Thursday, October 29, 2015

October 29 E-mini S&P 500 Futures: Keep It Simple Stupid Series



First Target Fulfilled

Today’s session may be very boring to some, but it was yet another fairly simple and straight forward with great risk vs. reward setups just like yesterday. Before the day session had opened, the market formed a 15minute double bottom at 2073.25.  This made our trading day very easy as we used 2073.00 as a hard stop for all our BTFD day trades. At the day session open, we gave a word of caution to be careful of a consolidation day until late afternoon. That was pretty much what the market did as every dip was bought intraday at the 1HR 20EMA bull train support and it stopped at the 2083-2084.50 resistances. At the end of the day, it finally broke above the range. Overall, our day trading account managed to over perform the day session’s range of 11 points by just a hair. 

What’s next?

Tomorrow is the monthly closing.
Daily closed at 2084.75, this is the 6th consecutive close above the daily 200SMA. Also, it was a small straight continuation of the prior day’s breakout bull bar.

As I’m writing this, ES hit a high of 2088.5 which means we consider the 2089.50 target to be fulfilled. As previously stated, our margin of error is 2 points for ES targets.

The support for bulls to hold has now been upgraded from 2050 to 2065.

As long as the bull train remains above 2065, the immediate targets are 2100 and 2107. 

In the case of bull acceleration breakout above the trend line resistance, we now have intermediate targets at 2120 and 2134. 

For bears: Break below 2065, then immediate targets are 2055, 2050, 2040 and 2030

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The Daily Extreme Overbought Signal
Not much has changed here, still marching towards new high vs. the historic peaks. As mentioned previously, price is king and the signals are just setup potentials. ES needs to trigger below 2050 for this to be confirmed. Having such a euphoric high could provide a fast and furious breakdown when the bears pounce onto the battlefield.

Roadmap and thoughts:
Price has now closed above the 78.6% fibonacci retracement level. Currently, this leads us to believe that the 100% full retracement at 2134 becomes very likely and will eventually be fulfilled. The key issue with this is that we cannot predict if it does this within 20 sessions, or get a dip back to 2030 first then go for 2134, or it ultimately fails. This is just a very general roadmap/thought to be kept in the back of our minds. 

Remember, the KISS series focuses on high probability immediate targets with our approach of the market level by level, hence the high win rate.

The first try at Daily 20EMA is a BTFD setup
Even if bears manage to reverse next week or within these two weeks; daily bulls have a first try BTFD setup at daily 20EMA setup just like how first try hourly 20EMA was a BTFD setup during Friday’s day session. We count this rally from the 1861 vs 1861.5 hourly bottom to 2065 as Leg 1. The bounce has never had to retest the daily 20EMA yet, but retested the daily 8EMA 3 times and bounced off it. This means it has been a massive bull squeeze run that the very first dip to 20EMA should sticksave. However, just because first try BTFD at daily 20EMA is a great setup ,it does not mean it has to be a daily chart scale bounce (50-100 points). It could just be an intraday 20-30 points bounce then retest the daily 20EMA again if bears manage to have that much conviction.

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Our Swing Position

  • Added 10% Dec Monthly IWM Calls
  • Total = 30% swing shorts, 10% swing longs

 We will not add anymore swing shorts until ES triggers below 2050.00

To reiterate: we are not great swing traders; this is a long learning process. Our swing account represents only 20% of total trading dollars and the day trading account represents the other 80%. For example, if the day trading account is 800K USD, swing account is 200K USD.