I’d say the value of the Pound is important as many of the FTSE 100 companies make their earnings overseas. High pound=bearish. Haven’t done a cross correlation to confirm though.
Yes, I have recently started playing with the automated system on PRT, and EMAs are working fine in my code. Occasionally, my pc has crashed during testing but I think that is a problem with my old system rather than the code.
There are some good videos for learners on the IG site. View them all as a course before you start.
Most importantly: Do not go live until you know what you're doing! It's very easy to blow your account.
I use the standard IG web-based charting package with Google Chrome on a Mac desktop.
Is it possible to use the mouse and some combination of keyboard controls (like Shift, Cmd etc) to do:
1. Perfectly horizontal lines between 2 points using the line tool.
2. Lines between multiple points using the line tool.
......or is the line tool limited only to freehand between 2 points?
Thanks for your help.