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Dow testing support at 26348 on the 4 hour chart while the daily chart shows Dax and FTSE pausing in the bounce up off weekly support, Dax has a trendline to break through to go higher. Nikkei maintaining it's breakout with a bull flag/channel. Daily charts;

Dow looks to have found support off 26477 after breaking lower yesterday while Nikkei makes a break higher. Dax and FTSE remain in step and are looking to test recent highs.

This is a more fulsome info page and includes an video on force open from Ludwik. https://www.ig.com/uk/glossary-trading-terms/force-open-definition

Dow backs away from the high and looks to put in a support level at 26546, Dax and FTSE follow suit, the three are highly correlated on the 1 hour charts at present. Nikkei mid range.

Hi @CFDFutures, yes but you need to do it manually, so instead of using the multi chart tab just click on the chart minimise button (top right corner) and all the charts in the workspace can then be resized and moved. You may want to open a new workspace for the group.

Interesting time to take a look at the monthly charts as Dow retests the highs. Difficult to expect a break with the US/China trade dispute in full swing but certainly positioned well for any kind of deescalation. Note before this leg up price hovered on the line before a spark ignited and the index took off, that spark was of course the Trump election.

Hi @Pieman and welcome, hope you find some interesting and relevant content here on the forum and look we forward to any views and observations you might have, none of us can see everything so an extra set of eyes is always welcome. Best of luck.

Hi @MaxJ, I prefer to use point to point too but don't find it a problem to align, on the IG new platform you can click on the line and call up 'edit' which will show small circles to drag and drop to align. You may be referring to point to point lines getting out of shape as you move to different chart time frames but that is a generic problem to all platforms and occurs on trendlines as well. If you are referring to the MT4 platform you can achieve the same adjustment tabs by double clicking on the line and look for small white boxes at each end to adjust up or down or a central box to raise or lower the line horizontally.

I haven't traded live ko's no, only played about on demo to get a feel of them as they were a new product. Fortunately I can adjust my account size to be of sufficient proportion to carry on trading my fairly conservative risk level with the higher margin rate plus get the added bonus of negative account protection hence not worried about going for 'professional' status.

Not giving away much in the email that only some seem to have received. Was just looking at the demo platform that still has the old formula and the difference is quite startling. (see pics below). It all seems a bit odd though or maybe just wishful thinking on the part of IG and they have had their card marked by the FCA, wait and see. Certainly if things stand as they are the whole KO thing would seem to have been a waste of IG's time and money, maybe they still have a trick up their sleeve, who knows.

@LeoTrader, would you mind reproducing the main part of the email here (blocking out any personal detail). I definitely haven't received anything from IG about it. Cheers.

Thank's @LeoTrader, I've not had that email yet. That may be what's happened to @jasonlal's attempt to trade them today.

All four indices pushing higher with the Dow breaking it's all time high at close yesterday. The Dax and FTSE have been in close correlation on the small time frame charts this week. 4 hour charts;

Dow closes just piping the all time high.

Today looking for continuation of the break upwards by Dow, Dax and FTSE while Nikkei takes a breather following Tuesdays strong surge.

Strong push up by Nikkei could well lead the way today. Dow looks to continue higher breaking out of it's recent bull flag. Dax has broken up through the important 12110 which just leaves FTSE to break 7325. Daily charts;

Hi @HJP123, In case you haven't seen it check the IG Labs page and the 'Getting Started' tab on the left hand side of the home screen for generating keys for live and demo. https://labs.ig.com/

Don't forget the KOs are still being developed and we are waiting for the 'inner' stop loss function that we were told IG was working on when the KOs arrived on the platform.

Not an unreasonable suggestion @Tancredi but I suspect it would be a case of either/or rather than both side by side. You can see where IG are coming from though, they need an options type instrument to satisfy the new esma regs while trying to lure those used to the SB format.

That's an interesting one @Kodiak, haven't seen anything like that myself but it would indeed be interesting. I can see the attraction for trying to make the KOs perform more like a spread bet and less like an option but they are an option at core. The ability to place a stop loss inner order would make a big difference, hopefully that is still coming.

Trump waited til US market close to announce latest trade tariffs and after putting in daily bear bars all now bouncing back with Nikkei leading the way with a clear break through long term resistance.

Saudi's pump 1 Bln $ into Tesla rival Lucid Motors. https://www.ft.com/content/d42abc50-ba81-11e8-94b2-17176fbf93f5

Interesting Bloomberg podcast on stocks and bonds with Farouk Jivraj, head of Investment Strategies Research at Barclays, about cross-asset correlations and what causes them to change over time. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-09-17/what-investors-should-know-about-the-correlation-between-bonds-and-stocks?srnd=markets-vp

As mentioned in the APAC Brief Dow continues to crawl on towards the highs while FTSE, mired in Brexit uncertainty is trying to put a support level at 7200, currently at 7286. Weekly charts;

Dow and Nikkei look set to make a break higher which should boost Dax and FTSE. Daily charts;