified. The bulls broke out of breakout mode right here. The bears tried to reverse down from a double high with the all time excessive.
So it was a wedge to a double high, a dueling line patterns, nevertheless it failed. As a substitute, the bulls acquired a bull spike with a few legs up, after which we began to go sideways. This was a number of excessive time-frame revenue targets on the each day chart. And they might have been going sideways on this vary. Bulls tried to create a pullback one, two, three, that they had three or 4 pushes down, however there’s simply too many bear bars beneath the transferring common right here.
If that is going to be a robust bull breakout, the bulls actually wish to stabilize above the transferring common. After which create the spike up right here. However what’s occurred is you’ve acquired a bull spike and a wedge bull flag. The bear’s acquired a bear spike and channel down, and we’ve been forming a buying and selling vary when bulls and bears each have a chance to be available in the market.
You’ve acquired bulls shopping for down right here which can be nonetheless lengthy. You’ve acquired bears which can be promoting up right here who’re nonetheless quick. And the result’s we’re sitting within the center. And I believe the long run development line goes to win, nevertheless it’s not straightforward for swing merchants. Thanks. You’ll be able to see a number of merchants right here. If it goes within the backside half, they’re shopping for.
If it goes within the high half, they’re promoting. We get too distant from the transferring common. They begin fading it. We go too far beneath the transferring common. They begin shopping for. So final week we went up and closed the one open hole to the upside. And we did that earlier within the week and reversed. We did it twice.
Simply to let all these merchants out, uh, bulls have purchased above this bar. We talked about final week, had an opportunity to get out. And now I don’t suppose there have been many bulls that purchased up there as a result of it appeared like this was a few legs as much as let these bulls out. And now the bears have gotten the alternative.
They see this as a bear spike and one, two, three. Or a wedge bear flag in search of a second leg down. So that they really want some observe via on Monday. That is forcing bears to promote low in a buying and selling vary. They really want observe via the identical because the bulls had been pressured to purchase excessive in that buying and selling vary, nevertheless it appears just like the bears are going to get a second leg down from this proper in the midst of this vary.
So for FTSE, we’re nonetheless at all times in lengthy on the month-to-month chart, at all times in lengthy on the weekly chart, and in a buying and selling vary on the each day chart. I nonetheless suppose we’re going to be going sideways to up on the weekly chart, nevertheless it appears just like the bears would possibly get a second leg down on the each day. Thanks very a lot.
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