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Sideways after the Move – Trading Video – March 17, 2014


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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, Euro and crude futures. Today is Monday, March 17th 2014. Happy St. Patrick’s Day everybody.
 
The market opened up here at 1843.75, represented by the white dotted line. I’d like to remind everybody that we are having a free trial tomorrow and Wednesday in the S&P and the Euro room. And then Thursday and Friday in the Crude room, which will soon be trading the NASDAQ in April. So please make sure you sign up for that. Send me an email or go onto the website at TraderShark.com. Click on the Free Trial, and we’ll get you signed up for that.
 
The market took off this morning we had a really wide opening range, over 10 points. When we have a 10 point range we know the market’s going to be sideways chop. Had a nice, this is really the only opportunity for a pull-back. An opportunity of 4 ticks on a tidal wave trade came all the way back, pulled us out at a 14 tick trail stop. So it had it as high up as 14 ticks, came back, stopped us out at plus 4. Had a hook pattern, also for 4 ticks. Little bit of a grind higher. An opportunity to get in here. Took a stop up for minus 2 ticks. And then we crossed through our moving average to the downside, but still there really wasn’t giving us many opportunities. We were trying to trade into the Shark band, into the opening range, which I will not do. And here we had another opportunity to get long. Another stop out, minus 2 ticks. Not a big deal. We kept safe as opposed to getting chopped up like the majority of other traders out there.
 
Going into the lunch time trading zone, had a little bit of a pop higher. There was a nice setup for an auto wave long. Coming out of there, I want to see the nice sideways chop here. The higher timeframe chart was certainly running 8 to 7 ticks per candle and that in itself was giving us a sideways chop indication. Look at the sideways, I mean it really wasn’t giving us any opportunities even on into the close.
 
So again, remember to sign up for the free trial. Have a great evening. To learn more about these and more advanced trade setups, please visit TraderShark.com
 
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Stock Market Crash Video – May 6, 2010

Traders,

This is a great video on the stock market crash of May 6, 2010. This should make you aware of what could happen.

We have watched the market make parabolic moves higher on lower volume. That will eventually come to an end as the Fed pulls back it’s money infusion into the economy. When it does, the retracement can be just as steep and 3 times faster. Always use stops no matter what trading vehicle you are using. 

From Justin – This is Think or Swim audio from the futures pit when the market had a flash crash in 2010.  It’s amazing.  Enjoy!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1xqSZy9_4I

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Consolidation after Move – Trading Video – March 14, 2014


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Good afternoon traders, this is Brian with TraderShark.com, an educational website to learn how to trade the S&P, Euro and crude futures. We’ll soon be adding the NASDAQ in next month. Today is Friday, March 14th, 2014.
 
The market opened up here at 1836.25, but I want you to notice the opening range. We had quite a substantial sell-off yesterday afternoon, expected sideways chop today, either sideways chop or continuation lower. And sideways chop is what we had. Today was the first full trading day of the new June contract. So with that being said, always exercising a little bit extra caution on the day the contracts get initiated. And the Shark bands are not going to be quite as valid. I want you to notice they weren’t even touched here on the high side.
 
Just coming in through the morning, after the first 15 minutes we had negative news out of the Consumer Center report and there really wasn’t much reaction to it, right? It was below consensus range. We had a trade on up into that news report. Target 1 and Target 2 were hit on a hook pattern of 4 ticks, 10 ticks, the third contract got stopped off for zero.
 
Notice this afternoon no trades until near the close right here at about what, 3:45. I’ll go ahead and, let’s go ahead and look at a different screenshot on that. This is a screenshot of the latter part of the afternoon. Right there, at a set about 3:45 Eastern Standard Time that we had a nice set-up on our anchor chart. Nice set-up on our trigger and an opportunity to get in for a total of 9 ticks. Why 9 ticks? We had a big buying block here at 1833. Regular target would be around 1833.5. I got out even 1 tick sooner at 1833.75. So 2 ticks and 7 ticks for a total of 9 ticks on that final trade.
 
Again, patience is a virtue. Paid off in the latter part of the afternoon. I don’t generally trade the afternoons except that last half-hour of the day. Keep in mind that when a news report comes out that is negative and the market moves higher or goes flat it will tend to have a sell-off or a follow through on the news report in the afternoons. It’s a matter of when. We don’t know when. Watch for the volume to step in and that’s when we’re going to go with it.
 
Hope you enjoyed it. Please feel free to check us out. We have a free trial coming up next week. Email me at info@tradershark.com. I should have a link up on the website; otherwise I will send you an email direct. Thank you for watching. To learn more about these and more advanced trade set-ups, to get copies of the TraderShark trading manual, please visit TraderShark.com.
 
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Look Out Below – Trading Video – March 13, 2014


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Good evening traders, this is Brian with TraderShark.com, an educational website to learn how to trade the S&P, Euro and crude futures. Today is Thursday, March 13th, 2014.
 
The market opened up at 1873.50. Knowing that today was contract roll-over day, I will trade only until about 11:30. I know a lot of trades happen later than that time frame, but that’s just a rule that I pretty much live by, unknowing the certainty. We want to trade the highest volume contracts. We’re changing from the March to the June contract. The March contract being ESH14, changing over to June contract ESM14.
 
Market opened this morning at 9:30. From 9:30 to 9:45 we generally don’t take any trades. We did have a really quick pro-range reversal. Some people may have taken 4 ticks on it. I took 3 ticks on a very quick trade. And then coming off of our opening price, an opportunity to get short. Holding on in through here, did not stop us out. Got a target 1 and target 2 for a total of 9 ticks.
 
Another opportunity here. It depends on whether the person actually hit their first target or not where they entered. This was not a good entry. I don’t know as though anybody took a full stop up, but I just want to say that if you did not get your first target off, you could very well have taken a full stop out here because the retracement went all the way back up to a full 8 ticks before continuing.
 
And then another opportunity to get in depending on whether plus 6 to plus 10 ticks to the downside. Continuing, a couple tests of this moving average working its way lower. Another opportunity to get in for a total of 9 ticks here. Another opportunity to get in for 16 ticks here. Even this pull-back did not stop us out. There was like 3 or 4 consistent hook patterns to the downside today. Another final 10 ticks into the final lunch time trading zone. And I was done trading at this point. You can see these target levels and continuations. I think it was 1862.25
 
Anyway, thank you for watching. To learn more about these and more advanced trade set-ups or to get a copy of the TraderShark trading manual, please visit TraderShark.com. And please remember we do have trials going on next week. Tuesday and Wednesday in the S&P and Euro Shark Den and Thursday and Friday in the crude oil Shark Den, which we will be opening up the NASDAQ also. So please feel free to check us out at TraderShark.com.
 
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Wave Trades Rule – Trading Video – March 12, 2014

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Good evening traders, this is Brian with TraderShark.com, an educational website to learn how to trade the S&P, Euro and crude futures. Today is Wednesday, March 12th, 2014.
 
The market opened up this morning here at 1858.25, represented by this white dotted line. We generally don’t trade this first 15 minutes unless it meets a couple of our exceptions. In this case we had a first opportunity to try to get short coming out of the no trade zone, right here at around 9:45 for a total of 10 ticks.
As we continue on into the morning we had a nice little pull-back. We had an opening range right here in the center. Opening range wraps around the opening price. And generally we don’t go for more than 6 ticks on a counter-trend trade. There wasn’t really any strength to the downside, no strength to the upside, so just a real quick 6 tick scale up here.
 
Got above the moving averages, and then there was literally no looking back. There’s no news reports that were that important. I think we had petroleum status report there at about 10:30. And then we had a nice beautiful hook pattern went off here, T1, T2 and T3 for a total of 4 ticks, 4 and 17, total of 25 ticks. So we continue on into the morning. There was several other hook patterns that were developing, but I was on that one for most of the day.
 
I want you to notice this is the opening price 58.25, 63 was yesterday’s low. We’re kind of watching it. Tested it once, tested it twice, tested it a third time. This is a little bit of a test. If you went into it. I did not get in on this one, you’ll notice the yellow arrow. However, when we nice went through it and pulled back, there’s your opportunity to get in. We had a wave trade. We had a Fibonacci setup. We had a hook pattern. Everything was setting up at this point. So anywhere, depending on the trades, there was also Shark Attack trade that went on in through here. Anywhere from 10 ticks to 6 points. That’s a total of 24 ticks. And that would be just with 2 contracts.
 
Shortly after that another hook pattern. Again the yellow ones are the ones I did not take, I’m just showing you for the Shark Den members. Then we go from 11:30 into 1:15 Eastern Standard Time is called the lunch time trading zone. There’s a couple nice trades in there. I don’t generally trade during that time frame.
 
Coming out, we’re looking for the market to push higher up into the 2:00. 2:00 looking for a potential selloff. We had it. And this is just giving a heads up when we broke below the moving averages. Nice pull-back for a continuation lower. I didn’t get in quite this early. Got in a little bit later right here, plus 4 to 12 ticks to the downside.
 
Why plus 4 to 12 is a countertrend trade? Well, once we’ve broken through and we’ve established an overhead resistance from a Shark band, the selling pressure coming in after 2:00 was going to determine whether we were going to go higher into the close or not, and that’s exactly what we saw. I generally don’t carry very high positions moving into the close. And I like to be out before that 4:00 close. So here, the last 10 minutes of the day, the final no trade zone for a total of 8 ticks.
 
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FryDay – March 7, 2014 – Trading Video


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Good evening traders, this is Brian with TraderShark.com, an educational website to learn how to trade the S&P Euro and crude futures.
 
I want to tell you about the Festival of Traders we have coming up next week on Tuesday and Wednesday. I will be presenting at 6:15 Eastern Standard Time on Tuesday, March 11th. I want to tell you how to get there, how to register. There’s going to be 8 traders with 8 free webinars. Go to TraderShark.com. Go to the Home tab. Right underneath the Home tab it says Festival of Traders, click on that. And what you’ll see is a link here; it says March 11th and 12th, 4:00 to 7:00 PM. Click on any of these links for the registration. Scroll down, you can see the 8 different traders that are going to be presenting. I’m going to be presenting there at 6:15 Eastern Standard Time. And there’s also a registration link at the bottom of the page.
 
Let’s go ahead and go to the daily trading. What you can see here is we opened up at 1883.75, represented by this white dotted line. We don’t trade from 9:30 to 9:45. Coming into the first session we had an opportunity to get short. Now there’s two different trades that went on here. A wave trade produced 11 ticks. The hook pattern a reduced risk stop out, minus 10 ticks.
 
Going on into the morning session, an opportunity to get long when we’re above the moving average. If you entered exactly at the entry price, you would have gotten a minus 2 for a reduced risk stop out. Or better entry, got 1 tick better on the entry, so I got plus 3, minus 3. End up with 0 on that particular trade.
 
We had one more trade going into the lunch time trading zone. Had an opportunity to get 6 to 10 ticks on this move up higher. And then from 11:30 until 1:15 Eastern Standard Time tend not to take any trades. Coming out of that at about 1:15, there was I think one final trade at the end of the day. Can see there was sideways motion. Had an opportunity to get short. Took a loss of 2 ticks per 2 contracts.
 
To learn more about these and more advanced trade setups, or to get a copy of the TraderShark trading manual, please visit TraderShark.com. Come join us at the Festival of Traders. Enjoy 8 different traders and compare for yourself. Thank you and have a great weekend.
 
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Last 3 Days and Festival of Traders – March 2014


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Good afternoon traders, this is Brian with TraderShark.com, an educational website to learn how to trade the S&P, Euro and crude futures.
 
Many of you have been asking about an upcoming webinar. I will be joining Festival of Traders and 7 other traders that will be presenting their webinars next week, March 11th and 12th. I’ll be presenting at 6:15 and I will get you some links and great information at the end of this video.
 
I’m going to cover the last 3 days of trading primarily because I was not here Thursday and Friday of last week. This is a higher timeframe chart on the S&P emini. I want you to notice when we’re within our opening range I don’t generally trade it. It can be traded, it just tends to be a little choppier.
 
We had a nice little pull-back here for a continuation. We had a hook pattern for a total of 14 ticks. And also at that same time the conditions were right us to do what is called a tidal wave. This is just one contract. You buy and hold for the day. For the most part it had a potential profit of upwards of 4.5 points, but the pull-back here took me out only for a total of 9 ticks. All in all that’s a pretty good trade. I want you to notice these Shark bands were posing overhead resistance and support levels. Then there was a final hook pattern going on into the close, right there for a total of 8 ticks. That’s on March 4th.
 
On March 5th, let’s go ahead and look what went on here. You know, a picture’s worth a thousand words. Can you see this type of price action? Fortunately our indicators were giving us a signal to sit on our hands and wait. Be patient. I took, I think, two pro-range reversals for plus 4 and minus 4, total of zero.
 
Today, Thursday March 6th, market opened up. We had almost an identical situation or setup as we did yesterday. Little bit of a tumble through opening price on into the next Shark band. We were watching for this potential level to break 1880 that’s a magnet number. After we break 1880 potentially tomorrow or next week we should gravitate up towards 1900. There was only one trade. It was an aggressive trade, right here into the close. One trade for 7 ticks.
 
As I mentioned at the beginning of this presentation, we’re going to be joining the Festival of Traders next week and how do you get in there for signing up for a new webinar. We’re also going to offer some free trial period after that webinar. So how do you sign up for that? Get a chance to listen to 8 different moderators and to see what they have, what they’re proposing out there, and compare us.
 
Go to the Home tab, press on Festival of Traders March, 2014. That will bring up this screen. And from this screen you’ll notice that the Festival of Traders is from March 11th through March 12th from 4:00 to 7:00 PM. I’m going to be presenting mine at 6:15 on Tuesday, March 11th. Scroll down, anywhere of these blue clicks. You can certainly see some of the other traders out there. And right there at the bottom you can press Register to Attend Today. Pop your email address in there and you’ll be registered. You’ll get confirmation and a reminder. And you’ll notice we have a total of 4 traders each day. I’ll be presenting right there at 6:15 on Tuesday, March 11th.
 
At the end of the webinar I’ll be making a special offer for those of you that attend. If you have any other further questions, 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 evening and I’ll see you in the Shark Den tomorrow morning.
 
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Buy Programs – Trading Video – Feb 24, 2014


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Good evening traders, this is Brain with TraderShark.com, an educational website to learn how to trade the emini S&P futures, the Euro and crude futures. Today is Monday, February 24th, 2014.
 
The market opened up here at 1837.75, represented by this white dotted line. We had a few technical challenges this morning. It seemed like the traders were having difficulties accessing the room. We had to change over our servers, and as a result while I was maintaining the emails and helping everybody get into the room, I was not able to take these first two trades.
 
There was a nice EWT, extend wave trade, long right there at about 10:48 or so. Shortly after that another opportunity right there going into the 10:00 time frame. There was no news reports, but we did have a reversal zone. So two opportunities to get into a long position. After the 10:00 reversal zone there was no pull-back, it did not break the significant level, likely a continuation higher. Three more opportunities to get into a long position. I was able to jump on for one real quick 9 tick trade.
 
Once we got up into the 1852 level, remember between 1850s kind of a natural magnetic number. It draws the people into it. And a lot of sellers are sitting up here. So what it will do is it will tend to spread by as much as two points and then consolidation. We talked about that in the room. And then I want you to notice our auto waves kicking off here, just helping reinforce our continuation higher.
 
Going into the lunchtime trade zone from 11:30 to 1:15 Eastern Standard Time, a lot of sideways motion. One of the primary reasons I don’t like to trade during that timeframe. I want you to notice price action continue to maintain below the moving averages. Any of these pull-backs could have been met with selling opportunities if you were a counter-trend trader, until it finally broke this line. Broke this line, a nice little pull-back, a continuation. Nice setup for continuation lower.
 
Now remember on the higher timeframe chart our Shark bands were very tight in through here. So once you get the Shark bands real tight it’s considered an aggressive trade. One opportunity to get long, anywhere from 6 to 10 ticks; 6 conservatively, 10 would have been more aggressively. And that was it for the day.
 
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 night and I’ll see you in the Shark Den in the morning.
 
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Thursday – FryDay – Trading Video – Feb 20-21, 2014


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Good evening traders, this is Brian with TraderShark.com, an educational website to learn how to trade the S&P, Euro and crude futures.
 
I’m going to go through Thursday and Friday’s trades. We had a free trial this week and of course Murphy’s Law hit. Bad news came out; market went up. Good news came out; market went up. Lot of sideways chop. We also had options expiration.
 
This is Thursday February 20th, 2014. This opening price here is 1827.50. Coming out of the no trade zone, we generally don’t trade from 9:30 to 9:45. Got an opportunity to get short; had a no fill. Just did not fill me in. I’m not one for chasing trades.
 
Continuing on into the morning, another no fill. You can see our nice auto wave fired off. Had our buy order in there and it did not get filled. And then had another opportunity to get in. Got my first target off and then got stopped out by market internals for plus zero. And then this is a hook pattern, which is considered an aggressive trader’s trade. Had an opportunity to get in at the highs, then got tagged for minus 4 ticks on each contract, so a total of minus 8 on that.
 
So starting out the morning was pretty rough. At 11:30 until 1:15 Eastern Standard Time gradual grind higher and then coming out of that we have a nice little 2:00 trade. This was a nice 2:00 trade setup. It did not sell off. Generally see about a 3 point pullback here. Did not. Got our first target off. Got stopped out for minus 1 tick.
 
While we may not have been profitable, we certainly were very protective of our PNL and we took minor losses today. You can see this right into the afternoon on Thursday afternoon sideways chop right into the close. 3:50 until 4:00 PM Eastern Standard Time is our final no trade zone.
 
Now let’s go ahead and look over at Friday. This is Friday, February 21st. Almost identical setup on a couple of these trades. Also, it was options expiration. And I know, I’m human, right? It didn’t really dawn on me when you first started trading, but this is options expiration Friday. I never trade on options expiration Friday, but I did today. Let’s go ahead and see what happened here.
 
Opening up at 9:30 to 9:45, again this is Friday. Coming into our first 15 minutes we don’t trade. Going until 2:00 mistake, I realized it afterwards and hindsight is always 20/20. But this is right in the middle of a reversal zone. We don’t know it’s going to reverse until about 10:10 in the morning. This is right at what, at 10:03, and I went long. Got my first target off, got stopped for two ticks.
 
So again in hindsight had another opportunity to go short, what do we do? Went short right into another reversal zone, 10:25 to 10:30. I know it’s not funny, but it’s real. And certainly took these losses live in front of everybody. Going on we had our pull-back above our moving averages, nice. Had an opportunity to get long, but I want you to see, this took a little bit more pressure. Look at our trendline wave trade breaks. The difference between a zero line and an oversold area for continuation higher.
 
I want you to see this 6 ticks was well-earned, took a little bit of heat to the downside and this second 6 ticks, this is if you’re trading 2 contacts and you trade another 2 contracts putting 4 contracts in long. And it’s pretty aggressive, 2 and 4; a total of 6 ticks, not much. And then right, immediately after that identical trade setup, hook long aggressive. Took a minus 4 ticks on 2 contracts. Again, still maintaining a good money management and maintaining a good relative profit loss. No, we’re not going to be perfect at winning every day. This week was a rough week for us, no doubt.
 
11:30 to 1:15 Eastern Standard Time, look at the sideways chop. Now ordinarily I would say, no trading on options expiration day. So we kind of watched it, we did see some sideways motion. We saw minor megaphone patterns. An opportunity to get short in through here, thought we were going to have some heavy sell off. Why? Because of the news report earlier. Got our first target off, took a stop of minus 4 ticks. And then this is the one that hurt the most. We don’t see these very often, but I took a full stop out; 16 ticks, 2 contracts, 8 ticks each. It was a $200 loss right there.
 
Going on into the day pretty much thinking we’re done, and right in towards the end we had a hook pattern short. I know it was a very aggressive trade. I popped on 3 contracts on this particular trade, T1, T2, and T3. T3 was not hit. T1 and T2 were hit. As long as you’ve got your first contract off you can hold it on into the no trade zone. Both first and second contracts were hit. The third contract was not and we forced myself out before this market were to go sideways into the close. So hope you enjoyed that.
 
If you are interested in taking advantage of the webinar specials, please feel free to go to the homepage on TraderShark.com. And touch that Home tab and you’ll see Webinar Specials will drop down. The webinar is still up and running, and also the specials. Currently what I have right now is the free trials are over for this week. Try to get something first part of March. And then the trading manuals, all four trading manuals for $149. And then I’ve got two for one special on the Shark Den. So come join us if you want to see this. If you want to do another free trial let me know. We’ll go ahead and get that setup. I know we had some challenges this past week.
 
Thank you. Look forward to seeing you in the Shark Den. Here’s to a profitable trading week ahead.
 
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