Edition 866
February 5, 2021
This week’s chart scan continues a series of very basic technical analysis concepts. I’m not a big fan of technical analysis, but I have to admit that I cut my trading teeth using it. Eventually, I came to believe there is a time and place for any and all tools. If something can help you understand the markets and how to trade them, I’m all for it.
There are many beginning traders who read Chart Scan, and over the years I have had many questions from them concerning technical analysis. Instead of giving you an article on the psychological aspects of trading, the next several issues of chart scan will feature articles on technical analysis. My hope is that where and whenever possible, I will show you the right way to use this type of analysis.
Keep in mind, the only real truth on a price chart is price itself. With that in mind and keeping price always at the forefront, we can begin taking a look at some tools that fit into the category of technical analysis. ~ Enjoy, Master Trader Joe Ross
Master Trader Joe Ross
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Chart Scan with Commentary: Basic Law of Charts Review
This week, we look at the E-Mini S&P. The Law of Charts is applicable in all time frames. On the day shown, prices broke out of the overnight and early-morning Globex session.
The Globex session constituted a Trading Range, and the early-morning price action comprised a Consolidation area just prior to the 8:30 CT opening of the daily session. You can see where prices broke out.
The first failure to make a new high subsequent to a breakout of a Consolidation area is a Ross hook. Each subsequent failure to move higher yielded two additional Ross hooks.
Trading in the E-Mini S&P has been mostly erratic in recent months, so a move such as the one seen on the chart was a welcome sight.
All too soon, prices resumed going sideways, and volume dropped off considerably.
We are finding better markets to trade these days, but we also find that good trading in any market can drop off and then resume again at a later date. Trading in the E-Mini S&P is long overdue for a majority of good trading days.
I suspect that a series of interest rate cuts might bring about the kind of action we like to see.
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Trading the Ross Hook - Implementing the Ross Hook into your Trading Style
Day Trading Strategy with E-Mini S&P 500
Master Trader Joe Ross
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Trading Article: Develop a ‘feel’ for what is happening
Hey Joe! How can I get a feel for what’s happening in the market?
One of the things that has helped me was beginning to use tick charts for my day trading.
In a past issue of Chart Scan, I explained that there are two kinds of volume: Contract Volume and Tick Volume. Almost everyone is familiar with contract volume. It’s usually shown as a histogram at the bottom of a price chart. For a given time period (5 minutes, 60 minutes, daily etc...) you can see...read more.
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Trading the Ross Hook - Implementing the Ross Hook into your Trading Style
Day Trading Strategy with E-Mini S&P 500
Philippe Guartier: Administration and
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If you are confident in a future up move, and your timing is precise, you can get much higher premium levels by going further out in time to sell price insurance (it is a double edged sword though, as it gives much more time for the underlying stock to move against you, would you be wrong in your forecast).
We gave such a longer term trade on 14th December 2020 for ASAN (Asana Inc.). We sold ASAN May 21 2021 17.5P for 1.30 with 156 days until expiration on 15th December 2020. We had quite a lot of safety with our short strike about 38% below price action.
We bought to close the option at 0.30 on 12th January 2021, after 28 days in the trade, for an annualized return on margin of 372.45%. With only 350$ margin requirement, this trade could be taken whatever your account size.
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Professional Trader Andy Jordan
Educator for Spreads, Options, Swing, and Day Trading, and Editor for 20+ years with Traders Notebook, daily advisory newsletter.
Trading Article: Should I reverse when I am having a loss?
Professional day traders reverse their positions about 60% of the time when they take losses? Why do they do this? The market should not have technically reached the exit price, which is placed where the intraday market trend may have reversed the short term trend. Consider a market that moves a three-day average range above the opening price then...read more.
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Professional Trader Marco Mayer
Educator for Forex, Futures and Systematic Trader
Creator of Ambush Trading Method, Ambush Signals, and Head of AlgoStrats.com
Gold-Rush: Over $10,000 profit with a Day Trade in the Gold Future?!
One of the top markets over the last couple of months for Ambush Traders has been the gold market. Whether it's the Gold Future, Micro-Future, or XAU/USD forex pair, Ambush Traders are in a crazy gold rush!
Here's a daily chart of the Gold Future (GC, traded at CME), showing the last couple of months of trading. As you can see this market did what markets do 90% of the time, which is why Ambush is such a great trading method. Markets move in boxes/ranges, break out for a few days and then start moving in the next box. Gold has been in huge boxes almost all of the time and so Ambush Traders had a lot of great opportunities!
Here are the results of these trades, trading only one Gold Future (GC) contract:
Yup, that's almost $40k profits with almost no drawdowns in between within just a couple of months! And yes we did catch one of the largest moves ever in the gold market on 9th November making OVER $10k with a DAY TRADE!
Now the Gold Future is a large contract and not suitable for small accounts. But you can do these trades also in the E-Micro Gold which is just 1/10 the size or the XAU/USD forex pair.
That's what makes Ambush Signals so great, it works with any account size offering three subscription models depending on your goals.
Notice that all of these are actually day trades, even though they're based on end-of-day trading decisions. Ambush is exactly that, an easy way to day trade not for a few tiny ticks with a lot of stress but placing your trades once a day, walk away, and go for the big intraday moves!
Don't miss the next Gold trade and join Ambush Signals today!
Happy Trading!
Marco
The Ambush Trading System was created in 2007 by Marco Mayer. Since then it proved itself in the markets for over a decade and did so with exceptional results. It's the only trading system we're aware of that is still going strong after so many years. While Ambush is a day trading system, meaning you will always enter and exit on the same trading day - you don't have to sit in front of your trading screen. You simply place your entry orders when the trading session starts and come back at the close!
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Joe Ross has been trading and investing since his first trade at the age of 14, and is a well known Master Trader and Investor. He has survived all the up and downs of the markets because of his adaptable trading style, using a low-risk approach that produces consistent profits.
Joe Ross is the creator of the Ross hook™, and has set new standards for low-risk trading with his concepts of "The Law of Charts™" and the "Traders Trick Entry™." Joe was a private trader and investor for much of his life, but a serious health situation in the late 80's caused him to shift his focus, and that is when he decided to share his knowledge. After his recovery, he founded Trading Educators in 1988, to teach aspiring traders how to make profits using his trading approach.
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Joe Ross holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration from the University of California at Los Angeles. He did his Masters work in Computer Sciences at the George Washington University extension in Norfolk, Virginia. He is listed in "Who's Who in America." After 5 decades of trading and investing, Joe Ross still tutors, teaches, writes, and trades regularly. Joe is an active and integral part of Trading Educators. He is the founder and contributor of the company's newsletter Chart Scan™.
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