Ever since the pre-market surge on Monday morning, the stock indexes have been wide ranging and noisy favoring the counter trend and mean reversion strategies more than the trend strategies. It is a "digital" news market where you we see price moves from one level to the next in 1 minute without a "second act". When I look at the countertrend and mean reversion strategies in the NQ Portfolio 27, they are near an equity peak while the trend strategies are sitting at a worse ca

Choppy pullback today with a small surge in the after hours as Crude Oil dropped. The news tape continues and this pattern reminds me of last April 7-8. Will tomorrow be like April 9, 2025? The market listens to the presidents rhetoric and responds. In recent years we have seen the Fed put (meaning the Fed will support the market and not let it drop too much). Now we have the president put (meaning the president will provide support for the market to move higher quickly if it

It was a news driven market with the big move in the pre-market on discussion from the administration on resolution with the war in Iran. The indexes surged and the day session was back and forth and choppy. The market had traded below Friday's lows in the overnight session before the pre-market surge higher. The portfolios were down across the board in a challenging trading environment. Hypothetical Trading System Signals on 03-23-2026 27 System Portfolio NQ = -$16,680 Diver

Several of our portfolios delivered two nice days in a row on Thursday's and Friday's trade. On Wednesday we discussed the drawdown entry alerts as well as the end of the week and second half of the month effect. Short selling trend day trade strategies in the Nasdaq were the top performers. Recently, we added the Seven System Portfolio NQ for days like today. The top two shorts in the Seven System Portfolio were Cobra III 2022 1m and NQ Pulse. Hypothetical Trading System S

The portfolios were mostly under water during Thursday's trade. The counter trend rally at the end of the day generated some nice gains to end positive for the day on all the portfolios. Hypothetical Trading System Signals on 03-19-2026 27 System Portfolio NQ = +$8,965 Diversified Portfolio 57 (NQ Only) = +$10,885 Seven System Portfolio NQ = +$3,950 Stock Index Portfolio 37 = +$7,635 Stock Index Portfolio 18 = +$1,785 Two System Portfolio NQ = +$1,975 Silver Portfolio = +$1,7

The short selling trend strategies as well as the NQ Liberation were the highlights of the day on FOMC Day. NQ Liberation Trades Short Selling Trend Strategies in 27 System Portfolio The mean reversion and counter trend strategies were down on the day and traded for a potential rally in early trade. The V-Reversals and counter trend strategies weighed on the portfolios as the V-Reversal strategies were stopped out on a trade setup that has worked many times. The market exten

There was a 300 point Nasdaq rally from about 8:00 am to 9:45 am EST. (The day session starts at 9:30 am EST) After making highs on the day, the market slowly moved to trade below the day session lows and then died out around 25,000 in listless trade for the rest of the day. The mostly pre-market rally of 300 points looked significant. I would have expected some follow through. Tomorrow is FOMC. It would be nice to see this market make a decisive move in one direction or anot

Liberation NQ was the strategy of the day as the market continues to generate noise with the pop and prop dip buying price action. Today was the first trading day for the June contract. There was a 200 point boost in contract value when rolling to June 2026 for the forward premium. This allowed the market to post a two minute surge from 3:10 - 3:11 pm EST and hit the 25,000 level, its favorite number, in the June 2026. This stopped out some shorts and triggered some buy signa

It was a short selling market early followed by a Liberation NQ trading afternoon. Earlier today we released the NQ Liberation trading system that takes advantage of choppy afternoons. Market structure since last April 9, 2025 seems to have changed and there is a strong interest by institutional option sellers to keep the stock indexes range bound. NQ Liberation was developed to synthetically participate in a 0 DTE short selling strategy without shorting the options. Today i