For many people, trading is a progression of many failures and adjustments. The MAP Trading Strategy aims to help traders find an edge in the market, but more importantly our daily live training helps bridge the gap between “knowledge” and “skill”.

Todd is an Emini Academy student who struggled with his emotional side of trading. After trying out some other methods,… Read More

I’ve had a few requests recently to put out a video showing recent trades using the MAP Strategy, so here it is! I made it a mix of some of my trades along with some student charts as well. Enjoy!

 
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On December 6th, I was calling for the e-mini S&P to hit the mid 1,440′s.  And yesterday we hit those longer-term targets.  The stock market has given a mix of market conditions favorable for both swing and day traders.

After two big up-trending days, the ES was consolidating this morning, which gave us a few setups accross the indices.  With oil contract expiring tomorrow… Read More

This morning in our Trading Room, we discussed how the US indices could easily go sideways and choppy and not show a lot of conviction because it was market rollover. Well, we were correct.

However, the commodities still gave us some great setups this morning with some great strength and follow-through. Check out my take below:
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Today is “contract rollover day” for the stock indices, which means traders start to shift from the December 2012 contracts to the March 2013 contracts…

It’s usually best to stay away from markets on rollover days, because the volume is low and price action becomes choppy.

However, a couple commodities were in play today – Gold and Oil. And the MAP… Read More

Not every morning is a home-run trading session, but historically most of the opportunity comes within the first 90 minutes of the day.  And this week was no exception.  Being “Fed Announcement Week”, the afternoons have been pretty slow for trading, but the mornings have given some great trading signals.

Some traders like to sit in front of their computers and hunt for opportunities… Read More

Most of our US indices were in a nice bullish trend all morning, but the ES gave us the best opportunities! Check out my review below.
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As I talked about from Friday’s “Show me The Money” video, I was expecting a slow, bullish trend today…

As expected, we had some nice long trade alerts off of market open on the e-mini S&P 500 (ES) and the e-mini NASDAQ (NQ). Right now during lunch, the market is flat on low volume, so this trend could reverse at any point. With more news later this week, I think we’re… Read More

This morning started out looking like it was going to be a volume-heavy day in the ES because of the reaction to the “Employment Situation” news piece at 8:30 am EST. Even though we didn’t get the volume we thought we would today, we still had a few compelling setups.

And even thought the volume was light during those trades, it practically died off and went choppy going into… Read More

So yesterday I kicked off my new trading education show called “Show Me The Money”, where I’m helping you find trading opportunities and covering specific trading lessons.

In the first episode, I showed you some beautiful futures day trades from yesterday and talked about why I expected today to be an “inside trading day”.  I’m not always right,… Read More