HCPG Blog

Further Update:  Closed rest QLD short for 10 cents, closed TNA short for 25 cents,  Sold more OIH for 1.7 points.   Sold more XME over 53. ...

On Sunday we wrote on StockTwits that we were looking for a rotation into areas which were not extended and instead basing:  Tech got mor...

All updates will be edited on page on daily basis. We opened up a hedged swing today -- here are our positions: We know all about the ...

We're short term traders but sometimes we like to indulge in thoughts about the intermediate time-frame.   Warning: this is what we thin...

We found this last market bottom more frustrating than previous market bottoms.  Why?  Because it took so long -- we based over 1040 for day...

It's very rare to get two trend days in a row in the market.  Often what happens after big market moves is that the next day is one of c...

Look at SPY versus our favorite commodity ETFs in the two time frames we've pointed out in the charts.   See any pattern?  The c...

Guest post by  Vincenzo Deroches During the late 1980’s and early 1990’s, Japan experienced a severe slowdown in economic growth.  Althoug...

Update:  We just aren't feeling it -- took it all off for basically breakeven (posted real-time). There's still a trade here short...

As we posted this afternoon on our StockTwits acct the market reversed in front of resistance.  That's the new range  that now has to be...

Similar to our copper tell for market bottom  fertilizer stocks have also proved to be great tells for us in the past.    We posted the fir...

A lot of shorts got suckered into yesterday's fade.   Before the close we posted: As we wrote in the newsletter this weekend, we woul...

Here are the daytrade alerts that triggered short today from last night's newsletter (short alert on rally to resistance). ATHR 32.8 s...

One of our favorite tells in the market is copper.    Here are our two posts in the last week on copper (via JJC etf) on StockTwits We tra...

NFLX 114.7-115 was an old alert on our newsletter -- the type that we write does not expire (base versus for example a  trend-line move that...

We haven't updated the blog for a couple of weeks because, well, we haven't had anything to talk about.  We've closed the day in...

Gap down and rally today -- best tells to trade on the long side were GS and metals (especially AKS).  As we posted this morning:   We were...

As we posted real-time  last week we bought a basket of 12 stocks (CAGC VALE RINO MOS SU TC ATPG AKS MON JRCC USO AA) on Thurs (20%) and ave...

Dedicated to @daytrend who motivated us to write a post on how we buy support We do two types of knife catching, one is in long-term acco...

We wrote several times over the last few days (including our last post) that we were interested in buying USO in the 32 zone (or crude aroun...

We like this 32 area for potential reversal into panic selling (around 4% away).   If you're watching crude then watch the 66 - 67 area ...