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MACD close to going bullish and STO already rising = go long

the trick is:
on the way down below 5MA
on rising above 5MA

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FTSE / DOW

Good morning traders!

In the US last night, the Dow fell 5 points to 16,264, the Nasdaq lost 23 points at
4,151 and the S&P500 dropped 4 points to 1,849.

In Asia today, the Nikkei was recently up 66 points at 14,689 and the Hang Seng
ahead 263 points at 22,098.

WTI crude oil traded at $101.28 a barrel and Brent crude at $107.83.

Gold settled at $1,294 an ounce.

Happy Friday!

G.

French Consumer Spending m/m 0.1% 1.0% -2.1%

Opening Market Overview

This is what killed the life insurerers this morning.

City watchdog to probe 30m financial policies

The City regulator is to investigate about 30 million insurance company policies over concerns that customers are subject to "unfair" conditions.

The investigation will include pensions, endowments, investment bonds and life insurance policies sold in the UK between the 1970s and 2000.

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) will look into policies which penalise savers who want to switch providers.

The FCA told the Daily Telegraph it might "intervene on exit charges".

more....

GBP Current Account -22.4B -13.5B -22.8B

GBP Final GDP q/q 0.7% 0.7% 0.7%

GBP Index of Services 3m/3m 0.9% 0.6% 0.8%

GBP Revised Business Investment q/q 2.4% 2.4% 2.4%

Midday report

USD Core PCE Price Index m/m 0.1% 0.1% 0.1%

USD Personal Spending m/m 0.3% 0.3% 0.4%

USD Personal Income m/m 0.3% 0.4% 0.3%

USD Revised UoM Consumer Sentiment 80.0 80.6 79.9