3/5/2012 One of the earlier articles I wrote for this blog was titled: Trading strategies that work: Trading false breakouts. This is really a continuation of that article using examples from this past week. These examples will use analysis (and in one case) a trading setup we described in the NAS Trading subscriber service. Lets ...…
One thing I have noticed is that traders and speculators tend to be “big idea” people. We like to think about the future and how it “might turn out” and also the past, wondering “what might have been”. In many cases the connection between past and future is bridged by our current market positions, or ...…
2/22/2012 In our recent article, “Multiple time frame analysis: Day trading after a breakout day” We provided two templates or “road maps” for how to day-trade a market the day after it has had a powerful breakout on a daily time frame: and Last night, Gold and Sugar were perfectly set up to use this ...…
In our February 14th trading NAS Trading blueprint report, we highlighted the following trade opportunity: “Lets revisit the EUR.CAD trade: Short around 1.3180 area, stop loss around yesterday’s high (1.3255 area). Ideally we would like to see a retest of the 1.30 level for a swing position profit, so at least for now our intended ...…
Multiple time frame analysis should start by assessing the larger time frame. Lets take a look at a trade setup that we highlighted this week in the NAS Trading service: A low volatility breakout setup in March Sugar. Lets look at the chart we posted: We use ADX and and a metric I call relative ...…
Here is a nice example of a trade that we had this week in the NAS Trading service. As I stated in the report: “After a dynamic swing up since mid December, the market has begun to map out trading range, as short term volatility and range has expanded. yesterday saw a narrow range day ...…
Wednesday, November 30, 2011 It appears that the Fed took today’s action in an effort to lower the Libor rate, which is the cost of borrowing dollars held by overseas banks. What is remarkable about the “fed swap line” is that it is a technique for the Fed to lend money to financial institutions that ...…
A large opening gap should tip the trader off that the first two hours of the day might be unusually volatile and provide excellent trading opportunities. The question for the trader is: Will the momentum continue in the direction of the gap, or will it fill? Getting this correct can spell large profits for the ...…
This trade combines an understanding how other traders trade with a quantified study of daily price behavior. We know from one of our member-only studies that the best time to trade breakouts in the emini contract is after a morning gap up “surprises” the market. Well, it turns out this same setup works very well ...…
Lets start by considering what futures contracts actually represent, and what backwardation and contango mean. (By the way, stick with me on this. It might seem a bit dry, but if you are new to trading futures contracts or commodity ETFs, It should vastly expand your knowledge in just 10 minutes). At the end I ...…
Today’s 2% decline after the prior two weeks extreme rally has the media’s talking heads in a tizzy. Supposedly, euro zone fears have cropped up again and have sent traders scurrying for cover. Is there any reality at all to this story? At NAS Trading, we think such stories are mostly hogwash. If the market is ...…
If you have read my report, “the 12 biggest mistakes that traders make” (see the opt-in box our home page) you know that one of the mistakes I list is over-focusing on relatively arbitrary things like chart settings. Yet are chart settings always arbitrary? Actually, if done correctly they are not. There IS a right ...…
