COVID-19, Indexes

Annus Horribilis

Occasionally there is a year so awful that nothing seems to go right. The title phrase was first used in a Church of England publication in 1870, the year that papal infallibility was declared, Prussia invaded France, Italy annexed Rome, Lenin was born and the US weather service made their first official forecast. 2020 is...

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Autotrade, Commodities, Energy, Front Page, Grains, precious metals, Softs

The Weekly Call – Trade Setups for the Week of December 6th

The Weekly Call provides perspective on high-quality setups and trading strategies focused in the Commodity world.. My current performance shows a 430% 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....

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Crypto-Currencies

Crypto-Currencies: Bitcoin, Litecoin and Ethereum for December 6th

I plan to cover just three cryptos every week in this post: Bitcoin, Litecoin, and Ethereum. These instruments provide trading opportunities with out sized gains. I hope the analysis presented here helps you profit in these instruments. BTCUSD — Retesting the high and RSI has already indicated the decline for a retest has started. Likely...

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Chart Chat, Indexes

Topping Trendlines

I was saying in my last post on Monday that a retest of the high looked likely and we saw new all time highs on both SPX and NDX as expected. So what now? Well the best pattern on the board on Monday was the rising wedge on the Dow, and that is still looking...

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Indexes, Long Term View

Thanksgiving Thoughts – Shorter Term

November is about to end and SPX is likely at the time of writing to do something not previously done in the last twenty five years, which is to close a long way above the monthly upper band, currently 3566 area, only three months above the last strong punch close above in August. What does...

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Free Webinars

December Free Webinars

  We provide free webinars and education to support traders in developing skills in technical analysis, risk management, and trading psychology.   Memberships include free access to our TRADER EDUCATION LIBRARY with years of educational materials and access to our PRIVATE TWITTER FEED with levels and signals for Day Trading. CLICK HERE to join our...

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Autotrade, Commodities, Energy, Front Page, Grains, precious metals, Softs

The Weekly Call – Trade Setups for the Week of November 29th

The Weekly Call provides perspective on high-quality setups and trading strategies focused in the Commodity world.. My current performance shows a 430% 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....

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Crypto-Currencies

Crypto-Currencies: Bitcoin, Litecoin and Ethereum for November 29nd

I plan to cover just three cryptos every week in this post: Bitcoin, Litecoin, and Ethereum. These instruments provide trading opportunities with out sized gains. I hope the analysis presented here helps you profit in these instruments. BTCUSD — Per last week, the marginal higher high played out to reset neg D on RSI and...

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Front Page, options

A Better Way to Trade

Trading is hard. That’s not breaking news. We all know that. The hardest part of trading for most is once in a trade when to exit. Often a trade is initially profitable only to have it reverse and take back all of the profits and then some. After that experience it’s easy to exit a...

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Indexes, Long Term View

Thanksgiving Thoughts – Longer Term

I was going to do a longer post today but I've decided to split the post in two, covering the longer term in this post and looking shorter term in a follow up post to be published tomorrow. In my last post I was looking, among other things, at the SPX monthly chart and noting...

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