Archive for ‘futures trading’

ES Emini: An Enjoyable Day Trading Futures

By , 10 September, 2009, 1 Comment

Today was one of those days that was very enjoyable to trade. The price action stayed above the 89 period SMA so I did not take a short trade all day, and even passed on what appeared to be a pretty good one later in the afternoon. I really just wanted to concentrate on staying in the trend, which turned out to be a pretty good str

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ES Emini for Thursday

By , 10 September, 2009, No Comment
ESU9
For 09/10/2009
How To Use
Symbol R1 R2 Pivot S1 S2
ESU9 1039.58 1046.67 1029.17 1022.08 1011.67

Fed and other important announcements

Jobless Claims
[Report][djStar]8:30 AM ET

Dennis Lockhart Speaks
12:30 PM ET
Tim Geithner Speaks
1:00 PM ET

Donald Kohn Speaks
4:15 PM ET

Money Supply
[Bullet4:30 PM ET
All sorts of stuff today that has the potential to move the market a bit, could be an interesting day with some significant movement, depending upon the nature of the announcements.

ES Emini: Pivot and other announcements

By , 9 September, 2009, No Comment
ESU9
For 09/09/2009
How To Use
Symbol R1 R2 Pivot S1 S2
ESU9 1030.58 1036.17 1021.42 1015.83 1006.67

Fed and other important economic announcements

Charles Evans Speaks
8:00 AM ET

Redbook
[Bullet8:55 AM ET

Richard Fisher Speaks
1:30 PM ET

Beige Book
[Bullet2:00 PM ET
There is not an overabundance of announcements today, but some interesting stuff.  Yesterday’s announcement of the alarming contraction of consumer credit should play into the market today.

ES Emini Chart for Friday

By , 6 September, 2009, No Comment

Several nice trades early in the day, with the 9:30 move a very nice trade. The rest of the day the market traded in a narrow range and I probably should have stopped, but I was feeling stubborn, eeked out a few gainers and suffered a few losers.

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Daily Pivot S1 S2 R1 R2 and Announcements

By , 4 September, 2009, No Comment

Not a whole lot of information to be released today, but the market has plenty to digest with the flurry of reports this week, some good, some not so good.

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ES Emini Trading Chart for 9-2-09

By , 2 September, 2009, No Comment

A nice day of trading though there were some very choppy periods. No big gainers until the end of the day…most of it was 10 point stuff, especially later as the range narrowed. Had a couple of losers on trades that didn’t really develop.

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Emini Trading: Pivots, Support and Resistance

By , 30 August, 2009, No Comment

I like to establish the days pivot point (along with R1, R2, S1 and S2) before I begin any trading session. In my mind, these are hypothetical points of support and resistance. There is a problem with pivot points, though, and it lies in the word hypothetical.

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