May10 P/L%



Minus almost 8 percent for the may of 2010.

25/05/10



Hour and a half before the session finish opened long position cause folowing isuues were calling for the bulls continues superiority:
1) $add unlike ES have posted higher high w/ very strong surge;
2) materals - 2nd strongest sector - made higher high and industrials - 2md weakest sector - was at the bring of the higher high.
But, should note, that internals were against the trade w/ $add minus 2.5k while SP500 was losing only 1.8%.

The market have continued to rise like I have expected. Still, there were lots of times, when it seemed like ES have posted its interim high and will start to shrink. Nevertheless, as a result, that trade was the longest since 26th april, and its duration is near 50 minutes.

One of the leading factors that was calling for the market rise continuation was $vold. No matter during the first part of the session it was only declining, closer to the day finish it have stated to rise dramatically (click the chart above).

The position was fixed by take profit order place right near 1067 ES points, that, in my supposion, should be very strong resistance level. It is 9th and 10th feb '10 plus 22nd sep '09 VPOCs. But in fact, market continued to rise further.

24/05/10



Entered long position on the reasons:
1) $add have posted almost higher high
2) internals were bullish, in trade favor, w/ 4 $ticks below -800 and 3 $ticks above +1.2k, plus $trin was near 1.5 at the moment of the position entry

But 4 minutes later the trade was fixed by stop loss order. Here are the issues, why the market have slided ones I had entered:
1) $add higher high in fact was within several ticks
2) $vold was near the session low - bearish
3) normal bearish divergence was against the trade.

21/05/10



Less then an hour before friday session finish I have opened the trade, long position, cause the following issues were calling for the downside market move:
1) seemed like VWAP downside breakout was weak, cause there was no $tick session low;
2) there was no sluggishness in the weak sectors;
3) internals were in favor, bullish.

But the trade soon have met stop loss order, cause the market started to plunge. What the hell all 3 trades of 21st 2010 week brought me the losses? In short, what was the fault of that last trade?
1) The entry reasons were poor. "Seemed" and "there were no sluggishness" w/ no special numbers are not appropriate reasons.
2) I did not notice but $add was just perfect forerunner of ES downside trend continuation. While ES as well as $spx after the VWAP downside breakdown have posted higher low, $add have made lower low (click the chart above to see).

20/05/10



Rushed into the short position on:
1) lack of bulls creditability to push market higher even after kind of VWAP breakout to the downside;
2) energies and industrials - the weakest sectors - were making lower lows unlike ES;
3) and of course internals were very bearish - in favor to the trade.

But the market have pullback some batch of points to the upside. And the position was fixed by stop loss order. What was wrong?
1) The spread between open price and stop loss order level was too small.
2) I did not notice that $tick unlike $spx or ES have made lots of higher lows - that was bullish sign calling for, at least short, upside pullback (click the chart above to see).

18/05/10



Opened long position on the reasons of:
1) sharp financial sector recovery. Exactly banks and isurers were the leading laggard of the morning, cause of bearish Meredith Whitney comments.
2) bullish internals w/ no $ticks below -400 at the moment of the entry.

But the market have easily continued to plunge and internals soon became bearish. Note, that the session was started w/ $add plus 2k+ but finished w/ $add on minus 1.6lk - tremendous breakdown. The reason of the trade default seems to be weak internals. Financials, indeed, were even not the weakest sector at the open.

VWAP strong breakout pattern

May 18/10 - While reviewing past session ES performance I have noticed algorithm in correlation between ES and VWAP. Below I will explain all details of a pattern that occurs quite often in the market. That knowledge will help you to make very nice trades, based on historic execution of ES concerning VWAP breakout.

Back to the start of my current public fund I have noticed 5 occasions, 5 days, concerning ES VWAP breakout. Pattern I'll talk about occurred during the sessions on: 17th march, 25th march, 31st march, 7th april and 17th may.

During all that days the market did not executed in a range type, so ES did not oscillated across VWAP a lot.
In almost all occasions final session ES VWAP breakout occurs during second part of the day, when coming to the closing bell the market did try to change its direction.
In all that days ES did upside/downside breakout VWAP with new $tick session high/low.
After breakout ES made pullback to test VWAP level or even shortly slipped below VWAP.
But in all occasions soon ES did continued to go under the direction of VWAP (initial) breakout.

Want to emphasize, that market environment do have a very limited impact on that pattern. And that fact nicely prove 17th may occasion. Market internals were very bearish. Before VWAP upside breakout there was no $ticks above +1k and even 5 $ticks below -1k. No matter that issue, ES upside swing after breakout was tremendously huge.

Below you can see how the pattern looks like.


1st point - breakout itself. It could be very strong and can push market far above/below VWAP. Or it can be poor (but still w/ fresh $tick session high/low) and the 2nd point can come very soon.

2nd point is pullback. Here you can see VWAP breakout test or even dip below/above VWAP level for a short period of time. Then goes a huge spike under the direction of VWAP (initial) breakout

Here below you can see how it looks like in practice, in that 5 occasions I have mentioned before. You can click on each of that patterns to see the day internals and overall ES session performance on the 5 minute chart.

VWAP upside breakout:


VWAP downside breakout:



So, if ES do VWAP upside breakout w/ fresh session $tick high, the market will continue go far above that level, no matter possible short, in term of time, pullback below VWAP (and vice versa).
Also in such patterns never enter on divergence that occurs against market breakout momentum.


UPDATE1

July 17/10 - Here goes 6 more rule's patterns occasions (total amount now counts 11):


internals


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internals | trade


internals | trade


internals | post


internals | post

Also want to summarize previous investigations. On 8th june I have said, that the market will continue to move in a direction of the upside VWAP breakout only when $tick higher high is more than 15-20 points higher than $tick lower high. See imagine below.



On 13rd july I have emphasized, that equal $tick highs do not necessarily signify bulls coming superiority, no matter VWAP pattern will not realize.

Finally on 14th july the dispute about the spread was finished. It was revealed, that when the spread between $tick higher high and lower high, while VWAP rule potentially at a place, is lees than 10 points - no upside momentum continuation will be, so no entry. Between 10 to 20 points - I can enter w/ usual trade risk limit. If more than 20 points - trade risk limit could be doubled. Below it's nicely depicted.



Also in that day I said, that second VWAP rule's pattern during single session will likely not realize.


UPDATE2

8 Октября 2011 - Мною зарегистрировано ещё 3 случая, когда рынок торговался четко в том алгоритме, который прописан правилом VWAP. О них и пойдет речь ниже. Но сперва Я приведу 2 других таких случая из этого блога, которые Я ранее в этот пост не заносил. В итоге, общее количество зафиксированных Мною случаев с участием правила VWAP теперь составляет 16. Во всех 16 случаев, 100%, рынок двигался именно в том направлении, которое прописано в правиле.

Вот те 2 случая четкого исполнения VWAP rule, которые были в блоге, но только сейчас попадают в данный пост:

18/08/10


02/07/10


Чтобы сразу разобраться с прошлогодним материалом, не попавшим в этот пост, приведу ещё один случай, произошедший в ходе сессии 27 июля. Тогда правило VWAP проявилось дважды, но ни разу рынок не повёл так, как это предписано по правилу.



Выводы в посте об этой торговой сессии сделаны. Вкратце, вот они:

Если признаки правила VWAP проявились в первой половине сессии, то правило не действует. Т.е.
VWAP rule дееспособен исключительно во второй половине сессии.

Если ситуация с правилом VWAP возникает второй раз за одну сессию, оно не дееспособно.
Рынок не пойдет по направлению, которое прогнозирует правило.

Итак, касательно ситуаций с VWAP, которые Я зарегистрировал в этом году. Мониторить Я по этому вопросу начал только недавно, поэтому, естественно, случаев с правилом было по факту больше на рынке. Вот эти 3 ситуации с true VWAP rule execution:



Выявил эти ситуации путём анализа каждой сессии в период с 28 июля 2011 по вчерашнюю сессию, 8 октября 2011. Выходит, что за прошедшие, примерно 3 месяца, проявилось всего 3 случая VWAP rule. В июле, сентябре и октябре.

В итоге, вот как выглядит таблица появлений всех 16 случаев присутствия VWAP rule на практике, которые Я зафиксировал.

2010 03 (март) 3
2010 04 (апрель) 1
2010 05 (май) 3
2010 06 (июнь) 1
2010 07 (июля) 4
2010 08 (август) 1

2011 07 (июль) 1
2011 08 (август) 0
2011 09 (сентябрь) 1
2011 10 (октябрь) 1

Совсем не факт, что в июле текущего года был лишь одна сессия с правилом, равно как и один раз встретился VWAP rule в августе прошлого года. Неполнота данных связана с отсутствие нужного для исследований программного обеспечения (расчет VWAP более 3 месяцев назад) и доступ к архиву $tick.

Так или иначе, выходит, что в среднем в месяц правило может появиться от одного до двух раз. И этот вечер, дабы сделать денег на этом, ещё нужно не упустить! Однако, существуют ситуации, когда рынок пробивает VWAP но в этот момент самый низкий или высокий $tick не проявляется. Такие ситуации, назову это false VWAP rule breakout, встречаются как минимум такое же количество раз, что и true VWAP rule execution. И самое главное так это то, что на них тоже можно заработать.

Так же, Я выявил, что существует две разновидности false VWAP rule breakout, в зависимости от динамики $tick (на примере пробития VWAP вверх):

1) $tick session high проявляется ДО (before) пробития VWAP вверх, а в сам этот момент higher high не устанавливает. Причем этот $tick session high может появится как за 5 минут до пробития VWAP, так за 3 часа - значения никакого (?).
2) $tick session high проявляется ПОСЛЕ (after) пробития VWAP вверх, когда рынок уже ушёл выше VWAP.



В июле текущего года Я выявил 2 таких случая с false VWAP rule breakout, а в августе ещё 2.
По типам, 3 из них были after:







И один before:



Во всех 4 случаях они всегда возвращались (стандартизируя на примере пробитого ВВЕРХ VWAP) ниже VWAP. Однако в 2 из этих случаев рынок вернулся либо на чуть-чуть, либо по дольше, но потом начал опять пробил VWAP и устремился вверх. А в оставшихся 2 случаев он больше VWAP снизу вверх не пробивал.

В любом случае, очевидно, что может на ситуациях false VWAP rule breakout можно будет зарабатывать, но пока открывать сверх-рискованные сделки, основываясь на этом правиле не стоит. Его нужно ещё изучить, встретить другие подобные ситуации с ним на практике.

13/05/10



Opened the position w/ the bet of an upside market move, because following issues have appeared. 1) The market was sliding sharply but there were no $ticks lower lows. Plus internals were continuing to stay bullish. But: 1) I have forget the golden traders rule - do not try to catch a knife. And thanks to broker and its one minute data delay - the $tick have posted lower low, so the first reasons of the trade entry was faulty.

12/05/10



Entered the long position on the reasons of: 1) financials - the weakest sector during the session - have made huge upside swing. Materials sector, who were the 3rd strongest, was at the brink to post higher high. Also 2) there were bullish internals, favoring the position. Near +2.2k have posted $add while $spy was soaring some 1.2%. And there was only one $tick below -1k versus 10 $ticks above +1k.

The trade was fixed near the level of its open. The first is that I had overestimated the priority of 1170 ES points upside break out (the level which corresponds to be 25th march and 4th may, of 2010 of course, VPOCs). I supposed bulls could get strong upside momentum on the reason of huge resistance level breakout. But that was faulty thought. The second point is that leading market movers, and the most volatile sectors ETFs respectively, energies & materials, were selling off sharply.

10/05/10



Only six minutes after Wall Street open I had rushed into the trade, short position, cause: 1) financials - the strongest sector - was selling off sharply. And 2) materials - the 3rd strongest sector - was making even lower lows. But internals were against me as well as lots of other factors. Indeed, that was rather dull trade on poor entry reasons.

04/05/10



Opened the long position on the second minute of the session, cause: 1) ES have breached strong support level of 1182.75 points were past thursday low and two april VPOCs are placed, plus 2) the market seemed to be hugely unfairly oversold on Greece dept continuing concerns. But that were tremendously inappropriate reasons of entry and ES continued to slide sharply. After fixing minus 24 and half percent loss as a result of april I still continuing to be shocked. I have to reduce risk for at lest 10 sessions to psychologically recover.

03/05/10



Rushed into the short on: 1) financials - the strongest sector at the moment - unlike ES didn't post higher high and 2) Goldman itself was sliding sharply (click the chart above). Fixed the position as 1) financial sector and GS stop sliding, plus 2) internals and, should mention, Nasdaq Composite futures were very bullish, no matter ES pullback to the downside.

Hour and a half before closing bell have entered long position on respect of: 1) bullish internals - 3 $ticks above +1k and only 2 $ticks below -800; 2) $add posted higher high and finally 3) the weakest sectors, on behalf of materials and energy, were strongly recovering. But I didn't noticed that double bearish divergence have appeared. ES have pulled back. But in a matter of $add higher high, bulls tried to push the market higher. About such pattern, when $add do call the next market move, I have mentioned on 13th april and on 19th and 17th february of 2010. But all bulls have made during the past session was triple bearish divergence.
ES (S&P 500 E-mini futures) trading
by Meques Moscow Finacial