The Stock Index Portfolio 18 has been a highlight since October 1. We posted this video earlier. It made equity peaks yesterday and is a core setup in the Stock Index Portfolio 37 and Diversified Portfolio 57. We prefer multi-strategy diversity. If we are only going to trade two strategies, the Two System Portfolio NQ has been a highlight over the past year. It hit an equity peak last week followed by a rapid drawdown this week. All strategies get out of sync with the market

The Stock Index Portfolio 18 hit equity peaks again today with NQ Pulse capturing a nice short trade making up for the chop we have endured for several months in the trend-based strategies on the Nasdaq futures. It was the trade of the day. It captured over 250 points in the E-mini Nasdaq on the short side. A day trade short like this had to endure back and forth price action intra-day, giving back a big portion of the trade on the counter trend bounce, before capturing gains

I certainly thought we were due for some more follow through to the downside today. The dip buying today in stock indexes was strong but was more "habitual" and more of a counter trend bounce (after only a one day sell off). I anticipate a continued pullback all the way into Friday in the stock indexes. I am glad to be wrong though as we have both long-short algorithms to trade the market and we will trade it to all-time highs or into a correction based on our automated tradi

It was a nice day to short the stock indexes. NQ Pulse had the top short of the day and the Stock Index Portfolio 18 was the highlight of the day with several nice short trades, capturing enough gains to hit new equity peaks. Since October, the Stock Index strategies have seen more favorable price action and are the main contributors to the recent gains in the portfolios. There have been a few more days of intra-day trends lately after many months of very few trends. Hypothet

The were mostly winning results in the Portfolios today. The 50K Portfolio Micros had a long trade loss on SR CounterTrend Silver Big SL while the full size contract had a winning trade on the short side that hit the profit target. Sometimes we get a difference in signal even when using the full size contract as data2 and data3 to trade the smaller micro contracts. It was interesting to watch PLTR in the after hours on earnings. This is a stock that has a P/E of over 600. Som

It was a turbulent second half of the week with FOMC and big tech earnings. The markets were more challenging this week. There have been times when we considered not trading on FOMC or not trading on FOMC week. Recent data shows that we should trade, but any given day or week could be a down day or week. The Fed did not re-assure the market that there would be a rate cut in December. There are so many reasons the market should have a healthy pullback, but the contrarian bid r

Today was one of those days where the stock indexes threw a tantrum on the way down, generating wild chop for longs and shorts. The quick 20 minute, 250+ point bounce in the Nasdaq 100 that started at 8:41 am CST had a way of affecting our rhythm for the day. The VIX remained low but the wild back and forth was pretty extreme. The Two System Portfolio NQ hit an equity peak yesterday and had two losses today, aggressively generating bounces for long trades followed by stop run

The Two System Portfolio NQ hit a brand new equity peak today after the nice long trade on Gap Continuation yesterday and the V-Reversal short today. The bid remains strong in stock indexes and in the Nasdaq 100 with multiple gap up days. Nvidia is the first company to trade at a $5 Trillion Market Cap. The historical backtests for most of our portfolios show that the long-term results are better when we trade on FOMC Days. Today was a down day for most portfolios. The 50K P

Sometimes buying new highs feels like a sure loss. The data tells us a different story though. Earlier today we published the latest on the Gap Continuation 2020 and Gap Continuation 2024 strategies . These two strategies traded again today and took the rally to the highs of the day before exiting at new equity peaks in both strategies. The stock indexes have been in melt up mode and the algorithms are capturing the upside as we have seen three strong gap up day's in a row in