Watching Crude, Gold For December Positions Today’s video will focus on what drove crude down in November. The short answer? COVID and crude have a negative, or inverse, relationship. The uptick in COVID cases is what drove crude prices down. What’s going to carry into December from this November narrative? Check out today’s video to … Read more
Healthcare Rollercoaster Looking To Climb Higher We are quickly approaching the end of the year. For many traders, they find this to be a confusing time due to Santa rallies and window dressing. These distractions lead to the most common questions we traders ask ourselves… “Where should I be looking?” For the coming weeks, I … Read more
Your Edge in Finance, TechSectors In today’s conversation, I wanted to circle back to the Financial Sector (XLF) and the Technology Sector (XLK) from last week’s discussion here at Countdown Trader. Now, remember, both of these symbols are potential buyable sectors. Thinking along the lines of baseball, the idea is we are waiting for a … Read more
‘Double green’ sector reveals market advantage… Everyone loves to talk (and trade) tech. This is one of the most important sectors in the market, but not just any tech… Think XLK. This exchange traded fund (ETF) means we’re focused mainly on Apple and Microsoft. The XLK has really started to rally and it has gone … Read more
What I’m looking at this week We’re going to dive into the Financial Select Sector SPDR Fund (XLF). I want to put XLF in some context within our index, sector, and stock conversation because XLF is the number two to three weighted sector in the S&P 500 and it’s number one in the Dow. It’s … Read more
Looking at KRE ETF What are we looking at going into the end of 2021? What may take us into 2022? It’s one of my favorite sectors – financials. It’s a market that continues to benefit from the current federal monetary policy. Now that we have the announcement of taper, we know the pace, we … Read more
Focusing on ‘glowing,’ low-cost commodity One of my favorite things about exchange traded fund (ETF) picks is being able to show traders that there are many cool markets available. In this video, we’re looking at uranium… What’s really cool about uranium is this is the only way to trade uranium using the URA Global X … Read more
Buyers, Sellers Fighting ‘Distribution’ Tug of War… I’m very excited about this conversation because it combines a couple of things that have been a touchstone for my trading. Number one is understanding market behavior. The psychology of the market that is represented by the candles or the collection of candles on key indicators that we’re … Read more
Catch my “best” and “worst” October trades… We regularly take on new trades during our online live-trading sessions in the Simpler Futures room. Today, I wanted to share some of those trades with you to show how trading “really happens.” Here is my account recap for the month during October… The daily time frame entries … Read more