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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 Euro, crude, and we’ll soon be adding gold to that. I want to thank you all for your patience; it’s been about a week and a half I think since I posted my last video. I recently moved from Orlando to Clermont, Florida. And with that move there is a lot of work involved. So I have not posted the videos. We are now grounded. The dust has settled and we’ll be posting these a minimum of three times a week. Hopefully try to get one every day.
 
I’m going to show you a higher timeframe chart to start out with. This is one day, from the start of the trading day, Friday, December 6th, 2013. This is the end of the day. And I want to show you just how the Shark bands are respected. Right here at 1801.25 is the opening price, and we quickly came down, did not quite touch our Shark band. Found congestion, consolidation here on our opening range. Dropped down for support. Continued on, got through the next Shark band. Again, this is within the opening range. Retraced, found support and worked its way back up to the next Shark band. Now this will make more sense on our lower timeframe chart. Let’s go ahead and check that out.
 
This is our lower timeframe chart. I want you to see right here at about 9:30 the market opened up, 1801.25 represented by this white dotted line. We had a nice little pullback into the open for a continuation down to a pro-range reversal. Got a total of 7 ticks on that particular trade. And then we had a lot of sideways motion. And as we continued back up through our moving average, a lot of consolidation area here within our opening range. And again, you can see what they were doing. Our internal indicators were telling us to stay out. Just a lot of sideways motion.
 
We finally broke away from our opening range down here, found support, retraced back up into our moving average for a continuation down in here. It actually penetrated our support level where we had what is called a Shark band. You saw that in the previous screen.
 
And then we had a nice opportunity to get long in through here. There was actually 3 opportunities to get long. There was actually a trendline wave trade counter-trend. There was a Fib trade. And there was a tidal wave trade. So depending on which trade you took you want to stay with the same parameters. A standard counter-trend trade we only go for 2 ticks and 4 ticks. Mostly because it’s a counter-trend. The Fib trade had its own profit targets there. I think we were at a total of 10 ticks on that trade. And the tidal wave trade yielded 28 to 32 ticks I think on that particular trade.
 
Broke through, worked our way back into the opening price. This right here is our lunchtime zone. Some traders prefer to trade it, I prefer not to. But I was still holding on to this position in the tidal wave trade for a continuation. Notice the sideways motion. Little bit of a break higher. Sideways motion, just like a runner after a long sprint, slows down. And right here, continued on up. Exit our trade right there around 1804, 1805, and 1806 for the high of the day.
 
And then here at 2:00, you’ll notice the vertical line. We generally don’t want to be holding on to any long positions, especially at the highs of the day. And this was another opportunity to short the market. This particular trade ran anywhere from 9 ticks, all the way out to a total of 16 ticks before a sell off from 2:00.
 
Again, it’s a pullback after a long run if they want to push this thing higher the market tends to pullback after that timeframe. And then we found support at a Shark band for continuation higher. And on into our final no trade zone of the day. So depending on when you exited or how long you held on to it, I did not take a final trade into the no trade zone.
 
To learn more about these and other more advanced trade setups, or to get a copy of the TraderShark trading manual, please visit TraderShark.com. Thank you. Have a great weekend and I’ll see you bright and early on Monday morning.
 
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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,

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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, November 22nd, 2013.
 
The market opened up this morning here at 1794.50 represented by this white dotted line. And I want to tell you, they talk about a picture is worth a thousand words, and in this case this is the whole days’ worth of trading. And what we have is an opening range. Once we break out of our opening range we look for what’s called a hook pattern. Some people call it a flag pattern, but we do have a couple nuances that must occur in order for it to be called a hook pattern, so I’m going to continue to call it a hook pattern.
 
We have a nice little pullback for a continuation. This, you know what, if you have to squint your eyes to see it, than to me it doesn’t exist, but this candle closed above this trendline. As a result this could have been a valid hook pattern. I did not take it. Another pullback. This could have been a valid hook pattern, notice how it broke above the trendline. I did not take it. The next one was clearly a nice break above the trendline, and you simply take the prior swing low to the current high to get these target levels.
 
If you did not get in to this, right, because you’re trading into a Shark band, it’s very dangerous to trade into a Shark band. Break out of the Shark band, pullback. We talked about this all morning. What time did this happen? This happened in a lunchtime zone. This pullback, nice clear candle broke above the trendline for a continuation. Did you get it? No. This could have been a stop out on a lot of the hook pattern trades. However, shortly thereafter there’s another opportunity for a hook pattern to develop, and then I want you to gradually see how this, throughout the rest of the day, this was right about 2:30 in the afternoon. We had a nice anchor wave kick off for a continuation higher up into the Shark band.
 
Once you get into the Shark band, a lot of the traders going into the close were saying, hey, this thing is going to go higher. Well, you know what, it may go higher, but these Shark bands operate like magnets. And so once price action gets up there, stalls. I wouldn’t be looking to go long until we got a pop above this Shark bank, pullback and continuation higher.
 
Anyway I hope that helps for the day. Have a great weekend. Thank you all for watching. To learn more these and more advanced trade setups, or to get a copy of the TraderShark trading manual, please visit TraderShark.com. Thank you.
 
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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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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,

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Good afternoon traders, this is Brian with TraderShark.com, an educational website to learn how to trade the emini S&P futures. Today is Friday, November 15th, 2013.
 
The market opened up this morning at 1790.25 represented by this white dotted line. From 9:30 to 9:45 this was a no trade zone, however, to every zone we do have an exception to the rule. And this we had a nice clean setup just prior to the open that’s a little more aggressive. If you want to be a little more conservative, immediately after the open another opportunity also presented itself for a total of 6 ticks. Not much, but it was a good initial start for the day.
 
Then we had what’s called a pro-range reversal. I did not take advantage of this. I just wanted you to see. We talked about it in the room. Some traders did, some traders did not. Continuing on into the morning, while it does look like the market is moving, this is just sideways chop. Our market internals were telling us to stay out. We stayed out all morning, right, kind of saved your stress and anxiety level.
 
By 11:30 to 1:15, this is called a lunchtime zone. And I tend not to trade that area, but there are traders that like to trade it. Look like there’s nice little selloff. I did not take advantage of that. Coming out of the no trade zone. Continuation higher. I do want you to notice how our momentum indicators were nice and clear, shooting for opportunities to push higher. Opportunities to push higher. We talk about these extended areas quite a bit in the Shark Den.
 
Working our way on up into the close. What you did not see is that we had Shark band levels that were stalling price. And this was just a slow grind. A lot of our market internals were still flat to yellow. And those were indicators of areas for us not to be getting in. So options expiration and that kept me out the whole day. So all in all it was a total of 6 ticks. I did have 2 going into the close. Some of the other traders were able to take advantage of this push higher.
 
And we talked about a Shark band up here at 96 to 97, 96 to 97. So as long as you got your first target off, it’s okay to hold a position into the no trade zone. And in this case we talked about 95.5, which we hit it right there. Right there at about 3:59.
Let’s take a quick look at a higher timeframe chart. We do have an opening range here. And we talk about breakouts to the long side, breakouts to the short side. We did not take these trades. And because the market internals were telling us to stay out. So just a sideways chop all afternoon. And then right here, just at about 2:30, the market did push higher on up into the target areas and we talked about 95.5.
 
I want to take a brief look at the Euro. We do start watching the Euro at about 8:30 in the morning, and we watch it until about 11:30 Eastern Standard Time. Nice long position, another nice long position, another nice long position. We talk about this in the Shark Den. And then at around 9:40 or so we had an opportunity to get short. Got the first target off. Got stopped out. Our stop moves very tight after we got our first target. And then we watched it continue on.
 
However, there was another opportunity to get in short, 8 ticks. Another opportunity to get short 8 ticks. A total of 16 ticks on that particular move. Then once we obtained our support levels, we watched for a first bounce, second opportunity. We then did jump in right at this area. Just a little bit after 11:00. Continuation higher. Anywhere from 7 to 13 ticks on this particular trade, depending on whether you’re doing conservative or aggressive.
 
If you’d like to learn more about these or more advanced trade setups or to get copies of the TraderShark 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.

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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 Friday, November 8th, 2013. And I’m going to go ahead and show you both Thursday’s and Friday’s setups. Mostly because I was not able to produce that video for Thursday, November 7th.
 
The market opened up here at 1770, represented by this white dotted line. We generally don’t trade pre-market and we generally don’t trade in this no trade zone, but there’s always an exception to a rule. And with this exception we had an opportunity to get short pre-market. And then I forced myself out at the entry price. And I think there were some market internals that kind of convinced me to do that. But it did actually materialize into target 1 and target 2.
 
Right there at 9:30 it opened up here at 1770. We had a pro-range reversal, 2 of them. Did not quite hit those levels. Coming out of the no trade zone, continued lower. An opportunity to enter with 2 contracts short. And then add on to our position another 2 contracts here for a total of 31 ticks, 13 and 18, 31 ticks. A little bit of a pullback for continuation, a total of 5 ticks on that trade. Nice pull back here. Don’t generally go into the 5th wave. Let them go without us.
 
Lot of sideways motion. Working our way into the no trade zone from 11:30 to 1:15 Eastern Standard Time. Coming out of the no trade zone for a continuation lower. Notice we stayed on the side of the moving averages. Then once we get across, I did not take advantage of that sell off there. Went sideways until one final opportunity right here at about 3:30. Opportunity to hit target 1, target 2 for a total of 8 ticks. And then on into the close at 3:50 Eastern Standard Time.
 
Okay, so this is November 8th on Friday, today. The market opened up here at around 1743.25. And I’m showing you a higher timeframe chart because today the winner trade of the day was actually here at right at about 10:30. But I’m going to show you from the higher timeframe chart, even though we had a small trade, once we got out of our opening range here for a total of 6 ticks and then we had a nice little hook pattern. Again, the opening range is wrapped right around opening price. The breakout, the entry right there was at around 1756. And again, this was more of a longer term, deeper pocket trade. You got to be able to weather a draw down. A pullback to below this swing level. And your first target, second target, third target hit here at the end of the day going into 3:30 to 3:45 at 1763.75.
 
You could also do micro trades in between the longer timeframe macro trade. And of course, this trade here I went short. Big mistake. I knew it when I entered it I was trading against the volatility. My other market indicators were telling me to go short, but my volatility index was saying stay long. You heard never short a dull market, right. Well I shorted it. I got hammered, minus 16 ticks. And then what did I do. Now this one has a nice setup. I got my first target off. But I got my first target off and got stopped out for minus 2 ticks.
 
And then on into the close. I prefer to wait for a higher volume timeframe like 3:30 to 4:00 into the close. And that’s exactly what we got, nice burst. And I said if this is going to push any higher, once we broke through this 61 level, we were more than likely going to see 67, and that’s exactly what we saw before the final close.
 
Now today wrapped up our 2 day free trial. We had a webinar on Wednesday. Free trial Thursday and Friday. I have some webinar specials. I said I was going to have it shut down by midnight tonight. I’m going to extend it until midnight Saturday night because I’m getting this video out so late. So if you’re interested in taking advantage of this special, TraderShark.com. Go to the Home tab, right there it says Webinar Specials. Click on that. And what you’ll do is you’ll get a screen like this, you can scroll down. Disregard the free trial that’s over with on the 7th and 8th. On Monday and Tuesday we get the free trial for the oil den, the Shark Den and crude. And then you have an opportunity to get the three trading manuals plus the Euro trading manual for $129. And then right here you’ve got two months for the price of one. So take advantage of that now. The next class may be in December. If not, the next webinar, the free trial, may not be until January.
 
To learn more about these and more advanced trade setups or to get a copy of the TraderShark trading manual, please visit TraderShark.com. Thank you. Have a great evening, and I’ll talk to you 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

TraderShark Trading Manuals

Join the Shark Den!

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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.

To successful trading,

TraderShark

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Good evening traders, this Brian with TraderShark.com, an educational website to learn how to trade the emini S&P futures. Today is Friday, November 1st, 2013.
 
The market opened this morning at around 1755.50. And as the market opened up this morning it appeared to have a type of breakout. Did not meet our criteria. I want you to see this long candle, directly after where a hook pattern sets up. So this candle did not allow us to have a true setup long. And it quickly reversed, worked its way down. And the news reports were both neutral, within consensus range. And we had an opportunity for another hook pattern to the downside again, this did not meet our criteria.
 
Until, the only really good trade we had today, you can almost see an inverted head and shoulders. See the shoulder here, head, shoulder, for a continuation higher. Where’s the target? The target is the difference between the tip of the head to the neck line to the breakout. Now I want you to notice, from the breakout point to the target, which was 1757, you’ll see it a little clearer when we go over to the lower timeframe chart.
 
This is our lower timeframe chart. I want you to notice the 1755.50 white dotted line, that’s the opening price. And we had what’s called a pro-range reversal. And only got 3 ticks with 1 contract. Not a big deal. That’s a very aggressive trade. And we discussed that in the Shark Den as to why that parameter.
 
The Globex range was barely 4.75 points this morning, so that being said, I took the smaller pro-range reversal. And then you can kind of see the sideways chop really didn’t give us an opportunity to take any trades. A little burst, we have what’s called an opening range. It was still within the opening range. And this is that initial hook pattern we had set up that did not meet our criteria. So I did not get a chance to get into that. It reversed after the news report. Pulled its way back into the opening range.
 
We generally don’t trade within 1 point of opening price. It tends to be choppy and this is an exact same reason why I try to get short right in through here. Had an opportunity to get my first target off and then I got stopped out, I’m out. So I got plus 4 and minus 4 for a total of 0 on that trade.
 
And then of course, one of the larger selloffs today. I didn’t have any indication except for what’s called a breakout trade. And it did set up. I did not take advantage of it, so I had to color it in yellow. But we talked about it in the Shark Den for those of you that did get a chance to take care of it. You can kind of see it worked its way all the way down to yesterday’s low and continued deeper to suck in our short sellers.
 
Sideways motion going into the lunchtime trade zone. And I want you to notice the sideways motion. Coming out of the lunchtime zone an opportunity to fire off long. Little bit of a pullback here at around 2:00. We generally don’t take long opportunities at the highs of the day. In this particular case got the first target off, got stopped out for minus 2 ticks.
 
Another opportunity to go long in here, this is around 3:00 in the afternoon. I don’t recommend trading from 11:30 in the morning until about 3:30 in the afternoon, it does tend to be choppy. I did not take this trade. But this pullback here, right at about 3:30 was nice. It also matched up with the inverted head and shoulders trade. And we talked about the potential target up there at around 11:57. And if you had a runner, it’s a great opportunity. These pullbacks are only 6 ticks. So going into the close, the final no trade zone.
 
We have a live webinar next Wednesday as well as a free trial in the Shark Den on Thursday and Friday. If you’d like to get more information about that please email me at [email protected]. To learn more about these and more advanced trade setups or to get a copy of the TraderShark 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.

Daily Trading Video

TraderShark Trading Manuals

Join the Shark Den!

TraderShark.com

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.

To successful trading,

TraderShark

[email protected]

 
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, October 25th, 2013. I’m going to go back three days; I have not had a chance to keep up with my videos. I am in the process of a move. I’m going to be moving about 40 miles away from here and so I’ve been packing.
 
And with that I’m going to show you Wednesday, October 23rd. And we were looking for a Shark attack setup this whole day. We talked about a target of 1743.75 and 1745.75 at around 10:15 in the morning. Tried to launch right in through here, got stopped out for minus 12 ticks. Ouch, that hurt. And then all of the sudden what we did is, we had a hook pattern to the downside, but I still had a bullish bias. Our indicators were still giving us some head fakes to move higher. Had another failed hook pattern, did not develop. And then another pattern developed right here after the lunchtime no trade zone, got 6 ticks off of that one. Still did not launch high enough to get our profit targets.
 
And then we thought we were going to get that right at about 3:15 in the afternoon Eastern Standard Time, hit the first target 1743.75, but did not get filled. Came back and stopped me out for minus 6 ticks, and that will happen sometimes. And then guess what happened, right here at exactly 4:01 in the afternoon this thing launched and it went through the 1743.75 and then up into the 1745.75, exactly what we thought. So we traded, we had good trades at the wrong time.
 
Let’s go ahead and go on to the next day. This is Thursday, October 24th. And I want you to notice we had a strong selloff over the Globex range coming into the opening range and we really didn’t have any trades to start out in the morning. Right there about 10:30 just before the no trade zone had an opportunity to go long, got stopped out for minus 4 ticks. Another opportunity in the lunchtime no trade zone. I was still trying for it because of the hook patterns that were setting up and tried to get in there, got stopped out for minus 4 ticks.
 
I know that’s not impressive, but you know what? This week has been just a choppy week and I want to show you that, you know, I’m a real trader just like everybody else. I take the losses just like everybody else, but on this particular case we were following our rules. And I want you to stick to the rules because they are consistent. And had another opportunity for a hook pattern. Another opportunity for a hook pattern and got only 6 ticks on that final one and then going into the close very quiet.
 
Let’s go ahead and look at what happened on Friday. This is Friday. This morning we opened up with little or no movement with a narrow opening range, and there were literally no trade setups. As long as you get stuck between the opening range. These Shark bands were tight to the high side. Looking to get through to this break out to the downside to find support. Just nothing was developing. We had low volume all day. No pullbacks. No opportunities to get in. We were looking.
 
And then one good trade all day happened right out here. If you still held on to the trading day, 3:35 there was a nice little breakout for a continuation of target 1 and target 2 for a total of 10 ticks. If you were trading at that time of day.
 
And so if you have any questions, you’d like to learn more about these type of trading methods, please feel free to check out TraderShark.com. If you’d like to get a copy of the trading manuals you can also get them there. Have a fantastic weekend and I’ll see you in the Shark Den on Monday morning.
 
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