The Russian/Ukrainian crisis continues to disrupt the markets, with mixed information filtering through from several sources. During the Asia session, it was reported that Russian troops were not in fact retreating from the Ukrainian boarder. This saw a general ‘risk off’ with stocks and a ‘risk on’ in currencies as market movers transferred trades from one sector to another.

Later in the UK morning session, these rumours were dispelled and stocks began to rise again. Overall we still had some good points at our usual times from all our instruments.

Thursday saw another reasonable maximum potential of 770 from specific Max Day Trading time/level entries within our four instruments from the UK morning session alone.

JUST A TWENTY PERCENT target would have yielded 154 net points, with many additional opportunities in the US morning (UK afternoon) and US afternoon (UK evening) sessions.