Steve Rushton, Author at Trading the Line

About Steve Rushton

Marguerite

Probe to 2260 and a bear trap resolved to the upside with strong move off the rising gann line again, adding credence to the current signal – a close lower would have changed the picture with warning signals flashing at that level.

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Disclaimer: This is the diary of a personal trading system, its methodology and the signals that it is producing. You are welcome to follow along but please understand that the information presented here is for educational & entertainment purposes only. No recommendations are being made to buy, or sell stocks, options or futures contracts. Please consult your own financial advisor before making any investment decisions.

Steve Rushton January 12, 2017No Comments

S&P500 daily update

Sideways stutter

No conviction at the 2279 level to push the bollinger higher and the market dumps into the close again.
Looks like the familiar sideways stutter at the highs that we experienced in July and August last year while we wait for co-ordinated direction. I suspect we have too many bulls for higher prices and no catalyst to send the market lower, (yet)

Steve Rushton January 10, 2017No Comments

S&P500 daily update

Rubicon

Friday's pop above the upper bollinger and subsequent retreat below has brought in more sellers.
The bollingers are now quite tight as the market starts to prepare for the next big move.
Still above the buy signal line and major rising support line, but the T volume oscillator's drop below zero is now warning of the potential for a more severe correction. Keeping an open mind though as the market does not seem to want to go down, yet.

Steve Rushton January 10, 2017No Comments

S&P500 daily update

Three Kings presents

Three Kings presents the Dow to 20k (well near enough for rock n roll), and aside from a push outside of the bollinger I cant see any good reason to sell. The structure is looking good for a climb into MLK and into the Inauguration to complete the next major arms of the T structure.

If the strength continues, the immediate target is 2293-5, and then a Fibonacci extension of the last rally, in line with the previous one, projects 2320s.

Having said that, lots of selling on Friday under the hood as indicated by the T volume oscillator's drop back to near zero, so we should keep an eye on this for any hints of a failure.

Steve Rushton January 8, 2017No Comments

S&P500 daily update

Three Kings

No follow through and an inside day, and tightening bollinger bands as the market sits just below all time highs.
No reason to complain just yet but the oscillator Sell Signal is still active and this is still suggesting that the market may struggle to go higher in the short term, and so the next scheduled highs may not be much higher.

Steve Rushton January 6, 2017No Comments

S&P500 daily update

Twelfth Night

If music be the food of love, play on.

William Shakepeare, Twelfth Night

A strong move up above the descending resistance and now at the horizontal.
T volume oscillator turns positive and further confirms the small T into the Inauguration which now looks like another high..

Steve Rushton January 5, 2017No Comments

S&P500 daily update

Hopscotch

Technically a significant improvement yesterday as the market lifts out of the Short Alert.

The small T drawn has been activated by the T volume oscillator and should use the cash-build up from the December oscillator peaks, and this projects highs for MLK and the Inauguration, in line with the larger T structure.

However we are not clear of the descending resistance line (yet), and so we should keep an open mind as any further weakness would reactivate the previous short signal.

Steve Rushton January 4, 2017No Comments

S&P500 intraday update S&P500 signal

Fireworks for the New Year

Sent to my readers prior to the open:

And a very warm welcome to 2017

As mentioned, the first test would be last week's pullback to the rising Gann line at 2135 and as we can see the Futures are indicating a strong open and a successful test.

Very Short Term bullish above 2244, and an S/T Buy Signal is confirmed above 2256.

Ideally we also would like to see the T volume oscillator move above zero to activate a small T with strength into MLK.

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And so an S/T Buy Signal at the open at 2256.
Market fizzled but held onto the Buy Signal (and above the Sell signal level) into the close

Steve Rushton January 3, 2017No Comments

S&P500 daily update

Entrance

All the world’s a stage,
And all the men and women merely players;
They have their exits and their entrances,
And one man in his time plays many parts,
His acts being seven ages…

– William Shakespeare, As You Like It

Enter a New Year full of excitement, complexity and high speed trading.
Market pushed down into the rising Gann line from the November 4 low and held.
This is the first test for 2017.

A bounce here would potentially project new all time highs at the next cluster of highs scheduled for 21-26 January.
If the market continues lower then we may meet the 55 ema at about 2210 – previous resistance now possible support.

Either way we are now looking for a low and a small T to take us into the next series of peaks.

Steve Rushton January 1, 2017No Comments

S&P500 intraday update S&P500 signal

S/T Sell Signal below 2242

With the failure of the morning rally off 2242 it seems that we may be getting an S/T Sell Signal.
There is potential support here and also below at 2235, so beware of another bounce and it would be cancelled out by strength above 2250 today.

Steve Rushton December 30, 2016No Comments

“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”
Leonardo da Vinci

“Imagination is more important than knowledge”
Albert Einstein

“All of our days are numbered. We can not afford to be idle. To act on a bad idea is better than to not act at all because the worth of the idea never becomes apparent until you do it. Sometimes this idea can be the smallest thing in the world; a little flame that you hunch over and cup with your hand and pray will not be extinguished by all the storm that howls about it. If you can hold on to that flame, great things can be constructed around it; things that are massive and powerful and world changing. All held up by the tiniest of ideas.”
Nick Cave, 20,000 days on Earth

2026 Positions

(All numbers refer to SPX)

S/T SELL Signal at 6756 on 11 Mar

S/T BUY Signal above 6826 on 10 Mar

COVER Short Signal above 6792 on 10 Mar

S/T SELL Signal at 6765 on 10 Mar

COVER Short Signal above 6772 on 09 Mar

S/T SELL Signal below 6810 on 06 Mar

COVER Short Signal above 6822 on 05 Mar

S/T SELL Signal below 6822 on 05 Mar

COVER Signal below 6849 on 05 Mar

S/T BUY Signal at 6882 on 04 Mar

COVER Short Signal above 6849 on 04 Mar

S/T SELL Signal below 6845 on 03 Mar

COVER Short Signal above 6877 on 02 Mar

S/T SELL Signal below 6850 on 02 Mar

COVER Short Signal above 6857 on 27 Feb

S/T SELL Signal at 6857 on 27 Feb

COVER Signal below 6884 at 6857 on 27 Feb

S/T BUY Signal at 6884 on 23 Feb

COVER Short Signal at 6850 on 23 Feb

S/T SELL Signal at 6837 on 23 Feb

COVER Signal at 6864 on 23 Feb

S/T BUY Signal at 6883 on 18 Feb

COVER Short Signal at 6834 on 17 Feb

S/T SELL Signal at 6888 on 12 Feb

COVER Signal at 6915 on 12 Feb

S/T BUY Signal at 6899 on 06 Feb

COVER Short Signal at 6938 on 06 Feb

S/T SELL Signal at 6901 on 04 Feb

COVER Short Signal at 6915 on 03 Feb

S/T SELL Signal at 6915 on 03 Feb

COVER Signal at 6942 on 03 Feb

S/T BUY Signal at 6968 on 02 Feb

COVER Short Signal at 6938 on 30 Jan

S/T SELL Signal at 6910 on 30 Jan

COVER Signal at 6940 on 30 Jan

S/T BUY Signal at 6934 on 29 Jan

S/T SELL Signal at 6907 on 29 Jan

COVER Signal at 6934 on 29 Jan

S/T BUY Signal above 6905 at 6923 on 22 Jan

COVER Signal at 6849 on 21 Jan

S/T SELL Signal below 6894 at 6843 on 20 Jan

COVER Signal below 6925 at 6843 on 20 Jan

S/T BUY Signal at 6961 on 15 Jan

COVER Signal below 6934 at 6925 on 14 Jan

S/T BUY Signal above 6890 at 6900 on 05 Jan

COVER Short Signal at 6864 on 02 Jan

S/T SELL Signal at 6837 on 02 Jan

Mission

It has been my Mission to create a simple but effective method for investing in the stock market, so that I would always know what to do regardless of the circumstances.

The result is a rigorous system which allows the market to tell you what to do, when to Buy, when to Hold, when to Cover, and when to Sell, and it removes the need for you to have any opinion whatsoever.

And so, I present to you the diary of my personal trading system, and a record of the signals that it is producing. You are welcome to follow me along but please understand that the information posted here is for entertainment purposes only. No recommendations are being made to buy, or sell stocks, options or futures contracts. Please consult your own financial advisor before making any investment decisions.

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The mind is the spirit’s tear.
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