Author: Scott Hoffman

I was hesitant to trade much today.  First, it’s August so a lot of Europe is on vacation, taking their liquidity with them.  This was one of the culprits in yesterday’s volatility.  Second, the day...

This morning on Twitter I saw a Tweet for a blog post by Peter Brandt (you can read it here).  Peter’s a respected guy and I have Twitter up during the trading day  (I also post now and then) so I thought...

I recently had an exchange with a trader who is taking a look at my Swing Trader’s Insight (STI) advisory.  In the early 1990’s I followed Linda Bradford Raschke’s trading, learning how she implemented the...

In this morning’s Swing Trader’s Insight Watch List I said that a break under the overnight low at1299.00 could start a bigger selloff.  This break was identified by what Larry Williams called an “Oops...

The markets appear to be celebrating my return from vacation or the “pull the chestnuts out of the fire” budget deal.  It still needs to get approved by Congress and it remains to be seen whether it will be...

Earlier this week I wrote about a Taylor Trading Technique Buy day for gold futures (see here).  Later that day I had a conversation with a trader who asked me about what to do if he missed the initial buying opportunity on...

Yesterday I wrote a blog post (here) highlighting two setups I saw for today.  I thought I’d revisit that to show how we put the plan into action. Below is today’s intraday chart for October sugar futures. ...

I don’t often write blog posts about trade setups ahead of time.  It’s a crap shoot as to whether any single setup will result in a big winner, a bomb or do nothing, so I never know whether a setup I point out...

Markets are great at getting you to do the wrong thing at the wrong time – either getting you to buy a top or sell a bottom or trying to stop you out of a trade before the market makes a move in the direction you are...

Friday was a tentative trading session for a number of markets as they showed the narrowest trading range of the week. For the eMini S&P futures Friday’s close was at the midpoint of last week’s range. Taken...