The UK 100 has extended its January rally by another 60 pts into the first week of February. That said, the benchmark index is also 110 points (-1.5%) off Thursday’s 7188 peak, having encountered resistance in the form of November’s highs. Much of this week’s rally was courtesy of Energy names (BP’s outstanding results pulling…
Three weeks ago I reviewed the first half of our UK Retail/Consumer Christmas/Jan updates. By half way we’d digested a mixed bunch, but with a positive bias. Good news from 20 of 32 names sent shares rising as much as 31.2% (Ted Baker). Bad news was confined to smaller, more troubled and less popular names, shares as…
The UK Index is taking a breather after an impressive 10% January rally. In fact, London’s blue-chips came within a whisker of November highs earlier this week. Santa may have taken a break in December and cancelled the Santa Rally. But the Old Nick gave plenty of gifts to London traders in the past week….
Waiting for a share price to bounce reduces the remaining profit potential from a recovery rally. But as the price rises, so too does certainty about a rebound rally to your target. Correctly calling the bottom offers maximum profit, but it also comes at the point of maximum risk. Waiting for signs of a rebound reduces…
The UK 100 is back trading the upper half of a 5-week bullish rising channel, having rebounded from recent 6750 lows to flirt with the psychologically significant 7000 level. Sterling weakness due to ongoing Brexit uncertainty and stronger than expected US January jobs report are both helping nudge the blue-chip index higher. Today’s index helpers…
After my recent focus on stop losses, here’s something different: Phasing into and out of your share positions. Clients have a tendency to buy into and sell out of positions in one go. They decide how much exposure they want and purchase the full amount (e.g. £10K). When they want to exit, they do the same in reverse….