18 sep later EUR session Let's see the forest for the trees again. what happened so far during EUR session ... Hang seng up massively @149p<<<< super star performer NQ up 202pm probably due to Hangseng. hmmm. the higher the tariff, the higher the index futures ? Whatever ! dax up 323p copper up again @421p <<<< mega star performer !!! crude oil, HO, RB Gasoline all up @505p India cnx nifty down @506p but this signal is not obvious. gold - comaed ! defibrillator please! eur gbp jpy, italy BTP, germany buxl, usdcnh, Natural Gas, ZB bond all sleeping. It might wake up but better don't touch these over next few hours. Let them sleep. summary of movers (updated 5pm): Hangseng, NQ, crude oil HO RB, copper summary of sleepers (updated 5pm): gold, eur gbp jpy, italy BTP, germany buxl, usdcnh, Natural Gas, ZB, dax
18 sept US session Again look at the forest for the trees again. NQ, copper, crude oil, HO, RB - already gone up. Will it continue to go up, reverse to go down, or sleep? No idea. Have to see what the Americans are going to do later. ZB, Germany Buxl already one down. Lean Hog - yesterday up. those sleepers including soya continue to sleep. actually gold tried to wake up but it went to sleep again.
well.... the americans pushed NQ even much higher after China hits back: It will implement $60 billion in tariffs on the US effective Sept. 24 so? more tariff from US, more tariff from China means higher stock price. The world is simply interesting. Market doesn't follow logic as mentioned by experts.
I have a question and this is not a criticism. Futures are derivatives. You're trading futures. Not FOs or spreads... why "derivatives futures"?
I traded various derivaties. Perhaps it is like me saying I gave up on options and now just focus on futures.
19 sep Asian session what happened past few hours : long blue candles - NQ, copper, Nikkei, Hangseng long red candles - India Nifty gold - dead . it needs defriberator. so today, price either go up, go down, sideway. No way to tell. Only time will know. for such market, I will downsize by lot size.
cont ... sigh.... what a bad (predictable ) market!! at times, market is quite predicatable. very easy to lost money in such a market. OK. I will stop trading. Now I will go for extended exercise. How nice if the exchange shut down, when previous day was a long candle.
It's just a nomenclature thing. Here's the real kicker though...What do you truly call an option on a future? Isn't that a derivative on a derivative? Is that a FOOF? FOOPD? FOOFOD?
19 sept end Asian / Eur session what happened so far ... FTSE China A50 up 1010am (sigh.... missed this signal because I was too focused on Hangseng. Unfortunately Hangseng movment was too jerky with lots of porpupine spikes). copper up @1120am. Most likely its movement will be limited. Yesterday long blue candle - NQ, copper, Hangseng, Natural gas, crude oil also Italy BTP up, and Germany buxl down (they don't like each other). out of no where, Natural gas suddenly went up. This is not normal. Winter coming so soon? _______________ now : gold seems to wake up already. something happening to US dollar? NQ - don't know where it is going. seems to be sleeping.
19 sept US session what happened so far .... eur gbp - all went up then down crude oil, copper, NQ going nowhere DAX absolutely zero pulse (how did he manage to do it?) italy btp, germany buxl, gold appears to have found its comfort zone Natural gas yesterday suddenly long blue candle. this is abnormal. Lean Hog - up 2 days already ____________________ so? crude oil inventory news coming up will focus mainly on NQ , RTY , crude oil