Recent content by saintan

No, my point was that liquidity dries up on es futures in general, while on other related instruments it gets pumped. I posted a wrong link from nanex, I was reffering to this one:

also if you follow nanex to see what is actually going on on es futures and dying liquidity, that tells a lot as what one should be looking for... times are changing, as market is. http://www.nanex.net/aqck2/4176/20130423.fES.M13.gif

This was well known before and you can actually view it here https://www.cotrt.com/blog/trumpflynn-case The data is still visible on cotrt.pl

seriously, this is very strange https://www.cotrt.com/blog/us-navy-hotline

This was interesting today, 30 minutes before news about North Korea hit news feeds something happened if you look at wide market which I was talking about before... There was no way you could read it out of price action... i think.

"back breaking" is very subjective now days. Although what im saying might seem overthought or complicated, having some coding skills and data feeds on a plate it really looks "back breaking" for people who wont handle amount of information by eye, its imposible ofcourse. But since everyone is...

yes, Wyckoff general structure is in my view still in work but the problem is that in today`s market its even harder to spot , especially on US market because of the number of assets you can operate on (which means overall liquidity pool where big trader can hide with his size). That is why at...

I know exactly what you are saying, I am actually looking at it as we speak, sure its intraday action but I see accumulation from large speculators while market dropped couple minutes ago. The more I digged in this subject as how large speculators operate the more difficult it got to actually...

sure, there is also a period in 2015/16 were huge amount of really big players made a bet to short the markets and it was even worse for them than 2008. I am aware of that althou these traders are significantly better than retails - obviously - nobody is 100% right. The other thing is their...

there are many resources where you can get to know a lot of information, so the first thing I did was to search them on barclayhedge.com or hedgefundresearch.com, when I looked up interesting firm I digged deeper to see if there are more papers on them available like 10-k forms with detailed...

Basicaly what I call smart money are large traders (size wise), which for example have to report their positions to cftc. Smart Money are also traders/trading firms which generate consistent returns (following yearly reports of such funds might give a good hints as what and how they operate). In...

First thing I do is try to gauge the overall fundamental sentiment which is based on couple important factors. So as far as being bullish on US market for a long time I can see that there are more and more parts which are alerting me that there might be some troubles ahead. One of the things...

This is going to be a journal of my way of thinking about trading, trades I take and try to profit out of them. I base my trading mostly on searching for clues on what the smart money are doing. Primarly on US market, as a vehicle trading emini sp and options on US stocks. I exploit fundamental...