What a week this has been. What a month, what a year. This continues to be a great period for trend followers. Every day price just makes a nonsense of price targets and fundamental rationalizations. None of them matter. Price is the final arbiter of everything you do as a trader. This week we added a …
Category Archive: Futures
May 14
Trend Following Update: Long Dollar
As we’d suggested earlier we got confirmation after the close of a long signal in the dollar which we’ll enter at tonight’s open. This brings us up to 7 open positions: LONG S&P, Nasdaq, Dollar, SHORT 30yr, 10yr, Yen, Gold. Long Dollar Index ($DX_F) 5/15 +$0.00 per contract It was another great day for all …
May 13
Trend Following Update: Exiting Long Sterling
Sterling followed through on last week’s weakness, breaking both previous pivot support and an ascending trendline from the March low. That’s triggered our exit which we executed at tonight’s open for a loss of $1,593.75 per contract, leaving us with 6 open positions: LONG S&P, Nasdaq, and SHORT 30yr, 10yr, Yen, Gold. Long Sterling ($6B_F) 5/2 …
May 11
Review Of Open Positions – Futures
We have two changes to our futures portfolio after Friday’s session. We will be shorting both the 30 year ($ZB_F) and 10 year ($ZN_F) at Sunday night’s open. There were no other changes to our portfolio during the week, so going into Monday we’ll have 7 open positions: LONG S&P, Nasdaq, Sterling, and SHORT 30yr, 10yr, Yen, …
May 06
Are We There Yet? The Road Trip To 100.00
Turns out I was a little premature in calling for $USDJPY to break 100.00 in my post here from 4/25. ‘Dollar/Yen 100.00 coming to a screen near you’ I boldly proclaimed. The one thing I absolutely nailed though – “I know it is folly to make predictions…” I should have known, like a trip to …





Jon Boorman, CMT, is a market technician, analyst, and trader with 25 years experience in global equity, forex, and futures markets. He employs trend following and momentum strategies to generate actionable trade ideas.