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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 crude futures and the Euro futures.

The market opened up this morning here in the S&P emini at 1719 represented by the white dotted line. We generally don’t trade from 9:30 to 9:45; just let everybody else chop everybody else up. Don’t get involved in that.

Coming out at about 10:00, remember today was quadruple witching day. That’s options expiration, futures expiration, and options and futures expire. With that we had a nice opportunity to get short here. One thing to do is either you’re not going to trade on this kind of day or tighten up your profit targets. So we took 4 ticks on the first trade, 6 ticks on the next trade. Got out fortunately this thing kind of reversed.

The yellow arrows are setups that I did not take. And that had a nice little pullback. I got in long here and then, hindsight’s 20/20, it ran right into a Shark line and at that Shark line got the first target off and then backed off got minus 2 ticks.

And then you can kind of see this just sideways chop. We had an indicator, directional indicator was telling us sideways movement. Continuation to the downside, pullback, had a 6 ticks. That was pretty much it for our emini S&P trading this morning.

From 11:30 to 1:15 Eastern Standard Time is a period of higher volatility. I don’t trade during that timeframe. Coming out at 1:15, there was a couple opportunities to short. Again, I want you to notice the yellow arrows and that pretty much I don’t trade those. I didn’t trade any further into the close. It’s just a choppy day. Friday afternoon with quadruple witching.

Let’s go ahead and check the Euro market. Here in the Euro market, remember the Euro opens up at 3:00 in the morning Eastern Standard Time. And we do begin to watch it at about 8:30 in the morning. Here a little after 9:45 or so, had an opportunity to get short. Got the first target off and then I forced myself out, just was uncomfortable. And as you can see we had a lot of sideways motion, continued sideways.

We broke out of our range and little bit of a bounce, pullback, tried to go long. Yes, again, hindsight, but my anchor chart was telling me that we should have tried to go long. Forced myself out for minus 4 ticks on 2 contracts for minus 8. And then we had a pullback, and said, you know what, the market was going to continue on. We had a profit target a little bit lower and I got a full stop out here on a total of 16.

To the right-hand side I want you to see we had one final trade before we stopped trading. We stop trading the Euro at 11:30. And this last trade was a nice clean setup with an auto wave long. Profit targets were hit. Again, when you’re going counter trend you’re going for your shorter profit targets instead of the ones we use when we’re with the trend.

And then I want to show you one more opportunity we have on the website. Go over here to TraderShark.com. You can either go to the Members or simply go over to the Blog Archive. On the Blog Archive you have an opportunity to sign up for a five-day free trial in our new Shark Den oil trading room. And we got five days setup from September 23rd to 27th. I will be giving a 45 minute presentation on October 1st. And then we’ll have a two day free trial and then on October 3rd and 4th, the Thursday, Friday of the following week. This is for the S&P and the Euro, see right here.

I wanted to thank you for watching. 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.

FOMC Day – Sep 18, 2013 – Trading Video

Posted on September 18, 2013October 9, 2014 by admin

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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

Good evening traders, this is Brian with TraderShark.com, an educational website to learn how to trade the emini S&P futures and the Euro futures and the crude futures. Today is Wednesday, September 18, 2013.

The market opened up this morning here at 1697.75 represented by this white dotted line. At 8:30 we had housing starts that were within consensus range. So there really was no market movement for us to take advantage of. At this time we had a nice little selloff, working our way to the downside. This happened relatively fast. This is also called a breakout trade. I’m more of a pullback trader, so I didn’t get into these first extensions, but I had a nice little pullback here. And again, once you got to the third extension I kept my profit targets real tight, 2 ticks and 4 ticks. Plus we had FOMC announcement coming out this afternoon.

So in the meantime we come into the no trade zone here from 11:30 to 1:15 Eastern Standard Time. Coming out of the no trade zone a little bit of upside pressure. Again, not too much activity that I was interested in getting into. Working our way back to opening price until right here at exactly 2:00, I want you to notice this launch higher, from here until there. It stopped exactly 60 seconds later. Go back and look at it. 2:00, 2:01.

At that point, you know, it’s just like a runner. Once you get a nice strong move, they’re going to take a breather, and that’s exactly what this market did. Took a breather all the way back to its support level. And another thing about the FOMC announcement at this timeframe we were also preparing for the Fed Chairman to speak at around 2:30. I did not get into any trades. I was pretty much on the sidelines waiting at this point.

As the market continues sideways, I know it seems like there’s an awful lot of opportunities being missed, but generally on an FOMC day you’ll see a pullback. And I was really expecting a much deeper pullback. Did not occur, continued to push up higher. At that point there was one little pullback that gave us a nice clean auto wave as well as a Fibonacci retracement, took 11 ticks on that trade.

And as we went forward, there was no letting up, once we broke these highs. The pressure was pushing up into an extended wave trade long. Target 1, target 2, and target 3 were hit for a total of 26 ticks. And that was pretty much it for the day. I know it seems like there was a nice selling pressure here. I don’t want to be shorting or above the moving averages.

Working our way to the downside. Nothing really, retraced. I did try one final Fibonacci retracement here for a continuation. And got stung. Didn’t quite get my first target off. First target was hit, but did not get filled. Forced myself out at minus 4 ticks times 2 contracts for minus 8.

Over the next two weeks we have some free trials coming up for the Shark Den in the crude room and also for the S&P and the Euro. If you go and go ahead to the website, TraderShark.com. Go to the News and go to the Blog Archive. At the Blog Archive you will go ahead and see we have listed right now, we have three events going on. Five-day free trial beginning September 23rd and 27th. Go ahead and register on that link right there. And then I’ve got a ‘How the S&P and Euro Shark Den Works’ on October 1st for about 45 minutes. And then we have two free days in the Shark Den from October 3rd and October 4th.

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Live Trade Room Trials – Shark Den

Posted on September 17, 2013 by admin

We are excited to provide the following events:

5-Day Free Trial
Live Crude Oil – Shark Den Trading Room
September 23th – 27th
(9:00-11:00 am EST)

45 minutes
How the S&P and Euro Shark Den Works
October 1st
(4:15-5:00 pm EST)

2-Day Free Trial
S&P and Euro – Shark Den Trading Room
October 3rd and 4th
(9:30-11:30 am EST)

Day Before Fed Day – Sept 17, 2013 – Trading Video

Posted on September 17, 2013October 10, 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 futures and the crude futures. Today is Tuesday, September 17, 2013.

The market opened up this morning here at 1692 represented by this white dotted line. We generally don’t trade the first 15 minutes of the day. Coming out of the no trade zone the market continued to grind higher. There was really no opportunities to pull back. 9:50 until 10:10 and right here at about 10:00 had a little bit of a pull back, kind of a head fake prior to a continuation higher. If you don’t get a pullback to break a significant level prior to going into this reversal zone, likelihood is continuation higher.

Our first opportunity to get in to a trade was right here at about 10:13. There’s actually two trades, you had a conservative trade, it went off, it’s called an extended wave trade. And target 1 and target 2, hit for a total of 6 ticks. We then had another extended wave trade here at around 10:30, target 1 and target 2 hit.

And for a longer term, more aggressive trade, we have what’s called a hook pattern, started also at 10:13. Now I traded 3 contracts. First contact got off at 4 ticks. And then the sideways motion got me out right over here. I took both contracts off at 1 tick. So took a total of 6 for the day, 3 trades, 18 ticks.

Now going into 11:30, we have what’s called a no trade zone from 11:30 to 1:15 Eastern Standard Time. And we also have a directional indicator that keeps up on our hands or sitting on the sidelines when you get this sideways motion chop. So in the meantime, going into the closing timeframe, I do want you to notice this, right up into the new trading hours 5:15 Eastern Standard Time, our hook pattern actually hit its target 2 at 1699.50.

Now, we have a special event going on next week. All next week we’re opening up our crude oil Shark Den. I wanted to show you if you’re interested in participating in that. We’ve got five free days of attending. Go to TraderShark.com. Go over here to the Members tab. Down on the Members tab, go ahead and click on the Shark Den – Crude. And what you can do is just scroll down midway, if you want to subscribe, join us here as a member. If you’re already a member of the Shark Den, the S&P and the Euro, you have an opportunity to join the crude rooms. They are two completely separate rooms, okay.

And we got a free trial. Go ahead and click on this free trial. It will take you to the registration link. And we’ll see you on Monday. Next Monday if you want to join us. And if you have any questions or you’d like to get copies of the TraderShark trading manual, please visit TraderShark.com or click on any of these links at the bottom of that page. Thank you. Have a great night and we’ll see you in the Shark Den in the morning.

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The Best Trading Video… That Is Not About Trading

Posted on September 11, 2013 by admin

I find things every day that, while not about trading, speak to me
about trading very clearly.

This video is a perfect example:
https://www.traderinterviews.com/links/MentalPrep

As you watch the video, think about how closely the mental
preparation they talk about for baseball can be applied to your
trading. It’s uncanny.

My jaw dropped when the psychologist actually said the words,
“getting comfortable being uncomfortable,” which is Habit #7 in
the 20 Habits of Wealthy Traders, Part 1.

Tim Bourquin
TraderInterviews

Welcome Crude Oil Moderator – September 2013

Posted on September 8, 2013 by admin

Happy Weekend Traders,

Welcome Art Dill, a full time professional trader, to the TraderShark team.

Art will be moderating our Crude Oil – Shark Den trading room, opening here in mid-late September. The Crude Room will be separate from the S&P and Euro Shark Den. More details to follow this week.

If you are interested in trading Crude, it is an exciting fast market and we look forward to the experience Art brings to the TraderShark team.

Press here for details.

To your Trading Success,
Brian Rehler
TraderShark.com

Patience Pays Off – Euro Trading Video – Aug 22, 2013

Posted on August 21, 2013October 10, 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 and the Euro futures.

I’m going to show you the Euro futures screens that we use here in the Shark Den and give you a rough idea. The European market opens up about 3:00 Eastern Standard Time. And with that being said the opening price here was at $1.3413 represented by the white dotted line. Price action was well-below the dotted line at a range level. The range level we watch right here between 7:30, maybe 8:30 running sideways.

Nice little break out from the range level, first target was hit forced out myself here at a break even. So it was plus 3, minus 3, I was flat. Continuing on into the morning, just before 9:30 I had another opportunity to get into a trade. But once we get within 3 minutes of the opening price of the U.S. market that’s like a news report. And I flatten myself out in this position also for minus 2 ticks.

Continuing on into the day we had relatively flat sideways motion, and I want you to look down below, you see these bright yellow lines here on our directional indicator, bright yellow dots, are indicating to stay out. Flat, sideways motion. The trade of the day, as our directional indicator broke out, we had our first shot of a red dot. Came in. Again this occurred right about 11:00, so I want you to notice the auto waves fired off short here. I did not get in.

Shortly thereafter I had a nice opportunity with our momentum and our direction. Momentum indicator fired off short. First target got hit, second target got hit. We watched the depth of market. As we got down here we exited. The entry here was at $1.3376 we exited $1.3356 for a profit of 23 ticks. And that was pretty much it for the day. We stop trading the Euro at 11:30 Eastern Standard Time in the morning.

To learn more about these and more advanced trade setups, please visit TraderShark.com. Thank you. Have a great evening and I’ll see you in the Shark Den in the morning.

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No News Move – August 20, 2013

Posted on August 20, 2013October 10, 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 Tuesday, August 20th, 2013.

The market opened up this morning at 1645.25 represented by this white dotted line. We seldom take trades in this no trade zone from 9:30 to 9:45, but in this particular case, I actually took a pre-market trade. Told everybody we were going to take it. We had a nice cross to the downside, towards our gap fill for target 1 and target 2, a total of 11 ticks.

Coming out of the no trade zone we had a lot of sideways motion we really didn’t have any news pushing the market. We had the news about the Egyptian crisis. You know, some minor resolve going on over there. In the meantime there were really no trades taking off this morning. Reversal zone at 10:00, there really was no trend for us to see that.

By 10:30 there was a reversal zone. And I want you to notice, we had a nice clean significant level here. Did not clear this significant level auto waves fired off. We were setting up for what’s called a Shark Attack trade. Target 1 was set at 1651.50, the second target was 1653.50, so remember those numbers. Had two different trading platforms going off on this plus 10 on one of the platforms, plus 12 on the second platform. I got out a little bit early because I want you to see what happened here just before the no trade zone. We had a lot of sideways motion, sideways chop. Third opportunity to get into the trade. Got the first target off, the market internal indicator had indicated to get out.

Continuing on into the no trade zone, I want you to notice how price action worked its way up to the second profit target on a Shark Attack trade, 1653.50, I did not take advantage of that, but we did talk about it in the room. From 11:30 to 1:15 Eastern Standard Time is called a no trade zone.

Coming out of the no trade zone we had our market internal, our directional indicator telling us a lot of sideways motion and flat into the afternoon. That’s pretty much, there were no further trades. There was a nice moving average across here to the downside, but I was not able to get into it.

I also want to remind you we have free days in the Shark Den on Thursday and Friday of this week. I wanted to show you how to sign into it. Go to the TraderShark.com homepage. Go over here to the Home and right there it says Webinar Specials. We just had a webinar with the Festival of Traders on Monday. The webinar specials are available for everybody. Click on that Webinar Special. And what you’ll notice, is right there is your Shark Den trial. Click on that for August 22nd and 23rd. I look forward to seeing you.

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 see you in the Shark Den in the morning.

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Festival of Traders Tomorrow and Tuesday

Posted on August 18, 2013October 10, 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