Trading Update: Wednesday March 9, 2022
Emini pre-open market analysis
Emini daily chart
- A strong Globex session reversal up retraced most of yesterday’s range.
- On Monday, the bears had a strong breakout bar, closing below the January low.
- The bears got follow-through yesterday, which increases the odds that the market will have to reach the February 24 low.
- While the bears were able to achieve follow-through, yesterday’s bar had a big tail on top and could not close on its low. This means that bears were not willing to sell the open of yesterday’s bar and wanted to sell higher such as a 50% pullback of Monday’s breakout, which is overlap, and a sign of a trading range
- Traders should be aware that while the bears got follow-through yesterday, it is still not breaking out below the February 24 low, and there are likely many bulls sitting on the sidelines waiting to buy a test of the February 24 low.
- If the bears are going to take control and get the bear breakout below the February 24 low, they need to take control of the market soon, or else more and more bulls will start buying as the market gets close to the February 24 low.
- Some traders (bull and bears) will buy before the market gets to the February 24 low if the market reverses up before reaching the low.
- The bulls still see a wedge bottom with December 3, January 24. If the bears get the failed breakout below February 24, traders will see the wedge bull flag starting over, with January 24 being the first push and February 24 as the second.
- The bulls are hopeful the market will set up a higher low major trend reversal at this price level and lead to a rally that possibly will test the all-time high.
- Today will probably be a trading range that would confuse the market and confirm the trading range price action the Emini has been in over the past 2 months.
- The bears want a strong bear bar today, which would increase the odds of a successful breakout below February, and the bulls want a strong bull bar today to set up a possible higher low major trend reversal.
Emini 5-minute chart and what to expect today
- Emini is up 100 points in the overnight Globex session.
- The bulls achieved a strong rally during the Globex session. Assuming the bulls can keep the market up at this price level, it would disappoint the bears and increase the odds that the market may reverse before reaching the February low.
- Since the February low is such an obvious target, the market may not reach it. This is because too many traders want to buy at the target that they start entering early if the market never gets to the target.
- Since the bulls have already rallied around 100 points in the Globex session, the day session may be small since the bulls may be exhausted, and if they can keep the market at this price level or around yesterday’s high, they will consider it a successful day.
- The open will have a big gap up, which means traders should expect a pullback to the moving average and less likely a trend from the open up or down.
- Traders should expect trading range price action on the open and possibly sideways to down and test the moving average.
- The bears know they will likely not be able to reverse the gap up, so they will try and damage the rally today as much as possible. One way would be to close today as a big bear bar.
Yesterday’s Emini setups
Al created the SP500 Emini charts.
Here are several reasonable stop entry setups from yesterday. I show each buy entry with a green rectangle and each sell entry with a red rectangle. Buyers of both the Brooks Trading Course and Encyclopedia of Chart Patterns have access to a much more detailed explanation of the swing trades for each day (see Online Course/BTC Daily Setups).
My goal with these charts is to present an Always In perspective. If a trader was trying to be Always In or nearly Always In a position all day, and he was not currently in the market, these entries would be logical times for him to enter. These therefore are swing entries.
It is important to understand that most swing setups do not lead to swing trades. As soon as traders are disappointed, many exit. Those who exit prefer to get out with a small profit (scalp), but often have to exit with a small loss.
If the risk is too big for your account, you should wait for trades with less risk or trade an alternative market like the Micro Emini.
EURUSD Forex market trading strategies
EURUSD Forex daily chart
- At the moment, the EURUSD has two consecutive bull bars on the daily chart following an 11-bar bear micro channel.
- The odds still favor a minor reversal up and a second leg down.
- The bulls need to do more to convince traders that they have taken control.
- It is important to mention that the second leg down maybe a retest of Monday’s bear close. This means the second leg down does not have to go down far to form a double bottom and give the bulls a reason to buy for a swing.
- The market is reversing back into the bear channel after the bear breakout below.
- Is today strong enough to reverse the recent three consecutive bear bars? Assuming today will close on its high, it will damage the bear case; however, the bulls will likely need more before traders are willing to buy aggressively.
- The channel down from February 10 was tight. It had several buy climaxes, which are partially why the market is bouncing here.
- Since the market went sideways for 3 months, there will be many bulls who bought the bear breakout of the 3-month trading range, confident they could make a profit or avoid a loss if they used a wide stop and scaled in. This means some of those scale-in bulls will use any bounce to exit the trade breakeven.
- Some bears sold the close of Monday, and they may be willing to scale in. Those bears may be disappointed here and look to buy back shorts on any pullback.
- Overall, the EURUSD will probably go sideways over the next several days.
- If the bulls get a strong bull close today and another bull close tomorrow, the odds will increase for the bulls, and the bears may give up.
Summary of today’s S&P Emini futures price action and what to expect tomorrow
Al created the SP500 Emini charts.
End of day summary
- Today was a large gap up, which means the odds favored a sideways test of the moving average.
- The bears tried for a trend from the open on bars 1 and 3; however, they failed on bars 6.
- The bulls bought aggressively on bar 7; however, bulls were not eager to buy at a new high of the day above bar (a sign of trading range trading).
- Bars 8-10 were overlapping and had bad follow-through. This means traders would begin assessing the strength of this pullback on bar 8 and deciding if the bulls would get a second leg up or the bears would get the reversal down.
- Bar 21, the market was almost neutral; however, it was probably always in long since the market was above the moving average and the bulls had the breakout bar 7.
- Bar 22 is a reasonable double bottom stop entry buy at the moving average; however, it forced traders to buy in the middle of a trading range, so the probability is not high.
- Today was a weak bull channel that mainly was a trading range day.
- If you take away bar 7 and bar 68, all of the other bars were overlapping, limiting order market and scalping.
- The bulls had such a large gap on the open that the odds were they would be exhausted, which is why the odds favored a trading range day today.
See the weekly update for a discussion of the price action on the weekly chart and for what to expect going into next week.
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Charts use Pacific Time
When I mention time, it is USA Pacific Time. The Emini day session charts begin at 6:30 am PT and end at 1:15 pm PT which is 15 minutes after the NYSE closes. You can read background information on the market reports on the Market Update page.
