CME Changes Hours – Update Your Charts
Significant news this week regarding for traders of the E-Mini S&P 500 (ES), YM (Mini-sized Dow), NQ (E-Mini NASDAQ-100) and EMD (E-Mini S&P MidCap 400) – as of Sunday, November 18, 2012 the close of the CME Globex for electronically traded equity index futures contracts will change from 4:15 p.m. US/Eastern to 5:15 p.m. US/Eastern. […]
Understanding the Markets Using Price Action
Oscillators, channels, stochastics, moving averages – if you’ve ever tried using indicators, these names are familiar. Using these types of indicators can lead to shortsighted trading. It’s easy to say that a particular configuration of indicators was successful for a period of many days. However, indicators are often linked to fixed parameters that do not […]
August 2012 Atlas Line Trades
Yes, it’s a little early to get August’s full report, so we’ll calculate the results for the last 30 days (July 25, 2012 to August 24, 2012). These stats were compiled using data from the Recent Trades page. The results do not account for slippage, brokerage fees, trading platform fees, etc. Atlas Line Trades for […]
Today’s Live Webinar Recording – Understanding the Markets
Quite a few people were requesting the recording of today’s webinar. Here it is! It’s recorded in John Paul’s view, so you can see the chat box for easy discussion reference. In this live webinar, John Paul shared his live charts and talked about: • HFT and manipulation • Effects on the market caused by […]
Another Trader Finds Success with Group Mentorship
We asked one of our students, Craig F., if we could interview him about his experiences before and after the Group Mentorship Program in which he participated. Enjoy! JP It’s been a while since you were last in the room. How has your trading been? Craig Looking back on the last few months since the […]
January Prediction Still On Point
You may recall a couple blog posts I wrote earlier in the year describing my expectations for U.S. indices. I described the January Effect, a way of predicting where U.S. indices will be valued at year’s end using closing values for January. To read exactly how the January Effect works, see the January, 30 2012 […]
