Tools and techniques for day trading futures markets

Market Update 4/19 – E-Mini S&P 500
April 19, 2017 The market is currently in a risk off period due to geopolitical events so we expect more pressure to the downside. We have been seeing a series of lower highs along with decreasing momentum on the daily chart of the E-Mini S&P 500 futures and are approaching the bottom of a descending triangle pattern. A break ... Read more ...
Getting started with the Interactive Brokers API, Part 1
April 12, 2017 Interactive Brokers offers an advanced application programming interface (API) that is available to retail brokers allowing for the creating of advanced algorithmic trading strategies. In this series of articles we are going to dive into how to use the API to connect to the broker, stream real time quotes, retrieve historical data, manage positions and ... Read more ...
Identifying intraday trading setups
April 2, 2017 Some of the best setups during the day happen after a period of consolidation over a longer period of time. We are going to look at how to divide the trading day up into 4 hour segments. We will then dive down into those segments to identify patterns that we can use for trading setups. ... Read more ...