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Tuesday, January 05, 2010

When shorts refuse to die

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A common occurence in bull markets are stocks with text-book short set-ups that just refuse to die. They hover over support but don't r...

Triggers

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What is amazing about this market is when one sector rests (like tech today) then others run (like commodities) and even though the market i...

Running in a flat market

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Our favorite moves come when our stocks rip and the market is flat. Anyone can make money in a rally but it takes good picks to run in a f...

Lots of triggers

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From our newsletter last night we had triggers in ACI ADS APA APC BHI CNX DOW EMN FWLT NOV. We love commodity moves as they tend to go toget...
Monday, January 04, 2010

TC

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Picked some up for long-term account. Like the chart and the fundies.
Thursday, December 31, 2009

Happy New Year/End of Decade

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It was a good year to be a trader in that we all learned something, be it noobs or veterans. This is our second crash since we started tra...
Wednesday, December 30, 2009

Base and break GS

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As our readers know this week the #1 stock on our lists has been GS. We wrote in our newsletter last night, " No clean spot -- you ju...
Tuesday, December 29, 2009

Market Talk

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We love this commodity pull-back -- a few more days like this and we'll have a plethora of decent support trade candidates. This is the ...

A day in the life of a day-trader

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As many of you know we have been watching GS for a while -- patiently waiting for the trend-line to break. GS has been acting terrible of...
Monday, December 28, 2009

Continuation versus New positions

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The strength in tech has been impressive and this chart is something to behold. If you've been swing long for a while are are enjoying...

NOC

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This defense stock has been on our radar for a while -- looks great.

DayTrading/SwingTrading

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Within our system the only real difference between day-trading and swing-trading is time. Our entry strategies are the same (be it buy on ...
Thursday, December 24, 2009

Easy Tape

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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

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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...
Wednesday, December 23, 2009

This is what a benign market looks like

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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 talk

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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:

Technically rewarding market

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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 ...

Oil Power

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Three energy stocks from our newsletter last night breaking out:

Market needs the fins

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The market will not successfully break-out without the financials participating. This divergence is a bit worrisome and we won't get ag...
Tuesday, December 22, 2009

Chart talk

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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...

Starter positions for longer term accts

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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...
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