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Month: January 2017

Morning everybody, after a relatively quiet start to the year we feel the markets are likely to become more active this week. The British Pound has opened down ~1.6% this morning due to comments in the UK’s Telegraph around Theresa May’s “strong” plans for BREXIT, initial movements by the FTSE should be interesting today. After 5 weeks of sideways choppy price action by the S&P500 it’s not a “big call” to anticipate some movement its simply statistically due.

As most global equity markets have entered a relatively quiet period, we thought today was an ideal time to follow on from yesterday’s report, which outlined our likely strategy for the current MM portfolio and look at how we like to manage risks / use stops.

The local equity market continues to follow our roadmap which targets the 5850-5875 area before a decent pullback. The local market is looking to open a modest 105-20 points higher this morning as overseas markets appear to have taken the much anticipated speech by Donald Trump mostly in their stride. Three small take outs that caught our eye from the market’s reaction to the president elect:

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