Author: Scott Hoffman

Just kidding.  However,  I was quoted by the  Wall Street Journal website  yesterday.   I get called for analysis and ‘market color’  by their interest rate futures reporters on...

This is market analysis and trade recap using the methodology of my Trade or Fade Advisory.  For more information and a free trial to Trade or Fade go here. Gold futures have staged a huge rally today, rallying over $22 per...

Chinese economic numbers (industrial production, retail sales, money supply and loan growth) painted a picture of strength and buoyed stocks and commodities overnight.   A compromise was reached on the Basel III...

Concerns about the European financial system are resurfacing after reports that German banks will need to raise a large amount of capital to meet Basel II guidelines. PIMCO said Greece still faces ‘substantial’...

Yesterday I wrote about the Buy day in the eMini S&P futures.  Proving that the markets try to get you to do the wrong thing at the wrong time, late in the session they broke back to around where they opened, rather...

The Taylor Trading Technique does a good job of highlighting how markets fool us into doing wrong thing at the wrong time.  Today’s Buy day signal in the S&P futures was a good example of this. The daily chart for...

The BOJ held an emergency meeting; afterward they announced it will expand the size of its bank lending program in an effort to stimulate their economy.  That move, combined with Bernanke’s “we’ll do all...

Today was a Taylor Trading Technique (TTT) Buy day for the S&P futures.  It turned out to be a great example of what a Buy day should look like. (I write a futures trading advisory called Swing Trader’s Insight...

The overnight news of note was from Europe.  Ireland had a good auction for T Bills and Credit Agricole posted good earnings.  These paint a not so dire picture of European sovereign debt.  The WSJ is reporting...

Gold and silver futures had a big outside day up (lower low, higher high and close) yesterday.  The chart for silver futures looks great; let’s take a look at where opportunities may be coming up. Monday had a...