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I'm surprised the market opened lower today

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I guess its due early selling on financials due to the WBC share placement this week?

or is there more?

it will probably finish on a high after early selling?
 
If we gap because of overnight action in the States do the opposite.

If we open up sell the open or first lower high.
If we open down buy the open or the first higher low.

Especially if its the after a few days of the same moves in the same direction like this morning.
 
Since we are not in Queen's birth place, it is always good to get something written in PLAIN English for little vegemites like me, to appreciate some of the tangential write up .

Please consider PLAIN English :rolleyes:
 
If we open up sell the open or first lower high.
If we open down buy the open or the first higher low.

Hi TH...

good to see you back.. there was a thread concerned about you being missing for awhile... :D

Was wondering if you know the reason why it fades? Profit taking from previous day? I've never understood the mechanics on why that strategy works so well..

Dow up.... sell SPI
Dow down... buy SPI...

eh... if it works more often than not... than it's a good strategy to play.
 
good to see you back.. there was a thread concerned about you being missing for awhile... :D
No need to worry about me. Just enjoying the good life:D

Was wondering if you know the reason why it fades? Profit taking from previous day? I've never understood the mechanics on why that strategy works so well.
Profit taking!! What the hell does that mean? for every profit there is a loss. That is just crap that is spewed out by Muppet media fools who haven't a clue.

The reason why it works so well is for two reasons,

1st the SPI is forward looking. We predict the US moves.

2nd is this is a game of taking money off someone else. The easiest people to take money off are the ones that get their ideas from last nights news.
eh... if it works more often than not... than it's a good strategy to play.
Need I comment on that?? Or is that a comment ;)
 
hotbmw said:
I guess its due early selling on financials due to the WBC share placement this week?

or is there more?

it will probably finish on a high after early selling?


Yes pretty sure the WBC placement announcement was why the XFJ was down significantly more than the XAO today. (XAO -0.57%, XFJ -3.5%)
 
Thanks TH, I'd noticed that the stamped in or out of stocks after large movements in the DOW and that if you were buying with the DOW movement it was a less than optimal time to buy.

I take it that when you 'fade' the DOW you are only in the trade for a few hours at most? Or do you just use really tight stops and see where it goes?
 
I take it that when you 'fade' the DOW you are only in the trade for a few hours at most? Or do you just use really tight stops and see where it goes?

I trade a more frequently than that but if you doing the fade type of trades yes they are all over within hours max.
 
That's funny DOW up 2 days ago we drop next day :confused:

Dow down last night we climb :confused:

That can't be right "we always follow the DOW" :confused:

:rolleyes: LOL!!
 
I remember raising a eyebrow to Yogi's comment that the XAO would de couple from the Dow around Nov.
God knows how he got that from his astro analysis!
 
DOW and S&P Weekly charts

The US markets are already trading around their own Weekly highs resistance.

Therefore there is an expectation that around those highs sellers will appear.

SPI Weekly and 5-day pattern

The SPI is still trying to get to those highs@ 6770.

And looking at price action there probably a good chance that today
keeps heading higher, and wouldn't surprise me to see the SPI trading
around Wednesday's highs @ 3711 by today's close (as long as price
is above 3629)

Why do I think it's going to 3711 today?

Because of the R44 'gap-reversal' pattern around today's lows, which
often trends higher into the close.
 

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TH,

Yeah for sure...

first trades today were in that period 'shorting' @ 3609.

There is a section in my book called 'open-trading'

Open-trading is when price opens inside the last 44 point range from the previous day.

The next day doesn't officially open until that last 44 points completes.

I always trade in the direction of the Spiral point, if it's a higher R44 bar then highly probable that the first range needs to move down 44 points before it decides it's direction.

Frank
 

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I remember raising a eyebrow to Yogi's comment that the XAO would de couple from the Dow around Nov.
God knows how he got that from his astro analysis!
Perhaps he knows what he is doing Tech.

I think I read an article that mentioned his name "Yogi" the other day, can't remember where though.
 
Perhaps he knows what he is doing Tech.

I think I read an article that mentioned his name "Yogi" the other day, can't remember where though.

It could be the Yogi mentioned in SMH's diary of a day trader column...he's a senior chartist or something. Then again, that column seems mostly for entertainment purpose anyway.
 
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