Support & Resistance Levels

This Blog provides futures market outlook for different commodities and futures trading markets, mostly stock index futures, as well as support and resistance levels for Crude Oil futures, Gold futures, Euro currency and others. At times the daily trading blog will include educational information about different aspects of commodity and futures trading.

FOMC Tomorrow + Trading Support and Resistance Levels 3.16.2022

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Looks like the FED will raise rates for the first time in few years tomorrow or at least this is the consensus.
The following are my PERSONAL suggestions on trading during FOMC days:
·    Reduce trading size
·    Be extra picky = no trade is better than a bad trade
·    Choose entry points wisely. Look at longer time frame support and resistance for entry. Take the approach of entering at points where you normally would have placed protective stops. Example, trader x looking to go long the mini SP at 4325.00 with a stop at 4319.00, instead “stretch the price bands” due to volatility and place an entry order to buy at 4319.75 and place a stop a few points below in this hypothetical example ( consider current volatility along with support and resistance levels).
·    Expect the higher volatility during and right after the announcement
·    Expect to see some “vacuum” ( low volume, big zigzags) right before the number.
·    Consider using automated stops and limits attached to your entry order as the market can move very fast at times.
·    Keep in mind statement comes out at 1 Pm Central time, the news conference which dissects the language comes out 30 minutes later so the volatility window stretches out.
·    Know what the market was expecting, learn what came out and observe market reaction for clues
·    Be patient and be disciplined
·    If in doubt, stay out!!

Rollover Notice: June is now the front month for Stock Index futures like ES, MES, NQ, MNQ etc. as well as for financials like ZB and ZN and currencies as well, like 6E, 6B etc.
ESM22 instead of ESH22.
March stock index futures will settle into cash on Friday morning right around the open.
Also note, Margin increase in several markets.
Volatility is higher and some moves are very violent, have a risk management, trade management in plan, don’t jump in the water with out some sort of a life vest.
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Trading Futures, Options on Futures, and retail off-exchange foreign currency transactions involves substantial risk of loss and is not suitable for all investors.  You should carefully consider whether trading is suitable for you in light of your circumstances, knowledge, and financial resources. You may lose all or more of your initial investment. Opinions, market data, and recommendations are subject to change at any time when it comes to Futures Trading.

Futures Trading Levels

03-16-2022

 

Support and Resistance Levels 3.16.2022

 

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BetterTrader Economic Indicators 3.16.2022

 

This is not a solicitation of any order to buy or sell, but a current market view provided by Cannon Trading Inc. Any statement of facts here in contained are derived from sources believed to be reliable, but are not guaranteed as to accuracy, nor they purport to be complete. No responsibility is assumed with respect to any such statement or with respect to any expression of opinion herein contained. Readers are urged to exercise their own judgement in trading.

Rollover Notice & Futures Support and Resistance Levels 3.15.2022

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Rollover Notice

June is now the front month for Stock Index futures like ES, MES, NQ, MNQ etc. as well as for financials like ZB and ZN and currencies as well, like 6E, 6B etc.
ESM22 instead of ESH22.
March stock index futures will settle into cash on Friday morning right around the open.
Also note, Margin increase in several markets.
Volatility is higher and some moves are very violent, have a risk management, trade management in plan, don’t jump in the water with out some sort of a life vest.
Sierra Charts, Teton Order Routing
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Trading Futures, Options on Futures, and retail off-exchange foreign currency transactions involves substantial risk of loss and is not suitable for all investors.  You should carefully consider whether trading is suitable for you in light of your circumstances, knowledge, and financial resources. You may lose all or more of your initial investment. Opinions, market data, and recommendations are subject to change at any time when it comes to Futures Trading.

Futures Trading Levels

03-15-2022

 

Futures Support and Resistance Levels 3.15.2022

 

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BetterTrader Economic Indicators 3.15.2022

 

This is not a solicitation of any order to buy or sell, but a current market view provided by Cannon Trading Inc. Any statement of facts here in contained are derived from sources believed to be reliable, but are not guaranteed as to accuracy, nor they purport to be complete. No responsibility is assumed with respect to any such statement or with respect to any expression of opinion herein contained. Readers are urged to exercise their own judgement in trading.

Weekly Newsletter #1089 Trading Crude Oil Volatility & Support and Resistance Levels for the Week Ahead

Cannon Futures Weekly Newsletter Issue # 1089

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Crude Oil Futures Volatility Offers A “Different Market Personality” Than Stock Index Futures. Here Is Some Of The Things You Need To Know About Day Trading Crude Oil Futures:

By: Ilan Levy-Mayer, Cannon Trading Commodities Broker & VP
Crude Oil is one of MY favorite futures market for day trading. Before I dive in and share with you how the volatility in crude oil fits my risk tolerance for day trading and provide a couple of chart examples, we should review some of the specifications of Crude Oil Futures.
Crude Oil Futures have monthly expiration. So each month we trade a different contract month, so one needs to know when is the first notice day and last trading day for crude oil futures in order to always make sure we are trading the proper month with the most liquidity and avoid any chance of getting into delivery situation.
Next is the contract size. Crude Oil futures are based on 1000 barrels. To be honest from a day trading perspective all I care is that each tick or 1 cent fluctuation is $10 against me or in my favor per contract. That means that a move from 92.94 to 92.74 = $200.
Another factor is trading hours. At the time I am sharing my thoughts with you, April 8th 2013, crude oil futures trade on the CME Globex platform and trade from 5 PM CDT until the next day at 4 PM CDT. That is 23 of straight trading hours. I definitely don’t recommend day trading this market 23 hours…but it is good to know the trading hours.
Volume in crude oil futures is pretty good to trade in my opinion. Averaging about 300,000 contracts per day.
One last pointer to touch on is the API (American Petroleum Institute) report that normally comes out Wednesday at 9:30 CDT (on short weeks, holidays etc. , this report will be pushed to Thursday at 10 AM CDT). I tell my clients that this report is way too volatile and I like to be out 5 minutes before and not resume trading 5 minutes until after the report comes out. This report by itself deserves a writing but on short, the report provides information on how our stock pile is doing ( = supply/demand) and the market will move based on the numbers versus what was expected. Again as a day trader, your main job is to know about this report, when it comes out and in my opinion stay out of the market during this time..
Would you like to contact Ilan or any of our brokers for more feedback? We are happy to help!
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Trading Futures, Options on Futures, and retail off-exchange foreign currency transactions involves substantial risk of loss and is not suitable for all investors.  You should carefully consider whether trading is suitable for you in light of your circumstances, knowledge, and financial resources. You may lose all or more of your initial investment. Opinions, market data, and recommendations are subject to change at any time when it comes to Futures Trading.

 

Futures Trading Levels

03-14-2022

Futures Support and Resistance Levels 3.14.2022

 

Weekly Levels

Weekly Support and Resistance Levels 3.11.2022

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Margin Increase in Several Futures Markets & Support and Resistance Levels 3.11.2022

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Margin increase in several markets.

Volatility is higher and some moves are very violent, have a risk management, trade management in plan, don’t jump in the water with out some sort of a life vest.
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Trading Futures, Options on Futures, and retail off-exchange foreign currency transactions involves substantial risk of loss and is not suitable for all investors.  You should carefully consider whether trading is suitable for you in light of your circumstances, knowledge, and financial resources. You may lose all or more of your initial investment. Opinions, market data, and recommendations are subject to change at any time when it comes to Futures Trading.

Futures Trading Levels

03-11-2022

 

Futures Support and Resistance Levels 3.11.2022

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BetterTrader Economic Indicators

This is not a solicitation of any order to buy or sell, but a current market view provided by Cannon Trading Inc. Any statement of facts here in contained are derived from sources believed to be reliable, but are not guaranteed as to accuracy, nor they purport to be complete. No responsibility is assumed with respect to any such statement or with respect to any expression of opinion herein contained. Readers are urged to exercise their own judgement in trading.

“I Use Mental Stops…..” & Support and Resistance Trading Levels 3.10.2022

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“I use mental stops”…..Said the trader who just blew up his account day trading crude oil the wrong way…..

By Mark O’Brien
As futures brokers, we’ve heard clients share their thoughts on trading and truly, their strategies are as unique as the individual trader. With that said, there are a number of “nuts and bolts” to trading that all traders can employ – or not. One example of these is the STOP order. We as brokers hear a variety of assertions from our clients as to the virtues or evils of employing STOP orders in their trading.
In this blog we’re going to showcase today’s price activity in April crude oil to make a case for the virtues of employing STOP orders.
Notwithstanding the almost unheard-of ±$23/$23,000 per contract price range, at one point, the April crude oil contract fell ±$10 per barrel/$10,000 per contract in the span of five minutes.
As we’ve spelled out in recent blogs, with the Russian attack on Ukraine and all the geopolitical moving parts now involved in the conflict, commodity price volatility has reached remarkable heights across several asset classes – energies in particular. So be it, but this provides us with low hanging fruit, as it were, to advocate for the use of STOP orders. Price moves like this literally scream for the implementation of STOP orders, lest you find your proverbial trading legs cut off at the knees – or worse. If you find yourself eyeing crude oil, unleaded gas, gold, wheat, any stock index, just to list the recent headliners, transpose those mental stops to actual orders. Trade safely and sanely.
5 min chart of crude oil from today when the news on OPEC send crude oil tumbling over $15 in minutes. If you were long, with “mental stops”….good luck.
Crude Oil Futures 5 minute Chart
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Futures Trading Levels

03-10-2022

 

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Trading Agricultural Options in Volatile Markets & Support and Resistance Levels 3.09.2022

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Trading Agricultural Options in volatile markets

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In this week’s issue, Rich Excell examines volatility in agricultural markets and explores two ways to approach these markets using grain option strategies.
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Futures Trading Levels

03-09-2022

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Size does Matter & Support and Resistance Levels 3.08.2022

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Size does Matter

By John Thorpe, Senior Broker
 In an effort to keep up with appropriate volatility scans, the CME is again increasing the good faith deposits required to trade WTI Crude, Heating oil and RBOB Gasoline futures.
Recently the margins have increased for Wheat and Gold futures as well as the stock indices for good reason. Geopolitical risk has put these markets on notice that the margins, already low, were not sufficient to protect clients and firms from the extreme price action these commodities have been experiencing.
The intraday moves have been nothing short of jaw dropping; with opportunity comes risk.
Many are aware of the smaller sized Micro Emini stock indices for the S&P 500 MES, Nasdaq 100 MNQ , Dow30 MYM and Russell 2000 M2K
(all indices roll from March to June this Thursday and Friday)
Did you know there were also other Micro contracts to take advantage of many of these futures contracts outsized price swings? And they are liquid too!
For the WTI Crude, the Comex Gold, Crypto Currencies and EuroCurrency contracts.
 The WTI Contracts overnight margin requirement is now going to be set tonight @ $13,500.00 and most clearing firms would rather not give a break for Day trading margins
The answer to participate in the crude market if the current volatility is too rich for your blood, you may take a look at the Micro’s :
The exchange has increased the margin several times over the past week and today’s increases are here and currently no break for Daytrading..
MORE CME energy margin increases:
You do however, have two smaller sized contracts that are plenty liquid,  the QMj22 that is a 500bbl contract and trades in .025 increments      110.025, 110.050, 110.075 and so on.. the margin is ½ the full size contract or $6750.00
And you also have the micro WTI Crude Oil MCLJ22 a 100 bbl contract  1/10 the size      that trades in minimum increments like the full size.   100.02,100.03,100.04 and so on.. the margin is 1/10th or 1320.00 per contract  The micro’s also give you the ability to trade as many crude contracts incrementally in 100 barrel units.
Would you like to contact John or any of our brokers for more feedback? We are happy to help!
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Trading Futures, Options on Futures, and retail off-exchange foreign currency transactions involves substantial risk of loss and is not suitable for all investors.  You should carefully consider whether trading is suitable for you in light of your circumstances, knowledge, and financial resources. You may lose all or more of your initial investment. Opinions, market data, and recommendations are subject to change at any time when it comes to Futures Trading.

Futures Trading Levels

03-08-2022

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This is not a solicitation of any order to buy or sell, but a current market view provided by Cannon Trading Inc. Any statement of facts here in contained are derived from sources believed to be reliable, but are not guaranteed as to accuracy, nor they purport to be complete. No responsibility is assumed with respect to any such statement or with respect to any expression of opinion herein contained. Readers are urged to exercise their own judgement in trading.

Weekly Newsletter #1088 Options Trading & Volatility & Trading Levels for the Week Ahead 3.07.2022

Cannon Futures Weekly Newsletter Issue # 1088

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Trading 201: My Cheap Lesson on Volatility Premium

 By Josh Meyers, Series 3 Broker
I couldn’t tell you the day or the date, but the market was bearish that morning. I found the long call I liked and filled it with a limit order. A good entry, no chasing. The market jumps toward the money and I feel confident in my decision. The market climbs, but my call price doesn’t. The bid-ask of my long call hopelessly lower than I had hoped. The market moved up, but my premium did not? A greenhorn options trader, I was still learning the rules. Focused on my delta, but naïve to everything else. I’m sure I bought a market maker a steak dinner that day. My cheap lesson on how volatility impacts options premiums.
The bearish movement of the morning expanded option premiums across the board. Regardless of price direction, the ensuing contraction of volume and volatility reduced call premiums. I bought near the low of the day, but just after the peak of the volatility event. The market no longer perceived the same movement it did before and I was left with deflated extrinsic(time) value. My party was over before it started.
To rookie options traders, long calls sound premiere. Unlimited profit potential and limited risk. The problem is, they fail to recognize the multiple inputs related to the price of an option and how challenging the management can be. It’s hard enough for a trader to manage price direction, let alone price direction, speed, perception, etc. all at the same time. Mitigating variables such as time decay(theta) or volatility(vega) can be as simple as using an option spread. Had I opened a vertical spread instead of a long call, my result would’ve been better. How many mistakes have I made that I still don’t know about, or how many more are in store? A testament to the significance of perpetual trading education….DOWNLOAD FREE OPTION REPORT
Would you like to contact Josh or any of our brokers for more feedback? We are happy to help!
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Trading Futures, Options on Futures, and retail off-exchange foreign currency transactions involves substantial risk of loss and is not suitable for all investors.  You should carefully consider whether trading is suitable for you in light of your circumstances, knowledge, and financial resources. You may lose all or more of your initial investment. Opinions, market data, and recommendations are subject to change at any time when it comes to Futures Trading.

 

Futures Trading Levels

03-07-2022

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Weekly Levels

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NFP Tomorrow, Futures Support and Resistance Trading Levels 3.04.2022

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NFP Tomorrow!

From Econoday.Com:
Definition
The most closely watched of all economic indicators, the employment situation is a set of monthly labor market indicators based on two separate reports: the establishment survey which tracks 650,000 worksites and offers the nonfarm payroll and average hourly earnings headlines and the household survey which interviews 60,000 households and generates the unemployment rate.
Nonfarm payrolls track the number of part-time and full-time employees in both business and government. Average hourly earnings track employee pay while the average workweek, also part of the establishment survey, tracks the number of hours worked. The report’s private payroll measure excludes government workers.
Consensus Outlook
A 390,000 rise is Econoday’s consensus for nonfarm payroll growth in February which in January, at 467,000, far surpassed the high estimate. February consensus range is 197,000 to 625,000. Average hourly earnings, which in January also far surpassed expectations at a monthly 0.7 percent gain for an annual 5.7 percent rate, are expected to show continued pressure, at 0.5 and 5.8 percent respectively.
KEY margin increases to note:
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Futures Trading Levels

03-04-2022

 

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Ukraine & Commodities, Futures Trading Levels 3.03.2022

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Russia, Ukraine & Commodities

By Mark O’Brien, Senior Broker
In a recent blog post, it was noted, “We’re just one month into this calendar year with more developments ahead – geopolitically, weather-related and monetary policy related – all set to cause commodity prices across a range of asset classes to exhibit potentially rugged price action. Keep an eye out.” Now two months into this calendar year, it appears that statement was subdued.
Many of the market moves stem from the escalating war activities in Ukraine, which will remain a dominant force in determining prices of several commodities. Russia and Ukraine account for nearly 20% of global corn exports and 25% of wheat. May corn traded to new contract highs overnight (747¾, basis May). May wheat traded up its 75-cent limit today to the highest level since March of 2008. Russia is responsible for up to 40% of the palladium supply to the world, a commodity not typically among any trader’s top-ten to keep an eye on. It’s seen a ±$300/oz. move up since Friday’s close and is poised to close at daily contract highs. Prices in crude oil surged again today, trading intermittently to life-of-contract highs above $112/barrel. These and other markets – think metals, other energy products, stock index futures – will continue to exhibit outsize moves. And while fears of physical supply disruptions, a ratcheting up of inflation expectations and other forces have sellers moving to the sidelines across numerous commodities, these traders are not gone. Take care.
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Futures Trading Levels

03-03-2022

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