upper chart - ES price, quarterly chart lower chart - ES quarterly range magenta line - Trump became president Since Trump took over, range has been very good. It is better than average. I like to make my range chart bigger than price chart. because price chart is not that important. Many people do the reverse.
day range on 8, 9, 10 Jan gold - 60, 21, 17 NQ - 295, 95, 90 oil - 6.5, 1.7, 1.0 US Ultra T bond - 5.6, 2, 2.2 day range still very healthy.
14 Jan US session market appears to have found its comfort zone. Let's see if it can get out of comfort zone.
let's see gold big picture. Gold was not always tradable. between 1983 to 2005, it was rather untradable. my range chart is always bigger than price chart. many people do the reverse.
15 Jan what happened so far ... Asian session movers were Hangseng, China A50, Taiwan index Eur session movers were bonds, Platinum Late Eur / early US session movers were gold, platinum, Russell 2000. Lately there were strong interest in Platinum and Russell 2000 due to whatever reason.
cont ... Russell 2000. My very first futures which I traded. its personality is so predictable. Don't know when US & China are going to sign trade agreement ( or tear trade agreement). Time to sleep. Better wake up early tomorrow.
15 Jan Gold trading summary many signals on 15 Jan up 1037a down 751p up 936p again down 1046p again up 119a again of course I didn't catch all these signals day range on 8 Jan - 60 points day range on 15 Jan - 12 points day range is decaying.
Lately, Platinum has been moving. Now look at what happened in 2008. That was a great year. Its range was extremely wide. Those who traded PL in 2008 should find trading very simple. Surely many traders became millionaire within few months. sigh ... PL was 4 digits. Now 5 digits. Old people don't like so many digits. One of the worst is China A50 - 7 digits !!
17 Jan Asian session strange... US bonds are moving during Asian session. something is happening. anyway enter first. Then check what's happening later.
cont ... strange. I wonder who shorted US bonds. Hangseng - it swinged up and down. past few days , its day range has been great