This are the sectors that I usually follow as they usually are active and offer the best trading opportunities in my opinion. So lets see how they behaved this week and what is setting up for the next: Oil (USO, XLE, XOP, XES): After the drop and sharp bounce, oil is showing no clear signs of direction, while oil related and energy stocks seem to be pulling back. Technology (QQQ,XLK,SMH,NFLX,FB,AMZN): Technology seems to be leading...
Volatile day on the market in what was a boring directionless week. The Trump speech affected strongly the biotech sector while leaving the others quite untouched. During the Trump speech the SPY went down sharply but quickly recovered showing signs of support and possible trend continuation this week or the next. Some sectors that I consider to be showing BULLISH setups are: Oil (USO, OAS, WLL, RIG, XES): Oil made sharp moves to the downside...
I decided to implement some extra risk management into my trading. In the past I was donde with limiting my risk per position to 1% of my trading account. This allowed me to take small positions and thus take more positions at the same time. This in turn led to overtrading as I tried to capture every trade that catched my eye, even though it wasn't an optimal setup. But then the inevitable happened. A...
BTU making a cup and handle pattern with the last pullback. It showed good strength the past days and I expect it to go up and break the recent high, possibly above 3.00. Energy sector conditions will be critical for this setup. CLF another energy play. It's flagging above the recent breakout area and seems likely to continue upward. NES, another flag setup. It hasn't close green yet, but when it does I expect it...
I've been reading many trading books this year and I thought that it would be a good idea to create a series of post about the most important lessons that I learned from those books and share it with other traders. I will begin with one of the trading literature classics: Reminiscences of a Stock Operator by Edwin Lefevre. This book relates the story of legendary trader Jesse Livermore during the early 1900's. Lessons: Trading...
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Recently, while looking through the "Resources" section in the Lance Beggs site, a trader who was featured in Chat with Traders (Incredible how one thing leads to another) I found the site of Adam H. Grimes, author of "The Art and Science of Technical Analysis", who offers not only a very useful blog and also a podcast, but also a completely free and very sound trading course. In the world of trading its very hard...
The other day I stumbled upon this interview with Tim Grittani and found it pretty interesting and inspiring. One of the ideas that he shared and reallystuck with me is that he began to become consistently profitable when he started to focus on one single pattern/strategy before moving on to others. So that's going to be the way that I'll be approaching the markets from now on. I share with you the interview so that...
Yesterday I joined Investors Underground. I considere this as another step in my progress and education as a trader. Later I'll be writing a review of the service just as with the other services So far I like that they're focused on learning how to trade instead of announcing trade alerts. They've got 3 chatrooms: Momentum, Swing & OTC/Subpenny trades. I must say thay I also got a nice discount by signing up for their...
Recently a friend of mine shared with me this awesome seminar by Mark Douglas, author of "The Diciplined Trader" & "Trading in the Zone", both books on trading psycology which I recommend to anyone wanting to improve their trading performance. Anyway, this long seminar is almost as a video synthesis of both books with real examples of how to solve trading problems provided by the very attendants of the seminar. ...
