HCPG Blog

As much as we love the trend-line break trade, the best and least messy moves are straight up channel breaks. Out of all our triggers (aroun...

AAPL great move today through trend-line but heavy resistance and congestion ahead.

Trend-line breaks worked well today but if you're looking for continuation you will have to be patient. PCX found support on the 100 SMA...

Alerts that have triggered thus far into the trading day. Arrow is entry point alert from last night's newsletter:

We went long a few shares AAPL at 196.21 swing as it keeps bumping up on the trend-line. In retrospect we should have waited for trend-line...

We don't often blog/tweet all our real-time trades but if we lead people in, we will lead people out. And since we posted our entries, ...

We were expecting a consolidation day but the market gave back a bit too much for our comfort. Nevertheless the big levels are still holdin...

Guest Post by amigo Dinosaur Trader : For Those Who Missed The Bottom I’m not sure how Friday went for you but for me, it sucked. No, I did...

Very good digestive action by the market (as long as we stay in this range) and we haven't made any trades. We're still long and st...

We would say that 80-85% of the time writing the HCPG newsletter is relatively easy and a pleasure. A few break-out candidates stick out t...

What's interesting to us about all the following charts? Their refusal to die in the market plunge last week -- all of them held last Fr...

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 ...