Author: Scott Hoffman

The Taylor Trading Technique (a basis for my Swing Trader’s Insight advisory) today was unclear as to direction on the stock index futures today.  However, there was another setup today that gave us a good trade setup...

The Euro weakened against the dollar on concern sovereign-debt issues will hamper Europe’s economic recovery after the Irish central bank cut its growth estimate for this year to 0.2% from a July forecast of 0.8% and...

In last night’s Swing Trader’s Insight update I labeled today a Taylor Trading Technique Buy day in the November soybeans futures.  It followed the TT Buy day playbook to the letter, and is a good example of...

I expected we could see volatility in the financial futures markets today.  Last night Trade or Fade identified a large percentage of the financial futures markets as having breakout setups. The ToF Bias report is below;...

There are some mixed currents this morning. Asian markets on higher after good US data on Friday, Monday merger stories helped this morning.  On the other side Moody’s cut their ratings on Allied Irish unsecured debt,...

I was out of the office yesterday and wasn’t in a position to write about it yesterday.  I have had some people say they followed the bean oil futures after my blog post on Wednesday so I thought I’d write a...

Trading commodity futures and options involves substantial risk of loss and may not be suitable for all investors. You should carefully consider whether trading is suitable for you in light of your circumstances, knowledge and...

In last night’s Swing Trader’s Insight the comment for the S&P futures was “exit breakout buys / Sell Short Day.  In the Taylor Trading Technique, the Sell Short Day occurs at the end of a market rally...

Over the weekend there was lots of talk about the EU banking sector health, notably Ireland.  Irish authorities claim to be getting a handle on their fiscal problems, but the market isn’t sure of it yet.  PIIG...

Yesterday afternoon saw good earnings reports from Research in Motion and Oracle; this boosted stocks on hopes of strong technology spending.  This morning’s CPI report was a non event; at 8:55 AM CT we’ll see...