User Guide 2: Newsletter Layout

Artac Advisory publishes over a dozen daily futures letters, including daily analysis in Chicago’s Corn, Wheat, and Soybeans, Lean Hogs and Live Cattle, Crude Oil, Unleaded Gas, and Ethanol, the E-mini SP-500 and Dow Jones, as well as the Australian SPI-200 and Aussie 10YR Bonds. We also provide ETF analysis in our Weekly SPY Report (the “SPY” being the symbol S-P-Y, the active SP-500 Index ETF) and the Monthly ETF Sector snapshot. This video provides a layout description for both the futures and ETF advisory letters.
As an example of our many futures letters I’ll use the daily Corn futures newsletter, CBOT contract. (Zoom to full screen view of letter). As of this videotaping on [show zoom of date at page top], the March 2015 Corn futures letter was the active lead contract. Each letter contains a bar chart with one of the relevant indicators illustrated, a support and resistance column that contains the weighted technical levels for the day. I’ll be taking a more detailed look at the support and resistance column later in this video and in the final three videos. As we continue moving down the page you can see the Trend Timeframe Table, which provides a basic snapshot of the technical dynamic for a particular time horizon. The same information is provided within the commentary, but I find many traders appreciate the TT Table as a “quick glance” reminder of the status of the various trend time horizons. For instance, under “today” you can see that pushing/opening above 396.00 allows 401.75, while breaking or opening below 396.00 allows 385.25. Within the “3-5 day” time horizon a settlement above 396.00 should yield 409.75, while a downside violation of 385.25 indicates 373.75 within 3-5 days. Within the 2-3 week timeframe, a settlement above 396.00 indicates 423.00 within 2-3 weeks, while violating 385.25 indicates 362.50 over the same time horizon. Finally, within the 2-3 month time horizon, holding above 385.25 will keep 436.25 in reach over the next several months. On the other hand, a violation of 385.25 indicates 298.75 over the same time horizon.
Moving down the page you’ll find the commentary section, which I divide up into two separate time horizons (today and the week ahead), and the next several weeks out to the next several months. My commentary, whether describing the futures or ETF markets, can be described as “cut to the chase”. While dry and technical, it provides all the information necessary for conveying a directional bias over the four time horizons listed in the TT table. I consider my commentary a no-nonsense intention to tell you exactly what my charts are telling me, and then you get to decide how to make the best use of this information, as it should be.
Let’s take a quick look at the two ETF newsletters I currently publish. The Weekly SPY Report analyzes the “SPY”, the most active ETF in the world correlated directly to the SP-500. The letter is laid out similar to the daily futures letters, with relevant graph, support and resistance column and commentary, except it does not contain a TT table, but several abbreviated paragraphs that convey the directional dynamic for the week ahead, the next 3-5 weeks, and the next several months. The Weekly SPY Report also contains a second page of information that provides a mid to longer-term perspective on this bellwether ETF. Finally, the Monthly ETF Sector Snapshot does as its name implies: providing a big-picture snapshot of more than 30 of the more actively traded ETF’s, segmented into broad asset classes like US Equity Indexes, US Sector Funds, US Bond Funds, International Equity Funds, Commodities, and Currencies. The publication contains 10 full pages of charts and commentary designed to keep long-term investors and portfolio managers abreast of the directional long-term trends within each ETF, including actionable buy and sell signals correlated to longer-term price support levels.

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 Artac Advisory, User Guide: 2 Newsletter Layout
Artac Advisory publishes over a dozen daily futures letters, including daily analysis in Chicago’s Corn, Wheat, and Soybeans, Lean Hogs and Live Cattle, Crude Oil, Unleaded Gas, and Ethanol, the E-mini SP-500 and Dow Jones, as well as the Australian SPI-200 and Aussie 10YR Bonds. We also provide ETF analysis in our Weekly SPY Report (the “SPY” being the symbol S-P-Y, the active SP-500 Index ETF) and the Monthly ETF Sector snapshot. This video provides a layout description for both the futures and ETF advisory letters.
As an example of our many futures letters I’ll use the daily Corn futures newsletter, CBOT contract. (Zoom to full screen view of letter). As of this videotaping on [show zoom of date at page top], the March 2015 Corn futures letter was the active lead contract. Each letter contains a bar chart with one of the relevant indicators illustrated, a support and resistance column that contains the weighted technical levels for the day. I’ll be taking a more detailed look at the support and resistance column later in this video and in the final three videos. As we continue moving down the page you can see the Trend Timeframe Table, which provides a basic snapshot of the technical dynamic for a particular time horizon. The same information is provided within the commentary, but I find many traders appreciate the TT Table as a “quick glance” reminder of the status of the various trend time horizons. For instance, under “today” you can see that pushing/opening above 396.00 allows 401.75, while breaking or opening below 396.00 allows 385.25. Within the “3-5 day” time horizon a settlement above 396.00 should yield 409.75, while a downside violation of 385.25 indicates 373.75 within 3-5 days. Within the 2-3 week timeframe, a settlement above 396.00 indicates 423.00 within 2-3 weeks, while violating 385.25 indicates 362.50 over the same time horizon. Finally, within the 2-3 month time horizon, holding above 385.25 will keep 436.25 in reach over the next several months. On the other hand, a violation of 385.25 indicates 298.75 over the same time horizon.
Moving down the page you’ll find the commentary section, which I divide up into two separate time horizons (today and the week ahead), and the next several weeks out to the next several months. My commentary, whether describing the futures or ETF markets, can be described as “cut to the chase”. While dry and technical, it provides all the information necessary for conveying a directional bias over the four time horizons listed in the TT table. I consider my commentary a no-nonsense intention to tell you exactly what my charts are telling me, and then you get to decide how to make the best use of this information, as it should be.
Let’s take a quick look at the two ETF newsletters I currently publish. The Weekly SPY Report analyzes the “SPY”, the most active ETF in the world correlated directly to the SP-500. The letter is laid out similar to the daily futures letters, with relevant graph, support and resistance column and commentary, except it does not contain a TT table, but several abbreviated paragraphs that convey the directional dynamic for the week ahead, the next 3-5 weeks, and the next several months. The Weekly SPY Report also contains a second page of information that provides a mid to longer-term perspective on this bellwether ETF. Finally, the Monthly ETF Sector Snapshot does as its name implies: providing a big-picture snapshot of more than 30 of the more actively traded ETF’s, segmented into broad asset classes like US Equity Indexes, US Sector Funds, US Bond Funds, International Equity Funds, Commodities, and Currencies. The publication contains 10 full pages of charts and commentary designed to keep long-term investors and portfolio managers abreast of the directional long-term trends within each ETF, including actionable buy and sell signals correlated to longer-term price support levels.