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*New Position Alert* Short Sugar as of today. The market closed lower. This market is close to some support. If it breaks through this level, the Sugar market could move much, much lower. On a weekly chart, it looks like a huge head and shoulders. The Corn and Soybeans went down a little today. The [...]
Gold continued to rally today, and the stop moved up for the position in Gold. The rally has been very consistent for that last 3 weeks. Our trailing stop will move up rapidly in the next week if the market stays at current levels. The grains rallied. As I stated earlier, I do not have [...]
12-17-2011 The grains took a huge price hit Friday last week due to a very bearish crop report. Corn, Wheat, Beans all lost significant amounts. It’s good to recall the TF 101 system has a long term trend filter. This filter said the trend was still down, despite the huge rally off the December lows. [...]
Grains bounced very strongly off their December. Still, despite this strong move, longer term trend indicators are still down. Beans made lows during the Dec 12-15 dates, and since then have been on an upwards bounce. The Corn and wheat have also bounced strongly. These markets are approaching their highs made in October and early [...]
These Treasury Bonds have finally been stopped out. After 60 trading days – just under 4 months – the bonds have finally been stopped out. We entered this trade on 7-12-2011 at a price of 124-31.5 Today, we exited today at 139-3.5 This ends up being $14,125. It’s not bad money for sitting around and [...]
These two markets are just on fire for the last month. We’re trendfollowers, so those profit stops just keep ratcheting up every day for these two markets. I want to point out something remarkable. Gold and Bonds aren’t supposed to rally at the same time.
The 30 year bonds are in a strong rally, and over the next several days, the stop will be moving up dramatically. The 10 day low will move up from 130-18 to 134-02. For a short term trend following system, this is big money at $2,500 per contract. Not bad for a trade that’s just a [...]
Monetary Realism
