Here’s your Evil Speculator prime directive when it comes to picking targets for your discretionary trades – do not overstay your welcome! You put on a hot trade – it’s pushing in your direction and eventually touches your target. And that means you are out – the only exception being a few lottery tickets if you can plausible justify a second target area.
Case in point: Silver – just yesterday I told all of your short term traders to be out of silver post haste. Today’s candle may have been a rude awakening to anyone not heeding that call yesterday. The story is a bit different for medium to long term trend traders of course [...]
I don’t really have much to say today on the equities front. The tape is flailing around just as expected and there’s nothing for us to do unless we paint a meaningful correction or progress upward toward 1390. We do have however two new profit targets in the Evil Speculator commodity pit – and for us stainless steel rats that’s always a happy occasion:
Silver has pushed outside both 2.0 BB bands (i.e. 25 and 100 days) which means you thank the dark Lord by sacrificing a chicken (devouring a chicken salad from Whole Foods is acceptable) and immediately proceed to taking profits.
The weekly chart also suggest some impending [...]
For over a year now I have been telling my stainless steel rats that the real deal is happening over on the FX side. The ones amongst you who have heeded my suggestions have been banking coin and most everyone else is probably long gone licking their wounds or is secretly reading this blog in a cramped cubicle at some day job. Boss alert!!! Yes, the market is a cruel mistress but she happens to be extremely loyal to the forces of reality. As a trader you have a choice to make – every single day – you either trade the tape you are given or the tape you want to have. Hey, I don’t make the tape – I just report it – so please don’t shoot the messenger [...]
I’ve spent most of my weekend on hooking up NinjaTrader to an institutional Forex feed. It’s not done just yet but I am able to connect to Hotspot at this point and pull the type of DOM data that we retail mortals usually do not have access to. The goal of this project is to further refine ZeroFX and extract more precise buying/selling exhaustion points. The signal is working pretty well thus far but I am convinced that there’s a lot more ground to cover, the key being access to institutional market data. It’s in the works and probably will take me a few weeks – but I have an inkling the effort will pay off in spates. FYI – I’m doing this [...]