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Up Up and Away – Trading Video – Aug 8, 2014

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Transcription:

Good evening traders, this is Brian with TraderShark.com an educational website to teach you how to trade the emini S&P futures. Today is Friday, August 8th 2014. You have often heard the saying that a picture is worth a thousand words. This morning the market started out relatively flat, you can see the sideways motion here between the sharkbands. We have a blue SharkBand and a green SharkBand. This is basically our opening range. The price action opened up at 1909, but then if you carried on into what is called a lunchtime trading zone right there at about 1125 or so, there is a nice opportunity to get into what is called a hook pattern. Some people call it a flag pattern, but we have our own rules that are mixed in with that. Now, I want you to notice that yes sometimes these take a little longer to develop.  The first target is four ticks, the second target is 50% and the third target is T3 up here at 100% of the range. I want you to notice this hook pattern, T1,T2 and T3. This hook pattern, T1,T2, T3. The total on this hook pattern would have been about 41 ticks, it would have been plus four, plus twelve, and plus 25 ticks, so a total of 41. Over here to the right hand side, this is a total of 58 ticks. Again, I did not carry out and hold on through my T3, this is very difficult. I did not, but we do have some deeper pocket traders who do hold onto them much longer than that. I want you to see, they take them at a much higher risk. You want your stop in right below this swing level. If you brought in your stop below this swing level, then you certainly could have gotten stopped out, only getting your T1, or maybe even getting a full stop out at three. Regardless, I want you to see that the patterns work consistently no matter what market. Whether you’ve got a flat market, or a market taking out to the upside.

On August 12th, we’ve got a great event going on. Go to Tradershark.com, go to the home tab and click on next live webinar. That should take you over to the next page; Investor Inspiration has a live webinar investment series. We have been graciously invited to join them. Go ahead and go over here to these links, seven investment professionals on Tuesday, August 12 from 1:45 pm to 7:00 pm Eastern Standard Time. I am going to be presenting at 4:45, until 5:30. Click on the register now, it will take you over to their website, and you can go ahead and see the Get Professional Market Strategies on August 12, 2014. It talks to you about how to register, which is very easy.  It also has a list of all of the webinar participants. After that, we will have our free trial. There are also some links on that website for free trials and the free trial is going to be on August 15th. I look forward to seeing you there. Have a great evening, have a great weekend, and I will see you in the SharkDen on Monday morning.

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Head and Shoulders – Trading Video – Aug 1, 2014

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Transcription:

Good evening traders, this is Brian with / an educational website to help learn how to trade the E-mini S&P futures. Today is Friday, August 1st 2014. The market opened up here this morning at 1920.25. You have heard it said that a picture is worth a thousand words, and I want you to notice the head and shoulders pattern. Of course this is much clearer in hindsight but at this point, here is your first shoulder, here’s your head, and then right about here you are starting to go and realize that this may be a shoulder. They do a little bit of a head fake, they are still developing the shoulder and now we are starting to draw our projected target. How do we do that? You take the distance from this high point to the neckline. Then you are going to move it down here to the break of the neckline. So as this develops, there is your head and shoulders pattern. Here is your distance from your head to your neckline, and at the break of this neckline we’re going to project the target. The target is down here at 1912.50.

I got into a trade here; I think that I got out with a total of 22 ticks. In all reality, this is more of a 30 tick trade all of the way down into the bottom. In this particular case, you can see the target hit on the head and shoulders pattern. Then we had what’s called a hook pattern, and you can see the profit from the prior swing level the high to the low. Bring it on down here to the break of the hook pattern.  On the way down it didn’t quite make it to our third target. We scaled out mostly at the SharkBands, and that would have solidified your profit margin. Working our way on into the close, again I think that the President started talking somewhere in the latter part of the day, I’m not much of an afternoon trader. To learn more about these and more advanced trade setups, or to get a copy of the TraderShark trading manuals please visit / . Thank you, have a great weekend and I will talk to you on Monday morning.

The information herein has been prepared solely for general information and educational purposes and is not an offer to buy or sell, or a solicitation of an offer to buy or sell the securities or financial products mentioned in the content, nor a recommendation to participate in any particular trading strategy. Please consult your broker for trading advice. All trading requires risking money in pursuit of future gain. Do not risk money you cannot afford to lose. Past performance is no guarantee of future performance. The instructor is not a broker or a licensed investment adviser and is therefore not licensed to give trading advice of any sort, nor make specific trading recommendations.

S&P Trading Video – July 29, 2014

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Transcription:

Good evening traders, this is Brian with /   an educational website to learn how to trade the E-mini S&P futures. Today is Tuesday July 29, 2014. The market opened up this morning at 1976.75 represented by this white dotted line. We generally don’t trade in the first fifteen minutes of the day.  As we continued on into the first news report around 10 o’clock, we had consumer confidence come out. It was better than expected; generally we were seeing that with positive news the market tends to sell off. In this case we had a nice little opportunity to push in. Didn’t have enough confidence to hold on any longer,  so I got a total of six ticks to the longside right there at about 10:12 AM Eastern Standard Time. Then as price action worked its way through the moving average we had a nice little pullback for a total of eight ticks. I did not hold onto this any longer, but there was a good selloff that continued right down to several target points on a hook pattern on our anchor chart. As we continued on into the day we had some potential target areas, just shy of hitting our target area for a retracement going into the lunchtime trading zone.

Going out of the lunchtime trading zone, the market ran a little bit sideways and then we had our two o’clock potential selloff timeframe.  Then we had another opportunity for selling pressure to the downside. You can see the momentum here was kicking in on a couple of different selling opportunities. I was not in this trade, I was in a hook pattern trade later on this afternoon. You will see this coming up shortly at around 3:18pm.  The market, while it does look like it was in a general downtrend does look relatively choppy. The President came out and started talking about the conflict over in Ukraine, with that the market sold off pretty heavy. Let’s go to a higher timeframe chart. Ok, so let’s look at a higher timeframe chart. We looked at the selloff on the lower timeframe chart at around 11 o’clock. I want you to see how price action was really balancing between these sharkbands. We had our opportunity and hit target one, target two did not quite get hit. Our internal indicator got us out a little bit earlier, so four ticks, four ticks, and five ticks on a hook pattern to the downside.

As we continue on into the day, I want you to see what happened here at around 2 o’clock. After the two o’clock timeframe we had a nice hook pattern setup, four ticks, eight ticks and eighteen ticks to the downside if you were able to hold onto the third contract all of the way down to that final target.  Let’s look at the criteria for that hook pattern: Target one is four ticks, it has a 70% accuracy. Target two is a 50% with 60% accuracy and target three is a 100% of the move with 50% accuracy. So again, you capture some profits and then if you want to let it run, and if you were able to weather a slight uptick here, you were able to capture some nice profits all of the way down to our target area. This was drawn way before the completion of this pattern. To learn more about these and other advanced trade setups, or to get a copy of the TraderShark Trading Manuals, please visit / .  Thank you, have a great evening and we will see you in the SharkDen in the morning.

The information herein has been prepared solely for general information and educational purposes and is not an offer to buy or sell, or a solicitation of an offer to buy or sell the securities or financial products mentioned in the content, nor a recommendation to participate in any particular trading strategy. Please consult your broker for trading advice. All trading requires risking money in pursuit of future gain. Do not risk money you cannot afford to lose. Past performance is no guarantee of future performance. The instructor is not a broker or a licensed investment adviser and is therefore not licensed to give trading advice of any sort, nor make specific trading recommendations.

Trade of the Day – Trading Video – June 27, 2014

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The information herein has been prepared solely for general information and educational purposes and is not an offer to buy or sell, or a solicitation of an offer to buy or sell the securities or financial products mentioned in the content, nor a recommendation to participate in any particular trading strategy. Please consult your broker for trading advice. All trading requires risking money in pursuit of future gain. Do not risk money you cannot afford to lose. Past performance is no guarantee of future performance. The instructor is not a broker or a licensed investment adviser and is therefore not licensed to give trading advice of any sort, nor make specific trading recommendations.

Good Volume – Trading Video – June 17, 2014

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Transcription:

Good evening traders, this is Brian with TraderShark.com a website to learn how to trade the e-mini S&P 500 futures. Today is Tuesday June 17, 2014. Today the market opened up at 1926.50 as represented by the white line. I want you to notice that we have a no trade zone until about 9:45. Generally trade not to trade the first 15 minutes, and notice the sideways motion wrapping around opening price. Nice little break above opening price. We do have what’s called a pro-range reversal. I got in here against one of my indicators and then I got out and forced myself out, because I had gotten into a wrong trade. While I still made two ticks on it, nonetheless, it was an error on my part. But then we had a nice little pullback. Not deep enough down to our moving average, but deep enough to get into what’s called an EWT or an Extended Wave Trade long, in this particular case to a total of seven ticks.

Then another pullback, I was expecting ourselves to work our way up to the 1935 level. Got our first target off, got out for minus two ticks. Breaking through our moving average here, so a pullback. Target one, target two hit for six ticks. Did not realize that it was going to pull back all of the way to opening price. As a result, that would have been a nice trade if anybody held onto it a little bit longer than that. A nice little pullback for continuation, then we found support the trade of the day.  An opportunity to get in long, if you’re only going for two or four ticks, got a total of six ticks safely out.

Once we moved our way back above the moving average, we just had firing off all of the way across the board pushing higher. This was anywhere from six to twenty six ticks on one trade, and we moved our way back up to the 1935 level was we were expecting. In the lunchtime trading zone, this is an area where the traders tend to go to lunch and as a result typically a lower volume.  Coming out of the lunchtime trading zone, saw a nice little sideways motion. You could have certainly tried to scalp it but notice that this 1935 level was holding strong. Moving average was crunching up against it. There really weren’t any opportunities to trade on into the close. Tomorrow we should be seeing the F1OC announcement. Maybe we will see an initial movement in the morning and then we’ll wait for the announcement at two o’clock Eastern Standard Time, in the afternoon.

To learn 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 will see you in the shark den in the morning.

The information herein has been prepared solely for general information and educational purposes and is not an offer to buy or sell, or a solicitation of an offer to buy or sell the securities or financial products mentioned in the content, nor a recommendation to participate in any particular trading strategy. Please consult your broker for trading advice. All trading requires risking money in pursuit of future gain. Do not risk money you cannot afford to lose. Past performance is no guarantee of future performance. The instructor is not a broker or a licensed investment adviser and is therefore not licensed to give trading advice of any sort, nor make specific trading recommendations.

Festival of Traders – June 10th, 2014

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Transcription:

Good evening traders, this is Brian with TraderShark.com. An educational website to learn how to trade the e-mini S&P 500 futures. Today is Monday June 9,2014. I want to let you know about an exciting event;  we’re going to be participating with Festival of Traders for June. And that’s going to be here on Wednesday June 11. TraderShark, myself, I will be presenting at 4:40PM Eastern Standard Time. I’d like to show you how to register for that as well as how to get some of the special offers. Again, the special offers will not be available until June 11th. Going to log into the website here at TraderShark.com, go to the home tab and you will see there is a Webinars Special link that pops up. Click on that.  You will see that there is a festival of traders link. In order to join us for the free Webinar Specials, there are going to be six other traders with me, please feel free to visit this link and click on Festival of Traders click on Festival of Traders. You will see this link here, tells you the date June 11th from two to six p.m. Put your email address in there and go ahead and scroll down just a little bit, you can see the different traders that we have participating with us, and there I am at 4:40 p.m. If you go back to the website, you can see the special that we are going to have for the trading manuals again this is only going to be for the festival of traders.

We are going to have a free trial. The free trial is next Tuesday June 17th.  I know that this is unusual as we usually have the free trial after the webinar. In this case we will have it before, as in this particular case I am actually going on vacation. So I won’t be back until Monday. We’re going to give the free trial on June 17th. I will make this special offer available on June 17th as well. To learn about these and move advanced trade setups or to get a copy of the Trader Shark trading manuals visit TraderShark.com. Thank you, have a great evening and I will see you in the Shark Den in the morning.

The information herein has been prepared solely for general information and educational purposes and is not an offer to buy or sell, or a solicitation of an offer to buy or sell the securities or financial products mentioned in the content, nor a recommendation to participate in any particular trading strategy. Please consult your broker for trading advice. All trading requires risking money in pursuit of future gain. Do not risk money you cannot afford to lose. Past performance is no guarantee of future performance. The instructor is not a broker or a licensed investment adviser and is therefore not licensed to give trading advice of any sort, nor make specific trading recommendations.

Festival of Traders Webinar – Trading Specials – June 9, 2014

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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.
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Transcript:

Good evening traders, this is Brian with TraderShark.com, an educational website to learn how to trade the E-mini S&P 500 futures.  Today is Monday June 9th, 2014. I wanted to let you know about an exciting event, we are going to be participating with Festival of Traders for June. That is going to be here on June 11th. Tradershark, myself, I will be presenting at 4:40 PM Eastern Standard Time. I would like to show you how to register for that, as well as get some of the special offers. Again, the special offers will not be available until June 11th. Go ahead and log into the website here at TraderShark.com, go to the home-tab and you will see that there is a webinar specials popup. Click on that and be directed to webinar specials. I wanted you to see the festival of traders’ link. In order to join us for the free webinar special, there are going to be six other traders with me so please feel free to visit this link and click on festival of traders.  You will see this link, it tells you the date here June 11th, from two to six PM. Put your email address in there and you can see the different traders that we have participating with us. There I am at 4:40 PM. If you go back to the website, you can see the specials that we are going to have for some of the TraderShark Trading Manuals. Again, this is only going to be for the Festival of Traders. We have a free trial on next Tuesday June 17th. I know that this is a little bit odd, as we usually have the free trial after the webinar; in this particular case I have a conflict, so I won’t be back until Monday. That means that we are going to give the free trial on June 17th. I’ll make these specials available at that time also. To learn more about these and more advanced trade setups, or to obtain a copy of the TraderShark Trading Manuals please visit TraderShark.com thank you, have a great evening and I will see you in the SharkDen in the morning.

The information herein has been prepared solely for general information and educational purposes and is not an offer to buy or sell, or a solicitation of an offer to buy or sell the securities or financial products mentioned in the content, nor a recommendation to participate in any particular trading strategy. Please consult your broker for trading advice. All trading requires risking money in pursuit of future gain. Do not risk money you cannot afford to lose. Past performance is no guarantee of future performance. The instructor is not a broker or a licensed investment adviser and is therefore not licensed to give trading advice of any sort, nor make specific trading recommendations.

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