Holiday Trading Hours for CME and NYSE
Our best wishes go to you and your family for a safe, warm, and happy holiday season and a prosperous New Year! John Paul would also like to remind you to refrain from trading during half-days which occur during the holiday season. These half-days can make for unstable trading. Also, keep in mind the days when […]
Contract Rollover is Thursday, December 12, 2013
Traders – for Thursday, December 12, 2013 you will need to roll over your CME Equity Index Futures contracts to the new quarterly contract month (March, 2014 aka 03-14 in NinjaTrader). Here’s how to do it: 1. Go to NinjaTrader’s Control Center > Tools > Instrument Manager… 2. For example, under name, type in “ES” […]
New Evidence Shows HFT More Concerning than Ever
Vice just published an article regarding High Frequency Trading (HFT) algorithms. The illustration is by Jacob Livengood A few interesting points: • Half of US stock-exchange trades in 2012 (1.6 billion shares a day) were placed by HFT. • A University of Miami research paper published in September 2013 indicates that between January 2006 to […]
Two Easy to Understand Trading Strategies
» Get the Atlas Line Signals « The first part of this live webinar recording explains how to use the Atlas Line to evaluate whether a trade is still viable after big market spikes. By checking if the current plotting Atlas Line position is more than double the ATR, a trader can determine if the […]
Get Ready to Buy the Market
In this video, John Paul covers the E-mini market activity almost a month ago where a new high was reached. By examining the behavior of the market on September 18, 2013, we can take better advantage of similar market behavior in the future. The January Effect has shown that for nearly every major pullback and […]
Impossibly Fast Trading – High-Frequency Trading Explained
At Day Trade to Win, we always advise traders to watch out for major news events. When significant news occurs (either scheduled or unscheduled), the markets can react harshly, either positively or negatively. In most cases, we recommend staying out of the market until volatility subsides. But what about the big players who know what […]
Atlas Line Results for June, July, and Aug. 2013
On occasion, we like to produce a monthly summary of how well the Atlas Line has performed based on the Recent Trades data. June, July, and August of this year were all successful months as indicated by the totals below. August 2013 Total # of trades = 79 Total # of days traded = 22 […]
Live Price Action Webinar Sponsored by NinjaTrader
Watch the video above to learn a few handy day trading strategies you can use right away. This hour+ long webinar sponsored by NinjaTrader demonstrates the versatility and effectiveness of price action trading. This video places emphasis on our Power Price Action trading course and why you should be using its methods. First, John Paul […]
Price Action Pullback Trades on E-mini S&P
» Get the Atlas Line « In this video, John Paul shows us an Atlas Line trade and also how to deal with oversold market conditions. John Paul says that after a big move occurs, the market will pause and take a “breath.” During this recovery phase, price may chop back and forth and leave […]
Atlas Line Used with Power Price Action Blueprint Method
» Get the Atlas Line « When you have two separate strategies telling you to go either long or short, you feel more confident in taking the trade. In this video, John Paul shows how a technique called the Blueprint Trade (taught in the Power Price Action DVD course) coincides with a Long signal produced […]
