Wednesday, September 1, 2010
The first hour of trading for emini futures can be very tricky if you ignore many of the wild reversals that inevitably pop up.  Sometimes I exclusively trade these reversals or failures in the first hour as they offer some of the most reliable trades.

You can see the first setup in the [...]

Monday, August 30, 2010
It always shocks me that so called investors run for the doors when a commodity trading advisor has a draw down. The fact is as much as they are not palatable for investors to go through they are as normal as breathing out. I look at draw downs of successful long termcommodity [...]

Thursday, August 26, 2010
Understanding the key differences between both gold and silver’s risk/volatility levels plays a large part in how I choose a low risk trade setup. Those of you who follow me already know the GLD etf is my favorite trading vehicle as it provides me with low risk trading setups along with a [...]

Tuesday, August 24, 2010
Breakout setups are one of my favorite patterns to trade in the futures markets.  That being said, sometimes a breakout pattern is signaled but the market still goes nowhere.  Knowing when not to trade is often as important as knowing when to trade; let’s look at today’s trade to see what there [...]

Friday, August 13, 2010
For the last rolling 24 months it has been tough in the commodity trend following community. A lot of hot money flowed in after the average returns of 20% of 2007 and 2008. This hot money has left and manycommodity trading advisors have seen assets under management plunge. Gold cooled until recently…and [...]

Wednesday, June 30, 2010
My advisories had a good day on Tuesday, calling the breakout in the stock index futures, the Yen, Canadian Dollar and a number of physical commodities.  Some days it’s tough to write the comments for Swing Trader’s Insight-there are times when the Taylor cycle isn’t clear, or the markets don’t do anything [...]

Friday, June 25, 2010
Often during the course of ones journey towards becoming a successful trader, we come to a point where we assume that we have inferior charts, or inferior tools, or inferior information that is causing us to trade poorly and lose money.
This assumption arises, many times, when we start to compare ourselves to [...]

Wednesday, June 23, 2010
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Bonds were bid most of the day on weaker equities, turrrrible (as Charles Barkley would say) new home sales figures and stable Fed policy.
The latest data on new home sales was a huge miss of expectations.  The consensus forecast was 430,000 sales but the actual number [...]

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 [...]

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