Beating the FINANCIAL FUTURES MARKET: Combining Small Biases Into Powerful Money Making Strategies

use day session only hours for all our intraday studies, so you must adjust your windows accordingly under Trade Station’s “use custom session” option. For the indexes, input 8:30 am--3:15 pm CST for start-end times. For all other financials, use 7:20 am-2:00 pm.

Here is a strategy that produces, among other things, some huge average profits per trade. It’s again set up in the 5 minute charts. Between 9:00 and 2:45 CST, if the close is above the average 50 bar close for the first time in a row, and Dow-Spoo is bullish, buy the next bar. If the close is under the 50 average (the previous wasn’t) and Dow Spoo

If the highest low of the last three-days minus the lowest low of the last three days is less than or equal to 20 percent of the entire three-day range, (highest high to lowest low), then buy the next day. For sells, the highest high to the lowest high must encompass not more than a fifth of the total range. Exit all trades on the close. Fig

For indexes, the trading hours are 8:30 am-3:15 pm, Central Standard Time. The remaining targeted financials trade from 7:20 am-2:00 pm CST.

you have to convert the two respective markets into like units. One full S&P point (or 10 ticks on the full contract, four on the mini) is equivalent to roughly eight Dow points. Once you have that, it’s easy to ascertain whether a given rally is S&P or Dow led. If the former is up five full points and the latter is up 16, the spoos are def

For longs: The close is greater than the 40-day closing average. The 2-day close is less than the five-day close The highest high of the last 50 days occurs before the lowest low of the last 50 days. The range is smaller than the 10-day average range and the close is higher OR the range is bigger than the average ten-day range and the close is lowe

If the market closes down five days in a row and then up on the sixth day, buy the next day and vice versa. That first contrary close is apparently telling the world, “about time!” and there tends to be one more day of confirmation.

How could you have made money in the entire 20-some year history of the S&P futures contract being nothing but short? I then remind everyone of the near-relentless up sloping of the market (millennial bubble-burst aside). Even considering that our current level is discounted roughly 20 percent off the all-time high, the contract’s gain, from in

If the close is greater than the 25-day average close, then buy next bar at the open plus one and a half times the previous range on a stop. Sell (but don’t reverse) any time the market goes one and a half times the range under the open. If the close is less than the 25-day average close, get short at the open minus one and a half times the range.