HCPG Blog

Last week the market tested the lower range of support, bounced hard, went straight through short-term resistance we had shown the week befo...

Yet another day in which the range was inside the last higher-volume/broader-range day, which was Monday, December 22. We would be hap...

Check out the post for Dinosaur Trader's best of 2008 . Good stuff.

Believe it or not, even after all the recent volatility, we've been in the same trading range for the last two weeks. Over 90 and it w...

Trading range now is 90 resistance and 75 support on the SPY. Previous support was 82, which again, was hit today. Market above 82 and ...

We're thinking of firing up our blog once again but this time we'd like to make it a more community effort; we're o...

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...