Ichimoku overview for week 09 2018

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 :)

The 9th week triggered some signals on the short side. It brought brought 15 signals in 9 different markets (out of 22 in the investment universe):

• US Coffee  Futures (http://www.investing.com/commodities/us-coffee-c)
• Copper (http://www.investing.com/commodities/copper)
• Dow Jones Index (http://www.investing.com/indices/us-30)
• DJ Transportation Average (http://www.investing.com/indices/dj-transportation-average)
  
• Orange Juice Futures (http://www.investing.com/commodities/orange-juice)
• Palladium (http://www.investing.com/commodities/palladium)
• S&P Index (http://www.investing.com/indices/us-spx-500)
• US Sugar Futures (http://www.investing.com/commodities/us-sugar-no11)
• WTI (http://www.investing.com/commodities/crude-oil)

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. Work on the next version (that will be a maintenance release) has already begun. You can check out the development activities at gitlab: https://gitlab.com/werwurm/ichi_reloaded.

Looking at the signal table below, it is clear that the relatively high number of signals is somewhat deceiving. There are a lot of double or even triple signals that occured at the same day. Also note alittle bias: all 15 signals are short ones! The indices in the investment universe now decided to switch to (at the moment short term) bear mode. EUR/JPY also established a down-trend, while EUR/USD at the moment struggles with kumo, so no clear trend is established. For all markets in the investment universe (especially for an intermarket analysis), as usual: check the charts and tables below!

All STRONG signals of the 9th week 2018, ordered by symbols:

+------------+-----------+--------------------+-------+-------------------+----------+
| date       | symbol    | name               | type  | amp_info          | price    |
+------------+-----------+--------------------+-------+-------------------+----------+
| 2018-03-02 | Coffee    | Kijun Cross        | short | Death X           |   120.35 |
| 2018-02-28 | Copper    | Kijun Cross        | short | Death X           |    3.107 |
| 2018-02-28 | Copper    | Kumo breakout      | short | from rising Kumo  |    3.107 |
| 2018-02-28 | Copper    | Senkou Cross       | short | 2018-04-04        |    3.107 |
| 2018-03-01 | DJI       | Kumo breakout      | short | from rising Kumo  | 24608.98 |
| 2018-03-01 | DJI       | Kijun Cross        | short | Death X           | 24608.98 |
| 2018-02-28 | DJTransp  | Kumo breakout      | short | from rising Kumo  |    10382 |
| 2018-03-01 | OJuice    | Kumo breakout      | short | from falling Kumo |    138.4 |
| 2018-03-01 | Palladium | Kijun Cross        | short | Death X           |    985.8 |
| 2018-02-27 | Palladium | Kumo breakout      | short | from rising Kumo  |   1034.4 |
| 2018-03-01 | SPX       | Kijun Cross        | short | Death X           |  2677.67 |
| 2018-03-01 | SPX       | Kumo breakout      | short | from rising Kumo  |  2677.67 |
| 2018-02-27 | Sugar     | Tenkan/Kijun Cross | short | Death X           |    13.01 |
| 2018-02-27 | Sugar     | Kijun Cross        | short | Death X           |    13.01 |
| 2018-03-01 | WTI       | Kumo breakout      | short | from rising Kumo  |    60.99 |
+------------+-----------+--------------------+-------+-------------------+----------+

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 ones used for this weekly overview:

• 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 = false (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!