HCPG Blog

Some traders like to focus on a few stocks and pile on the indicators and do micro analysis. That's great and if they can earn a decent...

We took a lot off but have at least some shares left in all our positions -- posted real-time in our Twitter acct and blog. Here is the Perf...

Bullish things we see: - we wrote yesterday that we were looking for gold and copper to bottom first and lead the way up for commodities and...

It's 2:11 Friday afternoon and we started some swing initial positions into this death grind down: CENX 10.37, SQM 34.98, NUE 39.29, X...

The only trades we took today were short and we ended the day in cash in all accounts. However if we do get some accelerated panic we like ...

We've been harping about copper for a few days now in our Twitter Acct. If you want to attempt to catch a potential bounce then at lea...

We have a rule that has worked well for us over the years: buy the first test of support but never the second. Last week was the first, t...

On our monitors we always watch at least 10-20 stocks from each of these sectors: Oils and Natural Gas, Coal, Precious Metals, Metals, Miner...

If you want to initiate swing longs with the belief that the bull trend is intact then do yourself a favor and don't do it until these l...

We've underperformed the market today but have gotten off a few good trades. We'll take it. Our focus is now resistance shorts: Th...

We've traded these four strategies for over a decade now and will probably trade them until we retire. At the same time we have adapted ...

We went through a lot of charts this weekend and saw a nice pattern in the commodity charts. We're not quite there yet but we have very...

As we posted in our Twitter acct/Blog this morning we sold all our commodity positions into the gap-up (didn't like GS AAPL action) and ...

Our first guest post on the blog by none either than the infamous Dinosaur Trader Great example of a disciplined day-trade lay-up using int...

It feels like the market is in a blackhole but we feel more calm looking at daily. Short-term bottom at 107.4-108 and then after a little ra...

We sold out 50% of yesterday afternoon's purchases: CENX ATPG TC CRK PCU NUE SU DO JRCC RGLD IAG PAAS. Looking for more upside with comm...

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As you know we put on some of our positions back on this afternoon (from the opening sale) and are now long CRK RGLD SU PAAS DO IAG TC NUE J...

We think that SPY 108 has a chance of being a short-term bottom and with that we've bought some of the positions we sold this morning: A...

As we posted in our account at 9:37 AM this morning we went flat and sold all our positions from yesterday into the gap. Why? Ag-Chem sect...

The arrows are where we entered these positions today, the lines are the bases against which we bought. Futures gapping up -- looks good f...

We nibbled on some positions today with expectation of coming pain. Absolute key for us right now is to stay small and add slowly while kee...

We wrote about this range this afternoon -- look at the very nice defined range in the SPY under the 60 min/20 EMA: Any basing near the top...

This is the kind of stuff we'll be using as tells going into any type of rally: Note how these three reversed at resistance -- we'll...