Futures Trading Levels and Economic Reports for August 15, 2013
Posted By:- Ilan Levy-Mayer Vice President, Cannon Trading Futures Blog
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3. Commodities Support and Resistance Levels – Gold, Euro, Crude Oil, T-Bonds
4. Commodities Support and Resistance Levels – Corn, Wheat, Beans, Silver
5. Futures Economic Reports for Thursday August 15, 2013
Hello Traders,
For 2013 I would like to wish all of you discipline and patience in your trading!
I will try to share once in a while some “swing trade set ups” I share with my broker assist clients in hopes of showing different angle to trading and other trading types than day-trading.
Today is a set up in the Euro currency market.
Based on research I have done with the most active futures markets, I have applied 2 of the most successful of my 5 ALGOS to each specific market based on the past behavior ( past performance is not indicative of future results). As you can see from the chart, the two algos I use for the euro are marked with triangles and + sign.
I then use experience and knowledge I have accumulated over the years to determine stops and exits.
In this case I got a sell signal to go short the euro. For me personally signals need what I call price confirmation, so in this case I would go short the Euro at 132.33 on a stop. So unless price action takes out what I consider support level, i will not be short.
If and once I am in the market, I will use 131.51 as my initial target and 133.61 as my initial stop.
Chart for your review below. Any questions, please let me know and I will be happy to assist.

EUG – Euro FX (Globex), Equalized Active Daily Continuation
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Contract Sept. 2013 | SP500 (big & Mini) | Nasdaq100 (big & Mini) | Dow Jones (big & Mini) | Mini Russell | Dollar Index |
Resistance 3 | 1701.08 | 3158.58 | 15536 | 1056.80 | 82.14 |
Resistance 2 | 1697.17 | 3151.17 | 15481 | 1054.50 | 82.02 |
Resistance 1 | 1689.33 | 3136.83 | 15391 | 1050.10 | 81.89 |
Pivot | 1685.42 | 3129.42 | 15336 | 1047.80 | 81.78 |
Support 1 | 1677.58 | 3115.08 | 15246 | 1043.40 | 81.65 |
Support 2 | 1673.67 | 3107.67 | 15191 | 1041.10 | 81.53 |
Support 3 | 1665.83 | 3093.33 | 15101 | 1036.70 | 81.40 |
Contract | Dec. Gold | Sept. Silver | Sept. Crude Oil | Sept. Bonds | Sept. Euro |
Resistance 3 | 1361.9 | 2263.5 | 108.92 | 133 14/32 | 1.3326 |
Resistance 2 | 1348.7 | 2224.5 | 107.99 | 133 6/32 | 1.3305 |
Resistance 1 | 1341.6 | 2204.5 | 107.46 | 132 30/32 | 1.3282 |
Pivot | 1328.4 | 2165.5 | 106.53 | 132 22/32 | 1.3261 |
Support 1 | 1321.3 | 2145.5 | 106.00 | 132 14/32 | 1.3238 |
Support 2 | 1308.1 | 2106.5 | 105.07 | 132 6/32 | 1.3217 |
Support 3 | 1301.0 | 2086.5 | 104.54 | 131 30/32 | 1.3194 |
Contract | Dec Corn | Dec. Wheat | Nov.Beans | Dec. SoyMeal | Dec. bean Oil |
Resistance 3 | 466.2 | 647.8 | 1263.42 | 396.27 | 42.93 |
Resistance 2 | 461.1 | 645.3 | 1251.33 | 387.83 | 42.86 |
Resistance 1 | 458.2 | 644.0 | 1245.17 | 383.47 | 42.75 |
Pivot | 453.1 | 641.5 | 1233.08 | 375.03 | 42.68 |
Support 1 | 450.2 | 640.3 | 1226.9 | 370.7 | 42.6 |
Support 2 | 445.1 | 637.8 | 1214.83 | 362.23 | 42.50 |
Support 3 | 442.2 | 636.5 | 1208.67 | 357.87 | 42.39 |
source:http://www.forexfactory.com/calendar.php
All times are Eastern time Zone (EST)
Date | 4:21pm | Currency | Impact | Detail | Actual | Forecast | Previous | Graph | |
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ThuAug 15 | All Day | EUR | French Bank Holiday | ||||||
All Day | EUR | Italian Bank Holiday | |||||||
8:15am | USD | FOMC Member Bullard Speaks | |||||||
8:30am | USD | Core CPI m/m | 0.2% | 0.2% | |||||
USD | Unemployment Claims | 334K | 333K | ||||||
USD | CPI m/m | 0.2% | 0.5% | ||||||
USD | Empire State Manufacturing Index | 10.2 | 9.5 | ||||||
9:00am | USD | TIC Long-Term Purchases | 31.3B | -27.2B | |||||
9:15am | USD | Capacity Utilization Rate | 77.9% | 77.8% | |||||
USD | Industrial Production m/m | 0.5% | 0.3% | ||||||
10:00am | USD | Philly Fed Manufacturing Index | 15.6 | 19.8 | |||||
USD | NAHB Housing Market Index | 57 | 57 | ||||||
10:30am | USD | Natural Gas Storage | 73B | 96B |
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