For those of you who are avid fans of the NBA you have probably heard the stories of how Michael Jordan use to practice as a member of the Bulls. He was totally cutthroat. It was not uncommon for fisticuffs to breakout between him and some of the bigger players on the second unit during scrimmages. He hated to lose … Read More
A Trade Idea For Tomorrow
POT has been a pretty good trading stock recently. After putting a double bottom in place on June 8 it traded up about 10% before establishing a fairly wide trading range between 98 and 101.60. Today it close below 98. I will look for more downside tomorrow using 98 as my initial short price in the morning. I’m looking for … Read More
A Turning Point?
There is no doubt with earnings season over there will be very little in the way of news flow for the bulls to hang their hats on for quite some time. With seemingly negative news out of Europe every day and instability in the Middle East and the Korean Peninsula there are opportunities for sellers to hammer the market on … Read More
One Observation From The Trading Day
Being in the right stocks will largely dictate the type of day you will have. If you are in the most In Play names you are going to generate PnL commensurate with your skill level. This is why we have an AM Meeting to discuss the stocks that are most likely to be In Play for the day. Even if … Read More
Patterns Collide!
We have been seeing two distinct patterns in the market recently. 1) On gap down opens we are rallying to positive territory. 2) When there is selling in the final hour the market is closing at its low. Today we were fortunate enough to get both the rally to positive AND the end of the day tankage in the market. … Read More
Reading the Tape In Multiple Time Frames
I was trading V today for the third consecutive day. My initial bias was short based on the weakness on the tape I had seen during the prior two days. During yesterday’s two point pop in the SPYs I found it to be very telling That V barely bounced. So I came in today ready to get short again. The … Read More
You Don’t See That Every Day: 6 Minutes of Insanity
At around 2:30PM the SPYs were trading down to 113.60 from 117. It seemed like it was a good place to start looking for a bounce. I was keying in on the 113.10 level from March 5th as a potential dream price to get long. I got stopped out below 113 a few minutes later. At 2:42 I decided to … Read More
This Seems Familiar
Back in late January FCX sold off from 90 in a hurry. I started to look for an oversold bounce around 72. That didn’t work so well as it traded down another six points. I remember Gman and Joe P looking for a bounce in X a bunch of times because it had sold off from 65 to 53 and … Read More