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Well, this has been, thus far, one of the most pathetic dead-cat-bounces we have witnessed. One of the problems is that there are just too...

Let's take a quick look at the tracking stock QQQQ for the last 6 months. At point 1, she broke the short-term up-trend line in Nove...

What a brutal day -- nothing quite kills the spirit of the bulls like a rally into an oversold market which is not just sold off, but crushe...

The best opportunity of the day came as a long with FSLR base and break towards 200 (mentioned in Thursday newsletter). FSLR gave a lot of h...

As we have written in the past, our preferred time-frame is the 3 minute chart. We like using the 3 minute time-frame because we f...

Aside from the usual suspects ( Ugly , MtM , Jamie , etc) here are seven sites that have our attention: Downtown Trader , as always, offers ...

Thanks to the ongoing debate in the trading blogworld on how to track performance, be it R or $, we've received inquiries over the last...

It has been years since we saw such indiscriminate selling. These are the charts of 5 of the most important momentum leaders of this year...

We’ve written about this subject before but we get asked about this topic so often that we thought we’d broach it again. There are days ...

Brutal sell-off in the market today but interestingly enough, there were some excellent opportunities; From the Forming List, on the lo...

Listen to the interview by one of our favorite blog writers, Knighttrader , who has probably the most important blog in break-out trading on...

Listen to the interview by one of our favorite blog writers, Knighttrader , who has probably the most important blog in break-out trading on...

We had one trigger on Friday and one loss as CMG just triggered the stop before reversing and running for the rest of the day. CMG was...

We wrote about the Base and Break pattern -- the key intraday set-up to our system-- in our last blog post. Today we wanted to illustrated ...

We received several e-mails asking us about the Base and Break Pattern that we mentioned in the March Review. We've mentioned this pa...

One of our members, N.S., wrote to us today; he's a young guy we like very much. He's relatively new to trading, but he has an inc...

There are literally thousands of ways to make money in the market and in this post, we will be covering only four methods. However, tha...

Here is a concise summary of how we trade: Wait for solid patterns to develop on the daily chart and then add an alert in your platform. Ne...

(since so many blogs now are offering hot chick pxs to get reader's attention, we thought we'd go out on a limb too and offer some r...

We have mentioned a number of blogs that we read in our previous posts and in our StockTickr interview . Aside from the usual suspects, her...

On our day off today we have been going through our master list of stocks; this is the list that we flip through each night, looking for pos...

Some good reading and reminders from seasoned trader Charles Kirk (we're not calling you old Charles, just experienced....) My New Year...

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 ...