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Futures Day Trading Signals (Thursday March 16th, 2017) Author: Windy City Jim 312-948-9456 NEVER RISK MORE THAN YOU CAN AFFORD TO LOSE. CALL FOR RECOMMENDATIONS ON PROTECTIVE STOPS. SEE FULL DISCLAIM ON FUTURES TRADING AT THE BOTTOM. WE ONLY ENTER THE MARKET IF THE PRICE HITS THE BUY OR SELL POINT BUY SIGNAL Commodity : May Wheat Previous Closing Price : …
April Live Cattle shook off Tuesday’s weak close with a rally right from the opening of Wednesday’s trading session. Anticipating a strong fedcattleexchange auction, traders followed last Wednesday’s script and rallied price into the 10 AM CT auction. This week, however, the auction didn’t disappoint as buyers were aggressive in their pursuit of cattle. Cattle auctioned from Texas traded from …
Despite a dead cat bounce in beans overnight that took the May futures up to 1007.6, the rally was short lived as funds remain in liquidation mode on rallies. Beans settles slightly lower with the second consecutive daily close below the 10.00 threshold but above key support at 9.92. In the last eleven trading sessions spot beans have fallen over …
The Fedral Reserve raised interest rates by a quarter percent on Wednesday. This move has been expected for weeks and the Fed did not disappoint. On the news the dollar fell; foreign currencies and gold rallied strongly. Traders are now of the opinion that there will be one or at most two additional interest rate increases for the remainder of …
Live Cattle April Live Cattle broke down from Monday’s low (117.575) on Tuesday, March 14, 2017. Live Cattle attempted to rally at the open reaching the high of the day at 118.00 before breaking down and testing support down at the 8 DMA (116.25). It made its early low at 116.225 and then grinded higher and tested the 117.825 resistance …
April Gold futures continues to settle above the 1200 level by the barest of margins. The market has endured a $60.00 break from the February highs due to increased expectations of a interest rate hike of a quarter point that could be announced tomorrow afternoon at 1:15 CST. Long liquidation in both energies and metals has been the theme over …
The dollar rose moderately on Tuesday. Small lot speculative buying was evident throughout the session. Heavier selling pressure was seen in the Euro FX with lighter pressure in the British pound. All eyes are focused on Washington today and tomorrow as the Fed conducts a two day meeting on policy. It is a forgone conclusion that short term interest rates will be …
Camkay Capital Management *Comments by Gary Hart Looking Back The Stock Indices Short-Term Program was down 0.29% for the month is up 2.73% year-to-date. February continued the low volatility bullish environment we’ve had since the election. There was little short-term movement and hence light trading in this program. Composite rate of return table (net of all fees and commissions): PAST PERFORMANCE IS …
Live Cattle April Live Cattle traded in a tight range on Monday, March 13, 2017 as it was unable to overtake trendline resistance at 118.70 reaching 118.425. The tight range is the narrowest in the past 7 days and it ended the day near its low and below 117.825 resistance once again. A failure from the Monday low (117.575) could …
Another very dull trading session in currencies on Monday. Many traders are squaring positions ahead of the Feb announcement on short term interest rates on Wednesday. As was seen on Friday when the employment report was released with higher than expected growth in jobs it was the market reaction rather than the news that was the news. It may be …