Author: Scott Hoffman

Markets found support from news that the IMF is seeking to expand its lending resources in order to be able to serve as a bailout fund. US news was scanty today. Grains were lower as forecasts show a widespread rain event for...

By issuing their ratings cuts on Friday afternoon S&P managed to prevent the type of violent reaction that could have occurred if done around normal trading hours. Europe still has problems – the Greek bailout talks...

Treasury bond futures had a Taylor Trading Technique Buy day signal today. In the back of my mind I have a bullish bias on Treasuries this week, although I try not to mix my opinions and trading. Yesterday showed a textbook TTT...

The eMini S&P futures had a breakout setup for today’s session. I was going to write a heads up article about the breakout setup last night but coaching duties got in the way. Also, I rarely trade at night, especially...

This Thursday at 3:30 PM CT I’m doing a webinar on the trading methods I use for my Swing Trader’s Insight advisory. Sign up for this presentation HERE. I didn’t see much to do in the financial markets early...

Markets are subdued as traders await any news out of the Sarkozy / Merkel meeting. There’s no real expectation for game changing ideas out of the meeting but it’s keeping the bears in check for the time being....

If you’ve read me for a while you know that I like to trade the grain futures markets. As they have two trading sessions per day there’s a second morning open to trade off, and the late open means that if you miss...

In this morning’s Swing Trader’s Insight Watch List I wrote that I would be interested in buying crude oil futures if it rallied over last week’s high. That ended up working well; here’s the why and how...

After I posted yesterday’s morning update for Swing Trader’s Insight I got asked a question about my comment on sugar futures. Specifically I was asked why I was looking to buy if March Sugar traded over 23.60 as it...

Markets found some footing after decent auction results from Spain and the EFSF. Sentiment was also helped by the German ZEW survey which showed a surprising rise in investor sentiment in December. The US posted a soft retail...