Author: Scott Hoffman

Asian stocks were higher overnight. In a convoluted bit of logic, Moody’s put Japan’s sovereign debt on watch for a downgrade.  This knocked down the Yen, which in turn supported stocks. The Euro is higher; the...

I like trading the grain futures.  They’re liquid, and with the tight world supplies and strong demand there’s been enough volatility to be good trading vehicles. I also like the fact that it’s split up...

Some mornings it’s difficult to multitask and write the morning watch list while simultaneously planning and managing actual trades.  This morning as soon as I sat down at my desk I flipped though the overnight...

In this morning’s Swing Trader’s Insight Watch List I wrote that coffee futures could go either way today, but for any trades today we should watch yesterday’s high as the reference price – a pivot point...

Stock index futures sold off on Friday.  This break came from Thursday’s breakout setup. Thursday had the narrowest trading range of the previous seven sessions, so we anticipated a directional move Friday. Friday was...

The markets opened last night with bad news.  After Friday’s downgrade of Greek debt, Italy’s debt rating was lowered and Spain’s ruling socialist party got hammered in weekend elections.  All this...

Gold futures had a breakout setup today- yesterday was an inside day and it had the narrowest trading range of the previous seven sessions.  The daily chart and last night’s Trade or Fade report for June Gold futures...

Kees van Soest wrote a comment to my last blog post; he said I was correct so far.  I started to write a short response to him about the operative part of his statement was the I’m correct……so far...

It’s an interesting day for the eMini S&P futures.  Yesterday was clearly a Taylor Trading Technique Buy day.  Friday and Monday were bearish days, with both having closes lower than the open. ...

There were a lot of breakout setups in the futures markets today.  I was all ready for today; they’re one of my favorite setups to trade.  I’m doing a webinar this Thursday on trading these setups using my...