Profitable Futures Day Trading
November 2026
Power Emini Commentary – Notes – Education – Examples
This is the Power Emini “Notes” section. Below you’ll find ongoing commentary, trade examples, charts and general short-form random posts. This page gets updated every few days, so check back soon.
Welcome to November
10/30/2026
It’s hard to believe there’s only two months left in the year. November is typically a good month for trading and today turned out pretty good for the system considering all the volatility.
After Friday’s big sell-off today started off with a gap-up and then early follow-through to the upside. The system gave a Long Alert that hit both Targets and got a lot of additional Traction past Target 2.
The Parabolic Stop appeared right around the high of the day and then MES proceeded to drop over 100 points. It was a wild day.
Here’s how the Alert Software looked immediately following the intraday high.
Something to keep in mind is that once Target 2 gets hit (on days it does) you’re kind of on your own as far as how you want to play it from there as far as stops. That sounds a little weird at first but there are lots of things to consider.
As you know, once price gets “close to Target 2” the Trailing stop tightens to the Target 1 level to protect those gains. And it typically stays at that level for a period of time even after T2 gets hit (when it gets hit). Then depending on what price does after T2 gets hit, any number of things can happen.
Sometimes price stalls out around T2 and reverses and sometimes it goes way past the Target. Keep in mind the Targets are there for an important reason and that’s to sell partial positions and lock-in profits. A 2 Contract trader is looking to sell one at each of the Targets and if they both get hit then that’s it. They’re done for the day and it doesn’t matter what price does after that.
But we’ve all seen sessions where price goes WAY past Target 2 and there’s a lot of opportunity to capture massive gains on certain trending days. So the idea is that the system continues to keep Alerts open and tighten the Trailing Stop until it eventually converges with price or the market closes.
So the regular “system Trailing Stop” manages everything prior to Target 2 getting hit – (If and when it gets hit). After that one of three things happens as far as the Stops.
The Aggressive Protection Level stop or the Parabolic Stop may appear before the regular system Trailing Stop tightens. I’ve gone over those and they are documented in the Help but only the regular system Trailing Stop closes an open Alert.
But the main point here is that Alerts that go past Target 2 can do just about anything and the best way to “stay with a trade that’s working” is to use one of the Stops in the software or perhaps a better stop based on what the chart looks like. It really comes down to how much you’re willing to give back and in that case the stops the software gives provides reasonable levels but they aren’t set in stone.
The one thing that I know for sure is that using a Trailing Stop is the best way to stay with a trend as long as it persists. The Parabolic Stop is the tightest of all the stops and it tends to get hit quickly since it only kicks in when price gets extremely extended.
November Should Be Interesting
It’s amazing how time flies and we’re headed into the last two months of the year. The trading environment should be pretty good going into the Holidays as this is usually an active time of the year with lots of good price action. Between now and Thanksgiving I expect to see a lot of volatility given the recent range expansion and that means more risk and more potential reward.
But things do tend to slow down around Thanksgiving and that’s just a few weeks away.
As we get into November I’ll use this page to post commentary, notes and charts relating to the Momentum System trading strategy and whatever else comes to mind. This “notes section” of the website isn’t intended to be a daily recap but usually gets updated with new material every couple / few days. It’s the perfect format to post educational material and examples of our trading strategy for the benefit of new and existing users to help make the most of the system.
Additional Useful Information
Moving Beyond the Trade Setup – Futures Trading Strategies to help Increase our Odds – In-Depth Article
October 2026 Commentary – Notes – Education – Examples
PowerEmini Day Trading Futures – Automated Alert Signals