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Daily Trading Video July 25, 2012

Posted on July 25, 2012November 28, 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.

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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 Wednesday, July 25th 2012. The following are a few examples of trade setups that occur on a consistent basis. These trade setups are described in detail in the trading manual and in the live daily Shark Den where we discuss more advanced trade setups.

The market opened up this morning at 1336 represented by this white dotted line. Initially about 9:33 we had an opportunity, we don’t generally take a trade in this no trade zone unless we get an opportunity for a setup towards our gap fill. In this particular case we did have a setup and it went quickly against us. We took a stop for minus 8 ticks. And that’s 4 ticks per contract.

Coming out of the no trade zone there was just a grind lower and at around 10:00 we did have a news report. By 10:10 we did not have a reversal and expected a continuation to the downside. A nice pullback right here at about 10:30 for an opportunity to get short. Target 1 and target 2 were hit for a total of 10 ticks.

And the market did continue to sell off all the way down here to our hourly range low. Right around 1327. We had a nice clean bounce. Pullback. Target 1 and target 2 hit for a total of 6 ticks before going into the no trade zone. No trade zone’s from 11:30 until 1:15 Eastern Standard Time.

We then had price action continue to work its way to the upside. There was really no reason for it. And you’ll notice we found a little bit of resistance at the opening price. Broke its way through opening price. Found support. Ran sideways for a little bit. And there was really no opportunities we could see to get in. The sideways chop really rendered a lot of the indicators useless until we had a selloff into the close. We had an opportunity to get a total of 6 ticks here and then another opportunity to get short for a total of 5 ticks. 11 ticks before we got into the close.

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 Videos Update

Posted on July 25, 2012 by admin

Good Afternoon Traders,

Some of you have asked about the daily videos. I have been extremely busy traveling across the state in the afternoons and have not had time to catch up with the videos. All is well in the Shark Den and I will make it a point to catch up with videos by this evening. Thank you for your interest.

To Successful Trading,

TraderShark

Daily Trading Video July 24, 2012

Posted on July 24, 2012November 28, 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.

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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 Tuesday, July 24th 2012.

The market opened up this morning here at 1345.25, which my white dotted line is not there. Go ahead and put that in. Just give us a reference point. We generally don’t trade from 9:30 until 9:45 and that’s the red zone here. No trade zone.

We had initial selling pressure to the downside due to the news reports we had, but we don’t really play any trades until we get a nice clean pullback. In this particular case we had a pullback for a total of 10 ticks. Another opportunity for 10 ticks. We generally will only play two positions in the direction of the trend. And as you’ll see we attempted a third trade to the downside, right here at about 10:23. And we got our first target out and got stopped out for minus 2 ticks.

We have been gravitating away from the countertrend trades, but in this case it was a nice setup. We had target 1 and target 2. Again, you’re only looking for 2 ticks and 4 ticks, and that worked its way out prior to going into the no trade zone from 11:30 until 1:15 Eastern Standard Time. We generally don’t trade. It’s got a period of lower volume and higher volatility.

And we pretty much did a lot of sideways movement, chop. Wrapped around our moving average. Had a little bit of a selloff. We were not able to catch. You’ll see we did have a wave trade indication there. Did not get a hold of that. Attempted another countertrend trade. Target 1 and target 2 hit for a total of 6 ticks.

Then we had a nice run type of Shark Attack trade right here at about 3:26, it was working its way, and we did not get a fill at the 1327 area. This is an area where you may have to keep your finger on the trigger. Slide it up into price action. This happened very fast. If you wanted to get in here, we had some traders that were able to catch on this and just hold on to it for a good 10 to 16 ticks. In the meantime we waited for an actual pullback. Target 1 and target 2 hit for a total of 6 ticks. And then it kind of worked its way up for the additional 8 ticks.

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 17, 2012

Posted on July 17, 2012November 28, 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.

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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

Posted on July 16, 2012November 28, 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.

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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

Posted on July 12, 2012November 28, 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.

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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.

July 4th

Posted on July 3, 2012 by admin

Traders,

The Shark Den will be closed July 4th in observance of Independence Day.

Have an enjoyable and safe Holiday.

To successful trading,

TraderShark

Learn to Trade with the Sharks,

Without Getting Eaten!

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July 4th Week – Reminder

Posted on June 29, 2012 by admin

As a reminder, I will be in NY from today until July 4th. I will be broadcasting live today and from NY in the mornings and Simon will cover me in the afternoons for the second session of the day from the UK.

Beginning July 5th, we will be tracking the new Tidal Wave trade and keep everyone informed of the results prior to launching. This is an exciting trade we have been working on that has been generating nearly 3 times that of our regular trades. Updates available after live testing.

There will not be daily videos while I am out of the area, and will resume July 6th.

Legal Stuff: Past results are not indicative of future performance.

Have a safe and happy 4th of July week!
TraderShark

Daily Trading Video June 28, 2012

Posted on June 28, 2012November 28, 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.

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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 Thursday June 28th, 2012.

The market opened up this morning at 1317. We had a couple news reports this morning at 8:30, the GDP and the jobless claims. Both within consensus range, so they really didn’t have much effect on the market. We don’t trade from 9:30 until 9:45.

Coming out of there we were choppy within an opening range. And I think it was mostly waiting for the court decision here at about 10:00 in reference to the Obamacare, which they upheld. And with that we had an immediate selloff. Now there’s probably a 50/50 consensus as to is it going to be good or is it going to be bad for the financial markets. So with that we didn’t jump on any trades at this point.

Now ordinarily on a news announcement, you’ll see a selloff, nice clean pullback and a continuation in the direction. In this particular case it continued to chop around sideways and work within our opening range. We really didn’t get interested until after we had a nice clean break down through our opening range. Pullback. Target 1, target 2 hit for a total of 10 ticks. Some people held this on for a total of 14 to 16 ticks. I did not. I got out and I ended up paying twice the amount of commissions. Not a big deal. Got 4 ticks on that final side before we went into a lot of sideways chop and consolidation.

There was a nice clean pullback to our moving average right here at around 11:10, but we do watch the clock. And in this particular case I did not take this trade. Worked its way up into the no trade zone from 11:30 until 1:15 Eastern Standard Time. Coming out of the no trade zone we had an opportunity to get short. A nice clean 10 ticks. Resistance level here on our moving average and did not have any further trade’s setup to the downside.

Notice price action worked its way back up through the moving average. A pullback. In this particular case we did have a couple traders that knocked out anywhere from 25 to 40 ticks just on this one trade. And we had a lot of market internal indicators telling us just to buy on and hold. And notice our first entry here, if you’re playing from a conservative static targets, target 1 and target 2 hit for a total of 9 ticks. Here, if you’re doing another static target, target 1 and target 2 for a total of 10 ticks. However, if you held on with maybe a trailing stop in behind the moving averages, you should have been fine. Working your way up into anywhere from 25 to almost 40 ticks on that particular move.

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 June 27, 2012

Posted on June 27, 2012November 28, 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.

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Join the Shark Den!

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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 Wednesday, June 27th, 2012.

The market opened up this morning at 1318.25 just above our opening range. Notice from 9:30 to 9:45 we generally don’t trade. Coming out of the no trade zone we broke above our opening range for a nice clean pullback. Target 1 and target 2 hit for a total of 10 ticks. And then we went sideways consolidation. Kind of a choppy mode.

And then we did have an opportunity to try to get long. We saw a break through our moving average. Looked for an opportunity to get long. Target 1 was hit and got stopped out for minus 2 ticks only to find our price action to continue to ride along this opening high range. We did have an opportunity to get short once we crossed through the moving average again. Target 1 and target 2 were hit for a total of 6 ticks and then we went into the no trade zone. Lower volume and higher volatility and we choose not to trade during that timeframe.

Coming out at 1:15 we had an opportunity to get short. Target 1 and target 2 were hit. This was a countertrend trade because we were still above the moving average and some people were able to hold on. We have what’s called a holding indicator. The holding indicator would have allowed us to get into approximately 10 ticks. I was out at 6 ticks on that particular trade.

We then, once we had a confirmed movement below the moving average. Another opportunity to get short. Target 1 and target 2 were hit. A total of 8 ticks on that trade. And that was pretty much it for the day. We had a nice cross back to the upside and there really wasn’t any other opportunities before we went into another no trade zone.

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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There are inherent risks involved in trading stocks, options, commodity and index futures with real money. You should be aware of the risks involved and use the material contained in this website and in any downloaded materials at your own risk. You should consider your own financial condition before trading stocks, commodities or index futures with real money. The material contained and/or downloaded from this website is believed to be reliable, but neither TraderShark.com, nor any associates guarantee its accuracy or validity, nor are they responsible for any errors or omissions which may have occurred. None of the materials on or from this site provide, imply, or otherwise constitute a guarantee of performance. Your own trading results may differ. It should not be assumed that future results will be profitable or equal past performance, real, indicated or implied. CFTC Rule 4.41 – HYPOTHETICAL OR SIMULATED PERFORMANCE RESULTS HAVE CERTAIN INHERENT LIMITATIONS. UNLIKE AN ACTUAL PERFORMANCE RECORD, SIMULATED RESULTS DO NOT REPRESENT ACTUAL TRADING. ALSO, SINCE THE TRADES HAVE NOT ACTUALLY BEEN EXECUTED, THE RESULTS MAY HAVE UNDER- OR OVER-COMPENSATED FOR THE IMPACT, IF ANY, OF CERTAIN MARKET FACTORS SUCH AS LACK OF LIQUIDITY. SIMULATED TRADING PROGRAMS IN GENERAL ARE ALSO SUBJECT TO THE FACT THAT THEY ARE DESIGNED WITH THE BENEFIT OF HINDSIGHT. NO REPRESENTATION IS BEING MADE THAT ANY ACCOUNT WILL OR IS LIKELY TO ACHIEVE PROFITS OR LOSSES SIMILAR TO THOSE SHOWN.