Indices & Shares

The CAC 40 is the benchmark stock market index of France, and one of the two major indices often described as the "core" of the Eurozone economy. The name comes from Cotation Assistée en Continu (Continuous Assisted Quotation) with 40… Read More

The FTSE 100 is one of the top five most traded indices in the world and is arguably the most followed in Europe. The full name is Financial Times-Stock Exchange 100 (commonly known as "footsie 100" or just "Footsie") which harkens back to… Read More

Cash indices allow traders to invest in the current cash value of underlying indices, with tight spreads, attractive leverage and without commission expenses. Unlike the futures derivatives market, cash indices do not have expiry dates and… Read More

In this episode, Richard is following up on his previously posted “Trends And Reversals – Patterns And Correlations” article, in which a spike in volatility was underlined, as a possibility, along with a chance for the Market to commence a… Read More

Risk-off period appears to be making an impact on the charts and on the price action movements. With the “VIX Spike & US Indices – Bears Territory” article, a scenario out of the ordinary was explained and then backed-up with charts… Read More

The S&P 500 is one of the most widely followed indices by investors across the world. The Standard and Poor’s 500 index, published since 1957, represents the prices of 500 large cap stocks trading on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE)… Read More

The FOMC gradual rate hiking clearly sustained the stock markets and indices along with stocks which enjoyed a sustained bullish rally. This has been going on since the 2008 Recession. Volatility hit record lows in the 4th quarter of… Read More

The German DAX has continued to post steady trend in the past few weeks. Despite the mixed reaction to the German elections in late September, the leading German index managed to hold on to the gains. After breaching past 12669.0 levels,… Read More

All Quiet on The German Front The German elections are just two weeks away now and so far, aside from a few personal attacks on CDU’s Merkel by SPD’s Schulz, there has been little excitement to note. Current polling results continue to… Read More

After two weeks of a choppy trading in most of the global equities, due to the global geopolitical tensions, some of these indices tried to recover losses. However and so far, they are still far away from recovering. This is even though… Read More