Author: Scott Hoffman

By the Taylor Trading Technique (TTT) the grain futures markets have Sell Short day signals today.  This morning I thought I’d take a break from watching gold futures continue to plummet and watch them for a trade....

Gold futures have been the center of attention lately-it’s been all over CNBC; today’s Wall Street Journal had an article about gold buying by Main Street.  I’ve had a few inquiries about when bulls might...

German PM Merkel said that Eurobonds were not the answer to solving Europe’s financial problems and went on to say the government would not be pressured by the markets. There’s though that German intransigence to...

Last week I had an exchange with a trader who was taking a trial to my Swing Trader’s Insight advisory.  He is an engineer; he was trying to see how he could make STI a process for trading.  For his process he...

Earlier today I wrote about the breakout trade in the crude oil futures today.  The stock indices had breakout setups as well today. Let’s take a look to see what we could have done so far today and see if...

There were a number of breakout setups today.  I almost always look for a breakout move in crude oil futures on Wednesday when the EIA inventory report is released.  To go along with that, crude oil had a breakout...

There were a large number of markets with breakout setups today. Stock index futures were among the markets with breakout setups as Friday had the narrowest trading range of the previous seven sessions. The daily chart for the...

There was not a lot of overseas news last night.  Japan’s Q2 GDP was weak, but not as bad as expected.  The Europeans that aren’t on vacation are trading cautiously ahead of tomorrow’s meeting between...

Yesterday I wrote about the short sale in the September wheat (read it here); I sold when it gapped higher after a bullish USDA report.  Corn also gapped higher yesterday; will it try to fill in its gap today?  If so...

In the Taylor Trading Technique cycle the Sell day causes the most confusion.  By Taylor’s “market manipulators” theorem, a Sell day is the day for the “market insiders” to sell out the...