Ichimoku overview for week 01 2018

Happy New Year 2018 everyone! While I was kind of lazy for the last 2 weeks, the markets were not. For the last week of 2017 and the first week of 2018 generated in sum 11 signals in 9 markets (out of 22):

• BuFu (http://www.investing.com/rates-bonds/euro-bund)
• Copper (http://www.investing.com/commodities/copper)
  
• DAX (http://www.investing.com/indices/germany-30)
• EURUSD (http://www.investing.com/currencies/eur-usd)
• Hang Seng (http://www.investing.com/indices/hang-sen-40)
• Silver (http://www.investing.com/commodities/silver)
  
• Eurostoxx50 (http://www.investing.com/indices/eu-stoxx50)
• Sugar Future (http://www.investing.com/commodities/us-sugar-no11)
  
• Crude Oil WTI (http://www.investing.com/commodities/crude-oil)

As usual the weather backcast contains the ichimoku analysis of 22 indices, futures and FOREX pairs. The linked charts contain all the details and neccessary context. Both charts and tables are generated automatically, at the moment the software is still work in progress. As such, I am not sure if it works 100% correctly, so if you see a mistake, would like to see an addition/change or simply give feedback: feel free to mail me at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.Thanks a lot :)

If you would like to play around with the system that is used to generate the signals and charts on this blog, you can do so! The latest version of my software, ichinscratchy v0.3.0, was released in December 2017. It´s free & open source, you can find it under http://spare-time-trading.de/en/trading-system. You can check out the development activities at gitlab: https://gitlab.com/werwurm/ichi_reloaded.

I wish you a relaxing and profitable 2018!

Around last 2 weeks usually the volume is pretty low, compared to the rest of the year. Also considering the limited number of trading days, all signals have to be taken with a grain of salt. However, all indices in the investment universe had some pretty strong moves on the long side. The two FOREX pairs also had an upmove, EUR/JPY this time breaking out of the sideways market. Gold: welcome back in long mode, Palladium also within a strong uptrend. If you follow the investment-related media, by now you should know that WTI is also in a pretty strong uptrend at the moment- last 2 weeks emphasized that. For the rest of the markets (especially when doing an intermarket analysis), check the tables and charts below.

All STRONG signals of the 52nd week 2017, ordered by symbols:

+------------+----------+--------------------+-------+------------+---------+
| date       | symbol   | name               | type  | amp_info   | price   |
+------------+----------+--------------------+-------+------------+---------+
| 2017-12-27 | Copper   | Senkou Cross       | long  | 2018-01-31 |     3.3 |
| 2017-12-28 | EURUSD   | Tenkan/Kijun Cross | long  | Golden X   |  1.1943 |
| 2017-12-27 | HSI      | Tenkan/Kijun Cross | long  | Golden X   | 29597.7 |
| 2017-12-25 | Silver   | Kijun Cross        | short | Death X    |   16.39 |
| 2017-12-28 | STOXX50E | Tenkan/Kijun Cross | short | Death X    | 3524.31 |
| 2017-12-28 | Sugar    | Chikou Cross       | long  | 2017-11-20 |      15 |
| 2017-12-26 | WTI      | Tenkan/Kijun Cross | long  | Golden X   |   59.97 |
+------------+----------+--------------------+-------+------------+---------+

All STRONG signals of the first week 2018, ordered by symbols:

+------------+--------+--------------------+-------+------------+----------+
| date       | symbol | name               | type  | amp_info   | price    |
+------------+--------+--------------------+-------+------------+----------+
| 2018-01-04 | BuFu   | Senkou Cross       | short | 2018-02-08 |   161.59 |
| 2018-01-04 | DAX    | Kijun Cross        | long  | Golden X   | 13167.89 |
| 2018-01-04 | DAX    | Tenkan/Kijun Cross | short | Death X    | 13167.89 |
| 2018-01-05 | Sugar  | Chikou Cross       | long  | 2017-11-28 |    15.09 |
+------------+--------+--------------------+-------+------------+----------+  

The gallery contains the dark theme charts. If you hate it, feel free to drop a comment or a mail :)

• BuFu_contrast
• Cocoa_contrast
• Coffee_contrast
• Copper_contrast
• Cotton_contrast
• DAX_contrast
• DJI_contrast
• DJTransp_contrast
• EURJPY_contrast
• EURUSD_contrast
• Gold_contrast
• HSI_contrast
• N225_contrast
• OJuice_contrast
• Palladium_contrast
• SMI_contrast
• SPX_contrast
• STOXX50E_contrast
• Silver_contrast
• Soybeans_contrast
• Sugar_contrast
• WTI_contrast

If you downloaded my software and wonder about the system settings, a quick overview for the most relevant settings:

• Ichimoku time period settings are standard (9,26,52), only strong signals are shown.
• ICHI_CHIKOU_CONFIRM = true (Chikou Span is used as confirmation/ filter for trend).
• ICHI_KUMO_CONFIRM = true (Kumo breakouts have to be higher/lower than last reaction high/low to be valid)
• SIGNAL_REGIME_FILTER = none (all market regime filters are off)
• SIGNAL_EXECUTION_PYRAMID = full (use every signal even if it is already in portfolio)

Below as mentioned the list with the evaluation of the status quo using Ichimoku. The tables also list the last three Strong Ichimoku Signals.

Wish you relaxing Trading!