US Elections Dates And Trading Plan for Next Few Sessions

US polls Starts on November 08 and results are expected to come out by November 9^th in the next 24 hours.

The race for the 45^th president of United States has picked up some pace and has become much closer than that anticipated.

The race is between Hillary Clinton (Democrat) and Donald Trump (Republican). US elections are a two party system.  The markets in large favors the Democrat, partly for two reasons. 1. It kind of maintains a status quo with respect to policies of the democrat already pursued by Obama and 2. Mainly because Trump’s views are perceived as nationalist right wing and hence he favors trade and employment protection, which markets and businesses hate in general.

This is an event which is neither in our control or hands to predict or make work, however one might say. The thing is that there are only two possibilities so by random behavior 50% of predictions will be correct.

Lot of traders fail in the business of trading is because they perceive to believe that markets will work their way, while it is way beyond their control. Do we know the outcome- No, Can we trade the Outcome- Probably Yes. But the smart bet will be to trade it with a plan where the risk is capped, or the potential to earn on a move on either side. 

Knowing to manage your risks and protect your capital is more than half the job done.

This is where systematic trading / mechanical trading gives in the discipline to follow a strategy over and over again rather than being speculative.

The race recently picked up some steam because of possibilities of black votes swinging in favor of republicans and the alleged accusations into the email controversy. At the time of writing this, FBI has given Clinton a clean chit.

The Results will mostly by out by November 9^th, 2016 9:30 AM IST

.How are markets expected to react?

Expect a volatile November series for the rest of the month, hence there can be possibilities of short bursts of directional trades. Advice would be to trade a time frame lower in this case to lock in gains. Especially until volatility subsides. This means if you normally trade daily charts, adjust and trade hourly charts.

My own hunch is that that even after that till the Christmas breaks market will remain a volatile traders market.

From a technical point of view until the base of 8450-8500 holds we will expect an upside. In case Clinton wins, which is a still better probability we can see a bit of euphoria for some time

To trade the markets, I advise that traders use our ProQuants Hedged strategies and manage the risks while ensuring good returns too.