options

PayPal Double Calendar

PayPal offers an interesting opportunity this week. Price appears to be forming a bullish ascending triangle on the daily chart so a long position seems warranted but there is always the potential for failure. Is there a option trade structure to minimize risk and maximize gains? Let's see what might work best in the current...

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Crypto-Currencies

Crypto-Currencies: Bitcoin, Litecoin and Ethereum for December 15th

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 — We are in a compression pattern just below the middle band and with all the announcements...

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

The Weekly Call – Trade Setups for the Week of December 8th

The Weekly Call provides perspective on high-quality setups and trading strategies focused in the Commodity world.. My current performance shows a 410% 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 8th

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 — We are testing the middle bollinger band on BTC Currently. I am expecting  it to confirm...

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options

Making Volatility Pay

This week could see several catalysts for a volatility trade including FOMC and potentially an announcement about the trade tariffs. Volatility could certainly spike higher if there is a negative surprise or it could drift lower if those news events are considered market friendly. Of course, it could also be unchanged by the end of...

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Indexes

Forming The SPX High

I was talking about mean reversion in my post at the weekend and that was well timed, with the first spike down on Monday. The daily RSI 5 sell signal fixed and reached target and there was the first sustained break under the SPX 50 hour MA since the cross back above that in the...

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Commodities, Energy, precious metals, Softs

The Weekly Call – Trade Setups for the Week of December 1st

The Weekly Call provides perspective on high-quality setups and trading strategies focused in the Commodity world.. My current performance shows a 411% 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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Indexes

Coming Soon – Mean Reversion

I've been talking in my last few posts about expecting a significant high at the end of November, to be followed by a downward cycle into April 2020, and here we are at the end of November, so how's that looking here? Well as it happens a rare and significant event happened at the close...

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Crypto-Currencies

Crypto-Currencies: Bitcoin, Litecoin and Ethereum for December 1st

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 — Trend line break to the upside and a possible turn here. The retracement wave is likely...

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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.     Sunday, December 8th, 2019 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM EDT Free Chart Chat - Live Technical Review of Trading Opportunities Chart Chat is a live review of setups and patterns in over 30...

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