Author: Scott Hoffman

The other day a new Swing Trader’s Insight subscriber asked me if he should look to take overnight signals or whether he should stay to the US day session. I told him that it depended on whether he was around to manage the...

By the Taylor Trading Technique, crude oil futures had a Sell Short day signal today. There was a strong rally last week after it broke above the last swing high at 94.97 from August 8. When I looked at the charts last night, it...

Currency futures can be a challenge to trade. Unlike some markets that see their best liquidity (and often the best moves) during US trading hours, currencies can see action almost any time of the day or night, and some of the...

November soybean futures had a breakout setup for today. After the sharp selloff of late last week, yesterday was a doji and NR7 day. The breakout setup meant beans were likely to resume the selloff in a downside breakout or it...

Most of my posts about trading tend to be a post mortem of a trade. The nature of the Taylor Trading Technique tends to make it hard to write posts about trade setups ahead of time. The Canadian Dollar futures had a breakout...

Natural gas futures have been on a sharp downturn over the past couple of days. I had it on my short list of markets to watch today as September futures were testing a significant Fibonacci retracement level at 2.768. How the...

Data painted a mixed picture of economic growth. Q2 growth in Japan and the EU were weaker than forecast while Germany and France came in a bit better than expected. The German ZEW survey of economic conditions declined for a...

Around the clock futures markets have their pluses and minuses. If you want to carry trades for a longer period, in many markets you can work stop losses overnight. This means you can often avoid the big gap opens that can...

There hasn’t been much front page news so far this week, leaving the markets to continue to trade off last Friday’s US employment report. Stocks got a bit of a boost yesterday after Knight Capital didn’t...

Sometimes I get asked how I can follow so many markets for Swing Trader’s Insight. I cover 23 markets in the nightly STI update and sometimes I comment on markets or contract months that aren’t listed. With as much...