June 8, 2010

Im watching the Dollar Index Futures contracts, watch these day trade set-ups

Congrats to the members who made money with us today, another great in the live trade room!

Thanks for all the support from our members and guests while we broadcasted live from Mexico, and made a great profit in the process.

We earned 50 ticks on Wednesday, 100 ticks Thurs & an amazing 180 ticks on Friday.  The best part of last week’s price action was that we took trades on lots of different timeframes.

we took fast-paced scalp trades, we slowed it down to an 8-range chart looking for easier patterns setting up, and finally, we grabbed some easy entries on the slower timeframes of 30-minute & 60-minute charts using our trigger-zone tool and understanding how fibonnacci ratios can help understand who controls the market.
For example, we took trades on a 13-Range chart with a reversal trade pattern and earned over 50 ticks on a single day trade.
we also grabbed trend-continuation trades with very tight stops for 15-30 ticks numerous times a day.

we even called a winning trade on this blog, which was an incredible 150 tick winner on gold futures!

Its been a busy week, my travels were safe, restful, and thanks to everyone’s help last week…it was also profitable. πŸ™‚

As always, congrats to our members who did great last week, you guys work so hard, keep it up!

Let’s get down to business and look at whats going on in the futures markets right now…

we have a lot of narrow ranges and sideways chop right now.

With the dollar sideways, the gold finally tiring slightly below its HOD, and the Euro is still setting up on the trade we called today in the live trade room.

lets start with the dollar index futures…

the dollar index futures has a lot of overhead resistance right now.  its at its lows, which is good, but the trading range of the day is very narrow, which means we are going to find ourselves in the middle of the trading range very quickly, which we want to avoid.

I see resistance starting at .289 and then my medium timeframes say .368 and .326.  as you can see, .368 will be the highest level of resistance, so that will be our trigger for the DX-Pattern.

with the dollar setting up, lets look at the euro futures contracts…

we called this trade already in our trade room today, and the trade is still setting up.  You can see the current day’s HOD @ 1992, this is our entry level, but look to wait for confirmation from BIG buyers above the big round number just above us @ 2000.

be sure to wait for good confirmation on the entry around this big round number.  2000 is a VERY impulsive spot because its obvious added ZERO πŸ™‚

If you look at the big picture on this chart you will see this is a massive 2-step reveral pattern, which should give us a nice long entry opportunity above 1992.

lets take a look at the Aussie Dollar futures…

 with the dollar at its lows, and you can see the aussie dollar setting up for a nice DX-Pattern because its tradign at its highs.

my goal will be to wait for entry below 8159 because you can see it will be a 2-step reversal entry for s short trade, with targets at 8130and 8115.

wait for the dollar to confirm the entry on the aussie dollar, and make sure you see strong BIG buyers on the dollar before you enter the aussie dollar.

Ill review this one in the live trade room.

The ES e-mini futures contracts just came off their lows…nothing setting up at the moment..

Look for the ES to re-test its lows for another potential entry on a little faster timeframe for your entry opportunity and keep your entry as close to the low of day as possible to keep risk at a minimum.
Gold is finally tired after a volatile day, and is chopping sideways off its highs…
You cant SEE the Support and resistance levels on this chart snapshot because they arent anywhere nearby…this futures market is trading in the middle of the range, so we need to wait for this to re-test its highs or drop and give us some trend to gain the confidence we need to take some trades.
crude Oil futures are quickly approaching their highs at 72.49
Im looking for crude oil futures to test its highs, show signs of big sellers at those highs, wait for a pullback off the highs to develop a swing-low price pattern, and then look to short the break of that swing low.
if we break thru the highs and see strong big buyers look for price to break, then pullback, and look for a Wave entry long on this day trade buying the highs.
remember to bring questions to the live trade room tomorrow, and follow those rules πŸ™‚

    schooloftrade

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