Trading the Line

All Saints

Another inside day just below the highs.

We move into November and acknowledge the season's change, darker nights and colder weather ahead.

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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 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 October 31, 2017No Comments

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All Hallows

It's said that All Hallows' Eve is one of the nights when the veil between the worlds is thin – and whether you believe in such things or not, those roaming spirits probably believe in you, or at least acknowledge your existence, considering that it used to be their own. Even the air feels different on Halloween, autumn-crisp and bright.
– Erin Morgenstern

An inside day and a little profit-taking on the echo high in-line with expectations.

Expect further bobbing about within the upper range as the market re-charges and waits for another catalyst to provide direction.

Notice that the averages are playing catch up and there is the growing possibility of a squeeze.

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Steve Rushton October 31, 2017No Comments

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Milvian Bridge

Yesterday's gap up open triggered another S/T Buy Signal at 2568* and subsequently a strong rally into 2580.

Note that when a gap up holds firm the strong momentum associated with this move continues into a strong close at the highs – a gap and go close at the highs.

Note also that the Osc oscillator – a lagging indicator – is now making a Sell Signal. Although this does not necessarily mean that price cannot go higher it does suggest that price may not make significant advances yet as it is usually associated with consolidation phases.

In the meantime the current active large T structure* that is centred at the August low continues to push the market higher in-line with expectations. The precision of the last 3 important projections and the renewed strength confirmed by the Buy signal supports the projections for further highs in due course.

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Steve Rushton October 28, 2017No Comments

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Constantine

A little bit of follow through from yesterday's bounce but this is sold into at the declining line from the recent high.

Still stabilising and position neutral. Momentum fading and close to an Oscillator sell signal.

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Steve Rushton October 27, 2017No Comments

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Gunfight

There's always a man faster on the draw than you are,
and the more you use a gun, the sooner you're gonna run into that man.
– Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, 1957, Dir: John Sturges

Straight down from the open and quickly sliced through the 'cover signal line' into the mid channel for a strong recovery bounce that very nearly regained the Buy Signal line, but not quite.

This is follow through from the selling initiated by the projected high and echo high and leaves a nasty declining resistance line to be negociated in due course. It confirms 20 October as an important short term peak at the strong arm of the T structure.

There may well be some follow through from the bounce as we have another projected high for tomorrow and another echo high scheduled for tomorrow or Friday.

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Steve Rushton October 26, 2017No Comments

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Cover Signal confirmed at 2559

A nasty drop and some relentless selling in the morning, followed by a sharp bounce and rally off the Mid-channel which is often an initial support on first visit.

Technically some damage done and just failed to close back above the important Buy Signal line.

Therefore a cover signal at 2559 for now whilst the market stabilises.

And that is a nasty declining angle from the all time high that we will need to negociate moving forwards

Steve Rushton October 25, 2017No Comments

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Saint Crispin’s

“From this day to the ending of the world,
But we in it shall be remembered –
We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;
For he to-day that sheds his blood with me
Shall be my brother; be he ne’er so vile,
This day shall gentle his condition;
And gentlemen in England now-a-bed
Shall think themselves accurs’d they were not here,
And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks
That fought with us upon Saint Crispin’s day.”
– William Shakespeare, Henry V

Initial bounce sold into, some unfinished business maybe but still holding up above Friday's gap.

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Steve Rushton October 24, 2017No Comments

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August Echo

The market opens at all time highs and initiates a retracement.

A slow but persistent day of selling displaying a distinct lack of buying power – the effects of an Echo high* and an important peak projection of the T structure.

How much of a retracement is required remains to be seen, but for now, the market is still well above the Buy signal line, and additional peaks are projected for later this week and into November.

It looks to me that we are now entering a period of sideways consolidation that could see additional highs and lows as the market defines its new upper range, whilst building energy for the next move.

* This is the first of a series of echo highs projected from the August period. For more information please subscribe to the daily updates.

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Steve Rushton October 24, 2017No Comments

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Apples and oranges

Now that's the spirit !

Friday's push higher accurately projected by the T structure, with a solid gap up and go and close at the highs type day as the market continues to leave bystanders behind. This train waits for no one.

Momentum ticks up, as does the T volume oscillator.

This is also in-line with the scheduled echo high and so it remains to be seen whether this is an important peak or whether the additional projections will continue to lift the market higher next week. Hedge and lock in profits accordingly.

In the meantime, higher highs continue to beget higher highs. For those who still do not understand why the market is moving higher and will probably continue much higher in the coming months, please read my recent free reports.

Enjoy the weekend.

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Steve Rushton October 21, 2017No Comments

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Catal-exit

A gap down for a test of the current advance found important support and plentiful buyers for a text book recovery all the way back to close at a token new high.

The strength is in-line with the expected peak projected by the major arm of the T structure which projects a peak for today. There is also an echo high scheduled for today and the combination suggests that we may see some strong selling either today or just after the high on monday.

With one successful test of the recent advance acheived, I would now expect to see the market start to define an upper range with a series of probes to the upside and to the downside whilst continuing its grind slightly upwards and sideways.

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Steve Rushton October 20, 2017No 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.”
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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

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