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Ready for the Weekend – Trading Video – July 26, 2013


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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.
 
The market opened up this morning at 1678.00 represented by this white dotted line. We generally don’t trade from 9:30 to 9:45, yet we did have an actual pro-range reversal. It’s colored in yellow because I did not take it. Nice pullback into our moving averages. Continuation higher. We had news right here at 9:55, consumer sentiment report. It was within consensus range, so it really was pretty much of a non-market moving event.
 
Found our overhead resistance, pulled back. Overhead resistance again, it was our moving average for a nice selling opportunity for a total of 20 ticks on that first trade. Actually added on to our position here as we continued on through. Notice how our trigger chart continued to fire off to the downside. And then we had a final, actually third opportunity, fired off short. Got out early as we found support down here at this 72 to 73 level.
 
As we bounced off of that support level we broke up through our moving averages. Pulled back, had an opportunity of getting in here, would have been a little bit later. Pushed up. It is still a counter-trend trade until our significant levels are broken. In that regard, only took 6 ticks on it, but the continuation was a nice move upward into our next no trade zone.
 
From 11:30 until 1:15 Eastern Standard Time. That’s a period of time that I do not trade. In this particular case we do know that approximately 70% of the time that no trade zone will tend to move higher. Coming out of the no trade zone, another opportunity to get long. Notice how we pushed up higher until we got back up to our overhead resistance level. Selling pressure. Kind of a delayed 2:00 selloff. But we do know that on our time chart, on the trade plan, it does indicate that for us not to be taking any long positions.
 
And once we got a nice clean setup to the downside, an opportunity to get into a 3 point pullback for a total of 15 ticks. In this particular case price action pulled back up through our moving average again. This is almost a nice Fib trade. Pulled back, our auto wave actually fired off. Another target 1 and 2. I did not get into this trade.
 
Going into the close we had another opportunity. Nice setup here. Trendline break, continuation higher and then on into the final close. I want you to notice we were talking about hitting an upside target of 86.50. I scaled out here at 86 even, primarily because we were in a no trade zone, the final no trade zone of the day. Ten minutes before the end of the day. And then it did continue to grind higher 86.50 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. 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.

An Introduction to the Shark Den – July 24th, 2013

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Slow and Quiet – Trading Video – July 19, 2013


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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, July 19th, 2013.
 
The market opened up this morning here at 1680.75 represented by this white dotted line. We had no news this morning moving the market. We generally don’t trade from 9:30 to 9:45, so we didn’t have any trades this first part of the day.
 
And again, just like a typical Friday, look at the sideways motion we had. We had a couple auto waves firing off here, was not interested in taking them. The market internals were not confirming for us to do that. We then had a nice little breakout, pullback, an opportunity to get long. From a conservative perspective, you would have flattened out and gotten no profit on that particular trade. But from an aggressive perspective holding on, we had some of the market internals were kind of reversing against us. And the only thing we really had in our favor was the old slow and quiet equals bullish type of mentality. And so if you held on through this little bit of a pullback, be able to make it a nice little profit up into 1684. And that would be a total of 9 ticks.
 
We then went into a no trade zone from 11:30 until 1:15 Eastern Standard Time. Look at the sideways motion here. Kind of supports the reason why not to be trading during that timeframe. Coming out of the no trade zone we had a nice little burst higher. Was not able to get in on that one. A pullback and then for a continuation here, again, right into the close from 3:30 on. Now I got out before getting into our final no trade zone for a total of 13 ticks. And this market just continued to squeeze, a short cover squeeze, all the way up into the 1690 level.
 
Let’s hope we get a little more volume next week. We are in the middle of earning season. Usually it kicks in about two weeks after the quarterly month. So June being the quarterly month, the second week of July we should start to kick in to a little more movement, activity next week I hope.
 
Have a great weekend. If you’d like to learn more about these and more advanced trade setups, please visit TraderShark.com 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.

No Volume FryDay – Trading Video – July 12, 2013


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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, July 12, 2013.
 
The market opened up this morning here at 1669.75 represented by this white dotted line. We generally don’t trade in the pre-market area, unless of one exception that we have, and there was a nice exception of the trade. I want you to notice the time here was right at about 9:10 for a continuation. It’s yellow because I did not take it. We do talk about those in the Shark Den. Coming into the opening price we don’t trade the first 15 minutes of the day from 9:30 to 9:45.
 
We had a nice pro-range reversal here almost at exactly 9:45. Even though we only take 4 ticks on this type of trade. It’s a scalp. It’s a pro-range reversal scalp. And generally they’ll happen twice, and so we had an opportunity for 4 ticks here and 4 ticks here. That’s only on 1 contract.
 
As we progressed into the morning, really we had a lot of sideways chop. It was as Friday afternoon. There’s a nice little burst higher. It was almost like a type of head fake and then ripped against them very quickly. Didn’t see any other, really there was no trades this morning aside from the 2 pro-range reversals.
 
Going into the no trade zone from 11:30 until 1:15 Eastern Standard Time, we did have low volume for the majority of the day. Going into the afternoon, I’ll watch for a couple potential trading opportunities in through here. Did not get them. I mean, I want you to notice the sideways motion. We do have a directional indicator that we watch. It kept us well out of any trades until right in here about just prior to 3:30.
 
We didn’t have an exactly clean setup, but I said I’m going to go in the market with 1 contract and I did 1 contract on 2 different platforms. And where we were is right here, just prior to the breakout of the opening price. We tend not to trade within 1 point of opening price. In this situation we had a large volume of buyers coming in preparing themselves for where they are going to place their positions for Monday morning. I explained to everybody why we were looking for a long position. And we had our first target out here at 1671.25. Next one was 1672.25, 72.75, and my final contracts were out at that point. If you continued on and you had more than 2 contracts you were trading, we had the opportunity to hold all the way up to the 1674.25 area.
 
And then I want you to notice this selloff at 3:59 and 55 seconds. The market tumbled and lost all of the 30 minutes it took to get that high, and then tumbled all the way back down to the opening price for a close very closely within 1 tick of opening price.
 
To learn about these and more advanced trade setups or to get a copy of the Trader Shark trading manuals, 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.

July 4th Holiday Lag – Trading Video – July 8, 2013


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

To successful trading,

TraderShark

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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, July 8th, 2013.
 
Got back from upstate New York last night, visiting Niagara Falls. Only to see a little bit of sideways movement for today’s price action. There were no news reports really to propel this market any one way. The market opened up here at 1634 represented by the white dotted line.
 
Had a little pro-range reversal about 2 minutes into the trading day. And then another pro-range reversal. I didn’t take either one of these. Pretty much sitting on my hands watching the volume. The volume was kind of light today. And then as we came across our first reversal zone at around 10:00 notice we did not have a reversal. We didn’t have a trend. A nice little wave trade long. Target 1 and target 2 were hit for a total of 10 ticks.
 
I want you to notice, this pullback, right here, broke our support level which told us that the market was not going to go higher, or if it was it had to it had to take through this high. It did not. So there’s a scalping opportunity here short. Look at the auto wave fired off short for a total of 6 ticks. And then letting the market materialize a little bit.
 
I tried to get into a short trade here. Got my first target off. Got stopped out for 3 ticks, only to see the market continue in my favor. Another opportunity to get short. Came real close to getting us stopped out. Materialized in for a total of 6 ticks. That was pretty much it for the day, so it was a total of 3 trades, 2 of them were successful.
 
Before going into the no trade zone. We have a no trade zone from 11:30 to 1:15 Eastern Standard Time. Notice coming out of the no trade zone we still really didn’t have any opportunities to get long. Didn’t have any real materialization. What you don’t see here is on our higher timeframe chart we had Shark bands. They kind of held us down from a resistance level. There was really no way for us to get into any trades into the close for this afternoon. So let’s hope we get a little more volume tomorrow.
 
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. Have a great evening 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.

This Week

Traders,

As a reminder, I am broadcasting live from upstate New York this week, so there will not be any videos this week.

Half a day trading today, closing 13:15 EST, closed July 4th and vacation day for many on Friday July 5th.

The market tends to move higher on lower volume days around Holidays, so be aware of breakouts in the trend direction.

To Successful Trading,
TraderShark