{"id":41860,"date":"2015-07-30T20:35:51","date_gmt":"2015-07-31T00:35:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/?p=41860"},"modified":"2023-08-03T22:32:08","modified_gmt":"2023-08-04T02:32:08","slug":"inside-the-trading-vault-the-es_f","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/inside-the-trading-vault-the-es_f","title":{"rendered":"Inside The Trading Vault &#8211; The ES_F"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Trading Vault Concept &#8211;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Trading charts profitably and with consistency\u00a0depends on how well the trader understands the current market structure and relationships between buyers and sellers. \u00a0Once we understand these formations and structures, we become much more capable of creating our own consistent strategies that perform with a high degree of reliability and consistently.&#8221; \u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Trading the ES_F overnight and into the morning for 7\/30\/15 and 7\/31\/15<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0ES_F sits above an important decision price point of 2101.5 as we move into the early evening and there are signs of positive momentum showing, though the drift up is not sharp. \u00a0This means that in general, we can buy the pullbacks into clearly defined support without fear that the chart will run away from us, and that our targets will retrace into a higher high, a double top relative to the tighter time frame (like the hourly), or a lower high if we are to see reversal. \u00a0The third observation, if we are long, is most troubling and should be carefully considered if it does occur, as it is a likely signal that we should leave the trade.<\/p>\n<p>From the big picture (see updated image below), formations show a clear rising wedge in the ES_F formed and held from February 2015 to today. \u00a0Buyers still remain eager across the board so sharp pullbacks present buying opportunities for value buyers in particular.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/ES_F1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"  wp-image-41866 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/ES_F1-300x166.png\" alt=\"ES_F\" width=\"436\" height=\"241\" srcset=\"\/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/ES_F1-300x166.png 300w, \/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/ES_F1-1024x567.png 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 436px) 100vw, 436px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>So how might we trade the ES_F overnight and into tomorrow? \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Here are some potential structural events \u00a0within a range bound structure currently between 2084 and 2112 &#8211;\u00a0Realize that breaches outside of the range bound zones I mentioned above (2084 &#8211; 2112)will retest those levels with a retrace, but may move into upper targets before doing so&#8230;.I refrain from buying breakouts or selling breakdowns in this market<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>A long at the breach of 2103.5 or at the bounce off the current 2102 levels should give us the target zones of 2105.5, 2106.5, 2107.25 and more unlikely though possible 2110<\/li>\n<li>A short at the failure of 2100.5 or at the rejection of 2104.75 should give us the target zones of 2098.5, 2097.5, 2096.25, 2095.25, and if we are particularly range bound we will revisit 2092<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Remember the environment is largely bullish so sharp pullbacks will be seen as value areas and buyers will try to step in.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>* no relevant positions <a href=\"http:\/\/cfe.cboe.com\/AboutCFE\/RiskDisclosureFutures.aspx\">Futures Disclosure<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trading Vault Concept &#8211; &#8220;Trading charts profitably and with consistency\u00a0depends on how well the trader understands the current market structure and relationships between buyers and sellers. \u00a0Once we understand these formations and structures, we become much more capable of creating our own consistent strategies that perform with a high degree of reliability and consistently.&#8221; \u00a0 Trading the ES_F overnight and &#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/inside-the-trading-vault-the-es_f\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1102,"featured_media":41863,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,1366,3,453,1373],"tags":[4573,4491,4574],"class_list":["post-41860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general-comments-2","category-market-structure","category-technical_plays","category-trading_ideas","category-trading-lesson","tag-trading-futures","tag-trading-idea","tag-trading-vault"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.1.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Inside The Trading Vault - The ES_F | SMB Training<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/inside-the-trading-vault-the-es_f\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Inside The Trading Vault - The ES_F | SMB Training\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Trading Vault Concept &#8211; &#8220;Trading charts profitably and with consistency\u00a0depends on how well the trader understands the current market structure and relationships between buyers and sellers. \u00a0Once we understand these formations and structures, we become much more capable of creating our own consistent strategies that perform with a high degree of reliability and consistently.&#8221; \u00a0 Trading the ES_F overnight and ... 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