Trading the FTSE November
Day trading commentary on the FTSE 100 index. Pre and post market viewpoint analysis. Back on the 14th of November with further daily updates FTSE Trading Update 2nd November – 5pm Above is the 5 minute chart for the FTSE for today. The market opened down on yesterdays close and made an attempt to close […]
Course Login | What’s on at Excellence Assured
January & February 2026 Welcome from all at Excellence Assured The team at Excellence Assured are always busy creating and sharing excellence. Join us in creating your excellence in NLP, Coaching and Trading. Here is what’s on for us over the next couple of months: Our pioneering online courses (NLP, Trading, Coaching, Leadership, Mindfulness) are all live Join NOW […]
Trading the FTSE October
Chart Patterns and Trading on the FTSE – October FTSE Trading Update – 31st October 2016 – 4.45pm A pretty uneventful day on the FTSE today. The market is in a squeeze as you can see from the 30 minute chart above. Price is being squeezed from the top with a down-sloping trendline and at the same […]
Trading secrets – Cause, effect and taking responsibility – all in the mind
Part 2 of our Trading Secrets series – trading psychology In trading we operate in a sea of uncertainty. Things are only certain after the event. We see a possible opportunity. We aren’t certain whether or not the trade will work out. We aren’t certain that the market will go the way that we anticipate, […]
Secrets to successful trading – it’s all in the mind
Secrets to successful trading series – part 1 It’s all in the mind This secrets to successful trading series will help you to master the mental aspects of trading and put you in a position to compete and win at the trading game. 95% of home based traders lose money. I want to change that […]
What is Trading? Trading & understanding financial markets
What is trading exactly? What is involved with trading? How do I make money trading? These are the most common questions that people ask about what I do. It is easy to get bamboozled by all the information out there about the different financial markets, forex, shares, stock indices, commodities etc. It is easy to tie […]
Day Trading on the Dow – Trading range & bear trend day
Hello traders. Today we are going to look at some trading action on the US Dow index. As always we are going to talk about how to prepare for the market open, how to read the price action and we are going to look at the trading opportunities that arose during the trading day. I’m […]
The truth and lies in trading
I am effectively a self-taught trader. When I was learning to trade I read book after book on trading, I watched hundreds, if not thousands of videos, I did interviews with top traders. I built my skills through these channels, modelling the trading excellence of others. In the initial stages and whilst I was learning […]
NLP Modelling Exercise – Managing People
One of the aims of NLP is to enable students to learn the skills so that they can model other people in key aspects of their behaviour and adopt those behaviours and skills for themselves. In our online NLP Premium Masters course we teach students all the skills that they need to model excellence in […]
How to trade the Open on the FTSE 5 minute chart
Today we are going to look at how to trade the Open. On this occasion the market that we are trading is the FTSE 100 index. Every morning I go through the same quick processes in order to prepare for the start of trading at 8am. I’m going to talk you through the morning rituals […]