1-VIX
Poised for Action, 1 Mar 2023🖼 Daily Technical Picture 📈
➤ February is done and dusted. Tuesday trade ended down after a late sell-off. The second consecutive down day. Although prices have moved laterally for past few days, the behaviour shows Bears taking control. Previously, we saw buying support to close out the day, this has now reversed.
➤ I think price is poised to stride lower very soon. I'd like to see VIX rebound higher in concert with a price drop to bring a higher level of confidence that the drop will stick. In fact, VIX has been stuck in the low 20s for a while. I need to see this spike much higher.
➤ Conclusion: February was favourable although there was little trading action. On to March we march.
A Short Pause, 28 Feb 2023🖼 Daily Technical Picture 📈
➤ As per recent weeks equity prices opened with optimism and finished with a whimper. Today was no exception. Price filled the large gap left open on Friday trade but made no further headway.
➤ S&P500 equity index is still dancing around the 400 level and the 200-day moving average. I expect this to continue but only for a few days. Price should break away from this area very soon.
➤ Price could move upwards to fill in the two smaller price gaps just above but I think more likely it may drop. A good sized drop will give me an opportunity to re-enter with shorts. A move higher may mean staying patient for a trade.
➤ There's plenty of action in other asset classes. See above links for USD and NATGAS price action.
➤ Conclusion: Last day of Feb, time flies by so fast when you're having fun.
1 2 & 10 Year yield seem to be toppish short term, $VIX in range🚨#yields look to be topping🚨
Things are FALLING into place!
Been posting on $DJI & $BTC RANGES
Risk reward was great late last week & on this dip (focusing on DOW JONES ATM)
$VIX staying 18-23 is ok
Adding more $ on dips
#stocks #crypto
2/27/2023 (Monday) SPY Analysis and Market Deep DiveMonday 2/27/2023 - In this Video I discuss The technical analysis of the SPY ETF which is a proxy the S&P500 that is often a tell on general market movements. I also discuss broader market Macros I have been watching including last week's and next weeks economic events. We also discuss some recession indicators, and other charts that show headwinds and tailwinds to equities.
In the Trading View App, You can use the links below and hit play, so you can see the action from the dates the charts were published. I will keep this going so we can follow outcomes to analysis!
SORRY I RAN OUT OF TIME, I ONLY HAD a minute to go and I would have had to start from scratch as TV tools dont edit. Sorry!
SP500- Key support is at 3800$SPX SP500 turned lower back to 4k and there is room for 3800 as volatility & fear turn up, possibly to the side of 2022 range on $VIX. For now, still 2 counts on the watch list, but the bulls can be back early if 3800 causes intraday impulsive bounce. Bearish if 3800 is broken decisively.
TGIF, 24 Feb 2023🖼 Daily Technical Picture 📈
➤ A negative day to finish off a negative (shortened) week for equity prices. S&P500 was down around -2.7% from previous Friday close.
➤ Yet again we saw Friday trade finish higher than it started (green arrows in chart). This makes it 9 consecutive Fridays. Probably the only consistent observation that I can make since the start of the year. Yet I do see a wrinkle, overall, the size of the "body" of the candle i.e. distance between daily open and close has narrowed. Either someone has exploited this anamoly or it is simply the fact that we should expect a narrowing during a short-term downtrend since 2 Feb. In that case, when the bullish trend returns, we should once more see a large profitable body on Fridays?
➤ We should also note the gap in daily prices between previous days' close and the next days' open (blue arrows in chart). These tend to get filled in due course, meaning prices should at some stage (whenever that will be) will return back up to these levels.
➤ Anyway, I shouldn't bore you with such uninteresting and useless observations. Over this weekend, I'll re-visit some of the charts to look at any price developments in other asset classes such as NATGAS, GOLD, USDOLLAR etc.
➤ Conclusion: TGIF, have a great weekend!
This is why I wait for 3 confirmation candles on the daily!Traders,
At times, during the last week, it looked as if our Cup and Handle pattern was going to be legitimized. However, caution was admonished. We had not yet seen 3 candle closes above our neckline on the daily which would have allowed for the safest entry. Though, we played around above the neckline for over a week, the break was never confirmed with 3 solid price closes above the neckline on the daily. This provides valuable teaching material for us all to observe and learn from going forward. I will review price history and show you what I needed to see for solid confirmation.
I will also review the four charts I was observing this past week.
And finally, I will show you what the picture now is looking like going forward.
Stew
VIX: VOLATILITY CYCLES / POINT OF CONTROL / RAISING THE CEILING DESCRIPTION: In the chart above I have provided a SEMI-MACRO analysis of VIX a volatility index on the 4 hour timeframe. This is a brief update on VIX as we have had some interesting momentum taking place.
POINTS:
1. Deviation of 7 points continues to stand and justifies Supply & Demand Pocket Placement.
2. RSI is currently OVEREXTENDED but PRICE ACTION continues to exhibit compressed behavior by only GRAVITATING around 20 POINTS.
3. MACD signals that past cycles have at least seen 2.00 POINTS on MACD'S deviation from Median but has only seen 0.50 since the beginning of this VOLATILITY CYCLE.
IMPORTANT: With a new ceiling confirmed by price actions recent upward momentum it is safe to say that if price action surpasses 23 we will come to see elevated VOLATILITY for SPY, SPX, ES1! or NQ1!. I would consider a BULLISH & BEARISH scenario when it comes to VIX but no recession has ever come to an end without VIX first touching 40 POINTS but here it is.
SCENARIO #1: In a BULLISH scenario for VIX we see an eventual RETEST of 19 followed by further consolidation and a BREAK of 23 POINTS by MARCH 8th.
SCENARIO #2: In a BEARISH scenario for VIX we come to see a break of 19 POINTS to the downside followed by an inevitable RETEST of the 8 YEAR TREND LINE & would elongate capitulation due date.
FULL CHART LINK: www.tradingview.com
TVC:VIX
CBOE:VIX
The 400, 24 Feb 2023🖼 Daily Technical Picture 📈
➤ Equities were all over the place on Thursday trade. Starting higher, dipping lower before moving back up to where it all pretty much started.
That is "The 400".
➤ 400 is the key round number level of the S&P500 Index (SPY) or 4,000 for the SPX500. Price tends to get drawn to and then gyrate around these round numbers like a moth to a flame. Not to be outdone, there is also the 200-day moving average in the midst.
➤ What's significant about the round numbers like 100, 1,000 or 30,000? Nothing in particular. It's just that "human" psychology finds them "favourable" or "comforting" or "satisifying" perhaps? It's certainly more appetising than a number like 30,627. Obviously, algos and bots also try to exploit these conditions, hence the back and forth we usually see.
➤ I took the exit signal to get out of my short position. Does it mean prices may bounce higher? It's certainly possible but I don't have a high conviction view. I'm going to sit it out for now until the next favourable opportunity hopefully very soon.
➤ Conclusion: Happy to be counting my profits until the next trade.
$BTC $VIX $COIN $DODO & more info from yesterday!SORRY, busy day yesterday
Was on radio show & generally copy paste to here and other sources but was too swamped. SORRY
Pls see profile for more DATA
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YESTERDAY @ 11:56AM
Intraday $btc
@ short term support
Oversold on 1hr
4hr #BTC not oversold yet
#Bitcoin may bounce here but fall may not be done yet
#Crypto
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Yesterday 11:15AM
$VIX MAY have issues here
We can very well have bounce for $SPX & #stocks
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11:05 yesterday
VERY IMPORTANT AREA for $BTC
Shorts for #BTC still uneventful
Intraday #Bitcoin in range
Sells were not heavy but more abundant than buys
Hence, pulling back a bit
However, buys seem to be coming in, WAITING
#crypto
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10:51AM
Again, PERSONAL #crypto portfolio
$DODO @ low 14's
Already had 2x & was trying to buy back small portion sold but MISSED retest of breakout (yellow line)
#DEX don't have limits @ least I've never seen
👀HUGE volume, LARGEST EVER
Weekly looking good
#altcoin #altcoins
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10:19AM Yesterday
Completely out of $COIN on that run!
Almost 80-90% on that run buying #option puts back!!!
@coinbase #crypto #CEX
FYI ended writing them again on the selloff, will let some sold puts expire & some may cover later as they are further out
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TODAY
Good morning everyone!
What have we been saying for over a year?
Whenever the #FED speaks & the market makes a move the following day is usually an inverse
#trade accordingly
Next few months will be volatile
$vix $spx #crypto $btc $ndx $dji
Trend Continuation, 23 Feb 2023🖼 Daily Technical Picture 📈
➤ Equities finished slightly down although tech and small cap outperformed. Price recovered from the day's low towards the end of the trading session but was not able to hold on to earlier gains.
➤ Overall, there's little to say about today's price action. S&P500 once again finished below the 400 level. Usually around these "round" numbers, price likes to move to and fro.
➤ I continue to hold my large short position.
➤ Conclusion: I still favour trend continuation to the downside in the short-term.
Low-risk, Predictable Speculation on VX FuturesA lot of traders I talk to are afraid of trading volatility products.
When I watch trading shows even the professionals are afraid of trading the VIX because they don't understand it.
I find that funny because as someone who has experience trading all asset classes and analyzing a dozen casino games I find the VIX to be the most mean-reverting asset.
The more an asset returns to its mean price, the more predictable it is, the more risk you can allocate to that product.
For instance the safest bet in the casino is around 48% probability of success. That bet is betting red or black in Roulette.
For investing there is no safe bet. We know that if you spread your dollars around in the S&P500 over the last 30 years, you would have done well but no one can predict which 10 stocks would have outperformed over the last 10 years.
I have probably analyzed several dozen indicators over several dozen securities across all the asset classes: crypto, stocks, bonds, etc.
For the last 30 years the VIX has had a flat bottom price average around 14-16 dollars.
Its top is around 30-40 dollars.
Comodities, equities, currencies, etc they all have black swan political or weather events. They are influenced by fear and lack. Why not trade the vehicle that correlates with fear? that's the VIX.
Humans are predictable. They will always go through cycles of fear.
Now we know the asset class but how do we measure the mean? I chose the Directional Trend Index but with a twist. the DTI takes 3 values to create the mean trend lines( R, S, and U) . I cycled through 1 to 50 permutations in all 3 values. It turns out that a reverse or descending numerical input is the best performing.
Now we have the asset: VX Future
The strategy: Reverse DTI with any descending number of your choice (10,5,3)
The indicator: VIX chart 4 hours: I was told by floor traders that the big money banks use 4 hour and daily charts for analysis. So I always trade on this to swim along the trend of the big fish.
So I open up a 4 hour chart of VIX, apply the pine script of DTI , update the R S and U values, and create a strategy.
It returned over 100% profit in the backtesting. I tried linking my chart screenshot for proof . hopefully this worked. this is my first post. :-)
TVC:VIX
I traded this on traderspost automated trading with $50k paper money and I made over $35000 in 90 day free trial.
Reach out to me if you would like to schedule a call for more help.
short vix futures cboe showing spx long stressi think this regression strategy is showing the price of short cboe vix is crashing back into the channel, and fractal chaos is confirming the health of a downtrend, meaning coming up on the speech with which the uptrend es1! is predicted to stop through to the end of march and causing additional shorts on equities in the underlying index, and further bearish action in the futures meaning higher vix or uvxy and a decline in short vix and svxy. maybe the market has one last pop wed before continuing lower, maybe it breaks the trend and we see chaos flatline with the short vix popping back over the regression, maybe we continue immediately down, ut if im going to hope for bulls is spx im curious to first see short vix pick up over the midline and go for the top of the range, and opposite for the bearish picture either in continuation or rejection from some level.
short short on long spx vol bearish us equities
Hang On Tight! 22 Feb 2023🖼 Daily Technical Picture 📈
➤ It was a strong red day across the board with small-cap and tech suffering the most. Interestingly the DOW 30 lost more than the S&P500. That is unusual. Our hanging wo(man) failed to hold on to support on two accounts. Firstly the short-term low at 405 and also the 200-day Moving Average.
➤ Today's losses wiped out all of the February gains as well as 50% of the gains for the year (as measured from the recent peak).
➤ So where will our hanging wo(man) land? Around 390 is a clear first target. If that doesn't hold, next level is 380.
➤ I continue to hold my large short position.
➤ Conclusion: Hang on tight!
Apple watch ban, Home depot news stinks, NOPE bear etf up 4%3 days holidays weekend have a tendency to be reversal points, trader known tendency. sure seems like it for this 3 day presidents weekend.
Junk bonds week, energy range bound in channels sideways, treasury yields rising, and retail news from home depot and walmart comes in weak. Oh and vix is threatening to go higher.
Stocks arent cheap yet. 20 toe 30 Price to earnings everywhere.
wen sale?
S&P500 - Temporarily exhaustedHello traders!
As presented in previous posts, we believe that price has showed to be in a primary wave (B) to the upside to correct all the downtrend from January 2022 high. Price is likely to ungoing the last leg up of this upside correction. Low volumes and over entusiasm about the soft landing narrative suggest us that this rally can go up to 4300+ before reversing, but we do not take higher highs as our base case.
However, price arrived at a big resistance, with the blue wlfe wave still valid, and managed to exhaust the upside steam creating multiple divergences e lower lows. Also, VIX seems to be about to breakout a bullish wolfe wave :
We sometimes get insights by looking at VVIX, which is the same algorithm of the Vix applied to the VIX itself:
Here we can see that VVIX already broke out, suggesting bullishness for the VIX and bearishness for the index.
We are therefore short from @4152. Our stop loss is already placed on entry. Our first target is 3940, we will re evaluate the price action if we get there.
Breaking 4090 confirms more downside.
Happy trading!
Keep a close eye on this breakout!Traders,
Keep a close eye on this breakout on our fear index. So far, nothing significant has followed to the same level of price movement: the dollar is still under its macro-uptrend resistance, the US500 is still using its macro-uptrend for support logarithmically, and the US10yr/US2yr remains under resistance.
But we want to track this closely to find out the legitimacy of this spike in fear. Confirmation can be had if one of the indicators mentioned above follows and breaks its support/resistance (see yesterday's video for more).
Best,
Stew
Two Big Indicators to Watch This WeekTraders,
There are two cautionary indicators that I want you to be aware of and to watch closely this week. One of them has to do with U.S. treasuries which lead our dollar strength/weakness. The other has to do with the 200 week moving average on the Bitcoin chart. Let's dive in and take a look at these two very important lead indicators.
Stew
2/20/2023 (Monday) SPY Analysis and Market Deep DiveMonday 2/20/2023 - In this Video I discuss The technical analysis of the SPY ETF which is a proxy the S&P500 that is often a tell on general market movements. I also discuss broader market Macros I have been watching including last week's and next weeks economic events. We also discuss some recession indicators, and other charts that show headwinds and tailwinds to equities.
In the Trading View App, You can use the links below and hit play, so you can see the action from the dates the charts were published. I will keep this going so we can follow outcomes to analysis!
Don't Leave Me Hanging! 20 Feb 2023🖼 Daily Technical Picture 📈
➤ Equity prices finished Friday trade in an unconvincing manner. It looks like a wo(man) struggling to hang on from height (as illustrated). Obviously I'm a bit biased given my short positioning. Price did hold above the recent low at 405 so there is an opportunity for price to continue to recover.
➤ BTW, have you noticed that on every Friday since the start of the year, the market has closed higher than the open? What does it mean? Probably nothing...just thought it was good trivia.
➤ Anyhow, the price is really hugging my predicated price path nicely. To stay that way, we need to see the price drop immediately on resumption of trade Tuesday. There's nothing magical about the path, it is completely coincidental that the price is following it.
➤ Conclusion: Look out below.