HCPG Blog

1. Know Thyself (and as Polonius put it, to thine own self be true): None of us here at HCPG could ever be position traders, we don’t have ...

Happy Holidays to our readers from all of us at HCPG. We won't be posting until next week as we are going to take some days off to rela...

We use several time-frames: 1 minute, 3 minutes, 10 minutes, and--usually after market close--30 minutes, 60 minutes, and daily and weekly. ...

We’re actually very new to the world of blogs. Call us lazy or ignorant, but we only started reading blogs about 6 months ago. OK, you ca...

There are some topics that are omnipresent in our business. Poker and Trading, Chess and Trading, Gambling versus Trading, Day Trading ve...

One of the most interesting aspects of writing our newsletter is that we now notice connections, or a lack thereof, that we had never caught...

In the last few weeks the bears have had every opportunity to press down the market and each time the market held its own, showing superb re...

Our style of trading is called break-out trading. Another label we have attached to ourselves is "discretionary" traders, though ...

In our Web site we have a section called "Target Customers". In this we discuss the three groups that can benefit from our servic...

What do you do when your system fails you? The question is an important one for traders and is one that most likely we all have asked ourse...

We mentioned in our last blog that we felt that we made a mistake this month in being too conservative. Unfortunately, this is a consequenc...

Here is an excerpt of our newsletter for Monday: As soon as we saw the market gap-up Friday morning, we were relieved that we did not have...

Part of the problem of the market right now is that it has no real leadership to speak of. Where are the leaders and what are they doing?...

Let's take it as a given that you have researched the easy stuff -- brokerages, charting software, required hardware, et cetera. Now ...

What has pleased us immensely since we started up our service is the realization that more often than not, when our stock picks are going to...

We usually do not discuss indices on our site since as short-term traders we prefer to look at individual set-ups, especially leader stocks ...

We had placed NIHD short alert at 50 in our weekend newsletter last night along with the following chart indicating to enter a short positio...

On the bottom right-hand side of our blog you will find a section called "Blogs we Like". These include blogs that have excellen...

We wanted to discuss today the various ways you can use our entry prices; numbers which are always representative of an important spot, be i...

There seem to be so many similarities between trading and fighting that it comes as no surprise that traders often resort to martial metapho...

Without a doubt one activity that many professional traders share is that they get to know their friends. Stock friends, that is. One of ...

We have often spoken about BIDU to our subscribers in our newsletter. It has held remarkably well for this market. Let's take a look a...

We cannot emphasize enough the importance of volume in trading stocks based on chart patterns. Most trading programs have a volume percen...

There are many reasons but all belong to the categories of self-interested and altruistic. Let's start with self-interest. First, the ac...

One of the most important and difficult things to learn as a trader is simply to trust yourself. By this we do not mean that you should b...

Caution: This advice only pertains to short-term trading and not longer-term investing, swing trading, position trading, etc. We do not op...

Jesse Livermore said it well in the now much-quoted, “It never was my thinking that made the big money for me. It always was my sitting.” ...

There are hundreds of indicators that one can use to interpret stock behavior. We stick to price, volume, and action. We also like to know...

It takes approximately five minutes of perusing trading forums and doing simple searches in Google to realize that there are literally thous...

1. When you feel most frustrated at missing moves, you are most vulnerable to losing money and trading in a self-destructive manner (hereon...

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