Futures
Bonds and Index Volatility Relationship
We’ll discuss how you can easily use the 30-Year Bond (/ZB) to predict increasing volatility in the 4 major index markets.
Read More2 Volatility Setups to Trade Futures
2 different setups to take advantage of and profit from volatility, using the Volatility Box.
Read MoreS&P, DOW and Nasdaq After the First Week of Trading in 2021
With the first full week of trading completed in 2021, we’ll review where the major markets ended in relation to technical levels.
Specifically, we’ll focus in on 6 markets:
1. S&P 500
2. DOW
3. Nasdaq
4. Russell 2K
5. Gold
6. Bonds
In the 4 major indices, we’ve tagged major Fibonacci extensions. While the S&P and Russell has hit its 1.272% extension, the Nasdaq has tagged its 2.00% extension. The DOW, on the other hand, has yet to hit any major extension from the Feb-March 2020 swing.
For
Read MoreEnd of the Year Volatility – S&P, DOW, Nasdaq and Russell
In this video, we’ll take a look at the end of year volatility that we’re seeing in the S&P, DOW, Nasdaq and Russell.
Read MoreGold and Silver Futures Day Trading (Live Commentary)
In today’s video, I’ll share some live commentary on volatility trade setups in Gold and Silver futures.
Read MoreComparing Volatility in 10 Futures Markets Post-Selloff
We’ll use the Volatility Box models as a structure, to easily rank the markets.
Read MoreNasdaq Futures (NQ) Trade Walkthrough
In this video, we will do a step by step walkthrough of the 4 major index markets, spending extra time on the Nasdaq futures (/NQ).
We had trade setups that triggered on the Nasdaq and Russell futures, both of which were fairly nice winners. The Nasdaq hit both its first and second targets, while the Russell hit its first target only.
With the S&P and the DOW futures, we did not have any triggers that met our Volatility Box Trade Plan rules. The S&P (/ES) breached our Volatility Box entry li
Read MoreScalp Setup on S&P 500 Futures
By 7 AM PT, the Volatility Box allowed us to get a quick measure of ranking of volatility within the 4 major indices markets.
Today, that ranking was the following (in order from least to most volatile):
1. ES
2. NQ and YM
3. RTY
The S&P 500 was the least volatile market, still respecting our Scalper Volatility Box. Meanwhile, the DOW and Nasdaq had both broken outside of the scalping models, suggesting more volatility than its peer.
The Russell 2000 was the most volatile, having breached ou
Read MorePost-Election Volatility Trading
With the election being a close race, we had a good deal of uncertainty that translated into volatility for our 4 major index markets.
During the after hours activity as the election results were slowly trickling out, we saw the S&P, Nasdaq, DOW and Russell futures all moving wildly (with the NQ up 3.5%+ in after hours). This same volatility continued into the market place today.
As a result of this volatility, we had a variety of different trading opportunities set up, which we’ll discuss in
Read MorePre-Election Volatility in the S&P 500
With the election tomorrow night, we’re starting to see some of the “funkiness” that we would expect from pre-election night volatility in the S&P 500.
Specifically today, we had the market internals suggest to us to expect more buying pressure as the day progressed. We also saw a steady rise in the Cumulative TICK indicator, suggesting more buying than selling pressure.
However, when you contrast that with what price action actually did, we’ll see a much different story. Instead of price go
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