Archive for October, 2006

TradeFlow: Trading Range and Trending

Monday, October 23rd, 2006

TradeFlow is CQG’s innovative charting style that is color coded to track traded volume at the ask price versus bid price. The high and the low of the TradeFlow bar is the best bid and ask prices. The TradeFlow bar is colored green for the percentage of volume at the ask price (buying) and red […]

Overnight Spike Trade in the E-mini S&P and NASDAQ 100

Monday, October 23rd, 2006

Last night in the e-mini S&P 500 and the NASDAQ 100 futures contracts, there was a spike trade. The 5-minute bar chart shows the volume in the 20-point move came in at over 10,000 contracts for the S&P 500. No one has yet been able to explain the trade.The TradeFlow view shows big buying coming […]

Tracking the Aggressors with TradeFlow

Friday, October 20th, 2006

TradeFlow is CQG’s innovative charting style that is color coded to track traded volume at the ask price versus bid price. The high and the low of the TradeFlow bar is the best bid and ask prices. The TradeFlow bar is colored green for the percentage of volume at the ask price (buying) and red […]

Early Start is Weak for Technology and the Dow

Friday, October 20th, 2006

Traders hit bids at the start due to SanDisk and Caterpillar weakness.In the quote window, each of the symbols details the last price and change for the day. The two studies, the relative strength index (RSI) and the moving average convergence/divergence (MACD) and its 9-period average (MACDA or Signal Line) are based 15-minute bars.
The RSI […]

Mixed ETFs

Friday, October 20th, 2006

Only a handful of ETFs are barely in the black this morning. There isn’t any consistent theme. Value, commodities, healthcare and retail ETFs is a wide range of markets.

Las Vegas Traders Expo in November

Friday, October 20th, 2006

The Trader’s Expo, which is held annually in New York, San Diego and Las Vegas, is a free 4-day event. If you are thinking about attending the one coming up in November, I have some speaker recommendations. I have worked with and have seen their presentations, and I can recommend them. First, both the Chicago […]

Traders Bid Up Technology, However…

Thursday, October 19th, 2006

Traders started out bidding up stocks on the NASDAQ, but the sellers have started hitting bids.
In the quote window, each of the symbols details the last price and change for the day. The two studies, the relative strength index (RSI) and the moving average convergence/divergence (MACD) and its 9-period average (MACDA or Signal Line) are […]

Early Buying in Precious Metals, Energy and Internet ETFs

Thursday, October 19th, 2006

Traders are bidding for precious metals, energy and Internet ETFs. Too early to get too excited but buying in the Internet HOLDRS (Symbol: S.HHH) would be good. This ETF has big name companies such as EBay, YAHOO! and Amazon. com

Follow the Buying and Selling with TradeFlow

Thursday, October 19th, 2006

TradeFlow is CQG’s innovative charting style that is color coded to track traded volume at the ask price versus bid price. The high and the low of the TradeFlow bar is the best bid and ask prices. The TradeFlow bar is colored green for the percentage of volume at the ask price (buying) and […]

TradeFlow

Wednesday, October 18th, 2006

Thom Hartle’s View of Trading and the Financial Markets