Futures Calls Recap for 5/12/15
Another nice day with the Opening Range Plays (and even the Institutional Range Plays of you were interested), so we didn't both making any other calls once things slowed down. NASDAQ volume closed at 1.5 billion shares, and the market closed down just a little.
Net ticks: +0 ticks.
As usual, let's start by taking a look at the ES and NQ with our market directional lines, VWAP, and Comber on the 5-minute chart from today's session:
ES and NQ Opening and Institutional Range Plays:
ES Opening Range Play triggered short at A and worked:
NQ Opening Range Play triggered short at A and worked:
ES Tradesight Institutional Range Play triggered long at A and worked:
NQ Tradesight Institutional Range Play triggered long at A and worked:
ES:
Forex Calls Recap for 5/12/15
Stopped out of the second half of the prior day's trade in the money, then a new trade stopped out, and then another triggered and is still working. See GBPUSD below.
Here's a look at the US Dollar Index intraday with our market directional lines:
GBPUSD:
Triggered short at A and stopped. Triggered long at B, hit first target at C, and still holding with a stop under R1 at D:
Stock Picks Recap for 5/11/15
With each stock's recap, we will include a (with market support) or (without market support) tag, designating whether the trade triggered with or without market directional support at the time. Anything in the first five minutes will be considered WITHOUT market support because market direction cannot be determined that early. ETF calls do not require market support, and are thus either winners or losers.
From the report, SNPS triggered long (with market support) and worked:
NTAP triggered short (with market support) and worked enough for a partial:
NVDA triggered short (without market support due to opening 5 minutes) and didn't work:
From the Messenger/Tradesight_st Twitter Feed, GOOG triggered long (with market support) and worked enough for a partial:
Rich's NFLX triggered long (with market support) and didn't work on a sweep, then worked well later):
His EOG triggered short (with market support) and worked:
GOOG triggered short (with market support) and didn't work:
His FFIV triggered long (without market support) and didn't work:
In total, that's 6 trades triggering with market support, 4 of them worked, 2 did not.
Futures Calls Recap for 5/11/15
Ended up being a boring start to the week on 1.6 billion NASDAQ shares.
Net ticks: -7 ticks.
As usual, let's start by taking a look at the ES and NQ with our market directional lines, VWAP, and Comber on the 5-minute chart from today's session:
ES and NQ Opening and Institutional Range Plays:
ES Opening Range Play triggered long at A and worked enough for a partial:
NQ Opening Range Play triggered long at A and worked enough for a partial:
ES Tradesight Institutional Range Play:
NQ Tradesight Institutional Range Play:
ES:
Triggered short at A at 2105.00 and stopped. Did not re-enter as volume was too light, but the retrigger would have worked:
Forex Calls Recap for 5/11/15
A decent start to the week with one stop out and one better winner that is still going. See the GBPUSD section below.
Here's a look at the US Dollar Index intraday with our market directional lines:
GBPUSD:
Triggered short at A and stopped. Triggered long at B, hit first target at C, still holding second half with a stop at D which is 100 pips in the money:
Stock Picks Recap for 5/8/15
With each stock's recap, we will include a (with market support) or (without market support) tag, designating whether the trade triggered with or without market directional support at the time. Anything in the first five minutes will be considered WITHOUT market support because market direction cannot be determined that early. ETF calls do not require market support, and are thus either winners or losers.
From the report, ALDR triggered long (with market support) and worked big:
BRCM triggered long (with market support) and worked:
From the Messenger/Tradesight_st Twitter Feed, Rich's YELP triggered long (with market support) and worked:
GS triggered long (with market support) and didn't work:
In total, that's 4 trades triggering with market support, 3 of them worked, 1 did not.
Futures Calls Recap for 5/8/15
The markets gapped up in reaction to the NFP data and kept going a bit higher from there, and then went into Friday mode in the afternoon and closed at the VWAP on 1.8 billion NASDAQ shares. Mark accidentally posted his call in the Forex feed, so we won't count it even though it worked. Opening Range plays worked, see that section below.
Net ticks: +0 ticks.
As usual, let's start by taking a look at the ES and NQ with our market directional lines, VWAP, and Comber on the 5-minute chart from today's session:
ES and NQ Opening and Institutional Range Plays:
ES Opening Range Play triggered long at A and worked:
NQ Opening Range Play triggered long at A and worked:
ES Tradesight Institutional Range Play:
NQ Tradesight Institutional Range Play:
ES:
Forex Calls Recap for 5/8/15
A small winner for half size on the EURUSD ahead of the NFP data. See that section below.
Here's a look at the US Dollar Index intraday with our market directional lines:
As usual on the Sunday report, we will look at the action from Thursday night/Friday, then look at the daily charts of all the pairs with the Seeker and Comber separately for the week ahead, and then glance at the US Dollar Index.
EURUSD:
Triggered short at A, hit first target at B, stopped second half:
Stock Picks Recap for 5/6/15
With each stock's recap, we will include a (with market support) or (without market support) tag, designating whether the trade triggered with or without market directional support at the time. Anything in the first five minutes will be considered WITHOUT market support because market direction cannot be determined that early. ETF calls do not require market support, and are thus either winners or losers.
From the report, IACI triggered long (without market support) and didn't work:
GMCR triggered short (without market support) and didn't work on a sweep:
TRIP triggered short (with market support) and worked enough for a partial:
SAVE gapped under the trigger, no trade.
From the Messenger/Tradesight_st Twitter Feed, Rich's FB triggered long (without market support) and worked:
GILD triggered short (with market support) and didn't work on a sweep, worked later:
Rich's AAPL triggered short (with market support) and worked great:
AMZN triggered short (with market support) and worked enough for a partial:
COST triggered short (with market support) and didn't work:
Rich's LVS triggered short (with market support) and worked:
Rich's TWTR triggered long (without market support) and worked:
His NDLS triggered long (without market support) and worked enough for a partial:
His late day FB call triggered long (without market support) and worked:
In total, that's 6 trades triggering with market support, 4 of them worked, 2 did not.
Futures Calls Recap for 5/6/15
We had a massive winning Opening Range Play (see that section below) and also a regular winner on the ES. The markets gapped up and dropped sharply and continued to push lows all day on 2.0 billion NASDAQ shares.
Net ticks: +4 ticks.
As usual, let's start by taking a look at the ES and NQ with our market directional lines, VWAP, and Comber on the 5-minute chart from today's session:
ES and NQ Opening and Institutional Range Plays:
ES Opening Range Play triggered short at A and worked huge:
NQ Opening Range Play triggered short at A and worked huge:
ES Tradesight Institutional Range Play:
NQ Tradesight Institutional Range Play:
ES:
Triggered short at A at 2073.75, hit first target for 6 ticks, stopped second half slightly in the money after adjusting the stop:
