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Daily Trading Video – Sept 28, 2012

Learn to Day-Trade the Emini S&P and Euro Futures – live with a full-time trader.

This video is designed for educational purposes only and to show some of our trade plan setups to reinforce our daily trade plan review.

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Good evening traders, this is Brian with TraderShark.com, an educational website to learn how to trade the emini S&P futures. Today is Friday, September 28th, 2012.
 
The market opened up this morning at 1435.5 represented by this white dotted line. We generally don’t trade from 9:30 to 9:45. It’s a period of choppiness and the bulls and the bears trying to determine who’s going to take control today. I did actually have, the one exception to the rule is we’ll take a trade in the direction of the half gap fill if it sets up. It did set up in this case, however I didn’t have a momentum indicator with me and as a result I took a full stop out. So I know a lot of people had been expecting me to get caught one of these days. And I did. I got a full stop out here, minus 16 ticks. But you can’t let that affect you. You got to go on for the rest of the day.
 
Coming out of the no trade zone here at 9:45 we had a nice opportunity to get short. I did not get into this. I was pretty much waiting to see how price action was going to materialize. We just came after a 9:45 news report and then we’re going into a consumer sentiment report at 9:55, so I didn’t want to play around that close to the news reports.
 
Coming out of the 10:00 timeframe we blew through our moving average. Pulled back. Another opportunity to get long. Got target 1 off. Got stopped out for minus 2 ticks. As we continued on we saw price action drop below the moving averages. Now we had a trend break. So our trendline should be 2 ticks and 8 ticks. And in this case I scaled out a little bit early for 2 ticks and 6. Took a total of 8 ticks on that trade.
 
And as we continued forward, you notice how price action just kind of continued to revolve around this moving average. So we had a nice little wedge forming. Okay, we don’t know what’s going on on the right-hand side of the screen. But there’s 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, touches and then a breakout. We weren’t really sure whether this was a fake out break out or not, you know, it came back up and taught. We had a kiss good bye here for a continuation to the downside. Another setup on a momentum indicator. Went short. Did a little bit of flinching. No targets hit. And you know what, I just, bottom line is I got scared out. I didn’t feel comfortable with this sideways movement and the chop that I saw with other indicators. So I flattened out for zero. If I held on, probably would have hit my target 1 and target 2.
 
Our no trade zone is from 11:30 until 1:15 Eastern Standard Time. Now I call it a no trade zone. I don’t trade in it. However, our indicators set up and are still successful. So I’m not trading it. If you choose to trade it that’s a prerogative. I want you to see a nice break through the moving averages. Pullback. Continuation. And this thing just took off.
 
Coming out of the no trade zone the continuation to the upside was quite apparent, but there was no pullbacks so it really didn’t give me an opportunity to get in. I was looking to get long in through here. However, we started to get bordered by the clock and I do watch the clock. At 2:00 we take no further long positions we want to be out of any long positions by 2:00. Found a nice clean setup here. Momentum gave us a nice wave trade setup. Target 1 and target 2 were hit. In this particular case 4 ticks on the first target, 8 ticks on the second target. Total of 12 ticks with 2 contracts.
 
Broke through to the downside. Had a little bit of a pullback. Thought we may have an extension. Target 1 was hit, got stopped out for minus 2 ticks. As we continued on into the day each one of these met with pullbacks, which stay below the moving averages. Pullback. Stay below the moving averages. You could have scalped out coming back through getting ready to go into the close of the day breaking through. Working our way right back towards opening price. When you’re in within 1 point of opening price you know that just tends to be a choppy timeframe. And we close up the week.
 
I want to thank you for watching. To learn more about these and more advanced trade setups or to get a copy of the Trader Shark trading manual, please visit TraderShark.com. Thank you. Have a great weekend and I’ll see you on Monday morning.
 
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Daily Trading Video – Sept 26, 2012

Learn to Day-Trade the Emini S&P and Euro Futures – live with a full-time trader.

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Good evening traders, this is Brian with TraderShark.com, an educational website to learn how to trade the emini S&P futures. Today is Wednesday, September 26th, 2012.
 
The market opened up this morning here at 1435.25 represented by this white line. 1435 was actually yesterday’s low, so we were aware of this level up here. Price action came out outside the no trade zone. First 15 minutes of the day we don’t generally trade.
 
Didn’t really have any opportunities to get in until right here about 10:20. Had an opportunity to get short. Target 1 and target 2 were hit, so depending on your entry you could have gotten anywhere from plus 9 to plus 12 ticks on that particular trade.
 
We then found support at 1427.50. Nice little bounce for 4 ticks. Two ticks and 4 ticks were our profit targets. And then quickly get back on it. Target 1 and target 2 for a total of 8 ticks to the downside. We then had a nice little bounce off the bottom. We really probably should have waited for our price action to get above this particular moving average. Did not. Got target 1 off and got stopped out a total of minus 2. Plus 2 and minus 4 for minus 2 ticks.
 
Price action continued on into the no trade zone from 11:30 until 1:15 Eastern Standard Time. Coming out of the no trade zone did not have any other opportunities. Kind of wrapped around this moving average. We did see selling pressure going into the close. Couple other opportunities. We even had a shorting opportunity right here. It was pretty choppy in the afternoon.
 
To learn more about these and more advanced trade setups or to get a copy of the Trader Shark trading manual, please visit TraderShark.com. Thank you and we’ll see you in the Shark Den in the morning.
 
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Trading Futures, Options on Futures, and retail off-exchange foreign currency transactions involves substantial risk of loss and is not suitable for all investors. You should carefully consider whether trading is suitable for you in light of your circumstances, knowledge, and financial resources. You may lose all or more of your initial investment. Opinions, market data, and recommendations are subject to change at any time. Past performance is not an indication of future results.

Daily Trading Video – Sept 25, 2012

Learn to Day-Trade the Emini S&P and Euro Futures – live with a full-time trader.

This video is designed for educational purposes only and to show some of our trade plan setups to reinforce our daily trade plan review.

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Good evening traders, this is Brian with TraderShark.com, an educational website to learn how to trade the emini S&P futures. Today is Tuesday, September 25th, 2012.
 
The market opened up this morning here at 1454 where the white dotted line is. I want you to notice we generally don’t trade from 9:30 until 9:45. Just a period of higher volatility. Coming out we really didn’t see much movement. A nice little break to the upside. Pullback. It was going into a Shark band, so I didn’t take this trade. But it was a nice clean setup. You see that wave trade indicator here.
 
Price action still continued the sideways motion, so we were kind of riding right through this entire Shark band. Let’s see if maybe I can show you a screenshot of that. Right here you can see the first part of the morning, they appeared to want to selloff and then just ran sideways. And kind of got stuck in the middle of this upper Shark band. The next Shark band cut through like butter. Found resistance. Continuation. And then you saw a little bit of a bounce. Not much. All the other market internal indicators were just indicating pure bearishness. Now one should have tried to buy in through here. And then worked its way down. Finally found support on the third Shark band and even broke through that third before 4:00.
 
So the reason I showed you that was notice this sideways movement. You know, even a break below the moving average trend to get short, you don’t want to do that into the opening range. A break above the moving average. Pullback. Nice. It was actually 2 opportunities to get long. But kept our profit targets really tight. This was just from the past couple weeks that we’ve seen sideways choppiness. We kept our stops very tight and our profit targets very tight.
 
Then we went into the no trade zone. Now I want to let you know here we don’t trade. We don’t enter any new trades. I just want you to see we had a nice sell signal in the no trade zone and a continuation to the downside. Again, below the moving averages.
 
Coming out of the no trade zone the pressure was still to the downside. We had good news this morning, right. Housing stock prices were up. Consumer confidence was up. Nobody was expecting this. And it was the exact reason why we had the selloff. Look at these red dots below the moving averages. Red dots below the moving averages. Just continue to have bearish pressure to the downside. I was not here about this time, I had an appointment. So hopefully some traders inside the room were able to take advantage of these down moves.
 
This may have gotten a reduced risk stop out. Continuation. Continuation. Continuation. Look at the red dots. Just everything firing off. This is a yellow, this is one we talked about but I did not take it, it just happened so fast. Continuation. Look at our green dots. They’re below the moving averages. You don’t take the green dots. No waves to the long side.
 
And we had one nice clean, some people would have gotten in here. Taken a little bit of heat. A little bit of pressure. Finally a nice selloff for 15 ticks into the close. And then the pressure just continued to the downside. So the biggest thing that we learned today was really patience. Watch your market internals. And when not to be going long. You can be short and hold onto a short position, but with all of our market internals telling us don’t get in long you don’t want to try and call a bottom. Calling a bottom is devastating to your financial account.
 
To learn more about these and more advanced trade setups or to get a copy of the Trader Shark trading manuals, please visit TraderShark.com. Thank you and I’ll see you in the Shark Den in the morning.
 
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Daily Trading Video – Sept 24, 2012

Learn to Day-Trade the Emini S&P and Euro Futures – live with a full-time trader.

This video is designed for educational purposes only and to show some of our trade plan setups to reinforce our daily trade plan review.

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Good evening traders, this is Brian with TraderShark.com, an educational website to learn how to trade the emini S&P futures. Today is Monday, September 24th, 2012.
 
The market opened up at 1446 represented by this white dotted line. We generally don’t trade from 9:30 to 9:45. We have one exception, that’s if we get a trade in the direction of the gap fill. In this case it pulled back. We generally don’t trade around opening price. In this particular case it was a nice setup. We went long for target 1 and target 2 for a total of 7 ticks.
 
Then there’s a nice little pullback. Found support again on our opening price for a continuation. Break through the moving average for a continuation. Target 1 and target 2 hit for a total of 8 ticks. Then this was kind of a stretch. I generally don’t take more than 2 trades in the direction of the trend. In this particular case target 1 was hit, got stopped out for minus 2 ticks.
 
There was an opportunity here to get short. I did not get it. You can see the red dot wave trade coming in right there. I did not take it. Took a little bit of heat, but target 1 and target 2 would have been hit. I colored it in yellow because that’s a trade that I did not take.
 
From 11:30 until 1:15 Eastern Standard Time notice the narrowness of this range. Buying was kind of light today. Coming out of the no trade zone price action worked its way through the moving average. No pullbacks whatsoever. But we do talk about this in the Shark Den. It’s called a Shark Attack trade. If anybody got on this, now I colored it in yellow. Of all the times I was away from the computer. And, you know, it’s old Murphy’s Law. I came back and I said, what happened. Well, we talked about this at about 11:00 this morning. I told everybody where the targets would be if we had a break of this Shark level. And the targets were 1452.5 and 1454.5. Again I came in after it had already hit the second target of 1454.5. So I did not get in on that trade, but it did yield a nice Shark Attack trade of 2 points and 4 points.
 
You know, there’s a nice strong bullish push. And just like you see in a marathon runner after a long run the market will go sideways. So I’m not expecting to get any trades after that run up. There was pressure to the downside. Look at where we’re getting our red wave dot signal. Red wave dot signal. Can’t take it because you’re above the moving averages. Another red wave dot signal. Possibly until we broke through for a pullback right in here just before we go into our last no trade zone of the day at 3:50 or 10 minutes to 4 Eastern Standard Time. We have a rule that you don’t trade in a no trade zone.
 
This is where you have to apply a little bit of art form, a little bit of common sense. You know, pressure, pressure, pressure. Looking for some type of pullback. Got the pullback. Got our cross continuation for the downside.
 
To learn more about these and more advanced trade setups or to get a copy of the Trader Shark trading manual, please visit TraderShark.com. Thank you and I’ll see you in the Shark Den in the morning.
 
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Trading Futures, Options on Futures, and retail off-exchange foreign currency transactions involves substantial risk of loss and is not suitable for all investors. You should carefully consider whether trading is suitable for you in light of your circumstances, knowledge, and financial resources. You may lose all or more of your initial investment. Opinions, market data, and recommendations are subject to change at any time. Past performance is not an indication of future results.

Daily Trading Video – Sept 21, 2012

Learn to Day-Trade the Emini S&P and Euro Futures – live with a full-time trader.

This video is designed for educational purposes only and to show some of our trade plan setups to reinforce our daily trade plan review.

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Good evening traders, this is Brian with TraderShark.com, an educational website to learn how to trade the emini S&P futures. Today is Friday, September 21st, 2012. The following are a few examples of trade setups that occur on a consistent basis. These trade setups are described in detail in the trading manual and in the live daily Shark Den.
 
The market opened up this morning right here at 1461.25 represented by this white solid line. We generally don’t trade from 9:30 until 9:45 Eastern Standard Time. Just a period of higher volatility, lower volume, chop. Bulls and the bears trying to decide what direction they’re going to go.
 
Coming out of the no trade zone we didn’t have any news report. We didn’t have options expiration day. And I want you to notice how price action remained within our opening range. Tried to get a little bit of a break out to the downside and we really didn’t have any conviction one way or the other. So there was no trades this morning.
 
From 11:30 until 1:15 Eastern Standard Time notice how we have a lot of sideways movement. Still no opportunities for trades. We did start to get a little bit of a breakout here to the downside. Nice little pullback. Got our first target off and got stopped out for minus 2 ticks. Not a big deal. As price action worked its way on we did have another opportunity for a pullback right there at about 3:37. We had an opportunity to get on. Target 1 and target 2 were hit. Went right into the no trade zone. Closed out of our position for a pretty quiet Friday afternoon.
 
To learn more about these and more advanced trade setups or to get a copy of the Trader Shark trading manual, please visit TraderShark.com. Thank you. Have a great weekend and I’ll see you in the Shark Den on Monday morning.
 
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Trading Futures, Options on Futures, and retail off-exchange foreign currency transactions involves substantial risk of loss and is not suitable for all investors. You should carefully consider whether trading is suitable for you in light of your circumstances, knowledge, and financial resources. You may lose all or more of your initial investment. Opinions, market data, and recommendations are subject to change at any time. Past performance is not an indication of future results.

Daily Trading Video – Sept 20, 2012

Learn to Day-Trade the Emini S&P and Euro Futures – live with a full-time trader.

This video is designed for educational purposes only and to show some of our trade plan setups to reinforce our daily trade plan review.

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Good evening traders, this is Brian with TraderShark.com, an educational website to learn how to trade the emini S&P futures. Today is Thursday, September 20th, 2012.
 
The market opened up this morning at 1447.75 represented by this white dotted line. We generally don’t trade from 9:30 to 9:45. Coming out of the no trade zone we did watch the market sell off a little bit. Actually the news reports were both within consensus range. So there’s no trade setups.
 
We did have a nice move through the moving average. Pullback here. An opportunity to get long. And we did take a little bit of heat, but no stop outs. Target 1 and target 2 hit for a total of 13 ticks on this particular trade.
 
We then had a setup going into what’s called a Shark Attack trade. So we had some targets up here around 8 ticks and also at 16 ticks. I had 3 different contracts running. One of the contracts I scaled out at 8 ticks. Another contract got stopped out here at break even. And the third contract we had a minus 4 ticks. And this was a long trade. Literally the Shark Attack trade can run anywhere from 5 minutes to as many as 2 to 3 hours. And it’s a period of time when they’ll stall the market sideways until you see indicators supporting a short position and then they’ll whip it up against you to the long side. We expected that all day. And again we saw a lot of chop. The market makers really geared to getting you out of good trades and into bad trades.
 
And then what did we see? We saw a nice little burst here towards the end and towards 1455, which is a monthly resistance level. And then we went into the no trade zone. And just I want you to see one last thing after the no trade zone this thing just took off up into the 1450 level.
 
To learn more about these and more advanced trade setups or to get a copy of the Trader Shark trading manual, please visit TraderShark.com. Thank you and I’ll see you in the Shark Den in the morning.
 
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Trading Futures, Options on Futures, and retail off-exchange foreign currency transactions involves substantial risk of loss and is not suitable for all investors. You should carefully consider whether trading is suitable for you in light of your circumstances, knowledge, and financial resources. You may lose all or more of your initial investment. Opinions, market data, and recommendations are subject to change at any time. Past performance is not an indication of future results.

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Good evening traders, this is Brian with TraderShark.com, an educational website to learn how to trade the emini S&P futures.
 
I’m excited to announce participation in CompassFX Online Financial Summit. We’ve got over 25 experts from trading, coaching, taxes, financial experts, entrepreneurs. You name it, they’ve got it. This is a great event. Absolutely fantastic. You have two ways to get there. You can go to my home site, TraderShark.com. Click on CompassFX Summit for September 19th through the 21st and you can go ahead and register right there. Very easy.
 
Three days. One amazing online event. Special bonuses. Free gifts. All that fun kind of stuff. I’m going to be presenting on Friday, but this is 3 days, starting September 19th through September 21st. Check this out.
 
The list is amazing. This is fantastic. Look at this group of traders all together. Right here. We’ve got Steve Marro. We’ve got Hubert Senders, John Carter. We’ve got Jim Crimmons from Traders Accounting. We’re got Harry Dent or myself. We’ve got all these people all lined up. Come join us. You won’t be disappointed. I promise.
 
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Daily Trading Video – Sept 18, 2012

Learn to Day-Trade the Emini S&P and Euro Futures – live with a full-time trader.

This video is designed for educational purposes only and to show some of our trade plan setups to reinforce our daily trade plan review.

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Good evening traders, this is Brian with TraderShark.com, an educational website to learn how to trade the emini S&P futures and the Euro futures. Today is Tuesday, September 18th, 2012.
 
You will notice that the color of the candles are different. The reason of that is it will help to distinguish between the Euro futures and the ES futures. This is actually the Euro futures. And the reason I’m showing this is we usually open up the Shark Den at around 8:30 in the morning Eastern Standard Time. The U.S. market has been running pretty much sideways lately. A lot of flat chop. And as a result we’ve been making our additional money in the Euro.
 
So again from 8:30 in the morning I like to watch it from 7:30 in the morning just depending on my time schedule. But no real trade set up until right about here at 9:14. About 9:11 we had an opportunity to get short. Target 1 and target 2 were hit for a total of 11 ticks on this particular trade. We do have traders in the room that do what’s called a trailing stop. And they held on to this for a substantial gain. However, in the trading method for the conservative traders once you get your profit targets, stop. If you have to enter again, it costs you another second set of commissions, but you get another 11 ticks right there. Target 1 and target 2 hit for a total of 11 ticks.
 
And then not much else going on. The Euro tended to go sideways. The U.S. market opened up. We had another opportunity right there about 11:08 to go long. Target 1 was hit. Got stopped out for minus 1 tick. Mostly because we have about an 8 tick target and we did not quite hit it. Got stopped out for minus 1 tick. And that was it for the Euro.
 
In the ES market or the S&P emini, we don’t trade from 9:30 until 9:45. And that market, even though a couple news reports, you can just see the sideways chop. We literally had no opportunities to get in. And for one trade right here at about 11:08. An opportunity to get long. Target 1 and target 2 hit. I indicated we had an entry somewhere around 1353.50 or better. And that was up here. And the market continued to go lower. I actually got in around 1353 even. Took the first target for 4 ticks and the second one for 9 ticks. So that it matched up with the entry at.
 
And that was pretty much it for the day. Went into the no trade zone from 11:30 to 1:15 Eastern Standard Time. And then if you crunched this up, I mean that’s just pure sideways movement right in to the close.
 
To learn more about these and more advanced trade setups, or to get a copy of the Trader Shark trading manual, please visit TraderShark.com. Thank you and I’ll see you in the Shark Den in the morning.
 
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Trading Futures, Options on Futures, and retail off-exchange foreign currency transactions involves substantial risk of loss and is not suitable for all investors. You should carefully consider whether trading is suitable for you in light of your circumstances, knowledge, and financial resources. You may lose all or more of your initial investment. Opinions, market data, and recommendations are subject to change at any time. Past performance is not an indication of future results.