Stan Nabozny

Stan is a 20 year retail trading veteran, CTA (Commodity Trading Advisor) and Co-Founder of The Art of Chart. His specialties include using futures and options to trade Energies, Precious Metals, Equities, Currencies, Bonds, Softs, Grains and other commodities. Stan believes that Risk Management and Trader Psychology are more important that technical analysis and spends his time teaching and coaching other traders on these topics. Stan uses various trading systems and technical analysis approaches that integrate time and price in his work. See his latest articles here and www.huffingtonpost.com.

Friday Update – Opportunities and Unaligned Trades

On this website, Jack and I attempt to position what we call "aligned trades" - or more simply put, when everything lines up (price, structure and time) you have an edge and a heck of a trade. Not all trades are aligned and sometimes you have conflicting signals, like today. Cycle charts and other time...

Wednesday Update – In the Low Window in Indexes and Gold

Today's update covers SPX, ES, RUT, Oil, USD, Gold and a cycle chart on the indexes. [embed]https://vimeo.com/134809016[/embed] SPX - So far so good . . . Have hit the lows expected in Chart Chat in SPX and RUT and looking for a three wave sequence back test - need a marginal new high before we...

Chart Chat for July 26th

Below is the video Jack and I just recorded for Chart Chat for July 26th. This is a one hour video and it covers Indexes, Bonds, Currencies, Energies, Precious Metals and Sugar. We had some kind of technical difficulty as we asked for questions at the end and did not see any. Some of you...

Friday Update – Indexes, Oil, Gold and USD

This Friday Update focuses on two indexes, RUT, SPX, ES, Oil, Gold and USD. [embed]https://vimeo.com/134378618[/embed] SPX - Test of the Monthly pivot at 2083 or key fib at 2079 coming soon. From there a backtest and then lower. We had a thrust out of a triangle to form the B wave, more downside than the...

Wednesday Update – SPX, RUT, Oil, USD and Gold

Today the Wednesday update focuses on the usual suspects and I speak a little about trading, setups and managing risk. Hopefully this answers the question asked in the comments section about setups.? Video is a little long as a result. Will split next time into two videos. [embed]https://vimeo.com/134174916[/embed] SPX - Hit the 5-1 target and...

Chart Chat to Launch this Sunday – July 26th

Jack and I are kicking off Chart Chat for members of this website this Sunday, July 26th at 4:00pm EST. Chart Chat is a one hour live video review of the markets that we plan to do on a weekly basis for members of this site. We cover an hour of Indexes, Energies, Currencies, Bonds,...

Monday Update – Three Videos – Regular Update, International Indexes and Gold

Three videos this evening - the regular Monday update, a special update on international indexes and a special update on Gold as our first target has been hit. Monday Update [embed]https://vimeo.com/133943486[/embed] SPX - Near a turn, expecting marginal higher prices or the high from Friday could be it. RSI divergence is a MUST WATCH -...

Friday Update – Covering the Usual Suspects

Today's update focuses on the usual suspects - SPX, RUT, Oil, USD and Gold. At the end of this post also find a video I promised explaining the bigger picture on SPX - was recorded two days ago but still relevant. [embed]https://vimeo.com/133725778[/embed] RUT - Clearer structure and 4th wave of flat is done, likely we...

Wednesday Update – SPX, RUT, Oil, USD and Gold

Today?s video update we focus on SPX, RUT, Oil, USD and Gold. [embed]https://vimeo.com/133521062[/embed] SPX - Watch for a pullback and support tomorrow either at the middle bollinger band around 89's or lower at the monthly pivot. If support is found, we should see the 2120-22 area. If support is not found and we break the...

Monday Update – SPX, RUT, Oil, USD and Platinum

Today's video update we focus on SPX, RUT, Oil, USD and Platinum. [embed]https://vimeo.com/133313154[/embed] SPX - Overhead resistance starts at 2083 (the monthly pivot) and continues to the daily middle band at 2088. Structure appears to be a flat which calls for a back test and higher prices before a reversal. Watch tomorrow for a test...