HCPG Blog

Note the test and success first of the 50SMA in Jan 2011, then the test and success of the 100SMA in March 2011, and now the test of the 200...

We took a mid-sized position near the close prices on QQQ IWM SPY but with the understanding (and lots of room in buying power) that market ...

This is the big kahuna — ideally we’d like a slight overshoot of the very watched 200SMA into the loving hands of the trend-line from March ...

Modern civilization demands abstraction, and money is the ultimate signifier.    Most of our interactions are removed from reality.     This...

We’re done nothing more than scalping today, looking for dimes here and there as the action is too mixed for us to bet in any one direction....

Motivational Poster of a come-back kid for finance types: Incredible power of healing with Time (note– only when combined with sick innovat...

Many traders look for complex algorithms to tell them when the market is ready to bounce but in reality, all you need is a Bollinger Band.  ...

How many times have we heard about Dr. Copper as a great “tell” for the economy?   It’s on the radar for most longer-term traders but it sho...

We took out 3 major moving averages today, 20SMA, 50SMA, and  tagging the 100 SMA which  finally stalled the bleeding.    From a technical p...

We had a lot of spots in our newsletter last night that we liked if they could have waited a few days.  We had nothing that was ready.   A n...

We’re seeing a ton of patterns like the following.   It’s a great pattern for commodities coming off the bottom.  You don’t get the exact bo...

Things were looking dicey last night with futures down 10.   Market recovered somewhat overnight and the beacon of light was copper which he...

We had some initial juice in the market with the USD weak and commodities catching a bid on the Goldman upgrade.    However, not too many ch...

As we’ve been writing in the last little while we are in a range-bound market.  This is to be expected:  we’ve lost commodities as leaders,...

We’re not sure how realistic it is to “imagine”  how we actually would have responded to the trade but we’re pretty consistent in how we tra...

We think that the USD bottom is here to stay for a while and this is a game-changer for the market.  The commodities, and silver specificall...

We hit multiple support levels today in the market — and all that happened was that bleeding was stalled and we closed flat.    To put it cl...

Our interest in trading this market has dropped off a cliff in the last week.  There’s no more silver tops nor Osama tops to short, nor fa...