Post-Election Volatility Trading

November 4, 2020

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

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Trading Futures in the Final Hour

September 16, 2020

The final hour of the markets today gave us multiple opportunities to buy the dip, and catch some quick reversals in the indices.

We had a breach in the S&P 500 (/ES), Nasdaq (/NQ), DOW (/YM) and the Russell 2000 (/RTY). All 4 of these breaches respected our Volatility Box models, and gave some incredible reversal opportunities.

In addition to the indices, we also had breaches in Natural Gas (/NG), which was successful, along with Gold (/GC). The only market in which we went outside of our vo

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Trading Daily and Hourly Volatility Levels on Indices

September 8, 2020

After 3 days of breaking outside of our most conservative models, we saw price action start to stabilize just a bit.

In today’s video, we’ll layer on both our hourly and daily volatility ranges to look and trade the indices. We sent out the daily volatility ranges, part of the Stock Volatility Box platform, to all of our Futures VB members as well, which ended up triggering for some nice trades across the board.

Via our Futures VB levels, we had a total of 7 trades, with a net P/L of +$1,410,

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Volatility Trades in Tech Stocks and Futures (Sept. 2, 2020)

September 2, 2020

We had the Nasdaq futures break outside of our Doomsday Conservative (our most conservative) volatility models within the first 30 minute after market open. With that same downfall, we had a group of tech stocks all hit our Stock Volatility Box Live Scanner, giving us plenty of opportunities to look for fade trade setups.

In today’s video, we’ll discuss both stock and futures trades, along with ways to overlap the Stock and Futures Volatility Boxes to work in congruence. With Nasdaq breaking ou

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Using Volatility Clues to Day Trade Futures

August 4, 2020

We had our early morning volatility test give us some clues as to what to “expect” for the rest of the day.

Using our Volatility Box models, we had the 30-YR Bond (/ZB) signal to us that we should be using the Doomsday Aggressive models, while our indices all signaled that we could continue to scalp via the Scalper Volatility Box.

That was a clue – with the bonds giving us an early heads up to expect some sort of volatility in the broader markets (which we saw, in the 11-12 PM PT hour in the

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Trading FOMC Volatility – Futures & Stock Setups

July 29, 2020

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

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Walking Through 10 Volatility Breaches in Futures Markets

July 23, 2020

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

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