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Feb 21st, 2013 |
By Rose |
Category: General Comments, Steven Spencer (Steve's) Blogs
BHP was gapping lower and trading very actively in the pre-market. This message was to highlight it would be one of the best stocks to trade on the Open and my bias would be informed on which side of 78.50 it started the day. I initiated a short right on the Open against a 78.36 seller.
This was the first interesting thing I noticed on the tape since shorting it on the Open. From a big picture perspective it was below my 78.50 level and consolidating near the Open low so it was clearly a short. I was looking for a catalyst for the next down leg and I found it with the 77.93 buyer.
I loaded up when the buyer dropped. The great thing about this level is since it was "irregular"
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Feb 19th, 2013 |
By sspencer |
Category: General Comments, Steven Spencer (Steve's) Blogs, Trader Development
On Friday I was chatting with a non-SMB prop trader that I trained several years ago. He was long DLTR when the WMT "news" broke around 2:00PM. From the chat messages you can see that we were in agreement that there was a short term "fading" opportunity in the retail names that had been quickly hammered based on a leaked internal email from a WMT employee.
Read the exchange and then I will add some more thoughts:
2:12 PM Michael: dltr fell hard
me: u didn't have a stop?
clearly some news there
2:13 PM Michael: i did
just saying
me: so probably will make another big move now.
2:14 PM 1.5mln shares in that down move
Michael: fdo as well
me: are they even related?
other than they sell
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Feb 11th, 2013 |
By sspencer |
Category: Steven Spencer (Steve's) Blogs, Trading Theory
In Part I of this series I discussed whether understanding the news could help short term traders limit their risk on overnight positions. Today's post discusses whether understanding the news gives a short term trader a possible edge in determining profit targets and when to exit an intraday position.
As examples I will use two trades that Sammy, an SMB trader, executed today. The first involved a short right on the Open in GOOG. It was gapping lower on news that the former CEO Eric Schmidt was selling 50% of his position in the company. My analysis of this news from our AM Meeting was that it was a non event from a long term perspective but might create a short term trading opportunity.
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Feb 9th, 2013 |
By sspencer |
Category: General Comments, SMB Fundamentals, Steven Spencer (Steve's) Blogs
I believe the majority of market participants agree over longer time horizons fundamentals will influence the price of a stock. But what about in the short or medium term? Should intra-day traders or swing traders be evaluating fundamental news related to the stocks they are trading? Or should they simply focus on price action in relation to news?
I have a lot of thoughts on this topic and rather than spending an entire Saturday trying to sort them out I will give an example of a recent trade I saw a trader place that did not factor in news risk and ended as a large loss (luckily not devastating).
The trade was initially an intra-day long in BUD that turned into an overnight position based
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Jan 10th, 2013 |
By mprincipato |
Category: General Comments
Marc Principato, CMT records a trade setup as it happens on the S&P 500 CFD instrument. This is an example of how the traders in the SMB Forex and Futures program manage emerging opportunities. It's like having a road map. Can you see the value?
Marc is going to demonstrate the advantages using price and volume pattern recognition to formulate high probability trading scenarios that carry manageable risk on his next webinar Forex & Futures Road Map. Click here to register
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Jan 6th, 2013 |
By sspencer |
Category: General Comments, Steven Spencer (Steve's) Blogs, Trading Theory
I was on BBC a few days ago to talk about the market's reaction to the "fiscal cliff" legislation. I had hoped to use the opportunity to spend some time clearly outlining a concept I discussed in my final webinar of 2012. The BBC economics reporter prattled on longer than expected so I only had about 60 seconds to outline my market observations, which I have termed the New Normal. The idea is that after four years of above average volatility in the US equities markets we had clearly entered a period of reduced volatility. And with the failure of each successive negative macro headlines failure to increase volatility, but for a few hours, this period should be accepted as the New Normal.
As
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Jan 5th, 2013 |
By Bella |
Category: Mike Bellafiore's (Bella's) Blogs
Below is an interesting trading anecdote I received via LinkedIn. I asked the writer if I could share his trading experience with our community. He agreed. The names and places have been changed for compliance reasons and we have no interest in saying anything negative about anyone or any firm on this blog.
What I find interesting about his note is:
1) Good traders are not always good teachers.
2) Trading strategies that worked in the past may not going forward.
3) Trading is a tough sport
4) Some catch a bad break and start during difficult market conditions. One of the first lessons we were taught at my starting firm is not to expect every year to be a great year if you
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Tags: day trading class, day trading course, One Good Trade, Scalping, the playbook, trading coach, trading mentor, trading strategies Posted in Mike Bellafiore's (Bella's) Blogs |
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Jan 5th, 2013 |
By Bella |
Category: Mike Bellafiore's (Bella's) Blogs
One of our new trainees from Thailand traded RIG yesterday and sent me a PlayBook on this trade. This was his Trade Management slide for the trade. There are some lessons here.
1) Great job being in the best stock yesterday for intraday traders, RIG. You are only as good as the stocks you trade. This was a stock with opportunity.
2) The Trend Trend Trade is a powerful trade for the new trader. This is one of the first patterns you should learn. First work on taking as much as you can from a basic set up like this before moving to more difficult set ups.
3) I would take issue with some of his stops, but this will come with time. This new trader needs to do some thinking
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Jan 3rd, 2013 |
By Bella |
Category: General Comments
FDO gapped down and then made a sharp downmove on the open. I caught some of the downmove with a Momentum Trade. But then the momentum short was over and I had a decision. Do I look to trade $FDO for a bounce or for a continuation move? I chose the former and will explain w1hy.
The market has been strong of late. Even before Congress passed its bill averting the Fiscal Cliff the market has shown great signs of strength. When we are in a strong market stocks are more likely to bounce. When we are in a strong market REAL STOCKS are more likely to bounce. FDO is a real company, a real stock. Also when stocks make sharp moves to the downside right off the open, steep downmoves,
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Jan 2nd, 2013 |
By mprincipato |
Category: General Comments
When new traders enter the forex market, they install their platform of choice and then ask the following question, “How do I know which way my forex pair is going?”. They usually seek the answer by immersing themselves into the world of confusion. Amazingly enough, newer traders already come to the game with the preconceived notions that their brokers love. Ideas such as “I will figure out where this market is going by watching the news.”, or “I will choose an oscillator for arbitrary reasons and trade off the signals on the smallest time frame possible, because more detail must be better.” If you have some years of experience, then you know what kind of fun those ideas usually
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