HCPG Blog

Update: not waiting for stop, closed the shorts.  Why?  USD significant move up, X bad news, and market holding flat while momentum flying. ...

Active traders like ourselves can't really be bears or bulls.  Traders like us just trade whatever sets.  However, we can have a bias, a...

We've posted this chart a number of  times over the  last little while at StockTwits -- it shows the importance of the 200SMA weekly ...

We'd like to review one of our more difficult strategies that we use -- the overshoot into secondary support.   We've written about...

Update, added DO to swing book.   3 longs, 2 shorts, net long.  With today's price action we are going to play it safe. Update II:  sol...

As we wrote in our newsletter tonight our focus for tomorrow is the very juicy short setting up SPY 117.6-117.8 and IWM  70.5 We're no...

Our veteran subscribers have read this line literally a hundred times in the last four years, "Buy the first test of support, pass or s...

Most of our trades fit in the following categories: 1)  breakout of resistance long 2) breakdown of support short 3) resistance short 4...

Update:   we are selling some of the swing position into this BoJ market ramp and taking a more conservative position.   Moved stop up to to...

Updated chart. Copper stalled at resistance, looking for pullback to at least first trend-line (yellow).   We'd only be buyers of a pull...

Update on Update:   whenever our short and long go green at same time we think "it's a good time to flatten out".   Out QLD fo...

We think this sector is ready to wake up from its long slumber: Here are 4 we are watching (we're already in X looking to swing). Cl...

If this rally continues then most likely the laggard commodity sectors will be playing catch up.  Here are some frew ideas for the swing tra...

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...