Posts Tagged ‘day trades’
Day Trading Futures Through FOMC Minutes Volatility
The release of the FOMC Minutes served as our catalyst for volatility in the futures market place today, leading to 7 futures day trades.
In today’s video, we’ll discuss all 7 of those trades, walking through all of the breaches and setups. Most of our trades today came in the 11-12p PT hour (when the FOMC minutes were released), which led to a burst of volatility in the marketplace.
Outside of the indices and 30-YR bond, we also had futures volatility trades that set up in markets like Crud
Read MoreMSFT Fibonacci Levels and Stock Volatility Trades
We’re going to talk about 3 different stock topics in this video:
1 – Microsoft (MSFT) fib zones update, with new levels for entry, along with potential target zones
2 – Bullish short squeeze trade opportunity in PAGS
3 – Review of 3 Stock Volatility Box trades in ADSK, DDOG and GMAB
With MSFT, we’ve seen a pullback into the Fibonacci levels on this entire recovery move up, and we’re looking for a similar continuation of trend to the 1.618% extension.
In PAGS, we have a squeeze that looks l
Read MoreMorning Volatility Clues for ES, YM and RTY
In today’s video, we’re going to use our first hour Volatility Box test to find clues around what to expect for the rest of the day.
Today, we saw that the 30-YR Bond Futures (/ZB) and the Nasdaq Futures (/NQ) both gave us clues to expect more volatility as the day progresses. We’ll review whether or not the clues were accurate, and what actually happened as the day progressed.
In the Nasdaq, we were on our Doomsday Conservative models (which are the most conservative models we have), compare
Read MoreReviewing 3 Losers in ES, NQ and ZB for Takeaways
In today’s video, we’re going to take a look at three futures trades that were losses, to see if there are any takeaways.
We had setups in the S&P 500 (/ES), Nasdaq (/NQ) and 30-YR Bond (/ZB). However, neither of these setups worked today, which was atypical. Normally, we have an opportunity to earn back some of our losses, even on our net red days. Today, we didn’t have any such cases.
We’ll do a deeper dive into each of the three markets, and review the breach, along with the subsequent pr
Read MoreFollow-Up: Nightly Trending List Trade Results
In today’s video, we’re going to review the stocks that we had in our Nightly Trending List, to see what actually happened.
Yesterday, we had 4 stocks that we thought were likely to trend for today:
CCEP, CGC, HFC, and MSI
Out of those 4 stocks, we had 3 that met our rules and triggered trade entries. These are stocks that breached the outside of the previous day’s Volatility Box clouds, and we expected either buyers or sellers to resume control.
CCEP – Triggered and was a picture perfect t
Read MoreWalking Through the Nightly Trending List
In today’s video, we’ll do a walk through of our Nightly Trending List, which we send to all of our Stock Volatility Box members every night.
This list contains a group of stocks, usually 3-6, that our models suggest are likely to trend for the next day. These are stocks that have closed within our Volatility Box zones, and we expect either the buying or selling pressure to continue the next day.
Today’s List: CCEP, CGC, HFC, MIS
We’ll also layer on the Smarter Earnings Tool to use some Gap N
Read MoreMeasuring Volatility Across the Week (Using Stocks)
Let’s take a look at the volatility over the span of an entire week (7/27 – 7/31), to see how volatility changes.
Using Stock VB breaches as our measure of volatility, we saw that volatility increased substantially, from Monday all the way through Friday. For example, on Monday, we saw that we had a total of 40 volatility box breach setups. On Friday, that number had increased to 157 (wow!).
In this video, we’ll dive deeper into all 4 models, along with their winning % rate, and average P/L
Read MoreTrading FOMC Volatility – Futures & Stock Setups
With the FOMC event today, we saw a burst of volatility in our futures markets leading to a series of breaches in /ES, /NQ, /GC and /HG.
The S&P 500, Nasdaq and Copper futures trades were all winners, while the Gold trade was a loser. In today’s video, we’ll do a recap of all 5 of the trade setups that we had today, for a net P/L of +$805.
Outside of that, we’ll also talk about some swing trade setups that are still active and valid. With Powell’s remarks, we can look to take advantage of ar
Read MoreDay Trading Silver Futures (/SI) and AMD
In today’s video, we’ll break down day trades in the Silver Futures market (/SI), along with AMD.
Both Silver and AMD have been on the radars of a lot of traders, especially with their recent volatility. We’ve seen momentum kick into full gear in Silver, while related markets like Gold make all time high’s.
This increased volatility is opportunity for us, as volatility traders. In Silver, we had a total of 4 trades, 3 of which were winners for a net P/L of +$3,680.l We also had 1 trade in Natu
Read MoreWalking Through 10 Volatility Breaches in Futures Markets
We had more Volatility Box breaches today, than we’re typically used to seeing. Today, we had 8 out of the 10 markets we look at breach, giving us a total of 10 trade setups.
In today’s video, we’ll go through each of those 10 trade setups in slightly greater detail. While the indices all presented us with losing trades, we had other markets like Gold and Silver help make up for some of those losses.
If we had to extract 2 “takeaways” from today’s trading, those would be:
1. If you have to