Author: Scott Hoffman

There was good news out of Asia; Chinese PMI was stronger than expected in October and the Japanese trade balance saw strong exports in September in spite of the strong Yen. In European news, Germany and France officially...

Today was a Taylor Trading Technique Buy day for the stock index futures, anticipating both yesterday’s selloff and today’s rally. Yesterday’s selloff went against the recent trend of having a TTT entry occur...

In this morning’s Swing Trader’s Insight Watch List, there were a number of markets for which I referred to Last Wednesday’s high as a reference price. The eMini S&P futures were one of those markets,...

European officials are trying to lower expectations for Friday’s EU summit. The WSJ ran a story saying that trader’s hopes are too high for a concrete solution at the summit. Steffen Seibert, a spokesman for German...

In this morning’s Swing Trader’s Insight Watch List my comment on the T Bond futures was that it looked like the same setup as it had on Wednesday. It made the same move as Wednesday, here’s what I saw (and...

There are times when it’s tough to do everything I’d like here.  I’m trying to trade, work with clients, and write the two advisories and this blog.  The biggest time crunch is usually in the morning;...

As I wrote about here, yesterday the eMini S&P futures had a Taylor Trading Technique Sell Short day signal.  It ended up moving very little yesterday; the resulting tight range yielded a breakout setup for today....

Cotton futures had a breakout setup today.  It had formed a channel of sorts over the past week; with the USDA releasing a crop production and world supply/demand report this morning it wasn’t a surprise that traders...

The previous post went through a trade in the live cattle futures today.  Yesterday’s big selloff in cattle gave a Taylor Trading Technique Buy day today; it obligingly rallied as expected. The other setup I mentioned...

I didn’t do much trading yesterday.  Between yesterday’s holiday and the late night on Sunday watching another Packer win I wasn’t going to do anything unless setups really jumped out at me. ...