August is turning out to be a very hot, and uncomfortable month for the White House and especially the Democrat-led Congress. Members of Congress have been met with outrage and frustration over the rush to socialized medicine. Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, and the White House have tried to spin the opposition as anything from Nazi-like [...]

I also traded Natural Gas at 1030 AM EST. Natural Gas Storage was 63B v 71B. Just before the news came out I placed stop orders close to where it was trading, using the stop orders to enter the market. The long stop was filled at 3.417. I got out 10 seconds later at 3.500. [...]

This morning I waited for the Business Inventories numbers at 10 AM EST. There was a 6 point opening gap upwards, so the market started moving to fill that gap. At 10 the Business Inventory was -1.1% v -0.9%, which isn’t a big difference, so the news didn’t move the market. What did happen was [...]