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5 Key Elements Webinar – May 22, 2013

Come join us for the free webinar about 5 key elements prior to entering a trade.



 
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 May 21st, 2013.
 
I’m excited to announce a webinar going on tomorrow at 4:30 PM Eastern Standard Time. And how you would sign up on that is you simply go to the website www.TraderShark.com. Go to the homepage and you will see 5 Keys to a Webinar. Click on that link and what you’ll see is Trader Kingdom is sponsoring Trader Shark. And I’m going to be talking about the 5 key elements necessary to look at prior to taking a trade. It’s Wednesday, May 22nd. You can register at any time. And if you’d like to get a couple days in the Shark Den at no cost, scroll all the way down to the bottom and just click on there where it says free trial.
 
I look forward to seeing you there and we’ll get back to the regular videos. Have a great evening and I’ll see you in the Shark Den in the morning.
 
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Live Webinar – Wednesday

Join us for this exciting
LIVE online event

presents

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5 Key Elements Before Entering a Trade

Wednesday – May 22, 2013

4:30-5:30 pm EST

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Learn to use common indicators to trade the E-mini S&P Futures in this live webinar event designed for both new and experienced traders!

Join Brian Rehler as he takes you step-by-step through his evaluation of the current ES market to determine when a high probability trade sets-up.

Topics to be discussed in this interactive event include:

Five key elements used prior to entering a trade
Interpret how the S&P futures market moves
Time plays a critical role in trading
Target key support and resistance levels
Learn to think before you ‘click’
Use common indicators… inexpensively!

With over 20 years of experience in the financial markets, Brian is committed to helping and educating traders interested in pursuing trading as a business. TraderShark has a unique style of simplifying a complicated futures market.

Click here to Register now!

Futures, options, and spot currency trading are inherently risky and may involve substantial loss of capital. You must be aware of these risks and be willing to accept them in order to invest in the futures and options markets. This website is intended for educational purposes only and does not constitute a solicitation to buy or sell any financial security. Past performance is not necessarily indicative of future results. For more information about the nature of this material, limitations on liability, and the risks involved in trading, it is understood that you have read and understand the disclaimer and risk disclosure on this website.

 

5 Key Elements Prior to a Trade – Webinar

Join us for this exciting
LIVE online event

presents

TraderShark

5 Key Elements Before Entering a Trade

Wednesday – May 22, 2013

4:30-5:30 pm EST

Click here to Register now!

Learn to use common indicators to trade the E-mini S&P Futures in this live webinar event designed for both new and experienced traders!

Join Brian Rehler as he takes you step-by-step through his evaluation of the current ES market to determine when a high probability trade sets-up.

Topics to be discussed in this interactive event include:

Five key elements used prior to entering a trade
Interpret how the S&P futures market moves
Time plays a critical role in trading
Target key support and resistance levels
Learn to think before you ‘click’
Use common indicators… inexpensively!

With over 20 years of experience in the financial markets, Brian is committed to helping and educating traders interested in pursuing trading as a business. TraderShark has a unique style of simplifying a complicated futures market.

Click here to Register now!

Futures, options, and spot currency trading are inherently risky and may involve substantial loss of capital. You must be aware of these risks and be willing to accept them in order to invest in the futures and options markets. This website is intended for educational purposes only and does not constitute a solicitation to buy or sell any financial security. Past performance is not necessarily indicative of future results. For more information about the nature of this material, limitations on liability, and the risks involved in trading, it is understood that you have read and understand the disclaimer and risk disclosure on this website.

 

Tuesday Trading Video – March 12, 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.

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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, March 12th, 2013.
 
The market opened up this morning at 1549.25 represented by this white dotted line. We generally don’t trade from 9:30 to 9:45. Some people don’t even trade until 10:00. We had a very narrow Globex range and a narrow opening range. That being said we had an opportunity to get long. Looked like we were going to establish a hook pattern here. Did not get filled. Unfortunately, we did not get filled because then the market reversed. Pulled back through the moving average. Nice retracement. Had an opportunity to get long on a trendline wave trade short. Depending on whether you traded two contracts or three contracts, had an opportunity to get 7 to 16 ticks.
 
Once that downtrend established itself had a nice little pullback. Auto wave fired off short for a total of 10 ticks. Took a little bit of heat here. And then we had a trendline wave trade short kick in here. Going into a no trade zone here at 11:30. From 11:30 to 1:15 Eastern Standard Time there’s a no trade zone.
 
Coming out of 1:15 an opportunity to get long, didn’t even get off out first target, got stopped out for minus 8 ticks. And then when you get stopped out in one direction you turn right around and be prepared to reverse. Nice opportunity to either take on a Fibonacci trade or a wave trade short for a total of 7 ticks. And then another pullback. Once you get extended and having a narrow Globex range this was definitely a mistake to try and get short any further. Got first target was touched. Stopped out at either breakeven or minus 2 and then there was another opportunity to get short. Easily got the first target off and then got stopped out for minus 2 ticks on that trade.
 
Going into the close, I generally don’t trade from 2:30 to 3:30. There was a nice opportunity on an auto wave long. Target 1 and target 2 hit for a total of 10 ticks. And then going into the close, thought this thing was going to push up even higher. Got the first contract off with 2 ticks and second contract breakeven. And that was it, we stopped trading at the day at 3:50 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. Have a great night 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 July 17, 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, July 17th, 2012.
 
The market opened up this morning here at 1353.5 represented by the white dashed line here. We generally don’t trade the first 15 minutes of the day from 9:30 until 9:45. However, just barely getting ready to come out of the no trade zone we did have two opportunities to get short. Nice clean wave trades to the downside for a total of 10 ticks, target 1 and target 2, and 9 ticks. Total of 19 ticks just there before 10:00.
 
And we don’t want to be in any trades before the news announcement. We did try to get one in here at around 9:56 or so and did not get filled. So the market moved down based on the news report a little bit. We had a bit of a nice quick opportunity here near the bottom to knock out another quick 7 ticks. And then as we crossed back above our moving averages we had an opportunity to get long. Target 1 was hit and we got stopped out for minus 2 ticks. Only to find out that the market was not happy.
 
I think Ben Bernanke was speaking this morning around 10:00 and he wasn’t really committing to any specific help. He said that they stand poised to help. With that the market didn’t get any certainty and they sold off pretty heavy. Got a good solid 10 ticks on this trade.
 
And then here we had a nice clean, notice yesterday’s low, right there around 1343, had a nice opportunity for an easy 6 ticks. Countertrend. And then if you ran into a Shark Attack you could have gotten anywhere from 8 to 16 ticks on this particular trade to the upside.
 
And that was pretty much it for the day. Went into a no trade zone from 11:30 until 1:15 Eastern Standard Time. And then notice this sideways chop. Really didn’t give us any clean opportunities. There were a couple wave signals, you know, to the downside that some of the other traders may have gotten into. I did not. And that was pretty much it for the day.
 
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 – July 16, 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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TraderShark.com

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 16th, 2012.
 
The market opened up this morning at 1348.25 represented by this white dotted line. We had a retail sales number that came in less than expected. And we actually tried to trade pre-market here. And I got stopped out for minus 4 ticks. The retail sales allowed for a selloff. And then we also had a news report coming out at 10:00.
 
Definitely got in a little bit early on this particular trade. I want to short the market at about 10:10. Generally the market will continue in the direction if we did not have a reversal. We did not have a reversal and as a result I got a full stop out of minus 16 ticks. And then crossing up through the moving average we had a nice clean pullback. An opportunity to get long. Again, a little bit early based on our indicators.
 
Today was a sideways chop. We barely had a Globex range of over 5.75, so we’re not expecting much movement. Also, this remained within our opening price range that was a little bit choppy. Any trades we took, you know, seemed to be aggressive at this point.
 
Took a minus 8 ticks on this particular trade. We had another trade to go long here. Got target 1 and target 2 hit for a total of 10 ticks. And then we went into what’s called a no trade zone from 11:30 until 1:15 Eastern Standard Time.
 
Breakout to the upside just a little after 1:45. An opportunity to get long. Target 1 and target 2. We did hit our target 2, which would have yielded us 10 ticks. However, once it hits it three times we’ll go ahead and we’ll move it in by 1 tick to take a profit of plus 9 ticks.
 
And that was it for the rest of the day. You see a lot of sideways movement. A lot of chop. Momentum. Did not see any real clear opportunities to get into good trades in the afternoon. So hopefully tomorrow we get a little bit better price action.
 
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 – July 12, 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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TraderShark.com

To successful trading,

TraderShark

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So what we have here is we have a pullback. Notice the 1327.75. 1327.75 is today’s open as well as yesterday’s low. Price action had dropped all the way down to 1320. And watch over the no trade zone as price action worked its way up from 1320 all the way up to the 1327.75. I had talked to everybody, when price action worked its way up to 1327 and now it’s continued to work its way sideways. We waited for a nice pullback. Moving average cross. Right, the low, the cross, the high. Pullback 50%.
 
Looking for targets of 1329.75 and 1331.75. If you did just the basic Fibonacci retracement setup, you’re looking for 1329 even. And up here we’d be looking around 1330 would be the T3. Ready for the launch. The entry on this particular setup would be 1337.75. So you got a lot of things setting up. Want to make sure our CCI is in line. I’m looking at the anchor charts. Both anchor charts are in long setup positions. The trigger chart has triggered, right here, 1327.75. So if we’re on that, I don’t have the trade platform in front of everybody, but I am watching for a target 1 is 1329.75. Target 2 is 1331.75.
 
Wave triggered. The Fibonacci retracement set up nicely for an entry at 1327.75. Most would not be going long into yesterday’s low and today’s open. Perfect opportunity for a Shark Attack trade. T1 is already hit and filled. T2 1331.75. Sometimes the Shark Attack trade can happen instantaneously, very fast, or sometimes it can take a couple hours for it actually to materialize and set up. In this particular case it took from, so what was the first approach, from about 12 noon until now, so a little over an hour and 10 minutes.
 
Okay, so now we’re hitting T2 and T3 on the Fibonacci setup. And in the meantime the Fibonacci trade is over. Looking for a 1331.75. Two ticks short of T2 and we’re at 1331.75. Going to go ahead and move the Fibonacci levels at this point.
 
At what point will we be considering a potential exit is we are watching the CCI. Potential cross to the downside. We’re also watching the holding indicator. Everything is bullish. ADX is confirming. Advanced decline is looking good. Bank index is off to the races.
 
1331.75, 1 tick away. Tap, tap. Tap the bottom of the monitor. Anywhere to 1331.75. Tap, tap, tap. Tap the monitor. Tap the bottom of the monitor. Those of you that have a Mac computer please be careful with your white gloves. Tap 1 more tick. Come on. Once T2 gets touched, one. I don’t know how many hit there. It hit a little bit 1331.75. T2 has hit. T2 filled. Thank you for watching.
 
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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.

Open Interest – 3/30/12

 

[11:18] RG: open interest report:  ES increased a small amount of 3,287 to 2,730,099 indicating new sellers again for third day in a row.  Interesting to see after the rally off the lows in the afternoon – the shorts held on.  6E open interest declined 1,888 on the down day indicating longs were exiting for the 2nd day in a row, but no new sellers emerging yet

[11:25] RG: option premium increases as anxiety about a potential move grows and more traders buy insurance.  Portfolio managers want to insure their recent gains without liquidating their equity positions.  As put buyers b come in, the option market makers sell the the option delta equivalent of futures.  This put buying that translates into futures selling could explain some of the open interest over the last few days.