Friday, March 9, 2012

Automated Trading Strategy earns profits Gold and Crude Oil Futures



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Every Friday we take a moment from our normal trade room routine to review our automated trading strategies included with our advanced membership.    Our automated trading strategies are design with different types of traders in mind. 

First, you can use this automated-trader to take the trades, and manage the trade, giving complete control to the computer.  Second, many of our members LOVE how you can set it up to trade semi-automated which means it takes the trade for you, but then the user sets the stops and targets using the chart trader feature in NinjaTrader7.  We have provided our clients with the strategy software, the templates, and all the settings they need to completely use this automated-trading strategy to its maximum potential, and we provide DAILY training for our members, along with tech support to learn how to set it up and use it.


Automated Crude Oil Trading









Automated Gold Trading






This morning was a Friday, and to make matters more interesting, we had the biggest news event of our month, Non Farm Payrolls.  We took time this morning with members and guests @ 730am EST to review how we mentally and technically prepare for our day ahead of such important news.  We knew that Friday are always a little challenging because our ‘window of opportunity’ is much smaller, and our emotions at the end of the week are sometimes ‘jacked up’ on previous winning days, or losses, so we had to plan our trades, and then trade our plan.

Discretionary Trades Today




This morning’s price action was challenging for discretionary traders in our trade room, but don’t tell that to the automated-trading strategies, they continued to perform even in the face of Non Farm Payrolls, a true testament of the worth of an automated-trader.  We began the day with the dollar index moving higher, which successfully pushed prices lower on Crude Oil, euro, E-Mini-Russell, and gold futures, but then the dollar index sat at the highs of the price wedge and fell asleep, giving us fake-out breakouts across the board.  By 1030am EST we needed to be aware that the morning (and the week) was coming to an end and we needed to be careful.  My final trade this morning was very aggressive, and in hindsight too high risk for the market personality this morning, which stings giving back 50% of my daily earnings, but it’s a lesson to learn.

Dollar Index Sits at Highs






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Gold futures trading in price wedge structure


Our day trading strategy for gold futures is to sell the highs/resistance and buy the lows/support of the price wedge, and we also had the opportunity to sell below the PLOD and if price goes back up above the PLOD we will buy it.






Gold trading just above the price wedge lows and below the PLOD so we have to wait at this for higher or lower prices.  I'm buying when price goes back above the PLOD and I'm buy if price tests the support levels below us.
We want to buy gold futures above the PLOD and then buy the lows of the price wedge, avoiding the middle of the ranges.

Euro currency futures price wedge day trading strategy


We can see the price wedge on the euro inside the major bull price channel and we’re trading at the PLOD so if we can get below the PLOD we sell retracements and if the sellers fail below PLOD and price comes back up above PLOD we buy the failure.  Beware the euro is going to react to the dollar index market personality so use the dollar index correlation when trading the euro.
As price rises I'm selling the highs of the price wedge and the PHOD as resistance first, and then with strong buyers I will then buy pullbacks with new higher-highs above PHOD.  If price falls I'm selling below the PLOD and then looking for the sellers to fail and we buy when price goes back above the PLOD.  I am going to buy the lows of the price wedge and the 1.3096 support below the price wedge.  I will then sell retracements below 1.3096 only after looking for fake-out breakout.