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click on the above image to view today's price action of key markets Session Start: Wed Apr 03 09:04:52 2013
Session Ident: ##TheStrategyLab
[09:04:52] * Now talking in ##TheStrategyLab
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http://www.thestrategylab.com/tsl/forum ... 119&t=718'[09:04:52] * Set by wrbtrader on Tue Feb 05 08:11:19
[09:04:52] ##TheStrategyLab url is
http://www.thestrategylab.com/tsl/forum/[09:11:10] * wrbtrader_sleepi is now known as wrbtrader
[09:23:52] <Trendtrader>
all
[09:25:11] <Zr1trader> GM Traders, have a good day.
[09:35:53] <wrbtrader> Key market events @ 1000am, 1030am and 1700pm est
[09:44:15] <wrbtrader> WRB Hidden GAP just formed in Emini TF futures on the small time frames
[09:44:36] <wrbtrader> still some down pressure
[09:44:50] <wrbtrader> lets see if Emini TF can find some legs to stand up on
[09:45:24] <wrbtrader> EuroFX 6E futures in a Creeper Up Movement
[09:45:49] <wrbtrader> price action trying to climb a recent long upper shaddow interval
[09:47:02] <Trendtrader> Long Emini TF @ 930.7
[09:47:03] <Trendtrader> x1
[09:47:19] <Zr1trader> L TF 930.8 1 contract
[09:48:36] <wrbtrader> Shorts Emini TF @ 929.30 -> large size
[09:48:42] <wrbtrader> 10 contracts
[09:49:29] <wrbtrader> had my eye on EuroFX 6E futures a little too long
[09:50:01] <wrbtrader> Shorts Emini TF @ 929.60 -> Add
[09:52:25] <Zr1trader> exit all 928.5 -23 tick
[09:56:07] * R is now known as Guest95171
[09:56:33] <wrbtrader> Covered all Emini TF Short @ 930.30 --> - 1.7
[09:56:46] <wrbtrader> WRB on the retracement back upwards
[09:56:59] <wrbtrader> that prior trade add was 5 contracts
[09:57:40] <wrbtrader> pending 1000am est key market event
[09:57:55] <wrbtrader> hopefully it won't let the volatilit contract
[09:59:37] <wrbtrader> Shorts Emini TF @ 929.60 -> large size
[09:59:45] <wrbtrader> 10 contracts
[09:59:48] <wrbtrader> re-entry
[09:59:52] <wrbtrader> same price action
[10:00:13] <wrbtrader> tightening stop/loss protection...pending key market event
[10:01:15] <wrbtrader> WRB pt1 reached
[10:03:28] <Zr1trader> On hourly chart broke downside of a range going back to 3/11 on TF
[10:03:36] <wrbtrader> Covered all Emini TF Short @ 926.50 --> + 3.1
[10:04:44] <wrbtrader> I'm still watching EuroFX 6E futures but missed the Long entry due to trying to manage the prior losing trade in Emini TF futures
[10:05:18] <wrbtrader> Light Crude Oil CL futures setting up as a WRB Hidden GAP below the most recent reaction point.
[10:06:53] <wrbtrader> Shorts Light Crude Oil CL @ 96.45 -> medium size
[10:07:02] <wrbtrader> 3+2 contracts
[10:07:21] <wrbtrader> messed up the position size on that
[10:07:46] <wrbtrader> looking for a Houdini Escape out of this trade
[10:08:48] <wrbtrader> volatilit contraction in Emini ES futures
[10:09:12] <wrbtrader> EuroFX 6E futures testing the S area of its most recent WRB Hidden GAP (2min chart)
[10:09:47] <wrbtrader> Emini TF futures more contracting volatility
[10:10:21] <wrbtrader> Oil CL futures trying to climb back about the S area of its most recent WRB Hidden GAP
[10:12:31] <wrbtrader> Covered all Light Crude Oil CL Short @ 96.41 --> + 0.04
[10:12:40] <wrbtrader> WRB pt1 (shallow) reached
[10:12:52] <wrbtrader> got my Houdini Escape out of that bad trade
[10:12:59] <wrbtrader> got lost in the forest on that one
[10:14:41] <wrbtrader> WRB Analysis -> - Your use of this chat room implies you're using concepts from WRB Analysis to help trade either Stocks, Emini Futures (EMD, TF, ES, NQ, YM), EuroFX 6E Futures, Eurex/Euronext Futures (DAX, ESTX50, FTSE100, CAC40, BUND), Treasury Futures (ZF, ZN, ZB), Oil Futures (Brent, CL, HO, QM), Gold GC Futures, Natural Gas NG Futures, Exchange Traded Funds (DIA, GLD, IWM, OIH, XLE, QQQ, SPY), Hang Seng HSI Futures, NIFTY Futures, Forex Currencies (GbpUsd, EurUsd, EurYen, UsdCad) and other key market price actions.
[10:23:31] <Trendtrader> Exited all Emini TF Long @ 927.7 --> - 3
[10:24:29] <Trendtrader> i know a little delayed in response - had to evacuate my bld - fire alarm.
[10:40:42] <wrbtrader> Oil futures fall as traders brace for supply climb (MarketWatch) @
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/oil-fu ... 2013-04-02 [10:41:46] <wrbtrader> Understanding ##TheStrategyLab -> - Archive chat logs are stored @
http://www.thestrategylab.com/ftchat/forum/ and you can understand some of the words (e.g. WRB, WRB Hidden GAP, WRB Zone, WRB pt levels) being used here in the chat room via the WRB Analysis free study guide @
http://www.thestrategylab.com/tsl/forum ... =119&t=718 [10:45:29] <wrbtrader> the volatility contraction in the Emini futures now is like watching paint trying to dry
[10:48:42] <wrbtrader> Forex EURUSD or EuroFX 6E futures found some stability within the range of the WRB Hidden GAP @ 0932am - 0934am est
[10:49:32] <wrbtrader> R area @ 1.2848 and S area @ 1.2836
[10:50:06] <wrbtrader> Forex EURUSD currently testing that R area
[10:53:48] <wrbtrader> Ever since Gold GC futures has been retracing back down through its WRB Hidden GAPs...
[10:54:09] <wrbtrader> Emini futures started trying to find some legs to stand up on.
[11:02:42] <wrbtrader> Shorts Light Crude Oil CL @ 96.10 -> medium size
[11:02:55] <wrbtrader> 5 contracts
[11:03:28] <wrbtrader> volatility increasing in other key markets that have long shadow intervals
[11:04:09] <wrbtrader> The most recent WRB Hidden GAP will help guide me in this trade
[11:04:21] <wrbtrader> WRB pt1 reached on the volatility spike
[11:05:06] <wrbtrader> Covered Light Crude Oil CL Short @ 95.83 --> + 0.27
[11:05:08] <wrbtrader> Holding 1 contract remainder
[11:05:29] <wrbtrader> may get "lucky" and catch a runner on that remaining contract
[11:07:20] <wrbtrader> Euro contracting volatility now...
[11:07:52] <wrbtrader> Watching Oil CL / Brent to see if they will respond to that contraction in Euro and produce another volatility spike
[11:08:09] <wrbtrader> trailing @ profit on the remainder contract
[11:08:19] <wrbtrader> now expecting a volatility spike
[11:08:26] <wrbtrader> hopefully it takes prices lower
[11:08:49] <wrbtrader> Euro still contracting in its volatility
[11:10:20] <wrbtrader> Emini futures contracting volatility below the S area (923.10) of the WRB Hidden GAP @ 1058am - 1100am est
[11:10:27] <wrbtrader> in reference to Emini TF futures
[11:10:55] <wrbtrader> Oil CL futures increasing volatility
[11:11:51] <wrbtrader> WRB pt2 reached on the remainder Oil CL contract
[11:12:05] <wrbtrader> I'm still holding
[11:12:28] <wrbtrader> Euro now trying to break below the lows of its own contracting volatility
[11:12:53] <wrbtrader> Covered Remainder Light Crude Oil CL Short @ 95.69 --> + 0.41
[11:13:54] <Zr1trader> Good one
[11:14:17] <wrbtrader> Got a ton of help from that volatility contraction in Euro
[11:14:58] <wrbtrader> Euro contraction in volatility more often than not tells me that volatility will soon show up in other key markets...
[11:15:35] <wrbtrader> Its like some big players temporarily get bored with Euro and try their hands at Oil CL or Eminis
[11:16:17] <Zr1trader> good observation.
[11:16:19] <wrbtrader> Likewise if Euro is spiking in volatility...I'm a lot more careful about the contraction in Oil Cl and the Emini futures
[11:18:33] <Zr1trader> Sometimes I feel like at 1:30 when RTH for CL and NG close that there is a pickup in eminis , alot of times that is the time I switch focus from oil to TF.
[11:19:11] <Zr1trader> so contracting vol in energy , seems like it gives a burst to eminis for a few min
[11:21:09] <Zr1trader> oil continues vol increase 3 min
[11:29:59] <wrbtrader> Yeah, I don't really understand why volatility moves around like that from one key market to another key market on a different exchange...
[11:30:42] <wrbtrader> The only relationship I get is via something I saw with my own two eyes whenever I visit a trading pal (institutional trader) at his firms office...
[11:31:11] <wrbtrader> The bond traders will stand up and tell the Euro traders that bonds were moving...
[11:31:33] <wrbtrader> Euro traders a few minutes later would yell and the Oil traders would pay attention...
[11:31:45] <wrbtrader> They went back in forth in the "same office"...
[11:32:04] <Zr1trader> It's little naunces like that are good to know... it makes sense.
[11:32:14] <wrbtrader> alerting each other so that they can help each other to let the other know what's starting to move.
[11:32:43] <wrbtrader> I figure if they were doing that, maybe other institutional trading firms were doing the same.
[11:33:10] <wrbtrader> Here's the scary part...
[11:33:36] <wrbtrader> The firm I visit manages Canada's pension funds for Hospitals, Schools and such.
[11:33:57] <wrbtrader> Meant...the bulk of the money they're trading with are via pension funds.
[11:34:10] <Zr1trader> and they trading CL lol? that doesn't seem fitting
[11:34:16] <wrbtrader> Yep
[11:34:45] <wrbtrader> Most of them are trading complex spreads stuff too and other stuff I really don't understand
[11:35:19] <wrbtrader> Regardless, I was a little numb to learn about the "source" of their trading funds.
[11:35:23] <Zr1trader> I wonder how many pensions are still trying to get their 8% a year even though gov't bonds are so low . Probably need to take bigger risks
[11:35:35] <wrbtrader> exactly
[12:22:55] <Zr1trader> GC vol spice
[12:25:56] <Zr1trader> CL vol spike
[12:46:26] <wrbtrader> Shorts Gold GC @ 1559.7 -> small size
[12:46:49] <wrbtrader> 1+1 contracts
[12:48:54] <wrbtrader> Covered all Gold GC Short @ 1558.0 --> + 1.7
[12:49:04] <wrbtrader> WRB pt1 reached
[13:04:34] <wrbtrader> I didn't expect this much volatility today...a nice surprise
[14:09:13] <Zr1trader> CL vol spike
[14:09:17] <Zr1trader> woofta
[14:37:34] <wrbtrader> Long Emini TF @ 916.70 -> small size
[14:37:43] <wrbtrader> 1 contract
[14:39:56] <wrbtrader> Long Emini TF @ 916.40 -> Add
[14:40:39] <wrbtrader> 1 added
[14:41:57] <wrbtrader> WRB pt1 reached
[14:42:19] <wrbtrader> Exited 1/2 Emini TF Long @ 918.10 --> + 1.7
[14:50:41] <wrbtrader> Exited Remainder Emini TF Long @ 918.50 --> + 1.8
[15:07:33] <wrbtrader> Emini TF futures volatility trying hard to expand above the R area of its most recent WRB Hidden GAP
[15:58:46] <wrbtrader> Shorts Emini TF @ 916.40 -> large size
[15:59:04] <wrbtrader> 6 contracts
[16:00:21] <wrbtrader> trailing @ profit
[16:00:26] <wrbtrader> WRB pt1 reached
[16:03:36] <wrbtrader> WRB pt1 @ 914.90 via the S area of the most recent WRB Hidden GAP
[16:09:27] <wrbtrader> Covered all Emini TF Short @ 915.80 --> + 0.6
[16:09:49] <wrbtrader> volatility spike above the recent contracting volatility...
[16:10:12] <wrbtrader> Back up the the R area (916.30) of the most recent WRB Hidden GAP
[16:10:29] <wrbtrader> Take care and see all tomorrow.
[16:10:41] <canaandog> u2
Session Close: Weds Apr 03 16:25:35 2013
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