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Kind of got to feel bad for the small time well operators. So that looks like a ~30% drop in rigs count from a year ago. I've seen the same dataset over-layed with the EIA domestic production dataset (the weekly Wednesday one). So from the 2/20 report, domestic production was 9.285m barrels/day vs. 8.059m a year ago, a 15% increase. Sorry I can't locate the chart. But here is the report.
For those that use ToS, there's a thread over at thinkscripter dot com in "Trading...... /CL" that has a study which paints hour (or any other time) windows if you are interested in "time phenomena."
Instead of looking at H1 charts you can look at M1 or M5 etc in an hour window and see price action, reaction - high/ low. one hour to the other etc.
The study/ thread should be in the "public" forum. The post is "Sun Mar 01, 2015 2:39 pm" If not public, I don't know what to tell 'ya.
Well, how about the leverage that is offered by the ETF's.
What are your thoughts on that?
I think a 3x ETF such as ERY is just playing with straight gunpowder. If you are taking on risk, your thoughts about the leverage offered by the 2X's ETF, such as SCO versus trading the straight contract?
Why are you trading a straight contract versus the leverage that is offered by a 2X's ETF.
I think that this may be more applicable to swing position trading than intraday. Intraday, I can see that the volatility and risk are too high.
But if you are swing trading, any thoughts out there from the board as to whether to trade the straight contact or to use the leverage of a 2X's ETF as long as you put your stops in well?
Just trying to develop a trading strategy for myself. Would appreciate any opinions..
Going to a larger chart, how is crude oil going to respond to the 50 SMA on the daily chart? That's exactly, where crude oil is.
I think even trading intraday, take a look at that 50 SMA, that's where we are at. Is it going to buck or bolt it?
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perfect for a trade...
Short Crude @49.19, below VWAP. looking for strong move lower but price has to break 48.91 PW-VAL
...had a controlling bar on the 1440 and a gap to move lower at the open sunday night. My targets loosley speaking will be looking for 46.90 area lots of noise there. My stop loss is 49.49 Anybody do 6,8 or even 10 ticks stop loss for crude is suicide. No Bullshit.
Daily and Weekly VWAPS suggest a downward bias...daily and weekly pvots suggest and upward bias however, the weekly Central pivot were defefended as well as was the Daily Pivot Decision Point and Central Pivot.
IMO trade what you're comfortable with. I think the natural progression in trading is: Stocks/ ETF's/ all, Options, Futures. Futures are a unique animal all to themselves, esp /CL or /GC.
If you're wanting to get in on the John Wayne, set up a practice account (paper) that mimic's actual fills. Some paper accounts will give you unrealistic fills - for example, Infinity is a tad bit harder to get filled on paper than real dollars, meaning on paper it has to trade through your strike to get filled.
And you absolutely must treat the paper account as real dollars or you will learn absolutely nothing. IIRCC, said, put a trade on, get in the game - by being in the game you will learn more than watching the game (some paraphrase.) has some excellent videos here at futures.io (formerly BMT) and at his website for teaching trading futures. One of the interesting things he has put forth (prop shops) is take a portion of your day and take no more than 4 ticks (example) 6 ticks, no less than X ticks, no more than X ticks loss etc. Write everything down and go back through the day.
I'm a huge advocate (as is Mr Dalton) of writing (physical) vs typing to remember things - it just seems to work that way.
"6,8 or even 10 ticks stop loss" I dunno, depends on the means to the end, what you be up to
Based off Globex price action there is no reason to be excited about longs, In fact there is nothing to be excited about - shorts or longs. If CL is stuck in a 35 ticks range ( just like she did during Friday session till 1 pm), i try to trade smallest size possible.
If i had to trade here- it will be from the short side.
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