Volatility Box Trade Examples

Join Us for the Trader’s Symposium 2019In tonight’s video, we cover the trades that took place in several index markets, 30-Yr Bonds, and Crude Oil.All of our trades were winners today, which was refreshing to see after the trades from earlier in the week. These are the probabilities we are used to seeing (and trading)…

Join Us for the Trader’s Symposium 2019 To adapt to the increased volatility, we have updated the Volatility Box mid-week to account for the new data.  Volatility Box members, please make sure to download the latest indicator files (available on the website, in My Downloads).  We are also excited to announce that we will be presenting the Volatility…

Join Us for the Trader’s Symposium 2019 Tonight, we have uploaded two separate videos that detail the trades for the week (9/23 – 9/25).To adapt to the increased volatility, we have updated the Volatility Box mid-week to account for the new data.  Volatility Box members, please make sure to download the latest indicator files (available on the…

Weekly P/L: +$3,972.50 In tonight’s video, we talk about the trade entries that we had as a result of volatility associated with the China news.  The common saying amongst traders comes to mind of not letting Friday’s take away our week’s profits.  While we were stopped out of almost all of our trades today, we…

The Power of Having Two Volatility Models In tonight’s video, discuss the trades that setup across the board in all four indices after the much-anticipated rate cut. We were able to capture some nice moves using both the Aggressive and Conservative Volatility Box.  Today is a perfect illustration as to why having multiple volatility models…

Adapting to Increased Bond Volatility In tonight’s video, we talk about how we navigated the chop in the 30-year bonds, ahead of tomorrow’s FOMC event. After the morning’s session, we adapted to the increased volatility in the /ZB futures, and switched over to our Conservative Volatility Box to end the day on a winning note. We…

Learning to “Lose” in Trading In tonight’s video, we talk about our one trade in the crude oil markets, where we were almost instantly stopped out.  While we’re used to winning much more often with the Volatility Box than losing, it’s important to remember that learning to lose (and containing those losses) is one of…

Weekly P/L: +$6,518.75 In tonight’s video, we show you yet another example of the same setup that we discussed in yesterday’s video, in the /ZB futures. We had price breach the Conservative Volatility Box, giving us a heads up to buy at-the-money put options by 7am PT.  The at-the-money $138.50 strike, TLT put options with 7 days…

Day Trading Options With the Volatility Box Today was almost a picture perfect day for us, using the Volatility Box.  We faded price action, almost across the board, when news of a potential interim trade war deal hit the tape.  We’ve also had quite a few people ask us whether or not you can use…

Download the Simple Breakout Tool (FREE) Welcome to the Daily Volatility Box Report for September 11, 2019. In today’s video, we talk about the trade setups in the crude oil futures and the 30-year bond futures. We had a total of 3 trades, for a net P/L of +$200. Resources: Click here to download the Simple…

Fading Reactions to China News We had the markets rally after news hit the tape of China being ready to buy more American agricultural products in hopes of a better trade deal.  We used the Volatility Box to fade the initial reaction to this news in all four indices, giving us wins across the board.…

Download the Simple Breakout Tool (FREE) Welcome to the Daily Volatility Box Report for September 9, 2019. In today’s video, we talk about our entries in the indices, along with the 30-year bonds. Despite only going 2/5 on our trades, we were still able to keep our losses relatively well-contained, and protect our gains so…

Using the VScore and Supply Demand Edge To Trade Smarter Welcome to the Daily Volatility Box Report for September 6, 2019. In today’s video, we discuss how to use the VScore labels, to help you create a trade plan using the supply/demand edge indicator, along with the market on close numbers. We had a total…

EIA Report As a Catalyst For Entries After an early loss in the RTY futures, we had trade opportunities set up in the /ZB and /CL Futures, to help us end the day marginally positive.  We had the Crude EIA Report, which indicated we had “greater than expected” supply, and the Volatility Box gave us an…

Gathering Info From “MOC” Numbers After a relatively boring day in the markets, we had some volatility pick up into the final hour of trading in the 30-YR Bonds (/ZB). We went from having a market on close sell-side imbalance of -$800M to having a buy-side imbalance of +$50M.  In tonight’s video, we talk about…

Starting the Month On a Winning Note We had a fantastic trading start to the month of September, and were able to continue our winning streak of last week (6 days and counting).  The Volatility Box helped us buy the dips on the indices today, giving us almost perfect entries across the board.  In tonight’s…

Weekly P/L: $10,413.75 A lot of traders fear Friday’s. We embrace them.  When all the indices starting to fall lower at around 8am, a lot of traders panicked. It’s easy to think, “Ah… here comes the bloodbath!” When most people were fearful, we were opportunistic. The indices fell perfectly into our Volatility Box, allowing us…

Profiting Big Time When Volatility Strikes Today was yet another picture perfect day for us, using the Volatility Box.  After 3 relatively low volatility days in a row, today was our dream come true. We had plenty of trade opportunities, and an 87.5% winning rate (in fact, our one loser was a break-even stop). For…

Finding Repeating Patterns and Profiting One of our members pointed out an interesting pattern that appears often in the Gold Futures. The basic idea of this pattern is to fade any extreme moves to the edges, in the Gold Futures, that occur between 6-7a PT. We talk more about this pattern, and show you the…

Keeping Losers Small, and Winners Big We faced some messy volatility today, but still managed to end the day on a winning note.  Despite being stopped out on the S&P and DOW Futures by just a few ticks, we were able to pull out more than +$1,440 thanks to the Nasdaq, Russell and 30-Year Bond…

Heading Into The Week Already Up +$1,270 It’s a great feeling to start Monday on a winning note.  Within 30 minutes of the market open, we knew that the Nasdaq was the index market with the least amount of volatility today, and we were able to take advantage of that.  We faded a +1000 TICK…