Tim Bourquin: Hello everybody and welcome back to traderinterviews.com. Thanks for joining me for another show this week. We're going to be speaking with John. We're going to talk to him about his trading style and his approach to the market. I think he's got some strategies he's going to share with us and ways that we can look at the market and maybe find some good opportunities, which of course is what every interview here is about. So John, thanks very much for joining me on the show today.
John: Hi, Tim. How are you?
Tim Bourquin: I'm doing great, John. Well, so first talk about your trading style. What kind of trader are you, a day trader, a swing trader, and what markets do you focus on?
John: I am by far a day trader that concentrates on one market and that would really be the E-mini S&P.
Tim Bourquin: The E-mini has really gotten popular over the last few years. I hear more and more traders talking about that specific market. Why do you trade it?
John: I trade the E-mini S&P really for the bang for the buck as we like to call it. It moves. It's volatile. Lots of traders trading it throughout the world, which means it's not trader specific in terms of you're not trading a specific type of trader like a crude oil trader or gold trader. You're trading against the guy next door, a guy across the street, and international as well. So there is a nice variety of traders that trade the E-mini so that's a good thing.
Tim Bourquin: Is there a certain pattern or kind of a garden variety chart that you like to put on a chart to monitor the markets?
John: Absolutely. I would have to say the five-minute chart is by far the timeframe that I like to use, a plain chart, no indicators, just a five-minute chart. And I believe that because it's a five-minute chart, we have a good balance of what's happening in the market as opposed to going for...
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