DJIA +14 S&P500 -1.3 NASDAQ -3 ***Economic Data*** – (SA) South Africa Sept Budget Balance (ZAR): -17.0BB v -5.4B prior – (CL) Chile Sept Industrial Production Y/Y: 5.2% v 3.5%e; Industrial Sales Y/Y: 1.1% v 0.8%e – (CL) Chile Sept Unemployment Rate: 7.4% v 7.3%e – (CL) Chile Sept Total Copper Production: 436.7K v 427.4K […]
Continue reading————————————————————————————— The James’ Report: Professional Resources for Professional Traders ————————————————————————————— – dollar index trading in the bear price channel lows, and we use our trigger zone to tell us where this dollar index is likely to move this morning. Expect the dollar index to rise off these lows up into the zone above us at […]
Continue readingToday we are anxious to see the reaction after the EU Leaders Summit which was rumored to have made some good progress. Like most things, the REAL test is in the markets. Will the volume be high? We will have to wait and see. 845am EST We are not seeing much market personality after the […]
Continue readingHi Guys, We had another exciting day of live discretionary trading in our trade room this morning, and I wanted to keep you up-dated on our Automated Trading Strategies. Yesterday we looked at the Euro currency futures automated strategy, which was very impressive. Today I want to look at trading Gold futures with our fully-automated […]
Continue readingDow +245 S&P +27 NASDAQ +51 ***Economic Data*** – (SP) Spain Sept YTD Budget Balance: -€37.0B v -€30.9B prior – (GE) Germany Oct CPI Baden Wuerttemberg M/M: 0.3% v 0.0% prior; Y/Y: 2.8% v 2.5% prior – (GE) Germany Oct Preliminary Consumer Price Index M/M: 0.0% v 0.1%e; Y/Y: 2.5% v 2.6% – (GE) Germany […]
Continue readingWe’ve had a tremendous morning session in our live trade room, here is our afternoon prep. Dollar index trading lower into the end of the morning and our plan remains the same. I am looking the dollar index to bounce off major support and when it does I will be waiting to sell the highs […]
Continue reading————————————————————————————— The James’ Report: Professional Resources for Professional Traders ————————————————————————————— – dollar index trading lower outside the range from Thursday, so we know this is a bearish market at this time. Bearish dollar index means bullish markets everywhere else so we buy pullbacks as the dollar index rises. Our hopes are that the dollar index […]
Continue reading800am EST This morning all eyes are on the EU Leaders Summit, where they trying to find a solution to this double-dip recession threat. Markets are trading in the middle of their range, and we can see they are looking for clues. 830am EST The euro currency futures is in the range from Tuesday and […]
Continue readingDow +44 S&P -1 NASDAQ -20 ***Economic Data*** – (IS) Israel Aug Unemployment Rate: 5.6 v 5.7% prior – (US) MBA Mortgage Applications w/e Oct 21st: +4.9 v -14.9% prior – (US) Sept Durable Goods Orders: -0.8% v -1.0%e; Durables Ex Transportation: 1.7% v 0.4%e – (BR) Brazil Sept Total Outstanding Loans (BRL): 1.929T v […]
Continue readingTrading w/ Pivots – Pivot is a technical level of support and resistance – Pivots are calculated many different ways, but the most common is using the Open, High, Low, and Close, and then using a mathematical formula to draw ‘pivot points’ on your charts. o This calculation is similar to how a Fibonacci calculation […]
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