47 years ago

clipped from www.ibankcoin.com What year did this cartoon appear in the Chicago Tribune? (Hint: it was over 47 1/2 years ago)

wednesday market breadth ( fed day)

tuesday market breadth

pattern of the day

Monday market breadth

Dow Jones 5 min chart

NYSE Tick 5 min

losing is part of the business ( but not like this)

This trader was LONG 10 YM contracts when DOW gapped down 300 points.

For those who didn't learn the lesson check this

I'm thinking of watching this video weekly or maybe often.

chattin' & tradin'

Here is a chat room related to trading 

scalping ROST

Pure luck!
The whole market made a rally as I was scalping ROST:

The intermediate 5 min view of Dow Jones

5 min NYSE TICK

daily ROST

1 hour ROST

1 minute ROST

exit USDNOK

I decided to close my position on USDNOK as I realized it was a triangular trap.
Even if it was a losing trade one should see the opportunity when breaking this triangular trap.

the daily chart

the 4 hours chart

the 1 hour chart

long USD NOK

Daily view

The entry was too early. I should have waited for a breakout of the triangle. Unfortulately I didn't see the triangle forming. In hindsight looking at the daily & 4 hours charts I just realized the mistake I did.

4 hours view

1 hour view

10 minutes view

long EUR SEK

1. New Long on EUR/SEK

Daily view

4 hours 1 hour chart

10 minutes chart

market breadth study ( part 1) - CBOE based indicators

All CBOE market indicators are in the form of Put Call ratios.
I will list the ones I can fully understand but an exhaustive list of all put-call indicators can be found here.

1. OPTION indicators

 
There's only one thing one should know before seeing the indicators below:

Global Options = Index options + Equity options

a. Global CBOE Put Call ratio (available for free at stockcharts.com as $CPC).

b. CBOE Options Equity Put Call ratio ( also available at stockcharts.com as $CPCE )



c. CBOE Index Options Pub Call ratio (see $CPCI at stockcharts.com or market-harmonics.com)



2. LEAPS indicators

    To find out more about LEAPS please visit this link. 

    There's only one indicator based on LEAPS and that is : LEAPS put call ratio. The only free source for daily charts of this indicator is market-harmonics.com