Posted 7:23 a.m. The Emini opened with a big gap up, but quickly sold off to a new low and it had trading range price action. Although today can still be a trend day, and the Emini is close to the bear trend line above, this type of price action increases the chances that today […]
Intraday market update: September 8, 2015
Emini weekend update: September 5, 2015:
Candlestick pattern is a head and shoulders top
Monthly S&P500 Emini futures candlestick chart: More sideways to down likely The monthly S&P500 Emini futures candlestick chart finally pulled back to the moving average after 38 months above it. The monthly S&P500 Emini futures candlestick chart pulled back to the moving average after an extreme buy climax. The two prior times in the past 50 […]
Intraday market update: September 4, 2015
Learn how to trade the markets in a sell climax
Posted 7:20 a.m. The Emini opened with a big gap down, but it lacked momentum initially in either direction. This is trading range behavior. The Emini is oversold and the odds are that it will have at least a couple of hours of sideways to up trading today, but it needs a bottom. Yesterday was […]
Intraday market update: September 3, 2015
Candlestick pattern is an island bottom
Posted 7:15 a.m. The Emini gapped up and formed a 2 day island bottom. The initial rally closed the gap down on the daily chart. However, there were no consecutive big bull bars and many bars had tails on top. This is trading range price action. Although the Emini is Always In Long, this rally […]
Intraday market update: September 2, 2015
Learn how to trade a test of support
Posted 7:31 a.m. The Emini opened with a gap up, but reversed down just below yesterday’s high and entered a tight trading range. It was Always In Short from the 1st bar and the bull reversal attempts were not enough to change it. The bulls wanted an opening reversal up from support, like the moving […]
Intraday market update: September 1, 2015
Day trading strategy when the candlestick pattern is a gap down
Posted 7:08 a.m. The Emini began with a trend from the open bull trend after a big gap down to the midpoint of the sell entries on the daily chart for the scale in bears. However, 5 of the 1st 6 bars had prominent tails, which is trading range price action. The next downside target […]
Intraday market update: August 31, 2015
Learn how to trade the markets in a bear rally
Posted 7:40 a.m. The Emini began with a trend from the open bear trend, but there were many reversal attempts in the selloff and the bulls closed every micro gap down. This was a breakout below yesterday’s a tight trading range and therefore it was not likely to fall far. The bears stalled at the […]
Emini weekend update: August 29, 2015:
Learn how to trade trading range price action
Monthly S&P500 Emini futures candlestick chart: Finally pulled back to the moving average The monthly S&P500 Emini futures candlestick chart pulled back to the moving average and found “20 gap bar bulls”. Will this be more like October 2000 or October 2014? The monthly S&P500 Emini futures candlestick chart found 20 gap bar bulls at […]
Intraday market update: August 28, 2015
Learn how to trade a buy climax
Posted 7:17 a.m. The Emini opened with tight trading range price action, which is breakout mode and a limit order market. Traders had to be patient. The magnet above was yesterday’s high. The magnets below were the moving average, the bottom of the final channel up at the end of yesterday at around 1966, the […]
Intraday market update: August 27, 2015
Price action patterns in a trading range
Posted 7:15 a.m. The Emini opened above yesterday’s high and formed an island bottom on the daily chart. It also went above the top of the gap (Friday’s low), but turned down. After 4 consecutive bear bars and a buy climax test of resistance, the Emini became Always In Short. However, the bull channel from […]
