Trading The Close Of The Dow Jones

 | May 25, 2015 10:02AM ET

Today I want to show you a simple and profitable strategy for trading the last two hours of the Dow Jones.


This is a trade I have been using for a few years, and it has shown some great returns.


The premise of this trade is very simple and relies on one fact- the Dow will very rarely close at one of its extremes, meaning it will generally not close at its highest or lowest point of the day.

Every trading day, start monitoring the DOW at 2pm EST, meaning two hours before the close, if it is at it's highest point of the day, or very close to it simply take a PUT or SELL for the close, if it's at the lowest point of the day or in the same range you take a CALL or BUY for the close.

h3 I will illustrate this point with a few examples taken from recent weeks./h3