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Trading a Trend Day in the Emini

By Chuck Kowalski • Jun 16th, 2010 • Category: Day-Trading, E-Mini, Indices (SP500, Dow, Nasdaq)

Wednesday, June 16, 2010
Trend days can be the best days for some day traders and the absolute worst days for others.  Tuesday was a classic trend day where the market gapped higher and slowly and methodically pushed higher all day.

I like to use the 20-period exponential moving average on the 5-minute charts to determine the [...]

Technical Analysis Indicators in Real Time (indicatorwarehouse.com)

By Day Trading Reviews and Lessons • Apr 18th, 2010 • Category: Day-Trading, E-Mini, Forex, Futures, Indicies, Resources For Traders

If you are looking for real time indicators that could be an integral part of your trading, you should check out Indicator Warehouse’s library of Technical Analysis Indicators for futures, forex, and stock traders.
All the trading indicators are written for the NinjaTrader platform and can be used directly from your trading charts. Most of the [...]

A Crash Course in Successfully Trading the Current Nasdaq Emini Market

By Chuck Kowalski • Apr 14th, 2010 • Category: Commodity News, E-Mini, Indices (SP500, Dow, Nasdaq)

Wednesday, April 14, 2010
The Nasdaq has been the strongest of the U.S. equity markets and it has been a near straight ascent higher throughout the last year.  Normally you would expect a market to be very volatile at this stage, but the market has exhibited a slow grind higher on low volume and low volatility.  [...]

DayTradetoWin’s “Atlas Line” – Review and Summary

By Day Trading Reviews and Lessons • Apr 6th, 2010 • Category: Day-Trading, E-Mini, Financials

ATLAS LINE DAY TRADE TO WIN SITE
Daytradetowin (www.daytradetowin.com) has released a its own proprietary automated signal called the Atlas Line.  This is a method suppose to help traders as a tool for general market direction.  Essentially, the Atlas Line plots a line across your chart, and provides versatility in its use.
For example, Support/Resistance [...]

Trading Pivots in this RangeBound Stock Market

By Chuck Kowalski • Apr 2nd, 2010 • Category: Commodity News, E-Mini, Indices (SP500, Dow, Nasdaq)

Friday, April 2, 2010
The S&P has been stuck in a range for almost two weeks and it was surprising there were no big bets ahead of the monthly employment numbers on Friday.  We will have to wait until Monday to see how the markets react to the report, since the markets are closed on Friday.
Range [...]

Computing Weekly Support and Resistance in the Emini Contracts

By Rob Mitchell • Mar 25th, 2010 • Category: Commodity News, Day-Trading, E-Mini, Indicies

Thursday, March 25, 2010
A lot of the technical work I do in developing our stock market forecasts is based on rigorous computer analysis of the markets.  Everything for me is not hard core science though, and this is especially true when it comes to support and resistance computations for the website.  I have the unique [...]

Stock Market Wisdom of the Ages

By Rob Mitchell • Mar 24th, 2010 • Category: E-Mini, Indices (SP500, Dow, Nasdaq)

Wednesday, March 24, 2010
There are many stock market  sayings that have been passed down from the sages of old;  “The trend is your friend., Buy the Rumor, and sell the news, Always buy on strength”, to name just a few.  There are hundreds of these sayings.  I love them all because, after all, why would [...]

Computing Weekly Support and Resistance in the Emini Contracts

By Rob Mitchell • Mar 22nd, 2010 • Category: Advice From Pros, Day-Trading, E-Mini

Monday, March 22, 2010
A lot of the technical work I do in developing our stock market forecasts is based on rigorous computer analysis of the markets.  Everything for me is not hard core science though, and this is especially true when it comes to support and resistance computations for the website.  I have the unique [...]

Stock Market Overbought or Oversold? Don’t kid yourself!

By Rob Mitchell • Mar 17th, 2010 • Category: Day-Trading, E-Mini, Indices (SP500, Dow, Nasdaq), Indicies, Trading Tips

Wednesday, March 17, 2010
I have heard people refer to the market being “overbought” or “oversold” for as long as I have been a student of the markets.  To be sure, only one of the two terms has any credibility and that is oversold.  There is one case for this, and that is when the market [...]

Successful Day Trading and Scalp Factors Using Eminis

By Day Trading Reviews and Lessons • Mar 15th, 2010 • Category: Day-Trading, E-Mini, Education, Financials, Futures, Indicies, Resources For Traders, Trading Tips

Here are the 6 most important things when it comes to developing a day plan methodology.
Here are the factors:
The conditions met for entry: This is where you need an exact point of entry.  Whether you use chart set ups with price action, or any other method you need to consider why you are getting in. [...]

Scalping Trading with Emini S&P Futures

By Day Trading Reviews and Lessons • Mar 14th, 2010 • Category: Day-Trading, E-Mini, Financials, Futures, Indicies

Recently many traders starting to use scalping methods such as the Emini Scalp Trader while trading the Emini S&P.  There are many advantages to scalping methods as oppose to long term or even day trades that can last for hours.
For one, emini S&P can and will provide opportunities for a “fast” grab of ticks or [...]

 

 

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