July Natural gas ended a corrective pullback on the June 9threversal swing day (marked by the green arrow on the chart). The newly confirmed reaction swing received additional bullish confirmation when N-gas gapped higher at the open of the June 14th trading session and then closed 225 points higher for the day. It appeared that N-gas was off and running as bullish news appeared everywhere.… read more
Tag Archives: Action/Reaction
Swing trading strategies – How to handle explosive markets! [chart]
July Coffee continues to push higher, surging over 2400 points in the last four days. Explosive markets can offer huge opportunities or huge risks. In this case, price has exceeded time as Coffee reached the first reaction line target objective (148.50, on Friday, June 11. 2010), before settling back to the up-sloping median line at the close of… read more
Swing trading strategies – How ‘action/reaction” triggered early buy signal before Coffee surge! [chart]
A possible shortage of certified Coffee stocks, for July delivery, provide the springboard for 1.40o point price surge during the past two session…with over 1000 points of that rally during Friday’s session. This price action provided a great trading opportunity for traders following the Traders Market Views Swing Trading Report. A buy signal was triggered on June 8th with the… read more
Reversal dates for the week of June 14 – June 18
Monday – Cattle, Hogs, Gold Tuesday – Heating oil Wednesday – Treasury bonds, Australian dollar Thursday – Soy meal, S&P, Dow Jones, Canadian dollar, Cocoa, Orange juice, Coffee Friday – Cattle, Cotton… read more
Swing Trade signals – Dow Jones – failed swing pattern portends trend change. [chart]
June Dow Jones futures traded below the prior swing low on June 8th. The market was trading out of a three -wave continuation pattern and the new low suggested a continuation of the downward trend. However, the market stalled and began to erase all the daily losses and finally closed above the previous low close and at the… read more
Swing Trading Strategy – How “action – reaction” projected the major reversal in Cotton. [chart]
July Cotton – Short from 81.10 – Exit price @ 76.75 – Hit the Target! Cotton broke out of a three-point zigzag pattern o n May 27th. The market had just retested the upper parallel line and closed at the low of the daily price range. This failure signaled the end of the consolidation and… read more
Swing Trading Strategies – How to indentify a market ready to make a major price move. [chart]
August Gold – Gold offers another great example of the “energy coil” in action. A short-term reaction swing had formed between May 31st and June 3rd when Gold posted two consecutive lower closes and tested the lower up-sloping parallel line and 20–day EMA support. The reaction swing occurred inside the longer-term reaction seven-day reaction swing… read more
Best Swing Trading Strategy for finding the “sweet spot” in the market – by John Crane
This is excerpt from the TMV Swing Trade report written on Thursday, June 3rd, after the buy recommendation was issued for the July Natural gas. July Natural gas – Long from 4.4235 – last price @ 4.698 – July N-gas began to consolidate into a choppy sideways trading pattern in late March. The market stayed inside… read more
Swing trading strategies – Understanding “market tells” to help with entry and exits. By John Crane
July N-gas began to consolidate into a choppy side way trading pattern in late March. The market stayed inside the 4.600 to 4.000 price range for over two months before finally breaking out and trading sharply higher on June 3. While a side way consolidation pattern can offer trading opportunities for the astute swing trader,… read more
Swing Trading strategy – Gap-N-Go pattern triggers strong buy in Crude oil. [chart]
In the May 27th (Thursday) issue of the TMV Swing Trading report, I recommended buying the July Crude oil on a pullback to 70.80. The market had closed at 71.51 after confirming a bullish Gap-N-Go pattern. Crude dipped down to 70.67 early in the following session, where it triggered the buy signal before turning higher and staging a… read more