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Spread Scan Issue: October 15, 2008 - Volume 216
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The Spread Scan weekly newsletter is designed to assist you in becoming a better, more complete trader by showing you, within the context of the markets, how to trade spreads.
In this newsletter you will see applications of spreading in the futures and commodity markets. Spreads are applicable to all futures markets including currencies, commodities, financial instruments, and stock indexes. It is even possible to trade spreads in the all-electronic intraday market using day trading techniques.
Spreads are based on seasonality, correlation, backwardation, chart patterns, and simple observation. Spreads follow the Law of Charts™ and can be implemented using the Traders Trick™ entry.
In each issue of Spread Scan, you will find an upcoming spread trade for your consideration in the following week. You will also find a review of an existing or closed spread so you can see and learn how spread trades are managed.
Spreads offer you the most efficient use of your margin account of any other way to trade. Many traders find they like them so much that spreading becomes their primary way of trading.
Each week we present spread trading examples and opportunities to help you become a more professional spread trader, and we provide you with helpful content of interest to traders:
- Andy Jordan's Trading Bites
- Avoid Loss after Loss: Apply the Law of Charts to your Trading
- Next Joe Ross Live Chats for Traders: Wednesday, October 15, 2008
- About Joe Ross and Andy Jordan
- TE TRADERS FORUM
- Contact Us
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Andy Jordan's Spread Scan Example:
This week we look at CZ8 – CZ9: long December '08 Corn and short December '09 Corn (ECBOT)
Today we consider a Corn inter-crop year calendar spread (ECBOT): long December '08 Corn and short December '09 Corn (CZ8 – CZ9). The spread has been trading in a range between -55 and -30 since August 2008. Will seasonality (10/03 – 11/17) help to move the spread higher? The October low at -57 seems to be a good place for an initial stop.
Traders may want to enter the spread at a close above -49. Initial margin is $338 (reduced). Suggested risk is $750. Initial projected objective is $750, then a move higher. Basis is seasonal (10/03 – 11/17) and a 1-2-3 low.
On October 8 we told subscribers of our professional daily spreads & position trading newsletter Traders Notebook, "Consider selling December Lean Hogs (Globex) at 61.15 stop market (pit session, no entry on gap open). Suggested stop at 62.60 ($600). Suggested first target at 59.50, then lower. Basis is a TTE in front of a RH and a down trend."
Here's how we suggested managing this trade:
10/09 Short at 61.15. Suggested stop at 62.60. Correction on the first target! Suggested first target at 59.80.
10/10 Trade hit suggested first target. Suggested stop at 61.15. Suggest turning the position at 61.15 with a stop at 59.30.
10/13 Stopped and long with new position at 61.15. Hit first target (see email) at 62.45. Stopped with second lot at break even.For more information about our daily newsletter, visit our Spread Website to find out more about Traders Notebook
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Trade Management MattersWhether in spread or in position trading, I am convinced that trading success comes from how you manage the trade rather than from your entry strategy. This is the nature of long-term trading. As the time frame of our trades becomes longer, the importance of the entry becomes less.
Just look at the spread trades from Traders Notebook. Did the entry matter? In most cases it wouldn’t have been important for the success of the trade if you had taken the entry on the breakout of the hook, at a low of a hook, at the breakout of last week’s high, or any other entry strategy. Most trades have worked out just because of one simple fact: the spreads were moving in the right direction, and your initial stop didn’t get hit!
Look again at the successful spread trades of August. What else do you think was important? The only important thing was that you stayed in the successful spreads long enough! Please check – are you still in one of the trades? Did you get out of those spreads because you “thought” it would be time to exit?
Of course, entry does also matter, but mainly in a different way. We need an entry strategy to control ourselves, to tell us when we should get into a trade without entering just by gut feelings (gut feelings may work for some, but for most traders they don’t). The entry itself is mainly random in the sense that we just don’t know what will happen in the next few days. Sometimes we are lucky to get in at the right moment, but most of the time we will do fine if we can catch a large part of the move independent of the precise entry or exit value.
My suggestion: Whenever you are having problems with your trading, check on your trade management. Check if you have precise entry and exit rules, and if your exit rules ensure that you get the most out of your winning trades!
Avoid Loss after Loss:
Apply the Law of Charts™ to your TradingIf you want to avoid loss after loss, and if you really want to become a successful trader, then you definitely should start trading with a defined concept.
Joe's students have verified that once you understand the markets, all you’ll ever need to trade them profitably is an understanding of the Law of Charts™ along with the dynamics of the market. In his online seminar you will find both, and a whole lot more.
People think that the more complicated something is, the better it is, but the truth of the matter is just the opposite.
Joe's seminar on The Law of Charts brings you the pure simplicity of what the markets are all about.
Trading does not have to be complicated.
In Joe's online seminar you will be looking at the truth of the markets in virtually every scene. There is truth in every price bar you see, and in every group of price bars there is additional truth. It doesn’t matter whether you use traditional or candlestick price bars. You can see the truth with line or point-and-figure graphs.
The truth is the truth, and you will find it on the charts.
The Online Video Seminar gives you a very brief presentation of the Law of Charts formations, and a very detailed explanation of how to implement the Law of Charts for making P R O F I T . This is what we really want to teach you, and it is what you want to come to understand and take advantage of.
The Traders Trick & the Ross Hook
In addition, the online video seminar gives you the rationale behind the Traders Trick Entry™. You will learn what causes Ross hooks™, and how to trade them. You will see how and when to use the Law of Charts when prices are in consolidation.
There is really much, much more, because Joe Ross elaborates on the slides, giving you gems of information with each slide that you will not see in the free pdf Law of Charts material on our website, nor in any of his books. Please follow this link and visit our website for more detailed information about Joe's popular and highly recommended Online Video Seminar on The Law of Charts...
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ABOUT JOE ROSS:
Joe Ross has been trading and investing since his first trade at the age of 14, and is a well known Master Trader and Investor. He has survived all the up and downs of the markets because of his adaptable trading style, using a low-risk approach that produces consistent profits. Joe Ross is the discoverer of the Ross hook(TM), and has set new standards for low-risk trading with his concepts of The Law of Charts(TM) and the Traders Trick Entry(TM). Joe was a private trader and investor for much of his life, but a serious health situation in the late 80's caused him to shift his focus, and that is when he decided to share his knowledge. After his recovery, he founded Trading Educators in 1988, to teach aspiring traders how to make profits using his approaches to trading. Joe Ross has written twelve major books and countless articles and essays about trading. All his books have become classics, and have been translated into various languages. His students from around the world number in the thousands. His file of letters containing thanks and appreciation from students on every continent (even Antarctica!) is huge. As one student, a successful trader, wrote: "The impact you have had on my life, now and in the future, is immeasurable and I am truly grateful for having met you in this lifetime." Joe Ross holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration from the University of California at Los Angeles. He did his Masters work in Computer Sciences at the George Washington University extension in Norfolk, Virginia. He is listed in "Who's Who in America." After 5 decades of trading and investing, Joe Ross still tutors, teaches, writes, and trades regularly. Joe is an active and integral part of Trading Educators. He is the primary author and Editor-in-Chief of the company's newsletters: Chart Scan(TM), Spread Scan(TM) , Traders Money Club™ and Traders Notebook(TM). He is also the host of the free Traders Live Chat, the free European Chat for Traders, and the moderator of his popular trading forum. |
Joe's philosophy for helping traders is:"Teach our students the truth in trading — teach them how to trade. Give them a way to earn while they learn, realizing that it takes time to develop a successful trader."
Joe sets forth the mission of Trading Educators as follows:
- To show aspiring futures traders the truth in trading by teaching them how to read a chart so that they can successfully trade what they see, and by revealing to them all of the insider knowledge they need in order to understand the markets.
- To enable them to trade profitably by training them to properly manage their trades as well as their mindset and self-control.
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ABOUT ANDY JORDAN:
Educator for Spread Trading and
Editor of Traders Notebook & Spread Scan Andy Jordan made his first option trade at the age of 18. Since then he has been fascinated by the world of trading. In 2002 he met Joe Ross, and became interested in spread trading. Andy was then intensively tutored by Joe Ross and personnel at Trading Educators. Even though Andy has shown through live chats and in several trading journals that he is able to day trade today's markets, spread trading has always been his favorite. In addition to his own spread trading activities, Andy is the editor of Traders Notebook. For those interested in one-on-one personal coaching, Andy has developed and instructs a one-week online course in spread trading, "Trade with a Pro," during which he demonstrates all aspects of trading from choosing the trades on through how and when to enter the trades, manage the trades, and exit the trades. Andy has developed a number of trading methods, among which are Andy's E-mini 40 and a T-Bond trading method. Andy Jordan was born 1965 in Germany, but is currently living in the Caribbean. He has studied mathematics and business administration in Regensburg and Hagen, and holds a PhD in mathematics.
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