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Actionable market insight for technically motivated directional traders

  • 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.

  • 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 also post updates as necessary during the day (see 'intraday' folder).

  • 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.

  • 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'.

Please note: instead of the live trade rooms, we’ll upload one video about an important aspect of successful trading weekly or as warranted, solely for Premium subscribers. Send in your comments or questions you’d like to be covered in this new video series. Put “Premium videos” in the subject line. Thanks!

Futures, foreign currency and options trading contains substantial risk and is not for every investor. An investor could potentially lose all or more than the initial investment. Risk capital is money that can be lost without jeopardizing one's financial security or lifestyle. Only risk capital should be used for trading and only those with sufficient risk capital should consider trading. Past performance is not necessarily indicative of future results.

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US Futures at a glance

Note: IB 1 = inside bar (daily), IB 2 = two consecutive inside bars. LT = long tail. Data supplied by Remek! Inside Bar.

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FOR THE TRADING DAY OF tuesday, 2026 01 13

News - Options Expiry Calendar

Great opportunities continue!

Indexes: long in progress RTY (and the other three)
Currencies: standing by, bullish bias on 6E
Commodities: HG 1R hit, long in progress on CL, long on GC, SI, PL, PA
Financials: standing by
Agriculturals: standing by

FOR THE TRADING DAY OF Monday, 2026 01 12

News - Options Expiry Calendar

Indexes: long in progress RTY
Currencies: standing by, bullishg bias
Commodities: HG 1R hit, long in progress on CL, long on GC, SI, PL, PA
Financials: standing by
Agriculturals: standing by

FOR THE TRADING DAY OF friday, 2026 01 09

News - Options Expiry Calendar

Indexes: long in progress RTY
Currencies: standing by
Commodities: long in progress on CL
Financials: standing by
Agriculturals: standing by

FOR THE TRADING DAY OF Thursday, 2026 01 08

News - Options Expiry Calendar

Indexes: long in progress RTY
Currencies: standing by
Commodities: long bias on CL, long setup on GC
Financials: standing by
Agriculturals: standing by

FOR THE TRADING DAY OF Monday, 2026 01 05

News - Options Expiry Calendar

Indexes: bullish bias on YM, RTY
Currencies: standing by
Commodities: standing by, long bias on CL
Financials: standing by
Agriculturals: standing by

FOR THE TRADING DAY OF Monday, 2026 01 05

News - Options Expiry Calendar

Ready for 2026? Allow me a few thoughts to start the year:

  • I’m sharing with you the opportunities I identify as we prepare for each trading day of the year. Wherever possible, with exact entry, target and stop locations. (If you don’t see these on a given chart, it’s because I’m still waiting for a few more candles to close.

  • The methodology is strictly rule-based and is described in everything we have been doing since 2011. Very little fine-tuning has been necessary over the years.

  • What level of automation do I use? That depends on the given trade. I mostly use BT (full automation) when I enter on smaller than 240min charts. (Note: even if I enter on a smaller than 240min chart, I still trade the 240min chart! I merely use the smaller chart to finetune the entry.) I use PRO STR for trades on the daily chart, which may last longer (a week or more). I use BTX for research and statistical work on the weekends.

  • I trade the 240min chart in a daily context. This means the daily chart must be cooperating with the 240min trade idea, or at least not be against it. Why the 240min, why not some smaller chart? Because in my testing, the smaller the timeframe, the more the noise. And we can’t make money in noise (noise being a synonym for randomness.)

  • Why do I trade this timeframe? Because that’s the one that makes me money. Remember, most vendors and certainly all brokers do not care if you make money or not. They will tell you to do what seems painless and easy, so you buy stuff and keep paying commission. We are different, I don’t lie to you, I don’t have to. My ROI in 2025 was 76% (I know it’s mostly metals and the indexes, but so what), and the preceding three years were also convincingly above the 8% baseline drift. (Which is what you make if you just put your money into SPY long term, and do not trade.) That is correct: what we do here works, and I know it because now I have 4 years of live results. (Not to mention the years of paper-trading and the many years of backtesting results.)

  • Trading success requires that you verify, with your own work, every claim I make (or anyone makes). Do not believe anything anyone says. Verify claims with your own hard work. (Most traders already fail at this point. Laziness? Who knows.)

  • I can tell you the entry, target and stop. What I cannot tell you, because only you know, is the size. 1 contract? 10 contracts? 1 micro? ETF? Only you know. Because only you know your account size and your life, and your mind. What I can say as a general rule: do not risk more than 3% of your account size at any one time. (Other people will tell you otherwise, e.g. 20% and such nonsense. The decision is yours. Just don’t tell me I didn’t tell you.

  • Trailing stops: important part of our edge. Reading our website (blog, software documentation, Premium documentation, forum), watch our videos, we discussed trailing stops many times over the years.

  • There are a million books about trading. Most of them useless. A few are good, even required. As a university lecturer, I used AHG’s excellent book for my classes, and this is the best book about trading (and I’ve read them all). You should also have Mark Douglas’s books, required reading. And also Aronson’s book, to internalize the scientific thinking, without which success in trading, it being a numbers game, is not possible.

  • Now you will notice that our methodology is embodied in our software: PRO STR, BT, and BTX. And we have 9 indicators. We basically coded our favourite books into code. Why? Because I have found, over a ten year period, that the concept works. Read AHG’s book. We put that book into software code, basically. You are privileged to have access to this work.

  • After 15 years, I also know that Ed Seykota was right: whether you’re in the 90% losing majority, or the 10% winning minority in the markets, is totally up to you. It’s a decision. I know it’s hard to believe. I didn’t believe it either. But trading for so many years has changed my mind. Success in this business is a decision.

  • So why are most traders not successful? I’d hate to generalize, but I tend to believe it’s simply laziness, inability to focus, and most importantly, the refusal to take responsibility. If you change those three around, you’ll be, most likely, in the 10%. That’s my experience, anyway.

  • Lastly: you must enjoy this. You must enjoy looking at charts, following the markets, the never-ending dance of price, you must enjoy deciphering the movement of the crowd, you must enjoy statistics at least a little, you must enjoy hopping on Excel to get some answers, you must enjoy being disciplined, you must enjoy building wealth, helping your loved ones, leaving a legacy. You get the picture…

  • Start reading the Forum, becoming a pro in all the secrets of the trade, our trade, can only make you a better trader.

  • If you have any questions, write to me. I want you to succeed, and I can help, in groups or one on one, for free or for a fee. All I ask is: commit to your own success.

  • Ok, enough of the big words, good luck in 2026!

  • GENERAL NOTE: closely watching the markets, in the wake of the latest international events. Keep an eye on our intraday folder. The task is the same as always: we are driven by price action, and we wait for the best opportunities. Right now, we’re standing by.

    Indexes: bullish bias on YM, RTY
    Currencies: standing by
    Commodities: standing by, long bias
    Financials:     standing by
    Agriculturals: standing by

Futures, foreign currency and options trading contains substantial risk and is not for every investor. An investor could potentially lose all or more than the initial investment. Risk capital is money that can be lost without jeopardizing one's financial security or lifestyle. Only risk capital should be used for trading and only those with sufficient risk capital should consider trading. Past performance is not necessarily indicative of future results.