Markets Setting Up For NFP Friday
With the yields beginning to ease off a bit, and the earnings season not in until late next week, this week’s action looks to be testing some resistance levels until this Friday’s NFP release. What happens post-NFP is anybody’s guess, and depends on how the numbers look.
In our last published trading plans last Monday, 09/26, we cautioned the bears: “When everybody and their grandma is bearish, time to cover your shorts and wait for the next opportunity”. We reiterate this caution to the bears this week as well – the risk is to an upside surge than to a breakdown, so bears should be careful if itching to short this bounce.
Positional Trading Models: Our positional models have negated their bearish bias on the NFP Friday, 09/02/22, and are now sporting a neutral bias. No positional trading plans for today, and until published otherwise.
Intraday/Aggressive Models: Our aggressive, intraday models indicate the trading plans below for today.
Trading Plans for TUE 10/04:
Aggressive Intraday Models: For today, our aggressive intraday models indicate going long on a break above 3751, 3733, or 3711 with a 9-point trailing stop, and going short on a break below 3745 or 3738 with a 9-point trailing stop.
Models indicate no specific long exits or short exits for today. Models also indicate a break-even hard stop once a trade gets into a 4-point profit level. Models indicate taking these signals right after the FOMC decision release, from 10:01 am ET or later.
By definition the intraday models do not hold any positions overnight – the models exit any open position at the close of the last bar (3:59pm bar or 4:00pm bar, depending on your platform’s bar timing convention).
To avoid getting whipsawed, use at least a 5-minute closing or a higher time frame (a 1-minute if you know what you are doing) – depending on your risk tolerance and trading style – to determine the signals.
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