January 2018 – The Art Of Chart

Month: January 2018

Island Top on SPX

Well obviously SPX didn't do the higher high that I would have preferred, and this morning's gap down broke down through rising wedge support and also gapped back through the open breakaway gap up from 2839.25. This currently leaves a decent quality island top on SPX and an open breakaway gap down from 2853.53 that...

Non-Verbal Communication

I had an interesting question on my Twitter that I answered this morning, and it was in response to my tweet at the open on Friday saying that both ES and NQ had formed clear bullish triangles and that I was expecting ATH retests on both. The question was from later in the day when the ATH...

The Weekly Call – Trade Setups for the Week of January 28th

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Crypto-Currencies: Bitcoin, Litecoin and Ethereum for January 28th

Crypto-currencies are now mainstream trading instruments so and I am providing charts here on a weekly basis. I plan to cover just three cryptos: Bitcoin, Litecoin, and Ethereum. The point of this weekly post is to show the crowd psychology behind the price movement to find profitable trades among these instruments. BTC broke lower and penetrated...

February Free Webinars

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… And To Finish Monsieur, A Wafer Thin Triangle

I said on my Twitter this morning near the open that both ES and NQ had formed bullish triangles that should at minimum deliver full retests of the all-time highs on both in the near future. ES did a new all-time high this morning and NQ has now scraped a new ATH by a tick this afternoon....

Watching the SPX Rising Wedge

I posted my premarket video today as I haven't done that in a while, and in part that's because I'm not well and trying to protect my voice today, so it makes sense not to do an intraday video today. The analysis of equity indices is at the start of the video and I've left...

The Pig That Flew

ES made a higher high this morning, slightly overthrowing wedge resistance, which could need to be slightly redrawn, and then rejected into a test of wedge support, reversing back up there exactly. That has delivered the move I was looking for yesterday, but if we are really seeing something significant change, then there will need...

The Temporary Oxymoron

ES hit my preferred resistance trendline overnight and then again at the high this morning. There are now high quality rising wedges on ES, NQ, and TF and, strange as it seems to use these words in this sequence, this is the nicest short-term bear setup that I've seen in months. Looked at in detail...

Onwards and Upwards

I tend to look at any bear setups lately with a very skeptical eye, and the nice-looking nested double-top setups on ES and NQ that last week closed with didn't long survive the start of trading this morning. I posted on my Twitter before the open that there was a high-quality support trendline on ES...