Stock Picks Recap for 4/1/15
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, nothing triggered.
From the Messenger/Tradesight_st Twitter Feed, Rich's AAPL triggered short (with market support) and worked:
His FB triggered short (with market support) and worked:
CELG triggered short (with market support) and worked:
GOOG triggered short (with market support) and worked enough for a partial:
NTAP triggered short (with market support) and didn't work, although we ended up closing it around even in the Lab when it took so long:
Rich's BABA triggered short (without market support just barely) and worked:
In total, that's 5 trades triggering with market support, 4 of them worked, 1 did not, plus the BABA trade worked.
Futures Calls Recap for 4/1/15
Don't have to make additional calls when the Opening Range plays work so well. I got 40 ticks to my final exit on both the ES and the NQ. See that section below. Meanwhile, to start the quarter, the markets opened flat and dropped out of the gate, then stabilized about 90 minutes in and went flat. Volume was 1.7 billion NASDAQ shares, which isn't spectacular.
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 Institutional and Opening Range Plays:
ES Opening Range Play triggered short at A and worked great:
NQ Opening Range Play triggered short at A and worked great:
ES Tradesight Institutional Range Play:
NQ Tradesight Institutional Range Play:
ES:
Forex Calls Recap for 4/1/15
Another winner for the week. See GBPUSD below. One more day of calls.
Here's a look at the US Dollar Index intraday with our market directional lines:
GBPUSD:
Used the R1 level perfectly to the pip at A and B (our trigger was above that), then came down and set our short trigger perfectly at C, then triggered at D, hit first target at E, and stopped second half at F in the morning:
Stock Picks Recap for 3/31/15
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, nothing triggered.
From the Messenger/Tradesight_st Twitter Feed, GOOG triggered short (without market support) and didn't work:
Rich's FB triggered short (with market support) and didn't work:
His BABA triggered long (with market support) and worked enough for a partial:
In total, that's 2 trades triggering with market support, 1 of them worked, 1 did not.
Futures Calls Recap for 3/31/15
The markets gapped down, managed to reach up and exactly fill the ES gap on light volume, then stuck in narrow range until the last hour and then sold off lightly back toward Friday's closing gap on 1.5 billion NASDAQ shares. We had an NQ winner, plus see the Opening and Institutional Range sections below.
Net ticks: +2.5 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 didn't work, triggered short at B and did work:
ES Tradesight Institutional Range Play triggered long at A and worked:
NQ Tradesight Institutional Range Play didn't trigger until A over lunch:
NQ:
Just a reminder that we use half points for ticks on the NQ and not the quarter point measurement that the exchanges switched to in recent years. This allows us to use 6 ticks as a key target as we do on the other contracts. It also keeps the value of a tick at $10, closer to the value of a tick on the other contracts.
Triggered short at A at 4353.50, hit first target for 6 ticks, stopped second half over the entry:
Forex Calls Recap for 3/31/15
We stopped out of the second half of the prior day's GBPUSD short in the money and then had a new winner in the EURUSD. See that section below.
Here's a look at the US Dollar Index intraday with our market directional lines:
EURUSD:
Triggered short at A, hit first target at B, stopped second half at C:
Stock Picks Recap for 3/30/15
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, ACTG triggered short (without market support) and worked:
From the Messenger/Tradesight_st Twitter Feed, Rich's BIIB triggered long (with market support) and didn't work:
Mark's TEVA triggered long (with market support) and worked great:
Rich's AAPL triggered short (without market support) and worked enough for a partial:
In total, that's 2 trades triggering with market support, 1 of them worked, 1 did not.
Futures Calls Recap for 3/30/15
No regular calls on a day where the markets gapped up big to start the week ahead of end of quarter and pushed a little higher early, then just drifted around on 1.6 billion NASDAQ shares.
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 worked but I didn't take it since I still had the Opening Range play:
NQ Tradesight Institutional Range Play:
ES:
Forex Calls Recap for 3/30/15
Nice winner to start the week. 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, hit first target at B for almost 50 pips and stopped out of the second piece at the same level after a stop adjustment in the morning at C:
Stock Picks Recap for 3/27/15
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, nothing triggered.
From the Messenger/Tradesight_st Twitter Feed, Rich's FB triggered long (with market support) and didn't quite work:
Mark's INCY triggered long (with market support) and worked:
PCLN triggered short (with market support) and worked:
Rich's MCHP triggered long (with market support) and didn't work:
GOOG triggered short (with market support) and worked:
In total, that's 5 trades triggering with market support, 3 of them worked, 2 did not.