Using the Taylor Trading Technique to Identify and Trade Trending Markets

January 9, 2012

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 [...]

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Swing Trader’s Insight Futures Watch List for January 9

January 9, 2012

Markets are subdued as traders await any news out of the Sarkozy / Merkel meeting.  There’s no real expectation for game changing ideas out of the meeting but it’s keeping the bears in check for the time being.  Chinese news was mixed – loan growth was strong but housing prices continue to fall.  There’s no [...]

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Swing Trader’s Insight Futures Watch List for January 6

January 6, 2012

European sovereign stress is muted this morning as traders are looking to the Sarkozy / Merkel meeting on Monday in case they come up with something.  Euro LIBOR has been easing a bit this week, which is an interesting piece of counter stress data – previously it has risen along with the stress level.  There [...]

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Finding Secondary Entries for Breakout Trades in Futures

January 5, 2012

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 [...]

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Swing Trader’s Insight Futures Watch List for January 5

January 5, 2012

There’s mixed news this morning.  Europe is under attack today, with weak auction results from France, Hungary and the EFSF.  This is all being reflected in wider EU debt spreads and concurrent pressure on the Euro.  European troubles are outweighing US data as ADP showed a payroll gain of 325K for December.  The ADP data [...]

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Swing Trader’s Insight Futures Watch List for January 4

January 4, 2012

There was mixed news out of Europe today.  Portugal saw good demand at its T Note auction while Germany had lukewarm results.  ECB data continues to show elevated stress in their credit sector and that EU banks continue to be tight with their funds.  On a brighter note, EU services PMI was stronger than expected [...]

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Trading the Intraday Stop and Go in the Crude Oil Futures

January 3, 2012

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 [...]

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Swing Trader’s Insight Futures Watch List for January 3

January 3, 2012

Global PMI numbers have been friendly – Germany and the UK were good and China saw good numbers for both manufacturing and services. China is also getting a boost from government officials who are hinting at loosening fiscal and monetary policy to support growth.  There were mixed signals from Europe.  Sovereign spreads are wider, sharply [...]

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Swing Trader’s Insight Futures Watch List for December 30

December 30, 2011

There are no economic reports due today and most markets are relatively quiet as well.  There are a number of markets on Taylor Trading Technique Sell day signals; this suggests consolidative trade.  Expect things to thin out by midday.  US markets are closed on Monday and there’s no electronic trade in the grains or financials [...]

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Swing Trader’s Insight Futures Watch List for December 29

December 29, 2011

Italy’s T Note auctions had lukewarm interest.  The rate was decent (the 10 year was below the “worry line” of 7.00%) but they only sold 7.02 billion Euros of bonds, below the maximum target of 8.5 billion Euros. This is keeps the angst about the Eurozone debt problem on the front burner and the Euro [...]

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