Author: Scott Hoffman

Stock index futures traded lower yesterday in a lackluster session. This bearish action meant we should anticipate a Taylor Trading Technique (TTT) Buy day today – looking for the down move to end and a rally to follow....

The US Dollar is higher this morning.  Catalysts are weekend comments from St. Louis Fed President Bullard, who said that the Fed may look to end QE2 early because the economy may not require that much stimulus. ...

Yesterday I showed you how you could have used the Taylor Trading Technique to identify and trade yesterday’s bottom and rally in Corn futures (read the post here).  In that post I said that on a big range day liker...

Grain futures had a down day yesterday, pushing corn and wheat futures down to critical support levels.  Today they had a huge rally – corn futures made a $1362.50 per contract rally from today’s low to high;...

There were a number of breakout setups for last night / today’s trading session.  Most of these were in ‘risk on’ assets – the stock indices, Treasuries, the softs.  Given that the Libyan and...

There have been some volatile markets this week as the situation in Japan evolves and Japanese officials work to contain the situation at the Fukushima nuclear reactor complex.  This has provided some good trade...

Overnight the Japanese government pumped a huge amount of money into their banking system to try to maintain financial stability.  In spite of this the Yen has rallied as traders anticipate repatriation flows. In China,...

Fighting is intensifying in Libya; this is helping to push crude oil and other commodities higher.  Over the weekend Obama’s chief of staff Daley said the administration may consider releasing crude oil from the...

The Middle East is a mixed story this morning.  The WSJ is reporting that Libya is resuming crude oil exports from rebel held territory.  On the other hand unrest is spreading to Oman, which produces about 800K barrels...

Chinese CPI and loan growth for January were both market friendly, showing lower inflation and slower loan growth than forecast.  Still, the Chinese Security Journal reported that the PBOC might raise rates again in Q1...