Tesla has demonstrated itself to be one of the very best short term trading vehicles in 2013 (no pun intended). After putting in an all time high above 190 it has presented numerous setups on both the long and short side. READING THE TAPE This trade began as a “pattern recognition” trade but morphed into a “tape trade” as there … Read More
Trading Lesson: 2nd Day Trade—$ADBE
Adobe (ADBE) announced their earnings recently and the stock had a big change in price the following day. The stock had heavy volume, which is something I look for to setup a trade for the next trading session. This is one of the easier trades we teach in our training program and it’s called “2nd Day Plays”. After a stock has some type … Read More
Trading Lesson: Explosion After Rest—$TWTR
Today’s video trade review highlights a few key points for short-term equity trading. One, how to identify important “inflection points” which can be used as the basis for low risk high reward trades; two, when to consider getting back into a position that doesn’t work initially; and three, how to actively manage a position versus taking your hands off the keyboard and letting … Read More
The Reversal Trade: $TWTR
The short setup that continues to yield the best results in this Raging Bull market is finding stocks that have run for several days and then looking for a “catalyst” for a change in direction. In our last Two Minute Trade Review, $AAPL had a news catalyst that created a short term top (currently about $20 lower). In this example I was … Read More
Spencer Trade Review–$AAPL “Sell The News Trade”
One of the few short setups that has consistently worked in 2013 has been shorting stocks after extended moves that then gap higher after some sort of news catalyst. We saw this on Monday in $AMZN after the “drone story” on Sixty Minutes and again yesterday after $AAPL inked a deal with China Mobile that had been discussed ad infinitum … Read More
Thanks For Making Us the #1 Trading Blog
SMB has built the most prolific blog for original trading content on the Web. If you google “trading blog” SMB is the first result that appears linking to an actual blog. Our blog traffic globally finds us #1 in our space. In five short years how did we become a place that is now visited by readers in over 100 … Read More
The Reality of Trading
I thought today was probably my worst trading day of the year. It wasn’t about losing thousands of dollars. It was about my performance relative to the setups I had outlined prior to the market open and the ones identified intra-day. The largest error was in my $TSLA trading which I will outline below. I was in two other stocks … Read More
Twitter, Facebook And The New IPO Market
$TWTR is a week away from becoming the “hottest” IPO since its much larger cousin $FB went public in May 2012. $TWTR seems intent on not having a repeat performance of the $FB IPO debacle which was a trifecta botch job by the lead underwriter Morgan Stanley, the NASDAQ stock market and the Facebook CFO. $FB went public at a … Read More