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Livesquawk & MTPredictor Calls the Dow and Oil Sell Off

Last week I did my first presentation with Ninjatrader in a few years and I was a little rusty but trading with Livesquawk and MTPredictor provided attendees with a few excellent trading ideas. News can often determine the trend and then it is lining up the news with the charts as well as the trend channel to be successful.

See Livesquawk and MTPredictor identify excellent sell recommendation on…

Ninjatrader Presentation on Trend Channel Trading- Mark Your Calendar December 3rd

Join us for an introduction to the trend channel tools available in NinjaTrader on Wednesday December 3rd. Using live market data, I will use a trend channel approach to identify entry and exit points as well as risk management tactics.

In this session, the following topics will be covered:

Learn how to identify market trends and draw trend channels

Easily spot trend channel entry and exit points

I have been fairly quiet for the past several months because I really don’t feel comfortable risking my capital on futures trades mainly because of some of the action that I noticed developing earlier this year as program trades kept stopping me out and then the trade would ultimately move in the direction I thought it would. After a few months of small losses and breakeven trades I decided to…

Technical Analysis 101: An Introduction To Reading The Market

WINvesting.comjust published the first of a series of articles. While most of the followers of my site are experienced traders, my articles are designed to introduce technical analysis to traders and investors looking to learn how to incorporate chart studies into their trading and investment decision making process. We plan on releasing articles every four to six weeks to help you to gradually…

Is it time to go away in May?

Usually it is time to go away in May as historically speaking the bulk of the returns generated in the equities markets usually occur between the months of November and April. While I am not pounding the table to sell and get short, I am interested in the Fed’s spin job today. I can’t see what they can say that will ignite real growth. The earnings growth in the Obama “hope and change” years has…

Go Away in May? Time to get a Putin Put? Trillion Euro QE EU?

Typically the majority of returns in the equity markets are earned between December and April and it is often best to go away in May. The markets look tired with the sector rotation out of the NASDAQ and Russell Small Caps and into the Dow and S&P500 big cap stocks. This development is usually an indication that the long only investor is looking for safety in the big cap names in the Dow and the…

Yellen’s first FOMC Day! The Next Bubble Blower?

    Usually I like to identify trends about an hour after the FOMC release as well as a couple of days after the information has been disseminated. However, I really don’t have a feel for what she is going to say that is any different than her student Ben Bernanke. My guess is the teacher will probably continue to blow the bubble that her student started but we shall see what comes of it. I might…

Rebirth of the Cold War Plus Reduced Forecasts for China Equals…..

I have posted this several times and will reiterate that the markets are due it is just a matter of time. Not sure if I can trust any of the moves since the markets should have sold off due to the situation in Ukraine, the poor data coming out of China as well as the fact that the earnings and economic data that have been engineered by Quantitative Easing (QE3) are simply unsustainable. As much…

Bull Market Fibs?

So far January was interesting as the equities indexes ran up at the beginning of the month that…

The Bull Market Playbook 2014! No Bull!

2014 is here and the question is “what is next?” Last year we saw a major run up in equities and a…

Merry Christmas & A Happy New Year!

  The past few months I suggested getting long equity indexes about an hour after the FOMC minutes. My thinking is that we may have had our shakeout again to suck in foolish shorts while stopping out the weak longs. Bernanke has already telegraphed that…

FOMC Fireworks Week!

Last month gave us the breakout on the daily charts on the Dow Jones Mini Futures. So be very…