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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 futures and the crude futures. I’m going to talk to you today about Tuesday and Wednesday, December 17th and December 18th. The week before Christmas.

The market opened up here at 1780.00 represented by this white dotted line. We generally don’t trade from 9:30 until 9:45. Coming out of the no trade zone we had a nice little push higher. Pull back. Thought we were going to continue higher and actually I forced myself out here at minus 8 ticks. Only to watch the market continue to go into a sideways motion or what we call a megaphone pattern. And the megaphone pattern is really not something you can recognize until after it’s already occurred. That’s creating higher highs and lower lows. And the only way to really play that is on the 5th break towards the downside. In this case just nothing seemed to be working. We did finally have a selloff into the lower side. Little pullback. Continuation. Got the first target off and second target stopped out early for a total of 6 ticks.

As we continue on into the lunchtime cautionary zone from 11:30 until 1:15 Eastern Standard Time. Generally it tends to be sideways to bullish during the lunchtime zone. Coming out of that lunchtime zone we had a nice little push higher. Pullback. Looking for a continuation. I didn’t really get a nice setup here. Setup seemed to work out nice right there at about 3:20 or so and got almost a full stop out at -12 ticks, so for the day we had a total of 3 trades, minus 14 ticks for the day. And then we went into the final cautionary trading zone at 10 minutes to 4.

Okay, so let’s go ahead and look at Wednesday FOMC announcement day. We didn’t expect much from yesterday or the day before FOMC announcement. And on the day of announcement we’ll generally see a push one way or the other. Actually we just saw a lot of sideways chop.

Had one opportunity here at about 10:00 for a shorting opportunity to get stopped out for minus 3 ticks. First target was hit got stopped out for minus 3. Continue on into the lunchtime cautionary trading zone with no trades this morning. As we worked our way towards the FOMC announcement at 2:00 Eastern Standard Time I want you to see the initial reaction was down. They sold off. This usually happens so fast, we don’t take advantage of that type of trade. We wait for the dust to settle.

Market took off, pulled back. Really expected this to be the selloff. Did not occur and the burst higher was not able to take advantage of it. This is more of a grind higher. And then once we reached our Shark band we had an opportunity to go short. Held on with 3 contracts, total of 33 ticks to the downside and then found support on another Shark band which you don’t see in this picture.

Working our way to the right-hand side and then right there about 2:30 another launch higher for a total of 14 ticks. Reaching up into the same Shark band we were talking about. Pull back, continuation lower for a total of 10 ticks on into the close and that was it for the day. 4 trades for a total of 54 ticks. And then we went into the final cautionary trading zone. I’m not expecting much more for the rest of the week.

I want to thank you for watching for more information on these type of trade setups or to learn more about the TraderShark trading methods, please visit TraderShark.com. Thank you. Have a great night and I’ll see you in the Shark Den tomorrow morning. 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.

Free Shark Den Trials and Webinar – Starting Dec 16, 2013

Posted on December 13, 2013 by admin

Traders,

We are excited to provide the following Free Trials:

How the Shark Den Works – Webinar
December 16th
(4:15-5:00 pm EST) 45 minutes

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2-Day Free Trial
S&P and Euro Futures – Shark Den – Trading Room
December 17th – 18th
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2-Day Free Trial
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December 19th – 20th
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To Successful Trading,

Brian Rehler

TraderShark

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Contract Rollover Day

Posted on December 11, 2013 by admin

The Equity Indices products; ES rollover on Thursday the 12th at 8:30 am CST time from the December 2013 contract to the March 2014 contract. The month code for March is ‘H’.

We will be continuing to watch the December contract until the lunch time zone. After that, we will watch the December and March contract for the one with the highest volume. I do not usually trade the afternoon of contract rollover due to extreme volatility.

We will begin to trade the March 2014 contract on Friday. Please make sure both your charting and brokerage accounts are changed to the H4 contract, ESH4 or whatever format your platform uses.

Tidal Wave Trading – Dec 6, 2013 – Trading Video

Posted on December 6, 2013October 3, 2014 by admin

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

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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Picture Worth 1000 Words – Nov 22, 2013 – Trading Video

Posted on November 22, 2013October 4, 2014 by admin

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

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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Options Expiration – Nov 15, 2013 Trading Video

Posted on November 15, 2013October 4, 2014 by admin

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

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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Great Trades – Nov 8, 2013 – Trading Video

Posted on November 8, 2013October 4, 2014 by admin

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

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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Free Trial – How the Shark Den Works

Posted on November 5, 2013 by admin

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We open the Shark Den once every couple months to new attendees.

Our next free trial begins after our Free Introductory Webinar this coming week.

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What: The Shark Den

When: Wednesday – November 6, 2013

Time: 4:30 pm EST

Where: Register for Introductory Webinar

Why: To Introduce you to the Shark Den free trial

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Trial: Register for Free Trial

When: Thursday and Friday – Nov 7 & Nov 8

Time: 09:30-11:30 am EST

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The Crude Oil – Shark Den will be open on Mon and Tues, Nov 11 and Nov 12.

To attend both Free Trials, you must register for both.

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To Successful Trading,

Brian Rehler

TraderShark

Past performance is not an indication of future results. You are receiving this email because you registered on our website, purchased our product or attended our Webinar. To be removed, please reply with unsubscribe in the subject line.

November 1, 2013 – Trading Video

Posted on November 1, 2013October 4, 2014 by admin

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