HCPG Blog

The current market is one of the "easy tape". Whatever one puts on (as long as its long) goes up - technicals work like magic and...

Holiday trading can sometimes be so predictable as traders run third-tier names (i.e. AIG) and small-cap Momentum names. This is the reason...

ALL our triggers from this week -- as you can see, great continuation: AAPL 197 on trend-line break AKS 21.2 on trend-line break APC 63.2 on...

XOM acts heavy but as long as the trend-line holds the long is valid. Relatively safe trade considering how close stock is to support:

This is a perfectly benign market where stocks bounce where they should bounce and obey technical rules -- enjoy it and play it as hard as ...

Three energy stocks from our newsletter last night breaking out:

The market will not successfully break-out without the financials participating. This divergence is a bit worrisome and we won't get ag...

Volume is going to be aneamic but chances are the market is going to try to break-out tomorrow. Steel acts great -- we highlighted AKS MT...

We dipped our toes in three stocks this morning for our longer term accts. Theme was gold and Ags. We bought YONG at 7.16, GLD at 105.4, a...

While gold is pulling back sharply other metals are at recent highs. Steel particularly is hot right now -- these are from last night'...

We have literally a dozen charts like this one -- very bullish on a break above (over 100.5 on closing basis) but until then stay neutral. ...

AAPL smashed through the 197 trend-line/50 SMA (in our newsletter last night) but stopped short of 200 resistance. Any basing over the 50 S...

GDX through trend-line and heading towards the 200 SMA. If we can reach that area quickly in oversold status we will be swing long GDX at ...

Still a bit away but we love this for a long support: Oversold sector going into trend-line/200 SMA near 29 on BVN. The faster BVN gets th...

Ag-Chem stocks are slowly coming into very nice support zones. Our favorite is the following:

A lot of oil charts have similar set-ups -- basing under the trend-line/50 SMA. We'd be buyers of a high-volume break-out of the sector...

We discuss some notes on swing trading support and have a decent amount of stocks for the week. Free newsletter for the holidays. E-mail us ...

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...