HCPG Blog

We wrote this afternoon  near the bottom: “This would be a pretty spot to bounce – if bulls want it, this is the place to defend ” And once ...

We tested the top of the previous range  last week at 3AM in the futures  and we finally tested it in the regular session today.   If there ...

HCPG trader screens are more or less configured in a similar fashion — emphasis is on a layout which  gives us a quick idea of what is happe...

There are lots of threads out there on traders sending in snapshots of their workstations — that’s fun to look at but what is more useful fo...

Like a zombie that won’t go down this market keeps getting hit with bullet after bullet and yet refuses to roll.    Many are looking for a r...

We’re at the close here and bulls  held the 20SMA/50% retracement of recent rally/  $ ES_F  AH low. So what if doesn’t hold?  Next support c...

  Remember this line in the sand  we posted yesterday ?  It’s baaaaack: Tuesday 3AM futures tested and passed the top of range test.  We’r...

First of all, we completely forgot about our 5 yr business anniversary mark (June 13, 2006).    However, a belated note hopefully is better ...

We bounced right at the previous top of the range on the $ ES_F — click to enlarge: Too bad it happened at 3 AM…   Anyway, that’s the line...

We’re active traders (probably 80% day-trade, 20% swing) and quite aware that the burn-out (and blow-out) rate in our business is quite high...

After a 100 point rip on the no-Greek default bottom $ SPX finally seeing some fatigue in the market.  That being said the market held the ...

If you were watching for a bounce on the 2009 trend-line  you would have had two very different conclusions if your chart was set to linear ...

In benign momentum markets such as the one we have enjoyed for the last week a lot of break-out moves start before the alert.   Two of our d...

With that title you would think I (have to use “I” here, this one is all me, not from my partners who work in offices) I am talking about a ...

We  rarely trade only on what we see in charts, nor in fundamentals.  We always defer first and foremost to price action (especially to dive...