Wednesday, August 15, 2012
Thursday, August 9, 2012
Careful on this 10 year And ES
Be careful as the world thinks bonds just continue to drop out of bed. This 10 year will have some pauses and the a=c off the top will be one. A bounce there and a pullback in the es for sure.
Monday, August 6, 2012
The Titans
My nuclear winter is over. Titans tickets have arrived. As was uttered in the movie "Jerry McGuire, every mans toughest words, "You complete me". And as Shakespeare said in his most famous novel, "now is the winter of my discontent made glorious summer by the Tennessee Titans".
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Sunday, August 5, 2012
Oil and The Breakout
The blast off of the bottom was impressive no doubt. The bulls had enough and have converted a gigantic W. It was a move that tore out some livers and left some guys stunned. The real question is simple was the low in July the end of wave 3, the high at 92ish wave 4 and the move up Friday a retrace of wave 4 and we are headed down for a wave 5 that takes out July's lows? The alternate is this. Wave 5 is in on the lows. Period. What has the count troubled is that wave 1 appeared to be in at 89ish, however the count got busted when we broke through those highs, so the alternate count is wave 1 was not in until 90.35. If so the double bottom holds wave 2 and we are beginning wave 3. That takes us clearly to the first target of 95.21 95.64 and the clear a=c off the bottom at 95.64. No real long term retrace resistance until 96.22 with 99.36 a possible destination for wave 3. I'm a buyer at 89.95, a bigger buyer at 89.39 and load the boat at 88.93, if right its the gift of the month. All dependent of the nano count at that moment.
As for right now its a short. Look for a a=c off the top to plop down between 90.69 or 90.63. And it will be to the tick and a good scalp. With a pop there of 30 cents or so sometimes early in the European session.
As for right now its a short. Look for a a=c off the top to plop down between 90.69 or 90.63. And it will be to the tick and a good scalp. With a pop there of 30 cents or so sometimes early in the European session.
Soy Beans Doom and Gloom
Its fallen out of the Wedge, its fallen below the Head & Shoulders its in trouble here. If I have the count right we are working on 3 of 5 here. If we are lucky 4 of 5 takes us back up to the trend-line at 1609 even if we get that in the bulls desperate attempt at this point to get some long. But from there it may be bombs away. we break the biggest fib on the board at 1576. a break there pauses and bounces a bit at 1567 and 1561-1558 on its way to 1545. I still theorize that the fib its looking for on this run is 1506-1503. This bastard is in trouble and gonna roll over like a stuck pig the week before thanksgiving.
Sunday, April 22, 2012
Nq Long Term
Well NQ will follow AAPL I guess but its worth taking a look at the long term fibs. Same situation really. A fall to 2654.61 seems in the cards probably tonight if not in the European session. Upside fib at 2680.75 and we rest barely on a trend-line. I actually assumed that 2737.15 would be the top but AAPL pulled it higher just high enough to get outside its bands and pay the price for doing so. A fall through 2654.61 surely brings 2642.49 which is where it will intersect a rising cloud. I would use such interesting terms as Tenkan and Chikou but lets just say there is a rising daily cloud.
Interestingly keep your eye on 2719.25, its in white for a reason. It is the granddad of all extension fibs on this chart and I was somewhat surprised to see it haven fallen so fast Don't think it will go unnoticed if it gets a round 2.
Interestingly keep your eye on 2719.25, its in white for a reason. It is the granddad of all extension fibs on this chart and I was somewhat surprised to see it haven fallen so fast Don't think it will go unnoticed if it gets a round 2.
AAPL-Fibs Big Week
Since AAPL seems to be so much of the market lets look at what happened and what is likely to happen yet. First of all AAPL is human too. A Daily punch into a descending BB is nothing short of disastrous. Even for the best company around. What are the odds it just wouldn't matter? Zero. Period. The Algos hate it and its their first signal to get out. And they did, to the i tune of (did you catch that?, I have to amuse myself somehow), 72 points. And in clear algo fashion bounced in between to suck some more suckers in. It was a classic pattern, so lets look at what probably happens now.
Earnings is always exciting. It moves fast and hard so where is it going. Well a washout to the bottom puts 567.27 and 565.03 practically in the bag. If it gets real frisky then its 543.57 , 548.16 and doubles at 543.56. But here is the good part. If we get that level I would think buy it. At that point not only do we get a double fib we get the rising cloud on a daily chart and that just aint going away easy folks. It should bounce from there back to the upper fibs.
Be aware of the 50ma below first. That is one line it will not give up quickly at 566.78 and will create a temporary head fake.
Earnings is always exciting. It moves fast and hard so where is it going. Well a washout to the bottom puts 567.27 and 565.03 practically in the bag. If it gets real frisky then its 543.57 , 548.16 and doubles at 543.56. But here is the good part. If we get that level I would think buy it. At that point not only do we get a double fib we get the rising cloud on a daily chart and that just aint going away easy folks. It should bounce from there back to the upper fibs.
Be aware of the 50ma below first. That is one line it will not give up quickly at 566.78 and will create a temporary head fake.
Big Picture EC and An Early Trade for The week.
EC sits in a tough spot. The good news is when big fibs all get close together it lowers risk. The bad news is it tends to break one or the other several times and when it does it snaps. So here we are stuck in between 13173 and 13219. The home team has trouble here and it would seem 13173 with 13169 close by is in the bag again and probably 13139. a break through 13139 is going to yield 13078 but 13139 will not go away easily unless there is some kind of big news. If we weaken overnight i would assume we get a bounce off of 13169.
To the upside a break through 13219 will head after 13295.
We are probably going to bet a little bounce here as everybody decides what to do. Something like 13210-13215. I'm already short but will add at 13210 if we get it. 13169 is in the bag by the time the Europeans get to trading so if you want 40 to start the week off get to work. And if your really frisky tonight pair that trade up with short cl. As the euro falls so will cl. Currently we are in the 10382 ish range but the 10339 fib will be hit for sure and with just a little luck 10330. I have paired the two looking for a good start to the week when Europe shows up and drinks their coffee. And if you are downright giddy may as well go long the 10 year. The two extension fibs you are after are 131294 and 131304. I would cover on the first one or at least lock in your profits there.
We are probably going to bet a little bounce here as everybody decides what to do. Something like 13210-13215. I'm already short but will add at 13210 if we get it. 13169 is in the bag by the time the Europeans get to trading so if you want 40 to start the week off get to work. And if your really frisky tonight pair that trade up with short cl. As the euro falls so will cl. Currently we are in the 10382 ish range but the 10339 fib will be hit for sure and with just a little luck 10330. I have paired the two looking for a good start to the week when Europe shows up and drinks their coffee. And if you are downright giddy may as well go long the 10 year. The two extension fibs you are after are 131294 and 131304. I would cover on the first one or at least lock in your profits there.
ES Major Fibs, Continuous Contract and the Triumph of an Uncluttered Mind
Its been sometime since I have posted fibs. Been terribly busy since things have picked up. I will be posting them again.
The chart I post here is the subject of much debate among the smart guys who forecast what is next. Not being in that crowd of smart people I have tended to use my own system to predict what key levels are on my own. After I started posting my fibs both long term and short term I started getting a lot of feedback most of which was positive but some which was not. I am a member in several rooms with a lot of very smart traders in them. So the debate began. My charts for long term use continuous contract. I have been relatively successful with that although gold can be a problem sometime. ES, EC and CL have not. Oh the emails. You have it all wrong. You have either got to use SPY or adjust for the premium. We all know where ES bottomed out in real life and its not the same number on continuous contract. Oh well.
To be quite honest fibs are my game. They just work. I know squat about EW. Nano fibs long term fibs just seem to click. Everybody has some small thing that just clicks in this business and they did with me. I have generally figured out how to filter out the ones that mean nothing to the ones that mean something. But to be quite honest I was getting so much feedback from the experts saying that I should adjust this or that for the premium and the eventual bleed off that it made me take a step back. I kept running them the same way I always did and traded off of them but it made me a little uneasy. To a degree it got into my head. Maybe they were right.
That all changed for me at 1416.99 and 1419.75 and I got my wind back in my sails and decided to continue to do it my way. Most of the gurus were calling for a little top somewhere in the 24-25 area ES. Using other charts that may have been in fact the case but mine did not say that was the case. I had 1416.99 as the top for now, 1357.25 as the likely floor with a meeting in the middle of 1370.69. I played it that way. It worked. Although I played it small with my mind cluttered thinking about the "smarter" fibs at play. Something the really smart guys loose track of is what are the computers doing. They don't have feelings or ideas. They do what they are programmed to do. Nothing else. I watch these things all day long fight over these fibs. Oil is the prime example. The algo s were split on 110. Recognize it or treat it as an anomaly and work off of the previous high. All the way down they have fought each other. And when we got close to the alternating fibs we would sit there go back and forth and then go up or down. Algos get confused sometimes but only as it relates to the other algo's. And I have done quite well feasting over them being split 50/50 on which high to use, the whole way down.
Having said all of that my fibs here are what I think the Algos are working off of. We can debate all day about premiums, rollovers, bleeding off the premium and so forth but I'm going tot stick with what I know and CC works for me. The really smart guys use fibs that I call Roger Staubach. My father was a big Dallas Cowboys fan. We never missed a game on TV. He was passionate, screaming, yelling and such. Roger was predictable and successful. One thanksgiving day Roger got hurt. In came Clint Longley. Who? Nobody had ever heard of him. The cowboys were toast, behind to the redskins. By all accounts history will look at Clint Longly as not being the smartest tool in the shed, but he knew how to throw the football.
Longly is remembered for his performance on Thanksgiving Day, 1974 against the Redskins. A rookie at the time came in for the inured Staubach with the Cowboys trailing in the 3rd quarter 16-3. He hit Dupree for a 35 yard touchdown. He then led them on a 70 yard drive for another touchdown. He crowned the game with a 50 yard touchdown pass with the Cowboys down 23-17 and 28 seconds left in the game and no timeouts. The cowboys won on the play 24-23. Longley had no expectation of even playing and was completely unprepared. Cowboys lineman Blaine Nye called his winning effort "the triumph of the uncluttered mind".
So with that in mind I will say this, do what works with an uncluttered mind. For full disclosure I will say that eventually after an altercation with Roger he was shipped out of Dallas to the wasteland in San Deigo and never heard from again. Today he sells carpet remnants out of the back of a van in Marfa Texas. No joke.
Now to the uncluttered fibs which I think the algos work off of. Its simple, we had problems at 1370.69 and fell back to 1337.00 where we held. We then blasted off straight to 1416.99 spilling over just a bit to see who would bite. Those that did bite are now not very happy because the 1419.75 combined with the 100% Fib Speed Arc proved to be a wall. We tried it again to see who we could sucker in (a common strategy) but again we never closed above the third rate fib. Where did we fall Oddly to the 1370.69 as first support and then of course to 1357.25 again with a touch of spill. And what held 1370.69 for now. To the upside we will face resistance on one trendline and another small one to the bottom. A break through this trendline will pause at the fib 1357.25 and if it falls well 1337 here we come. A trendline test is almost certain sunday night or early Monday morning in the 1361ish area. Look at the chart and the failures and tell me the "uncluttered mind" of the CC fibs don't work occasionally. There is your levels.
The chart I post here is the subject of much debate among the smart guys who forecast what is next. Not being in that crowd of smart people I have tended to use my own system to predict what key levels are on my own. After I started posting my fibs both long term and short term I started getting a lot of feedback most of which was positive but some which was not. I am a member in several rooms with a lot of very smart traders in them. So the debate began. My charts for long term use continuous contract. I have been relatively successful with that although gold can be a problem sometime. ES, EC and CL have not. Oh the emails. You have it all wrong. You have either got to use SPY or adjust for the premium. We all know where ES bottomed out in real life and its not the same number on continuous contract. Oh well.
To be quite honest fibs are my game. They just work. I know squat about EW. Nano fibs long term fibs just seem to click. Everybody has some small thing that just clicks in this business and they did with me. I have generally figured out how to filter out the ones that mean nothing to the ones that mean something. But to be quite honest I was getting so much feedback from the experts saying that I should adjust this or that for the premium and the eventual bleed off that it made me take a step back. I kept running them the same way I always did and traded off of them but it made me a little uneasy. To a degree it got into my head. Maybe they were right.
That all changed for me at 1416.99 and 1419.75 and I got my wind back in my sails and decided to continue to do it my way. Most of the gurus were calling for a little top somewhere in the 24-25 area ES. Using other charts that may have been in fact the case but mine did not say that was the case. I had 1416.99 as the top for now, 1357.25 as the likely floor with a meeting in the middle of 1370.69. I played it that way. It worked. Although I played it small with my mind cluttered thinking about the "smarter" fibs at play. Something the really smart guys loose track of is what are the computers doing. They don't have feelings or ideas. They do what they are programmed to do. Nothing else. I watch these things all day long fight over these fibs. Oil is the prime example. The algo s were split on 110. Recognize it or treat it as an anomaly and work off of the previous high. All the way down they have fought each other. And when we got close to the alternating fibs we would sit there go back and forth and then go up or down. Algos get confused sometimes but only as it relates to the other algo's. And I have done quite well feasting over them being split 50/50 on which high to use, the whole way down.
Having said all of that my fibs here are what I think the Algos are working off of. We can debate all day about premiums, rollovers, bleeding off the premium and so forth but I'm going tot stick with what I know and CC works for me. The really smart guys use fibs that I call Roger Staubach. My father was a big Dallas Cowboys fan. We never missed a game on TV. He was passionate, screaming, yelling and such. Roger was predictable and successful. One thanksgiving day Roger got hurt. In came Clint Longley. Who? Nobody had ever heard of him. The cowboys were toast, behind to the redskins. By all accounts history will look at Clint Longly as not being the smartest tool in the shed, but he knew how to throw the football.
Longly is remembered for his performance on Thanksgiving Day, 1974 against the Redskins. A rookie at the time came in for the inured Staubach with the Cowboys trailing in the 3rd quarter 16-3. He hit Dupree for a 35 yard touchdown. He then led them on a 70 yard drive for another touchdown. He crowned the game with a 50 yard touchdown pass with the Cowboys down 23-17 and 28 seconds left in the game and no timeouts. The cowboys won on the play 24-23. Longley had no expectation of even playing and was completely unprepared. Cowboys lineman Blaine Nye called his winning effort "the triumph of the uncluttered mind".
So with that in mind I will say this, do what works with an uncluttered mind. For full disclosure I will say that eventually after an altercation with Roger he was shipped out of Dallas to the wasteland in San Deigo and never heard from again. Today he sells carpet remnants out of the back of a van in Marfa Texas. No joke.
Now to the uncluttered fibs which I think the algos work off of. Its simple, we had problems at 1370.69 and fell back to 1337.00 where we held. We then blasted off straight to 1416.99 spilling over just a bit to see who would bite. Those that did bite are now not very happy because the 1419.75 combined with the 100% Fib Speed Arc proved to be a wall. We tried it again to see who we could sucker in (a common strategy) but again we never closed above the third rate fib. Where did we fall Oddly to the 1370.69 as first support and then of course to 1357.25 again with a touch of spill. And what held 1370.69 for now. To the upside we will face resistance on one trendline and another small one to the bottom. A break through this trendline will pause at the fib 1357.25 and if it falls well 1337 here we come. A trendline test is almost certain sunday night or early Monday morning in the 1361ish area. Look at the chart and the failures and tell me the "uncluttered mind" of the CC fibs don't work occasionally. There is your levels.
Monday, March 12, 2012
Short Term Gold Fibs For Overnight Pre-Fed Meeting
1702 is Triples, as is 1707.88. The Red and Blue are Retracement and the Orange is a recent extension. Look for it to pause at these if it crawls up overnight.
Thursday, March 8, 2012
Wednesday, March 7, 2012
EC Long Term Fibs 3-7
Wednesday, February 29, 2012
Think Oil May Be Recognizing Long Term Fibs?
Retrace from May Highs to October Lows, Extension From December Lows to Jan Highs to Feb Lows.
CL Air Pockets 2-29
Thickest support lies at 106.25 with thick support down to 105.80 with an air pocket between there and 105.39. Decent support from there down to 104.78 where it turns into nothing but air between there and 103.78. To the upside, Thinning decreasing resistance from 106.33 to 107.78 with the real air pockets between 107.04 and 107.30, and 107.49 and 107.70. From there increasing resistance to a peak at 108.55 with decreasing resistance from there to the last air pocket which lies between 109.25 and 109.55.
Tuesday, February 28, 2012
EC At Some Pretty Big Long Term Fibs Here
EC Marched right up to the 38.2 smaller weekly retrace and now hangs (literally as I write this its at 1.3440), on the bigger 50% retrace. And as you can see from the chart has moved in a range sitting right between the two, not at all uncommon as the two magnets pull form different directions. So obviously one of them will win question becomes is our next really big level 1.3632 or 1.3248. But odds are at these kind of long term fibs we are gonna get a big ass down. When it breaks which ever way it does will be your signal and its gonna be hard and fast. And dont think 1.3000 is out of the question.
ES Morning Fibs 2-28
We are running out of retracement fibs (red) so the one shown is from yesterday's lows to the globex highs so far. The 1371.25 100% extension is where this thing was headed all day and I figured the Europeans would get us there and they did. 137.21 is still the biggest number on the board and the biggest magnet. With help from the euro I had hoped the overnight might touch the 127% at 1376.18 but was a tall order.
The machines have done their job to get us to 1371.25 and we will see if they have the gunpowder to get us to the next one with such a big magnet at 1367.21.
The machines have done their job to get us to 1371.25 and we will see if they have the gunpowder to get us to the next one with such a big magnet at 1367.21.
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