Hey Traders,

The EEdge indicators are pointing the way to reversals and continuations like clockwork and in this video I  try to give an overview of how I interpret some of the signals that I like to see so I can gain some confidence and place some winning trades.  Apologies it ran a bit longer than I like but talking about some longer term nuances and predictions then going over some trades I took on Friday made me a bit wordy.   Interesting how patterns repeat and repeat for us to take advantage of.  Had some problems with Bloomberg lately being blank and not showing the economic calendar, not sure if anyone else noticed this or if it was just me.  Seems to be corrected now but annoying just the same.  Anyway, had a great week with the volatility and hope you all got a piece of it!  Hope the video is useful to you...

Good Trades,
Trader Joe

Howdy Traders,

Just wanted to post a quick shot of the EEdgeLevel zones and the other EEdge Indicators as they showed up real time today.  The action got slow but the indicators still pointed the way.  These were on my chart before the day started.   BAM!

Hope you got a piece of it!
​Trader Joe

Guten Tag Traders,

Hope you all had a great weeks trading!  A few fun days this last week starting with a Columbus day floater, a big selloff followed by a flat day followed by a reversal day.  So where are we now?  Some might say buy, some say sell, I say maybe wait for the buy then sell.  Have my own ideas big picture that I go through in the video but gotta trade the short term.  Keeping an eye on the big term could give us the confidence to hang on for the big scores however.  We're hanging in the balance here but I just pray whatever it does that it does not go flat like this summer.  Yuck!  Sure looks like a big short setting up bigger picture, just waiting for a solid entry to be signaled by the EEdge Indicators.  Anyway, hope you got a piece of it and followed the EEdge to profits.  Hope the video is useful to you, and if so (as always) feel free to drop a like or +1 somewhere, always appreciated.  If you share a link to us, even more appreciated!

Good Trades,
Trader Joe 

Ciao Traders,

Quick update on the last couple of days trade setups.  Well, yesterday kind-of sucked.  Best I could do is make back commissions and call it a day.  I'll admit the market wore me down.  This is one of my biggest difficulties, remaining patient and realizing that all days can't be great days.  Keeping my powder dry for another day is important.   Today the charts showed us the way and paid off a couple of times.  The first entry was marked and went quickly, but where oh where to exit?  Needed a final spike to signal and finally got it.  If you were patient enough...  There was a dandy reversal a bit later, long, and again screamed for profit taking.   fairly quick but required the same discipline, though as EminiEdge Traders, if you waited for the final divergent spike you were rewarded with a few more ticks.  

The EEdge indicators paid for themselves yet again today, and the price action setups for both entries were clearly detailed in the Trading manual/Ebook.  Don't see the "Reverse Hurl" very often, but there it is!   Anyway, hope you had a great days trading and got a piece of what was there to take!

Good Trades,
​Trader Joe

Merhaba Traders,

Getting a little trading in although I have to admit been struggling a bit with my alternate home here in California and the areas internet connection.  ​What the heck is wrong when my best available connection is closer to dial-up than high speed?  YIKES!  It makes me very nervous putting trades on when the connection is so crappy.  I know it's not the lack of taxes paid in by the hard workers and traders like us that pay a LOT of taxes that is keeping the infrastructure like a third world country.  Is it the politicians distributing our cash for pet projects rather than infrastructure or to the people who have made this money for them in the first place?  Perhaps if we could offer bigger bribes, uh, I mean donated more money uh, I mean speaking fees to Hillary Clinton, uh, I mean the Clinton Foundation maybe we could press for some improvements.  I think that's how it works now.  And if the IRS comes after us, the FBI even, don't worry as apparently it is okay now to delete what we may think is incriminating evidence, smash our devices, have anyone around us cite the fifth amendment and receive immunity.  Intent and negative effects no longer implicitly indicate guilt, it's the size of your contribution and the depth of your influence.   We didn't really MEAN to break the law, after all.  What the hell, freaking twilight zone stuff.

The connection to the above and trading is this: Trading is hard work.  I put in my time, study, review and take my losses as instant feedback  that I need to do better next time.  The market does not say that "some other trader made too much money today, you should have some of theirs since you were less fortunate."  You only succeed and are only rewarded by hard work.  This is your incentive. You can't use brute force and just blindly place trade after trade, sometimes you have to sit like a panther in the dark, waiting, stalking, until the setup appears and you strike without hesitation.  You are rewarded for your diligence, your effort, your patience, and punished or at least not rewarded if you don't get it right.  Generally a clear causality can be drawn in life between the effort you put forth and the results you receive.  Trading is a living, breathing, instantaneous example of this.  There's a lesson in a traders way of life that is completely lost on politicians.  It is truly disturbing.  Okay, I won't go any further as I can feel my blood pressure spiking as I continue to write, but you get my point, there is no free lunch, no matter how many times you hear that there is, should be or will be, "...but only if you vote for me.  This time will be different."  Traders are not that stupid.  We deal with the real rewards and failures of our efforts every day.

So back to trading, had some decent setups Friday but had to be patient (there's that word again), but the EEdge indicators pointed the way for me and kept my powder dry until ready.  I figured since it has been a while since I posted I'd walk through what I was seeing as this unfolded.

First before and after the open, we note at 1 that we're in an uptrend.  Immediately after the open the pros start taking the profits already as we note at 2, and the amateurs start to panic buy, their emotions telling them that this is going to the moon.  Buy, buy, buy!  This is evidenced by the price exhaustion shown at 3.  This lets us know buying is done, but can't sell yet and can't buy, sit on our hands.

Finally price dropped to our EEdge-Level and pauses with amateurs now trying to sell, and AGAIN we get price exhaustion, but this time to the down side.  Hmmm, time to wait again, but long now according to the EEdge-trend still holding for an up move.  Finally at 4 we see pros show up right at resistance turned support, but too early for me.  Too bad as we had a nice little squirt up to resistance before stalling again.

Now at 5 we finally have the setup like I like it, Divergence on EEdgeVolume, Support on EEdgeLevel, Professionals on the HeatMap, Emini Entry shown by the LRE, BAM!  Superfecta!  As if this wasn't enough reason to "get on it and sit on it" this is also a setup right out of the EminiEdge Emini Trading Manual.   Price stalls at resistance but this time it should have trouble holding so we hold, but if you got scared out, a re-entry shows up with a lone LRE at 6.

Waiting for a reason to exit finally shows up near resistance with professionals, price exhaustion, volume exhaustion and finally divergence on the EEdge-volume at 7, again at 8.  Dump everything for +10 points per contract.  We are rewarded for our patience and effort.  If you were aggressive a short kind-of shows up at 9, but doesn't follow through since we are still in an uptrend.  Time to call it a day.  A little later than I like though a little more than 90 minutes is still within the window.  

Speaking of calling it a day, hit the surf a bit late and had to contend with wind and high tide.  All I can say as sometimes you need to be taught some respect.  The surf was angry and I did not listen.  I forced it, trying to apply brute force as I mentioned earlier, dumb, dumb, dumb.  I will be aching for a while as I think I spent more time under the waves than on top of them, but tomorrow is another day...  Again, kudos to Mrs. EminiEdge for the pics.  It is not that often she's there AND has a camera AND feels the compulsion to take a picture of me gasping for air...   :)

Good Trades,
Trader Joe