September 2018 – The Art Of Chart

Month: September 2018

The Weekly Call – Trade Setups for the Week of Sept 30th

The Weekly Call provides perspective on high-quality setups and trading strategies. Our current performance shows a 301% return since October 2016. The purpose of this blog is to demonstrate how to swing trade futures using our methodology to select high-quality setups and manage the trade with our risk management approach. Last week I was stopped...

Crypto-Currencies: Bitcoin, Litecoin and Ethereum for September 30th

Crypto-currencies are now mainstream trading instruments. I am providing charts in this blog 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 support high-quality trades. BTCUSD — No change in forecast. Not...

FOMC Day

So far the scenario I was laying out on Friday has been playing out perfectly with the two red days at the start of this week, and SPX backtesting obvious trend support at the 50 hour MA twice. SPX didn't quite retest Monday's low yesterday, so the double bottom setup here isn't perfect but SPX...

The Weekly Call – Trade Setups for the Week of Sept 23rd

Crypto-Currencies: Bitcoin, Litecoin and Ethereum for September 23rd

The Wicked Witch Of the West

Looking at the average rises and falls on SPX from the start since 1997, the most bearish straight sequence of days of the year are the six days from 19th September through 25th September. Within those six days, usually including the September quadruple witching, the lowest percentage of positive closes is 23rd September at 26.67%...

The Weekly Call – Trade Setups for the Week of Sept 16th

The Weekly Call provides perspective on high-quality setups and trading strategies. Our current performance shows a 290% return since October 2016. The purpose of this blog is to demonstrate how to swing trade futures using our methodology to select high-quality setups and manage the trade with our risk management approach. This week I am focused...

Crypto-Currencies: Bitcoin, Litecoin and Ethereum for September 16th

Looking For A Retracement Low

Since I was writing on Friday the bull flag megaphone has broken up, a rising wedge formed on ES into yesterday's high, and then that wedge broke down with the obvious target at a retest of the retracement low. So far however this has delivered higher lows on SPX and ES, and ES is again...

The Weekly Call – Trade Setups for the Week of Sept 9th

The Weekly Call provides perspective on high-quality setups and trading strategies. Our current performance shows a 280% return since October 2016. The purpose of this blog is to demonstrate how to swing trade futures using our methodology to select high-quality setups and manage the trade with our risk management approach. This week I am focused...