Author: Scott Hoffman

I hope this doesn’t muddy the waters for Trade or Fade followers, but I had a perceptive follower ask be about today’s strategy for the eMini S&P futures, and I thought I’d run through this morning’s...

Breakout setups are one of my favorite patterns to trade in the futures markets.  That being said, sometimes a breakout pattern is signaled but the market still goes nowhere.  Knowing when not to trade is often as...

Stocks are seeing strength on another “merger Monday’.  The Yen rallied as Japanese officials said there was “absolutely no” discussion about intervention to stop the Yen’s rally.  August...

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Trade or Fade (one of my futures trading advisories)  said the eMini S&P futures had a breakout setup today.  Yesterday was the narrowest trading range of the previous four sessions and yesterday’s bar was a...

I’m bullish on gold futures.  Today it made new highs for this rally; I thought I’d write a quick update on it. The daily chart for December gold futures is below.  After I wrote about it last Thursday (see...

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Chinese stocks were up 2.3% overnight on optimism about its economy.  Goldman Sachs published a research report saying that Chinese demand may be enough to keep commodity prices firm; notably copper and crude oil. ...

This post is for Joesph G., who asked me what to do in the S&P futures today. I labeled today a Sell day for the eMini S&P futures, according to the Taylor Trading Technique.  The TTT consists of a three day market...

German and French Q2 GDP both came out strong, showing that Euro Zone GDP rose at its highest pace in the past four years.  This was offset by credit woes, as Greek debt spreads rose to their highest level sine Feb. ...