Author: Scott Hoffman

Today’s action in gold futures made for a rough ride for some. The Taylor Trading Technique (TTT) gave some good insights to help manage trades and sidestep some of the volatility. Today was what I label an ‘exit...

Worldwide economic jitters are spreading in the wake of Friday’s weak US employment report. Europe is a mess; the next tranche of the Greek bailout is in danger of falling apart as it sounds like German PM Merkel is going...

No, I’m not talking about being mentally unbalanced. I’m talking about market structure, which helped find what to trade and what to skip today. Looking over the charts last night it looked like we could end up with...

Earlier this morning I wrote about yesterday’s action in the eMini S&P futures.  Now let’s take a look at today, this was the payoff for spinning our wheels yesterday. There was a Sherlock Holmes story where...

Yesterday afternoon I was going to write about the action in the eMini S&P futures but I ran out of time.  As it turned out, the  action created a good setup for today, so I’ll split this post up into two...

I use the Taylor Trading Technique as a trading method unto itself, using it to enter and exit trades in the futures markets.  However the TTT can be helpful for timing market entries and exits for traders that don’t...

Markets breathed a sigh of relief after Irene ended up having a much smaller impact that had been feared.  There were initial estimates that it could end up costing $14 bln; the final estimate is around $2 bln.  This,...

This is the second part of today’s earlier post about using the Taylor Trading Technique to analyze gold futures (see the first part HERE.) Earlier today I wrote about how the price action in gold futures fit into the...

This is part one of  a two part chart study of using the Taylor Trading Technique to analyze the gold futures market this week. In case you hadn’t noticed, gold has received a lot of interest from traders and the...

Earlier this morning I was going to write about shorting the eMini S&P’s.   Yesterday was a Taylor Trading Technique Sell Short day.  I did short them yesterday but ended up scratching the trade as they...