Posts Tagged ‘russell’
Volatility Reversal Setup Walkthrough
This is a longer form, detailed walkthrough for Futures Volatility Box members, recapping all fade setups from May 10, 2021’s trading activity.
Read MoreNasdaq, Russell and 30-YR Bond Volatility
We had the 30-Year Bond futures giving us an early heads up of increasing volatility in the indices. In this video, we’ll evaluate whether that information proved to be useful in trading volatility on the indices.
Read MoreChop vs. Trend Trades in ES, YM, NQ and RTY
Let’s look at visual examples of chop vs. trend trade setups, using the Volatility Box.
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 MoreComparing Volatility in 10 Futures Markets Post-Selloff
We’ll use the Volatility Box models as a structure, to easily rank the markets.
Read MoreTSLA, RTY and YM Trades
We’ll do a quick update to our TSLA Broken Wing Butterfly trade, along with discuss two futures trades in the Russell and DOW markets.
Starting off with the TSLA broken wing butterfly, we were looking for a pin near the $550 price point, and had built a 530/550/560 broken wing butterfly for $1.55. Today, that same butterfly is currently selling for ~$3.90.
To manage the trade, I’d be looking at a pullback here in TSLA, which would actually be healthy, and help erode some of the theta premium
Read MorePre-Election Volatility in Index Markets
With the election right around the corner, we’ve had a good amount of volatility enter our 4 major index markets.
In today’s video, we’ll break down the trade setups that we had in the S&P, Nasdaq, DOW and Russell futures markets. If you don’t trade the full size futures, you can also use the micro-futures equivalents, or even the ETF options.
With today’s chop, we had the S&P and DOW really chopping back and forth in between our Futures Volatility Box entry lines.
We triggered both long an
Read MoreHourly and Daily Volatility Levels – SPY, QQQ, DIA, IWM
As volatility traders, the 2020 election has led to an increase in not only volatility, but also trade opportunities in many of the major markets.
In today’s video, we’ll contrast our Hourly Volatility Box levels with the Daily Volatility Box levels in the 4 major indices. We’ll take a look at ES vs. SPY, NQ vs. QQQ, DIA vs. YM, and IWM vs. RTY.
We’ll also highlight the “Likely Trending Down” heads up that we received with the Cumulative TICK Pro indicator, and how to trade using market inte
Read MoreStimulus Volatility – Futures and Stock Trades
We had stimulus volatility act as a catalyst, leading to some nice trade setups in both futures and stocks.
In today’s video, we’ll cover trades in the 4 major index market futures, along with some stock setups in Pinterest (PINS), FarFetch (FTCH), Baidu (BIDU) and DOW Inc. (DOW).
The first half of the video will focus on the indices trades, where similar to this week, we had 3 winners and 1 loser. We had some nice gains in the /ES, /YM and /RTY futures, while the /NQ was a loser.
With sto
Read MoreDay Trading Futures Volatility – ES, NQ, YM, RTY
We had two different trade setups trigger today, in our 4 major indices markets. With elections coming closer, volatility has been creeping back into the index markets.
Our first setup was based on the market internals, specifically the Cumulative TICK. We had our Cumulative TICK Pro indicator alert us that we should expect a trending up market by 7am PT, 30 minutes after the market open.
Using that information, the SPY 345 Call was worth $2.00 at the point of entry, and close to ~$3.19 at it
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