***Looking Ahead*** – 11:00 (US) Fed to purchase $2-3B in Notes/Bonds – 11:45 (EU) EU President Van Rompuy speaks at Conference on State of EU – 12:00 (US) Fed’s Raskin Speaks on `Economic Inclusion’ in Washington – 13:00 (US) Treasury to sell $29B in 7-Year Notes – 14:00 (BR) Brazil May Central Gov’t Budget (BRL) […]
Continue readingWave Pattern Failures What is a wave pattern? Buying a pullback or selling a retracement. We have very specific rules for trading these patterns. When a wave pattern fails, its often a great opportunity to make profit. Let’s review the many ways we take failures on the wave pattern. How do we trade failures? The […]
Continue reading——————————————————————– All eyes are on crude oil futures this morning as OPEC threatens cutting its supply of crude oil after the IEA told us they would release more reserves to help lower prices of this ‘black gold’. News this morning has crude oil prices rising on the fear that less supply will lead to higher […]
Continue readingWe see the 89range US Dollar is in the middle of the range and right on top of the BMT which will lead to slow and sloppy markets this morning. Clue #1 today = dollar in the middle @ BMT The 13range of the US Dollar Index is moving lower at 800am this morning, making […]
Continue reading***Looking Ahead*** – (FR) France Net Change Jobseekers: -10.0Ke v -10.9K prior; Total Jobseekers: No est v 2.669M prior – (AR) Argentina May Supermarket Sales Y/Y: No est v 16.4% prior – (US) Weekly API Energy Inventories 10:30 AM Market Internals update at 10:30ET – NYSE volume 155M shares, about 17% below its three-month average; […]
Continue readingEasiest Market for a new Day Trader, Swing Trader, Scalper Two main issues with the volume on the market you want to trade. – It has enough volume to keep margins low and liquidity high – Not too much volume so that it never moves with anything big. Not enough volume won’t give me consistency […]
Continue reading———————————————— News overnight has OPEC and the IEA back in the spotlight. If you recall last week IEA authorized the release of Oil Reserves to help drive more supply into the crude oil market, and overnight we hear news from the IEA that they are leaving the door wide open for more of these ‘strategic’ […]
Continue reading820am est The US Dollar Index is in the middle of a price wedge, and we know this can lead to sloppy markets we trade most. Time is NOT on my side if we don’t break this wedge, and I will use this as an overview of the markets today. Short term trend is DOWN, […]
Continue readingBy OGJ editors — US drilling activity continued to increase with 1,882 rotary rigs working this week, 22 more than the previous week and up from 1,552 in a comparable period last year, Baker Hughes Inc. reported. HOUSTON, June 24 Land operations had the biggest increase with 25 additional units for a total of 1,833 […]
Continue reading***Looking Ahead*** – (GE) German Chancellor Merkel Host dinner for China’s Wen Jiabao – 11:00 (US) Fed’s Kocherlakota speaks on leverage in Big Sky, Montana – 11:00 (US) Fed to purchase $4-5B in Notes/Bonds – 11:30 (US) Treasury to sell $27B in 3-Month and $24B in – 12:00 (EU) ECB’s Stark speaks at event in […]
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