Good morning. I was a bit early with the SMS to get long yesterday morning but well done those that re-entered on the bounce as it climbed as expected, hitting 6118 at the high. However, the volatility continued after the bell with an overnight drop to 5900 and is now back at 6060! Wild times and not a period to lose you head or risk your shirt. No harm in sitting on the sidelines like this if you are not able to fully focus! With these bounces I am still pretty positive overall, and see dips on shares and indices as good buying opportunities. I don’t think we will see interest rate rises soon, and the latest consensus for the UK rate rises has been pushed back to October 2016. This is quite a good article from Neil Woodford here
US & Asia Overnight from Bloomberg
Asian stocks rose, with Japanese shares rebounding from the biggest two-day plunge since 2011, as investors awaited the opening of mainland Chinese markets following Tuesday’s cut in interest rates.
The MSCI Asia Pacific Index advanced 0.7 percent to 125.75 as of 9:07 a.m. in Tokyo, after capping an eighth straight decline Tuesday to enter a bear market. Futures on the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index retreated 0.9 percent.
After the Shanghai Composite Index fell 7.6 percent Tuesday to cap a 22 percent, four-day plunge, China’s policy makers cut interest rates for the fifth time since November and lowered the amount of cash banks must set aside. While Chinese equity-index futures surged, with contracts on the FTSE China A50 Index jumping 4.9 percent, exchange-traded funds tracking the nation’s shares almost erased rallies in New York.
“China continues to be key,” Komal Sri-Kumar, the Santa Monica, California-based founder and president of Sri-Kumar Global Strategies Inc., told Bloomberg TV. “The authorities have not been intervening, they’ve been allowing stocks to go down in price. Assuming that continues to be the case on Wednesday, I do see a continued fall in prices.”
Japan’s Topix index rose 1.5 percent. Australia’s S&P/ASX 200 Index declined 0.7 percent and South Korea’s Kospi index retreated 0.2 percent. New Zealand’s NZX 50 Index added 0.2 percent.
Volume soared and swings on the regional Asia Pacific equity gauge broadened to the widest since March 2011 on Tuesday. The global share rout has wiped more than $8 trillion from investors since China’s unexpected devaluation of the yuan on Aug. 11. [Bloomberg]
FTSE Outlook
Its a wild week for trading thats for sure, though its bounced once again overnight and I think we will see the same again today as yesterday. Yes there is a lot of doom and gloom around, yes there is a weakening backdrop (but its been weak for ages), but equally the market is oversold still, as the daily RSI(10) is still below 30, though risen now to 29 from 15 yesterday and 9 on Monday. So there is a bit of strength around. If the bulls can hold above 6000 then we should see a retest of 6100, and the 200ema at 6112, and then possibly the top of the 10 day Bianca at 6222. We are just testing the top of the 10 day Raff at 6060 so we might well get a dip at around the open, which would take us down to the 25ema on the 30min at 6000 which looks like a decent spot for a long entry, with the bottom of the 20 day Bianca at 5942 below that.