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Grasp the following, and you will comprehend the base and break, which is the primary system in which we make our living. 1) A great dai...

Grab a beer, sit back, and listen to the interview with Upside Trader. And one more time: subscriber, female, with initials A.P. who us...

The market was weak today but we had two good runs: VLO from the watch-list, and DRYS from the trading-list. FSLR, unfortunately, gap...

Too soon to tell whether tech is back or not but definitely something to be on the watch for, especially after AAPL earnings this week. We l...

The following interview is by a fellow trader who has a style very similar to our own: Worth listening to: Impatient Trader Interview

Some of the best rallies come in bear markets. They're short and they rip the throats out of the bears, especially the weak ones with ...

Say what you want about the man, but this is an entertaining interview, and he comes across as funny and honest. He seems to be missing t...

One of our very own, a "plain vanilla" futures trader (except of the French variety) causes a 7 Billion loss, and very possibly ...

We got our break of 42 support on the Q's and the subsequent bounce, all on excellent volume. If we can get this swine of a market t...

QQQQ has support on 42 -- which is being touched as we write this post. A failure at this level and then a reversal above on excellent vo...

It would have been infinitely better to let the market open down, panic sell-off, and then around 2:30PM (classic reversal time) bring out a...

As said previously, we've gone long some index calls. If you are also going long, please use some caution and be prepared to scale in...

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 ...