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This last month has been one of the best markets for break-out traders we’ve seen in a long time.   Everything works:  not only the first ...

Our readers know that we like to find big spots on our favorite stocks and then focus on them until they break-out.   The longer they’re o...

Almost every break-out we had in our newsletter last week worked, from copper stocks, fertilizer, biotech, oil, tech, no wonder what secto...

Our readers know that if a stock gaps above our alert we either a) let it go b) wait for an intraday set-up to form  or preferably c) wait ...

We’ve posted these charts on the stream in the last 2 days but wanted to bring them in together to show what is at stake: We’ve spent all ...

After a few days off from the market we came back refreshed and energized and happy to see the Santa rally.   But then we looked through o...

We wrote about the $SPY 2009 trend-line on this blog at least a dozen times earlier this year  — it was for us the only chart that counte...

A quick look at the March 2009 bottom versus our current position at the end of 2011.      Note how the inverse correlation between bonds a...

Gold ( $GLD ), silver ( $SLV ), and our favorite junior miner ETF ( $GDXJ )  all are attempting to find footing (bouncing intraday before t...

We’ve talked about the 200SMA wall for months — every time the $SPY got close to this major resistance in it did so from an exhausted V-t...

We posted this chart yesterday showing the few times we’ve been above the 200sma on the $SPY since the August sell-off.   To be exact we w...

It’s not really our job to be bearish or bullish, our time-frame is too short. Our job is to go through charts the night before and come up...

The only sense we’ve made out of this market is to go reversion to mean.    At the bottom of the range today we had many support longs tri...

Usually if $SPY is trending down our support alerts don’t do well.  Today there has been an astounding divergence as our support alerts h...

Last Friday as the market was heading back to the top of the range we wrote about how it was do or die time — we would either break-out of ...

  Three charts we’re watching closely for bullish confirmations are   $ GDXJ   $ MOS   $ GS .  What do they all have in common?  Possible br...

We sent this off to our subscribers (in the newsletter) after the close today: Usually we’d be in anticipation swing mode right now — that ...

This week should be pivotal — we’re right against resistance in many sectors and it’s up to the bulls to take the ball. $XLF through this...

We’re basing and filling in the handle — the more we test it the greater the chance of a break-out.   That being said everytime the bulls ...

Excerpt from our newsletter tonight: We had on a few ideas yesterday for support long ( $OIH 120, $GLD 168, $SPY 120, $GDXJ 30.5-30.8 ...