Live Trading System Signals on 05/27/2025

Nice first day for Pulse NQ.

We have discussed many times the concept of nighttime operations moving the market higher. Holidays can work the same way. It is easier to move the market at night and during less liquid trading periods. Many of the gains in the indexes that were posted for today's gains, occurred on Sunday night as the market moved quickly to what were our Friday targets when the futures opened on Sunday night. The futures remain open for many of the holidays for which the stock market is closed and the market was up over 300 points on the Nasdaq when the day session started today.

After the initial day session open today and a quick drop that initially took us short, we reversed to the long side on many strategies as the Nasdaq 100 futures moved back up towards the recent resistance of 21,560 area and about 1000 points away from all-time highs. The market usually seems to approach all-time highs slowly. The speed of the rally off the April lows and the high VIX at 19 could still present the potential scenario for a faster move towards all-time highs after it breaks above the resistance from the last two weeks.

The resistance above from last week may be one of those that is taken out from a news event or overnight move. Tomorrow the markets could be sideways with FOMC minutes during the day and NVDA earnings after the bell. Sometimes the market waits and sometimes the market front runs or ignores these events.

The One Million MNS was up +2.7% while the 250K Portfolio was up $6,750 in live trading. Today was the first day to start the Stock Index Portfolio 18 and Pulse NQ did well. We started down on the day with the rapid sell off getting us short but made up for it on the long side. The market made its high around 2pm and started to pull back. It did rally slightly at the end of the day but not to the highs. We have seen the end up day "pull under water" trade quite a bit this month, which is unusual. Today the end of day was more favorable as that end of day cycle is a bit overdone. With any follow through on days like today, our positioning would have us showing some of the biggest gains on the year. Often times the last hour can really accelerate gains or give them back. We have endured the give back trade all month. The cycle for end of day favorable price action could be here in the last week of the month. With a setup error on my side for Pulse NQ, we underperformed the 3 full contracts setup for Stock index 18.

The last time the Stock Index Portfolio was at this drawdown level, it surged 4 out of 5 days and was up $38K per contract traded. This was at the end of April when the Stock Index Portfolio 18 was in an 18.2K drawdown out of $34K. It is currently in a $19.2K drawdown with 3 trading days left in the month.

V-Reversal had a very small gain today and worked the long side near the highs on a small V-Reversal pattern this afternoon. The profit target was near last weeks highs.

The hypothetical results for the portfolios are below.

Stock Index Portfolio 18 (1 NQ) = +$11,085.00

Stock Index Portfolio 18 (3 NQ) = +$33,255.00

50K Portfolio = +$3,410.00

EMINI NQ 2 System Portfolio = +$160.00

EMINI NQ 3 System Portfolio II = -$870.00

EMINI NQ 4 System Portfolio = -$545.00

EMINI NQ 5 System Portfolio = +$170.00