Selling Rallies - Monthly Market Study

Here is a transcript excerpt for Monthly Market Studies with Dan Gramza. If you are already a INO TV Free member please use this link to sign-in. If you are not yet a INO TV Free member please use this link to register and obtain your password.

Market Studies - Technical Tip "Selling Rallies" with Dan Gramza

---

“Hello everyone, this is Dan Gramza and welcome to Gramza Market Studies Technical Tip.

Well today we’re going to be talking about selling rallies. Now what does it mean when people say, “sell the rally” when you want to get into a trade? Or they sell a pull back? Or you hear things like, “The Trend Is Your Friend?”

Well we’re going to explore this here in just a minute. I want to show you the technique and I want to show you some examples of how these markets behave in those settings.

Now let’s talk about this set-up here…

What we’re talking about are soybeans and we’re looking at a five-minute chart. What we see here, the set up, is this market is trading lower and now we see evidence that buyers are coming into the market. This small green body which implies lost momentum and this big shadow on the bottom is rejecting these lower prices. Alright, if was a buyer here what I’m looking for is these buyers to carry through, right? Or what happens if this buying represents sellers who are now buying this market back to take advantage of that move? If they sold at $935 and the markets trading at $925 that would be $500 a contract. Each penny is $50, that would be 10 pennies times 50, or $500. So they starting buying to take some profit. A sign that they may be finishing, that it could be profit taking is this little guy right next to it, that red candle. That would say to us that, “hey you know that buying that was coming in. I think it’s over.” That’s what I would look for. Plus this one candle right here kind of stays dominant over all the action that we see afterwards, and I call that a benchmark candle. So here’s this down trend and here is the rally. When prices are going down that’s a breaking market. When prices are moving up, that is a rally. So the idea of selling the rally… why would we want to do that? Because it implies that this buying is over. That if we trade with the trend, in this case the near-term trend, is down. It’s a way for us to enter a trade after the trend has already started. You know a lot of times people feel the train has left the station without them… well here is a way to participate, to get back on that train if we see the right kind of set up.

---

To read the rest of the transcript click link.

O.K. I got it wrong ... but MarketClub's "Trade Triangles" got it right.

O.K. I got it wrong ... but MarketClub's "Trade Triangles" got it right.

The last three days in equity markets have been extraordinary beyond anyone's imagination and you have to respect the market.

One of my heroes in the stock market was a gentleman named Bernard Baruch. You basically don't hear about him anymore, but his teachings about the market are incredibly useful. You may want to read his book, Baruch: My Own Story, which I highly recommend.

One of my favorite sayings that Baruch gets credited for goes like this: "The main purpose of the stock market is to make fools of as many men as possible." Well that certainly happened to me this week when the head and shoulders formation reversed and the market squeezed all the shorts dry.

I got it wrong, but MarketClub's "Trade Triangles" had it right. Our "Trade Triangle" technology was basically neutral and on the sideline's until yesterday when the weekly "Trade Triangle" flashed a buy signal on the stock market.

If you've been reading this blog for any length of time you know that I stress diversification and discipline in trading. When you do that, you really do win out in the long run.

All the best,

Adam Hewison
President, INO.com
Co-creator, MarketClub

Interview with CME Group's Derek Sammann: E-Micro Products

The CME Group is offering our visitors four free daily analysis videos from some of the top names in the investing and trading world. If you have not had a chance to sign-up, visit INO TV FREE to access your password. Access is unlimited, so visit everyday to see new analysis videos.

Here is a transcript of a recent video on INO TV. The CME Group's Managing Director, Derek Sammann

CME's Derek SammannProducts & Services, Joseph Raia talks about crude oil, natural gas and the world every markets. See more from Raia and more CME analysts by signing up at INO TV.

“New CME FX E-Micro Product” - Interview with the CME Group’s Derek Sammann

---

“FX over the last couple of years has really emerged into an asset class in and of itself. As the equity markets have been difficult and highly volatile, we found a broader set of customers really
looking for additional asset classes to trade to try to define trading strategies where they can make money. FX has been a beneficiary of that. So we’re finding that with our FX suite, we’re moving beyond our typical institutional base. But, even amongst that institutional user set, we’re finding people trading the product because we’re seeing more retail influence on the product, and because we have more retail influence in the product, we get to grow our customer base on the institutional side. It’s a very symbiotic relationship and the beautiful thing about our product suite, whether it’s the mini, the micros or the large contracts, is they all settle the exact same way, they’re consistent with each other, and they’re fungible. So, if your a large customer who wants to be able to provide liquidity in a small contract, the risk is fungible across whatever contract you trade. It’s a daily settlement, they all settle with the same price, and the access to the pricing is as it is now… over Globex, through a FCM, or a broker....”

---

Read More

Crude Oil & Energy Update

The CME Group is offering our visitors four free daily analysis videos from some of the top names in the investing and trading world. If you have not had a chance to sign-up, visit INO TV FREE to access your password. Access is unlimited, so visit everyday to see new analysis videos.

Here is a transcript of a recent video on INO TV. The CME Group's Managing Director of Energy & Metals

CME's Joseph RaiaProducts & Services, Joseph Raia talks about crude oil, natural gas and the world every markets. See more from Raia and more CME analysts by signing up at INO TV.

"Crude Oil & Energy Update" - Interview with the CME Group's Joseph Ria

---

"When you hear the news reporters talk about the price of crude oil in the marketplace, they’re generally talking about WTI, which is West Texas Intermediate crude oil. It’s a very light, sweet crude oil and the highest grade that’s out there. Crude oil is based on and priced on the amount of sulfur that’s in the oil. It makes it easier or harder to refine base on the amount of sulfur. WTI being the lightest and sweetest, is the highest priced crude oil in the marketplace. It is a benchmark delivered in Cushing, Oklahoma...

---

Read More