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GDX today bounced on the trend-line. We hope it's temporary and that there will be a test of the 200 SMA/daily support near 41-41.5. We...

Natural Gas is like the wild, wild West of energy and investing in it can be tricky. We prefer to invest in natural gas companies than the...

Today we finally had the 50 SMA/bottom of channel test that we've written about -- this is the level that has to hold for the bulls. Co...

Here are three trend-line break-out stocks we're watching.

We are aggressive momentum traders when a market is coming off a bottom, or one which we feel still has a lot of room for upside. However in...

From a short-term perspective AAPL looks vulnerable with first real support at the 185 area. We'd be buyers of the 185 support for a t...

We're not smart enough to be anticipatory traders -- we are nothing but your classic trend-traders. The current trend is up meaning ever...

Volume is light and the market is still stuck in the range (USD rallying not helping). We've been knocking around 15-20 cent trades to...

Finally some volume coming into the market with news on the Abu Dhabi bailout of Dubai and XOM buying XTO.

There's a good chance that the SPY 109-112 range will not be resolved until the 50 SMA catches up. The bullish scenario would be a fin...

USO coming up to levels which interest us for support long buying. $34-$35 we'll be long for a swing as the stock comes up to its 200 ...

The line in the sand was drawn for many commodity stocks today. Take a look at these levels: ANR bounced on the trend-line today. If you...

The SPY looks quite fragile up here -- we'll daytrade longs as usual but no swing longs for us until at least SPY 108 near trend-line/50...

We have market close to a break-out into new YTD highs but oils and financials lagging badly. This means to us that even if we do break-o...

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Some key points before starting (again, long time readers have heard all this before but worth repeating for new members) : 1) as our long-t...

It's been a long time since we've enjoyed trading as much as we did today. Everything worked, not only break-outs but also pull-ba...

Next important support in the market is SPY 107.5 on a minor gap fill and the 50 SMA. Note that the oil stocks (especially the drillers in...

Trend-line and daily support near OIH 115. We'll buy this on the first test -- if this area doesn't hold energy stocks will be in ...

Don't get chopped in the noise of the low-volume holiday tape. Enjoy your break from the screens -- Happy Thanksgiving to all our r...

There are a couple spots still buyable on the SPY even though we're cognizant of the fact that the more support is tested, the weaker it...

Note how FWLT is basing under 34 with declining volume. We'd love a return of volume as the stock breaks out of the base through 34.

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From last night's newsletter. Text book breakout today on excellent relative strength and volume

Excerpt from newsletter: And for those of you who can't help but to stare at the alert price and count the pennies up and down -- here...

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