Ichimoku overview for week 20 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 :)

Again a somewhat busy week, despite "sell in May"- 17 signals in 12 different markets (out of 22 in the investment universe) were triggered:

• Euro Bund Futures (http://www.investing.com/rates-bonds/euro-bund)
• Cocoa Futures (http://www.investing.com/commodities/us-cocoa
  
• Coffee Futures (http://www.investing.com/commodities/us-coffee-c)
• Copper (http://www.investing.com/commodities/copper
  
• Cotton (http://www.investing.com/commodities/us-cotton-no.2
• Dow Jones Transportation Average (http://www.investing.com/indices/dj-transportation-average)
• EUR/JPY (http://www.investing.com/currencies/eur-jpy)
• Hang Seng Index (http://www.investing.com/indices/hang-sen-40)
• Palladium (http://www.investing.com/commodities/palladium)
• Silver (http://www.investing.com/commodities/silver)
• US Soybeans Futures (http://www.investing.com/commodities/us-soybeans)
• SPX (http://www.investing.com/indices/us-spx-500)

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) is progressing nicely. In fact I started using a development snapshot of the upcoming v0.4.0 to do this weekly analysis/overview. You can check out the development activities at gitlab: https://gitlab.com/werwurm/ichi_reloaded.However, there is no release date yet. It´s done when it´s done...

All STRONG signals of the 20th week 2018, ordered by symbols:

+------------+-----------+--------------------+-------+-------------------+--------------+
| date       | symbol    | name               | type  | amp_info          | price_quote  |
+------------+-----------+--------------------+-------+-------------------+--------------+
| 2018-05-14 | BuFu      | Kijun Cross        | short | Death X           |   158.140000 |
| 2018-05-14 | BuFu      | Kumo Breakout      | short | from falling Kumo |   158.140000 |
| 2018-05-15 | BuFu      | Senkou Cross       | short | 2018-06-20        |   157.760000 |
| 2018-05-15 | BuFu      | Tenkan/Kijun Cross | short | Death X           |   157.760000 |
| 2018-05-16 | Cocoa     | Kijun Cross        | long  | Golden X          |  2726.500000 |
| 2018-05-17 | Coffee    | Tenkan/Kijun Cross | short | Death X           |   117.970000 |
| 2018-05-17 | Coffee    | Senkou Cross       | short | 2018-06-22        |   117.970000 |
| 2018-05-15 | Coffee    | Chikou Cross       | short | 2018-04-09        |   112.900000 |
| 2018-05-15 | Copper    | Kumo Breakout      | short | from falling Kumo |     3.042000 |
| 2018-05-17 | Cotton    | Kijun Cross        | long  | Golden X          |    84.940000 |
| 2018-05-14 | DJTransp  | Senkou Cross       | long  | 2018-06-19        | 10663.200000 |
| 2018-05-14 | EURJPY    | Kumo Breakout      | short | from falling Kumo |   130.790000 |
| 2018-05-14 | HSI       | Kumo Breakout      | long  | from falling Kumo | 31541.100000 |
| 2018-05-18 | Palladium | Kumo Breakout      | short | from falling Kumo |   961.000000 |
| 2018-05-15 | Silver    | Kumo Breakout      | short | from rising Kumo  |    16.194000 |
| 2018-05-16 | Soybeans  | Senkou Cross       | short | 2018-06-21        |  1000.800000 |
| 2018-05-17 | SPX       | Senkou Cross       | long  | 2018-06-22        |  2720.130000 |
+------------+-----------+--------------------+-------+-------------------+--------------+

Below is the gallery for the charts:

• BuFu_light
• Cocoa_light
• Coffee_light
• Copper_light
• Cotton_light
• DAX_light
• DJI_light
• DJTransp_light
• EURJPY_light
• EURUSD_light
• Gold_light
• HSI_light
• N225_light
• OJuice_light
• Palladium_light
• SMI_light
• SPX_light
• STOXX50E_light
• Silver_light
• Soybeans_light
• Sugar_light
• WTI_light

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!