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Polaris Trading Group: Taylor 3 Day Cycle Commentary Author: David D Dube (PTGDavid)
***Written 8pm Tuesday evening for Wednesday’s trading
Tuesday’s Session was Cycle Day 2 (CD2): Taylor Textbook CD2 “normal” as price consolidated throughout the session, setting near the midpoint at the close of trading. Range was 40.75 handles on 1.155M contracts exchanged.
…Transition from Cycle Day 2 to Cycle Day 3
This leads us into Cycle Day 3 (CD3): Cycle Statistics have been fulfilled, so we’ll mark this day as a “wild-card’. Meaning that price has additional room to rally for extended targets, but should price fail to Clear & Convert CD2 High, then potential exists for decline to unfold. As such, there are two estimated scenarios to consider for today’s trading.
1.) Price sustains a bid above 3852, initially targets 3873 – 3884 zone.
2.) Price sustains an offer below 3852, initially targets 3820 – 3811 zone.
For more detailed information for both bullish and bearish projected targets, please visit: PTG 3 Day Cycle and/or reference the Cycle Spreadsheet below:
Link to access full Cycle Spreadsheet >> Cycle Day 3 (CD3)
Thanks for reading,
PTGDavid
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GLOBEX
| (ESH20:CME) GLOBEX Session | (ESH20:CME) Day Session |
| High 3859.25 | Opening Print: 3858.25 |
| Low: 3821.50 | High 3862.25 |
| Volume: 155,000 | Low: 3740.00 |
| ES Settlement 3851.00 | |
| Total Volume 1.15 M |
S&P 500 Futures Recap – Trade Date January 26, 2021
No Traction Tuesday
After trading in a 37.75-handle overnight range, the S&P 500 futures opened Tuesday’s cash session at 3858.25 and traded to an early morning daily high of 3862.20 just after the open and reversed to sell down to the daily low of 3840.00 just before 11:00 CT. From there, buyers came in pushing the index futures higher for the rest of the morning, through the noon hour and into the afternoon making an afternoon high of 3854.00 before selling in the final hour retested the 3840.00 low before rallying to settle at 3851.00, up 2.50 handles on modest volume of 1.15 million contracts. In terms of price action, it was all about selling the open and then buying the midmorning low holding into late day.
Our View
Rotation Sensation
Stock market rotations have always been part of trading but they have become much more pronounced since the Covid-19 outbreak almost ten and a half months ago. Selling big-cap stock to buy smaller cap stocks or vice versa, these rotations happen every minute of every day. When it comes to futures trading, if you’re lucky enough to to choose the correct index it can make your job a lot easier and if you don’t… it can be painful. The problem? What’s hot today isn’t necessarily going to be hot tomorrow. For my own good, I do my best to keep track of this rotation sensation!
Our view, its 6:00 am and the Dow and S&P are trading lower and the Nasdaq is higher due to yesterday’s tech earnings coming in better than expected. There is little doubt the markets are overvalued but with rates at zero, there really is no place to invest but stocks. That said, if you take out the tech stocks the S&P and Dow do not act all that great. Our lean, today is day two of the Fed’s two-day meeting. There are so many cross-currents I want to get a look at the price action before jumping in. I may buy the open or early dip but just for a scalp with a tight stop.
Danny Riley is a 39-year veteran of the CME trading floor. He ran one of the largest S&P desks on the floor of the CME Group since 1985.
As always, please use protective buy and sell stops when trading futures and options.
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