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noreply@blogger.com (Edgetraderplus) — Thu, 28 May 2009 19:52:00 +0000

Jun Yen

noreply@blogger.com (Edgetraderplus) — Thu, 28 May 2009 19:01:00 +0000

Thursday 28 May 2009

Day trade exit on close at 103.23

Buy 103.27
Sell 103.23

Loss = 4 tics, $100, plus commission

Jun Yen

noreply@blogger.com (Edgetraderplus) — Thu, 28 May 2009 18:36:00 +0000

Thursday 28 May 2009

Day traders:

Sell position market on close if not
stopped out.

Trade is turning into a non-event as
price has to absorb the selling from
overnight trade.

Jun Yen

noreply@blogger.com (Edgetraderplus) — Thu, 28 May 2009 15:27:00 +0000

Thursday 28 May 2009

Position and day traders, buy Jun Yen
at market 103.27.

Yen is at a 50% retracement of the monthly
range. There was a high volume probe under
103 that is holding, and the recent retest
of that probe has held, also on an increase
of volume, which indicated more demand than
supply activity.

Day traders use a 103.02 stop.

Position traders use a 102.77 stop.

S&P

noreply@blogger.com (Edgetraderplus) — Tue, 26 May 2009 13:16:00 +0000

Tuesday 26 May 2009

Exit the short position , at market, 885.

No downside follow through, and price is
holding strongly from the opening.

Sell 884
Buy 885

Loss = 50 tics, $25 per contract, plus commission

S&P

noreply@blogger.com (Edgetraderplus) — Fri, 22 May 2009 19:25:00 +0000

Friday 22 May 2009

Position traders:

Short S&P E-Mini at market, 884.00.

Buyers had an opportunity to get back
over 890, but failed in last half hour.

Stage set for lower markets next week.

Yen

noreply@blogger.com (Edgetraderplus) — Fri, 22 May 2009 17:54:00 +0000

Friday 22 May 2009

Stopped out of long Yen at 105.55.

Stops happen.

Buy 104.30
Sell 105.55

Gain = 125 tics. $1,562, less commission.

The week ends on a positive note!

Recommendations for position traders = $11,319,
less commsiions, so far.

Yen Stop

noreply@blogger.com (Edgetraderplus) — Fri, 22 May 2009 16:44:00 +0000

Friday 22 May 2009

The volume on yesterday's Yen rally was
very strong on the sell-off washout to 105,
about mid-morning, creating a volume
demand bar up, from 105.oo to 106.00.
A 50% retracement is 105.50.

This morning's sell-off low is 105.60,
holding just above the 50% retracement,
which is what price should do in an up trend.
As long as Jun Yen can hold above 105.50,
it should work higher.

The current 240 min chart is closing above
mid-range, a good recovery from the sell-
off low. Yen has some overhead activity to
negotiate, 106.05 to 106.60, so the security
of 105.50 has yet to be proven.

Keep an open sell stop of 105.55, replacing
the earlier day stop of 105.45. If the probe of
the low at 105.61 is exceeded, the probability
of higher prices is reduced sufficiently to take
a neutral position and see where equilibrium
will be established.

S&P

noreply@blogger.com (Edgetraderplus) — Fri, 22 May 2009 16:04:00 +0000

Friday 22 May 2009

Cover remaining short position in S&P at
market, 891.50.

If the market were to go down, especially after
yesterday's strong sell-off, it should have done
so, by now. Instead, price is holding above 890,
and there may be another rally as a possibility.

Being short, one expects the market to go down.
After weakness, it is going up.

Stand aside.

Sell 912.50
Buy 891.50

Gain = 2100 tics, $1,050, less commission.

Yen

noreply@blogger.com (Edgetraderplus) — Fri, 22 May 2009 14:53:00 +0000

Friday 22 May 2009

While it is not a good idea to cancel stops, the 105.80
sell stop from earlier was not strongly based, and volume,
as 105.80 was being approached, jumped quickly and
that can sometimes be a run of stops, getting rid of nervous
longs ahead of a 3 day weekend.

The weekly chart remains up in the Yen, and removing
the sell stop was an attempt to not fall victim to a shakeout,
only to see price recvoer and go on to higher levels.

Use a 105.45 sell stop. Must be willing to accept the risk
to reap the reward.

Yen

noreply@blogger.com (Edgetraderplus) — Fri, 22 May 2009 14:33:00 +0000

Friday 22 May 2009

Cancel sell stop in Jun Yen at 105.80 for now.

S&P

noreply@blogger.com (Edgetraderplus) — Fri, 22 May 2009 13:56:00 +0000

Friday 22 May 2009

Profits taken at 884.00 on half of the short position
from 912.50 established On Wednesday.

Support needs to be broken, long weekend ahead,
and turn of trend takes time and effort. While
that happens, it is good to lock in some certainty.

Sell 912.50
Buy 884.00

Gain = 2850 tics, $1, 425.00, less commission.

S&P

noreply@blogger.com (Edgetraderplus) — Fri, 22 May 2009 13:39:00 +0000

Friday 22 May 2009

Position traders:

Cover half position on short S&P at 884.

Still strong support at 878 area.

Yen

noreply@blogger.com (Edgetraderplus) — Fri, 22 May 2009 13:22:00 +0000

Friday 22 May 2009

Raise Jun Yen sell stop from 103.30 to 105.80.

Long weekend coming up, and this is an
early moring stop until the day's market
activity develops.

Euro

noreply@blogger.com (Edgetraderplus) — Fri, 22 May 2009 12:46:00 +0000

Friday 22 May 2009

Yesterday, the attempt at establishing a
low-risk entry into the existing up trend
was stopped out at 137.48.

Buy 137.60
Sell 137.48

Loss = 12 tics, $150, plus commission.

S&P Analysis

noreply@blogger.com (Edgetraderplus) — Wed, 20 May 2009 19:05:00 +0000

S&P – Trend Change? [18 May 2009]

There are signs that the daily trend is changing,
or has changed, from up to sideways, at a
minimum, and perhaps down. The past 9 week
rally covered more price range in three months
than any other similar time period prior to year 2000.

Question: Why did price stop at 927? Why not the
943 the more obvious area?

Answer: January 2, 5, and 6 were small range bar
rallies and a cluster of closes. 6 January was the high
of the rally that had a low end close at 928. On 7
January the decline resumed into the final low on
6 March, 43 trading days after the 6 January high.
Another 43 trading days later, after the 6 March
bottom, price made a high on 7 May at 927. Price
had come full circle, 43 trading days down, 43 trading
days up.

Where does price go from here?

The entire rally from the 6 March low has been
characterized by a lack of supply entering into
the market, or at least some prominent display
of it. Last week was the first time in 9 weeks a
close was on the low end of the range. Normal
corrections in an up trend for S&P are 1 to 3 days.
Most corrections since the 6 March low were 2
days. Last Friday was the 5th day of the current
correction, and in the process, the trend lines
from the 6 March low, and the secondary trend
line from the 1 April low were both broken.
Collectively, these mark a change of behavior in
market activity from positive to negative.

The 15 May Friday low was 876.75, and this
could be a short-term area of support for the
following reasons: In mid-February, two rally
attempts failed at the 875 area, basis the
current Jun contract, [previous resistance
becomes support], and that was about 50%
of the Jan-Feb trading range. Half-way points
can become important depending on HOW
price activity approaches and reacts to them.
In this specific instance, market activity failed
at that level.

Market activity failed again on 17 April when
the rally stalled at 872 and price gapped lower
next trading day. The decline only lasted one
trading day plus 60 minutes into the second
trading day when demand volume entered to
stop price at just above a 50% retracement of the
30 Mar low - 19 April high trading range. That
price gapped down and away from 873-875
tells us it is an important area.

Two likely scenarios will develop: 1) 875 +/-
support holds, and price will retest somewhere
between there and the 927 high of 7 May, or
2) current support will give way and a down trend
will resume, taking price to another likely support area.

If price were to hold and start a retest rally, 902
is a 50% retracement and an area of a gap down
from the close of Tuesday 12 May. This is just a
potential guide to provide some direction that will
be calibrated depending , as always, on developing
market activity, the “story”of the market and the
most reliable source for information.

If support gives way, in the second scenario, we
get to watch developing market activity unfold
before our eyes. The strongest area of potential
support comes in around 800, a nice round number.

Why 800?

An interesting development occurred back on 18
March that relates to this current projection.
Volume was exceptionally high on that day, and
high volume can sometimes be stopping action,
but not in this case because price rallied above it
three trading days later.

Then, what was the purpose of this unusual high
volume spurt?

The public are not creators of high volume, but
are reactionaries to it. High volume is often smart
money active in the market, for some reason, and
when smart money acts, it typically is a transfer of
risk from weak hands into strong, or strong to weak,
depending on the objective of smart money actors.

Back on 16 –17 February, price gapped down on a
240 min chart, [overnight Globex activity in not
included], from a close at 804 to a next period open
at 799. Keep in mind that the market had been
dropping like a rock since September 2008, making
ALL trends decidedly down, so in mid-March, when
price was rallying back to that gap area, to most of
the world it looked like an opportunity to get short
in a very negative market environment. This is why
volume was so active for that day on 18 March. Turns
out, smart money was actually buying as the public
was loading up to the short side.

Guess who won the battle?

Yes, the market did close lower for almost two days,
making shorts believe they had a rout going on, but
price immediately reversed back to the upside,
eventually to the 7 May high. The high of that strong
volume activity of 18 March was 800. This means
when price comes back to that level, it will be defended
and act as support, at least initially. This information,
gleaned from past market activity around 800, plus the
fact that it is now also 50% of the Mar low – May high
trading range, tells us that 800 may be an important
stopping point if the daily trend has indeed now turned
down.

Are there other possible support points?

Absolutely!

836 is a level that functioned as resistance in February
and as support in mid-April, so that could be potential
support. The 825 area marks an important spike low
reversal, just under 836. Then, 775 goes beyond the
half-way mark, and if the market weakens considerably,
that becomes a potential support area. These are possible
target areas for establishing short positions at current
price levels, from 890 and above. Friday was the first day
for establishing a short position from 893.

We cannot know for certain where price will find support
for the market will go where it will go. However, we have
a priori potential support levels to act as a guide, and we
get to watch market activity along the way, looking for
clues, for market information that will tell us the likelihood
of potential support holding, and for more clues to sell
additional short positions at resistance points along the way.

It is impossible to determine how market activity will develop.
As long as we know the prevailing trend, which is the most
important piece of market information, along with the
identified potential support levels, at least we are not flying
blind, and in the land of the blind, a one-eyed man is king!

S&P

noreply@blogger.com (Edgetraderplus) — Wed, 20 May 2009 17:36:00 +0000

Wednesday 20 May 2009

Position traders:

Sell Jun S&P E-Mini at market, 912.5 area

Resistance holding, and ease of movement has been
to the downside.

Use a 925 Buy Stop.

Euro

noreply@blogger.com (Edgetraderplus) — Wed, 20 May 2009 16:33:00 +0000

Wednesday 20 May 2009

Euro has had an upside breakout, and there
has not been a low risk entry for price location,
[missed one this morning at 137.10], so the buy
earlier at 137.60 on a shallow pull-back, intra
day, is an attempt to get in on what could be a
strong move.

A strong move needs to be proven, however,
and the entry at 137.60 is paying up, as it were.
Price could easily retest 136.60 - 137.00 and
the move still be good, but not for the position
taken.

Move the sell stop to 137.48 to limit risk
exposure on buying higher in an attempt to
catch the breakout. It is impossible to know
what price will do, but the preference is to
limit risk exposure and possibly get a better
location, if stopped out.

Raise sell stop, Jun Euro, to 137. 48,
based on developing market activity.

Euro

noreply@blogger.com (Edgetraderplus) — Wed, 20 May 2009 16:21:00 +0000

Wednesday 20 May 2009

Position traders:

Buy Jun Euro, at market, 137.60 area.

Use a 137 sell stop.

See if this breakout has legs.

Yen

noreply@blogger.com (Edgetraderplus) — Wed, 20 May 2009 12:46:00 +0000

Wednesday 20 May 2009

Position traders:

Sell half position in Yen at market 104.87

Yen not joining in on currency breakout,
and some resistance at 105.

Buy 104.35
Sell 104.87

Gain = 52 tics, $650, less commission

Japanese Yen

noreply@blogger.com (Edgetraderplus) — Tue, 19 May 2009 19:51:00 +0000

Tuesday 19 May 2009

Position traders:

Buy Jun Yen, open stop, at 104.35

Yen is constructive on monthly and weekly charts.
18 May was an OKR, Outside Key Reversal day,
but there has been little downside follow-through.

The current correction is shallow, and if Yen is
able to overcome the OKR, it has room to the upside.

Use a 103.30 stop, if filled.

S&P

noreply@blogger.com (Edgetraderplus) — Tue, 19 May 2009 16:49:00 +0000

Tuesday 19 May 2009

Position traders:

Sell Jun S&P at 903 on a stop.

Lack of demand will invite supply, and
this market, while lacking supply, is still
vulnerable, given the inability to get
back to last week's levels.

Use a 918 stop, if filled.

If intra day market activity dictates a
change in a sell price, one will be posted.

The Problem With Stops

noreply@blogger.com (Edgetraderplus) — Tue, 19 May 2009 16:16:00 +0000

Tuesday 19 May 2009

There is an article on the main page concerning
stops and how important is their selection.

It became apparent about 10 minutes after
getting stopped out the second time that what
was thought to be a washout of stops the first
time has just occurred.

Volume had increased on intra day charts that
suggested the probe which carried price to the
58.93 low had a high probability of being the low
for the day. However, price had moved sufficiently
away from being stopped out that it increased
the risk of being wrong a third time too high a
level for another re-entry.

Trade location is very important in any position,
and the selection of the second stop was off just
enough to lose a decent potential, as price has
since rallied uncorrected, since.

The right idea, the wrong stop.

Always room for improvement.

Crude Oil

noreply@blogger.com (Edgetraderplus) — Tue, 19 May 2009 15:15:00 +0000

Tuesday 19 May 2009

Second attempt was no more successful than
the first. Stopped out for a second time.

Buy 59.30
Sell 58.95

Loss = 35 tics, $350, plus commission.