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Actionable market insight for technically motivated directional traders
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I'm new to this. Where do I start?
Start with the Documentation. See link above. Then you may want to read through the documentation of our software products to see how we go about interacting with the markets.
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When is this page updated?
We update this page, with our plan and outlook for the next trading day, by midnight Eastern Time prior to every trading session on the US futures markets. We provide a morning brief for the day's trading session around 8am Eastern Time. We also post updates as necessary during the day, starting with a "Morning brief" pre-session, Eastern Time.
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Your charts are too big for me
This is the most frequent comment we receive. Consider the following:
a) It's important to ask the question: why do we want to trade a given timeframe. If because that's where our edge is, fine. But if we want to trade a timeframe because that's what we think is the only thing we have money for, we're in trouble. We have to pick timeframe not based on our wishes, but on where our verified edge is.
b) Ok, is there some good news?
Yes, lots:
- With us, you'll be trading with an edge. (Without an edge, there is no point in risking a single dollar on the markets.)
- Now, most of our trades are intraday trades, the 240min timeframe still being six times less than a day.
- Also, many of our 240min trade ideas can be adapted to even smaller timeframes by simply waiting for the next pullback on the lower timeframe (LTF) after the 240min trigger.
- Also, many of our trade ideas are on currency futures. On relatively small accounts, they can be executed on forex, which allows more granular risk management.
- Many of our trade ideas can also be executed on ETFs: say, GLD for a GC trade or TLT for bond futures.
- Finally, on smaller accounts trades can be executed with micro contracts (MES, MGC etc.). While some will say "that way you can't make money", our answer is: but one will learn to fish, and that's worth all the money!
It is clear our service allows the capital accumulation process to be implemented on any reasonably-sized account. -
What do "technically motivated" and "directional" mean?
Technically motivated traders make trading/investing decisions based on what price has done in the past. We, as technically motivated traders, do not normally include macroeconomic or fundamental factors (e.g. a given company's financials) into our thinking. We hold the view that patterns can be uncovered in price behaviour alone that have predictive value.
Directional traders expect price to move up or down. For directional traders to make money, price needs to move. Note: there are non-directional trading styles as well, although those are beyond the scope of our focus on these pages.
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Miscellaneous notes
- Make sure you read the Documentation, become familiar with our Market Scanner, and follow the markets every day to build intuition to make best use of this service.
- We tend to scale back activities on the indexes leading up to FOMC releases, while being aware that the FOMC news release can often serve as a catalyst. We also stay out of intraday trades 10 minutes before and after of major news releases.
- We're often wrong. After all, we work with probabilities, and this work is all about the future, the yet unknown. We judge our work not by how many times we're right or wrong, but - to paraphrase one of the best traders of all time - by 'how much we make when we're right and how much we lose when we're wrong'.
major futures markets at a glance
FOR THE TRADING DAY OF Monday, 2022 02 28
TRADE ROOM OPEN AT 10.30AM ET. JOIN US, SEE LINK ABOVE!
News at 8.30am ET. Plus news related to the war in Ukraine may move markets at any time.
Indexes: mean reversion mode
Currencies: 6E, 6B short setups
Commodities: potential long setup on HG
9am ET update:
FOR THE TRADING DAY OF Friday, 2022 02 25
News at 8.30am ET
Indexes: mean reversion mode
Currencies: 6E 1R hit, setting up for next leg down, also 6B. MBT: the importance of 1R
Commodities: GC, SI, CL exhaustion
Financials: excellent shorts setting up
Agriculturals: ZC/ZS exhaustion
8am ET update: potential measured move on the indexes
FOR THE TRADING DAY OF thursday, 2022 02 24
News at 8.30am ET
Indexes: as expected
Currencies: 6E short triggers
Commodities: GC expected to move, CL long in progress
Agriculturals: ZC/ZS/ZW as expected, and more
9am ET update:
FOR THE TRADING DAY OF Wednesday, 2022 02 23
No News.
Indexes: 2000 broken on RTY. Look to enter shorts on further breakdown (watch bearflag on 240min)
Currencies: DX sideways, looking for long on 6A
Commodities: CL no follow-through today, GC needs to break 1920, NG long move expected, but no real good setup.
Financials: monitoring for short on ZN
Agriculturals: ZC/ZS/ZW what we hope was a great day for all of us here
8am ET update:
FOR THE TRADING DAY OF tuesday, 2022 02 22
News at 9.45am, 10.00am.
Indexes: 2000 broken on RTY. Look to enter shorts on further breakdown (watch bearflag on 240min)
Currencies: DX sideways, monitoring for short breakout on 6E
Commodities: CL long in progress, GC monitoring for bullflag on daily, NG long triggered.
Agriculturals: ZC/ZS longs in progress, ZW 1R hit
9am ET update: ES: see two previous ‘crisis areas’ and major potential support levels on chart below, for reference
Monday 2022 02 21: Presidents’ Day, markets closed
We’ll be back Monday night. Please note: no Trade Room on Monday.
FOR THE TRADING DAY OF friday, 2022 02 18
News at 10.00am. Monday a holiday.
Indexes: clear bearish setup on daily RTY/NQ continues, monitoring for further breakdown
Currencies: DX sideways, monitoring for longs on 6A/6N
Commodities: CL bullflag, GC reached target on 240min, monitoring for bullflag on daily
Financials: ZN/ZB shorts setting up on daily
Agriculturals: standing by
FOR THE TRADING DAY OF thursday, 2022 02 17
News at 8.30am
Indexes: no change, monitoring price action (especially on RTY), slight bullish bias
Currencies: DX expected to move up, looking for short on 6E, long on BTC
Commodities: CL bullflag, GC pressing up
Financials: ZN/ZB shorts in progress
Agriculturals: ZC, ZS bullish setups
8am ET update:
FOR THE TRADING DAY OF wednesday, 2022 02 16
News at 8.30am, 9.15am, 10.30am, 2pm (FED) ET
Indexes: monitoring price action (especially on RTY), slight bullish bias
Currencies: 6A/6N/6E monitoring for shorts (but: DX on daily is sideways, so you may want to wait)
Commodities: CL sold off a bit, but still a bullflag
Financials: ZN/ZB shorts in progress
10am ET update: FED at 2pm, standing by.
FOR THE TRADING DAY OF tuesday, 2022 02 15
News at 8.30am ET.
Indexes: monitoring price action, no bias
Currencies: 6A/6N/6E monitoring for shorts
Commodities: CL bullflag, GC/SI advance
Financials: ZN/ZB monitoring for shorts
Agriculturals: ZC/ZS expecting breakout
9am ET update: remember what we said about BTC/equity indexes correlation in the trade room! Agressive bulls may want to pursue RTY to 2100 on further strength.
FOR THE TRADING DAY OF Monday, 2022 02 14
Trade Room at 10.30am ET. Click above to join us!
No News.
Indexes: monitoring price action, see video for details
Currencies: 6E waiting for short setups, 6A/6N shorts setting up
Financials: ZN/ZB monitoring for further shorts
Agriculturals: ZW long setup
8am ET update:
FOR THE TRADING DAY OF friday, 2022 02 11
No News.
Indexes: bulls failed in Thursday pm session. Range-bound, bearish potential on RTY, NQ, monitoring
Currencies: 6E long setup, but wait for clear break, monitoring for short on 6J
Commodities: GC, CL long setups
Financials: ZN/ZB 1R shorts completed
Agriculturals: ZC previous high tested on daily
9am ET update:
FOR THE TRADING DAY OF thursday, 2022 02 10
News at 8.30am ET
Indexes: not so slight bullish bias, reason to be long already
Currencies: 6E long setup, 6J short breakout, bullflag on BTC
Commodities: GC/SI creep up, HG moves
Financials: ZN/ZB shorts
Agriculturals: ZC 1R reached
8.30am ET update:
FOR THE TRADING DAY OF wednesday, 2022 02 09
News at 10.30am ET (CL/HO)
Indexes: slight bullish bias
Currencies: 6E excellent long setup, 6B secondary bullflag, bullflag on BTC
Commodities: long bias on GC/SI
Financials: ZN/ZB reached/almost reached 1R
Agriculturals: ZC long has triggered
9am ET update:
FOR THE TRADING DAY OF tuesday, 2022 02 08
News at 8.30am ET.
Indexes: Conflicting clues: RTY is set up for short, which we won’t be shy to pursue if triggers. But: BTC broke out long (BTC has been correlated with equities), which may indicate risk-on mode and thus a bullish breakout.
Currencies: 6E excellent long setup, 6C expected to break out
Financials: ZN/ZB excellent short setups (in trading, setups don’t get better than these)
Agriculturals: ZC long has triggered, ZW expected to move up
8.30am ET update:
FOR THE TRADING DAY OF monday, 2022 02 07
No News.
Indexes: monitoring for clues.
Currencies: 6E: long setup, 6A, 6N: short setups
Commodities: HO, CL march on.
Financials: 1Rs reached on ZN/ZB. Wait for next bearflag.
9am ET update:
FOR THE TRADING DAY OF friday, 2022 02 04
News at 8.30am ET
Indexes: back at 50%. Expect sideways consolidation. Bearflag on RTY.
Currencies: short on BTC, longs on 6A, 6N
Commodities: HO, CL march on.
Financials: short setups on ZN/ZB
10am ET update:
FOR THE TRADING DAY OF Thursday, 2022 02 03
News at 8.30am ET
Indexes: back at 50%. Expect sideways consolidation.
Currencies: short on BTC, 6J, 6B long setups (do not overstay your welcome, DX bullflag on weekly in effect)
Commodities: HO, CL march on. 1R on NG
Agriculturals: ZS rips, ZC stopped out, may re-trigger
11am ET update:
FOR THE TRADING DAY OF wednesday, 2022 02 02
News at 10.30am ET (CL/HO)
Indexes: back at 50%. See videos for scenarios.
Currencies: short on BTC
Commodities: HO triggered, CL/NG long setup, short setups on GC/SI
Agriculturals: ZS rips, ZC triggered on 240min
8.30am ET update:
FOR THE TRADING DAY OF tuesday, 2022 02 01
News at 10am.
Indexes: back at 50%. See video for scenarios.
Currencies: 6B/6A/6N short setups
Commodities: strength continues on CL/HO
9am ET update:
