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Opex Options Expiration
How to Trade OPEX (Options Expiration) OPEX brings many new risks to speculative traders that most other trading days do not. Simply put it is 1 of 4 days of the year (actually 3 days of 12 as the effects of roll over tend to last for 3 days) when all the larger institutional traders [...]
View PostEmini S&P 500 Futures Market Update 7/24/09
Futures Market Update Yesterday was the big day in the emini S&P 500 that we were watching for during the last 2 months of consolidation. A break of the 950 area brought in huge institutional activity and quickly drove the market to 975 area. We are now trading in uncharted territory from last fall and [...]
Emini S&P 500 Futures Market Update 7/23/09
Futures Market Update The emini S&P 500 opened with a professional gap down and the locals immediately grabbed control of the buy side activity and closed the gap up through our the market profile levels of 949 and 951.25. For the remainder of the morning, the market congested around the 51.25 area with a late [...]
Emini S&P 500 Futures Market Update 7/22/09
Futures Market Update The emini S&P 500 opened with slight gap up which the locals drive and filled quickly. The remainder of the morning was spent in consolidation and eventually brokeout to the downside to test our market profile level of 940 which quickly found buyers. Buyers continued to push the market to the highs [...]
Emini Market Prep
Market Prep for Monday June 22, 2009 We are entering the 1st complete week of trading the September U9 contracts now that we have completed the roll over from June to Sept. Let’s take a look at the bigger picture and evaluate the longer time frame Daily chart. We can see that the supporting trend [...]
Emini S&P 500 Futures Market Update 6/9/09
Futures Market Update The emini S&P 500 opened with a gap lower and tested the longer term 927 level we have been mentioning in our trading chat room for quite some time. Over the lunch the move of the market to the downside was completed to 925.50 as expected and the remainder of the day [...]
Emini S&P 500 Futures Market Update 6/8/09
Futures Market Update The emini S&P 500 opened with a large gap up after commercials institutional buyers pushed the market up on the monthly employment report. On the open, the market briefly held the 950 level and rejected it to test the 941.50 market profile level and moved lower to complete the move to 934.75. [...]
Emini S&P 500 Futures Market Update 6/2/09
Futures Market Update After a very interesting close on Friday with institutional buyers coming in with 1 minute until cash close, the emini S&P 500 opened on Monday with a slight gap above those Friday close highs. Quickly upon the open Monday, institutional buying came back into the market further driving the market up and [...]
Emini S&P 500 Futures Market Update 6/1/09
Futures Market Update The emini S&P 500 opened with a slight imbalance gap which closed quickly. Off the open, the price action had a high degree of choppiness not seen for quite sometime. This continued throughout the majority of the day as the market battled with the 905 market profile level. With 2 minutes left [...]
Emini S&P 500 Futures Market Update 7/31/09
Futures Market Update The emini S&P opened with a professional gap up yesterday and rallied to 994s right off the opening drive and held the bid for the remainder of the day. A late day sell off surprised many as the market closed on the lows. Quite an eye sore on a daily chart considering [...]
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