Recent content by PerErik

Trading recap 29th of July see full trading log with chart images here Wow, what a day, big swings in both directions and lots of news. It is amazing how the politicians are once again able to mess things up. Instead of getting things done in time, they wait to the last minutes and play their...

Trading recap 28th of July See the trading recap at this link

Trading recap 27th of July See the trading recap at this link

Trading recap 26th of July See full trading log here (with chart images) The S&P 500 futures failed to make any recovery above the 1335 resistance level and closed in the lower end of the range on slighly increasing volume compared to previous session. Volume was 1.406m contracts traded in the...

Market report 26th of July Daily Market Report for Tuesday 26th of July 2011 see full pdf version here Follow our live trades for free at: http://twitter.com/AFtrading Still no solution on the US deficit talks and this is keeping the pressure on S&P 500 futures and we continues to see safe...

Trading recap 25th of July See the full trading log here Lower open in the S&P500 futures following the inability to reach an agreement on US deficit plan, but recovered a bit during the session to close at 1333, 7.5 points lower than Friday's close. We did however hold the key support at...

Market report 25th of July See the full pdf version here Follow our live trades for free at: http://twitter.com/AFtrading The inability to reach a debt ceiling agreement in the US before the weekend is weighing on risk this morning and gold made a new record high at 1620.84. S&P 500 futures...

Trading recap 20th of July The trading log has been updated. click here to see the log S&P 500 futures could not hold onto the early gains, but volume was very low and looks like a possible no supply bar = bullish. No supply bar is a narrow bar, closing on the lows with volume less than...

Market report 20th of July See the full pdf version here Follow our live trades for free at: http://twitter.com/AFtrading Make sure to check out our blog as well: http://avantagefinancial.blogspot.com/ Risk appetite rising over the last two sessions and S&P 500 futures are up 4 points in...

Trading recap 19th of July The trading log has been updated, please click here to see I am now up 16% in 6 weeks, not bad. Made 2 trades intra day, long ES and long Corn for 212,50 USD profit. I also sold some 1295 puts exp Friday 22 July, early on in the session. Then I added 2X short 1320...

Market report 19th of July See the full pdf version here Follow our live trades for free at: http://twitter.com/AFtrading Make sure to check out our blog as well: http://avantagefinancial.blogspot.com/ I outlined that 1293.75 level as key in yesterday’s report and in fact we had a successful...

Trading recap 18th of July See the full trading log here I did close the 6x short ES (S&P 500 Emini futures) position that I had from Friday at 1307.25 in the Globex session. I was quite heavy short in the ES following the Friday's excersise of the 1300 calls and give that I plenty of short...

Market report 18th of July see full version here:http://avantagefinancial.ch/images_up/avantagefinancial.ch/pdfs/daily18jul11.pdf The European stress test has been analyzed over the weekend and the verdict seems to be that risk off modus is back. Italian vs. German bonds widens to 320 bps...

Trading recap 7th of July ECB out of the way and they decided to raise rates by 25 bps and ECB have suspended collateral rules for Portugal until further notice. http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/a7743bec-a87c-11e0-8a97-00144feabdc0.html It seems like the ECB is desperately kicking the debt...

Trading recap 6th of July The S&P 500 emini (ES) broke below yesterday's low of 1329.25 in early trading, as the China rate hike saw risk come off. It got down to 1326 before it reversed higher to close right up at the top of today's range and 0.50 point below yesterday's high of 1337. The...