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 [...]

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 [...]

Friday, April 23, 2010
Have you ever done your analysis, spotted a market whose chart looks great, bought it, only to see it turn around and sell off?  Have you ever had one of those streaks where you think ‘if only I had done the opposite on those trades’?  As a broker, if I had a [...]

Thursday, April 15, 2010
One of the most important things about trading is the management of the risk on your trade positions.  Let’s face it, if the market just doesn’t go anywhere while you are in a position, you just cannot gain from it.  So, depending on market volatility, you really cannot control to any degree [...]

Wednesday, April 7, 2010
I smiled a little bit the other day, when I saw the grumpy old men in the corner coffee shop excitedly engaged in a conversation. I couldn’t hear all of what they were saying, but based on the animated pointing and gesturing at what looked like a paper price chart of Gold [...]

Monday, April 5, 2010
When something has a name that has more syllables than I can count, it usually keys me in to the idea it could be a bunch of fluff.  Moving averages are great if they are used correctly in technical trading. This is true for one reason; they introduce delay.
The amount of delay [...]

Friday, April 2, 2010
One of the very worst things that can happen when you begin to trade a new trading system is to start losing right out of the gate.  Just about anyone will tell you this occurs to them, “every time” (let me hear a big Amen).  This tendency of human behavior is not [...]

Thursday, April 1, 2010
Debunking the Price Gap Myth…and how gaps influence your trading
A morning gap occurs whenever there is a difference in price between the previous day’s close and the open in the morning.  Theoretically, there are really two of these types of conditions that occur.  A true gap is where the open is above [...]

Wednesday, March 31, 2010
In the classic book “Market Wizards,” one of the famous traders interviews recommends that traders risk no more than 2% of their capital on any one trade.  Any amount higher, the expert trader proclaims, is akin to being a cowboy gunslinger.
Although everyone’s circumstances are different, in general this is a very good [...]