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Frankly this relentless rally is getting ridiculous. But who are we to complain? We didn’t just happen to nail what I would deem a picture perfect entry but thus far have managed to ride this advance like Jess Lockwood on steroids. Yeeeehaaaaa!!! These are the types of campaigns dreams (and fortunes) are made of and I hope you were wise enough to hop on the bull two weeks ago when I posted this entry.
So I found myself waking up last night and habitually reached for my iPad to catch up on emails and check my systems. Of course I wound up peeking at the blog as well and then for some reason decided to head over to the Slope to see what those bears were up to these days. I have to concede that I don’t visit there often as I truly have my hands full with running my own blog, maintaining various automated systems, coding and bug fixing, attending customer support duties – and then there of course are my own trading activities. Not a weekend goes by where I do not spend a minimum of five hours working on various projects behind the scenes or am preparing for the week to [...]
Equities are bubbling higher with the ES futures touching the 2k mark for the very first time (the cash did it yesterday). Since there’s not much to be said on the trading front this is a good time to run through a few long term perspectives. Now that another major milestone is in the bag the question once again returns to how long equities can keep this pace up!
Let’s start with price and our volume profile on the E-Mini futures. If you ever entertained illusions of possessing any clairvoyance in regards to the market’s direction then think back to early August when we were in the midst of what looked like a correction with legs. Since that time [...]
In the past few years I have spent quite a bit of effort categorizing distinct market phases as they clearly can affect both discretionary as well as automated system trading. I often also refer to it as ‘market weather’ and my first treatise on the subject was two years ago in a pertinent post. It mostly focuses on the psychological aspects of how market gyrations affect trading behavior and distorts perceptions among market participants. In combination with a trader’s respective cognitive biases various market conditions will affect one’s daily activities. Whereas a swing trader may be perfectly happy and successful playing the swings in a volatile sideways [...]
