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Gold Futures, the Fed, and the Taylor Trading Technique

Scott Hoffman — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 18:42:10 +0000

Yesterday afternoon I was talking to another trader about the gold futures. We were talking strategy for it today in light of today’s FOMC meeting. I told him I wanted to buy it today. Yesterday was a down day, a Sell Short day according to the Taylor Trading Technique. That meant today was a TTT [...]

How to Find Trade Entries on Trend Days in Futures Markets

Scott Hoffman — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 18:01:00 +0000

One of the most common questions I get asked is what trading sessions I use, both for charting and for trading. When things were solely pit traded it was easy; there was only one set of trading hours. Electronic trading makes for two sets of trading hours and charts so it’s harder to define what [...]

Combining Signals for Bond Futures Trading

Scott Hoffman — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 18:53:49 +0000

Treasury bond futures had a Taylor Trading Technique Buy day signal today. In the back of my mind I have a bullish bias on Treasuries this week, although I try not to mix my opinions and trading. Yesterday showed a textbook TTT Sell short day (I used it as the SS Day example in my [...]

Breakout Setup in the eMini S&P Futures – How to Trade When the Train Has Left

Scott Hoffman — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 19:20:23 +0000

The eMini S&P futures had a breakout setup for today’s session. I was going to write a heads up article about the breakout setup last night but coaching duties got in the way. Also, I rarely trade at night, especially to initiate trades. I don’t really like having trades on when I can’t be around [...]

Using the Taylor Trading Technique to Identify and Trade Trending Markets

Scott Hoffman — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 17:19:12 +0000

This Thursday at 3:30 PM CT I’m doing a webinar on the trading methods I use for my Swing Trader’s Insight advisory. Sign up for this presentation HERE. I didn’t see much to do in the financial markets early this morning – there weren’t many clear signals to trade. I’m looking to sell the stock [...]

Finding Secondary Entries for Breakout Trades in Futures

Scott Hoffman — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 18:16:02 +0000

If you’ve read me for a while you know that I like to trade the grain futures markets. As they have two trading sessions per day there’s a second morning open to trade off, and the late open means that if you miss trades in the financial markets because they occur too early there’s still [...]

Trading the Intraday Stop and Go in the Crude Oil Futures

Scott Hoffman — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 19:00:40 +0000

In this morning’s Swing Trader’s Insight Watch List I wrote that I would be interested in buying crude oil futures if it rallied over last week’s high. That ended up working well; here’s the why and how of the trade. Below is the daily chart for February crude oil futures. Last Friday was a bearish [...]

Trading the Breakout Setup in Sugar Futures

Scott Hoffman — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 18:13:45 +0000

After I posted yesterday’s morning update for Swing Trader’s Insight I got asked a question about my comment on sugar futures. Specifically I was asked why I was looking to buy if March Sugar traded over 23.60 as it had a breakout setup. On the daily chart below I added the Fibonacci retracement I used [...]

Trend Change in Gold Futures Today?

Scott Hoffman — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 19:10:57 +0000

In this morning’s Swing Trader’s Insight update I wrote that following yesterday’s breakout sale in the gold futures, I would be interested in going long the gold futures if the trend reversed back up. That’s one of the real strengths of the Taylor Trading Technique – you don’t try to fight a trend, you use [...]

A Way to Identify Secondary Breakout Trades in Futures Markets

Scott Hoffman — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 16:33:18 +0000

A number of markets had breakout setups today, as you would expect on an unemployment report day. If you wanted to take the breakout setup trades early, there were some decent trades overnight. In the eMini S&P futures, a 1:30 AM CT move over yesterday’s high lead to an 8 point rally in about an [...]