If you would like to learn how to think like a professional trader pick up a copy of The Playbook today! Top 10 in Amazon Finance and from the author of One Good Trade the #1 Trading book in 2010. Here is my thought process going into tomorrow’s trading for AAPL: AAPL initial reaction was positive due to a combination of lowered … Read More
Muscle Memory and Patience II–Trading $AAPL
In my previous post on stock “muscle memory” I discussed the three types of MM. I want to revisit the topic and see how we used the same concept while tracking AAPL’s price action for the past few weeks. On June 12th AAPL traded below 435 after not breaching that level for several weeks. After a few days of consolidation … Read More
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AM Meeting Synopsis: FDX is gapping lower on reduced guidance. Looks like it is going to open around 82.50, which is longer term support. Look to trade short below that level but if supports there look to trade long above 103. The Open: FDX opens just below 102.50 so initiate a short. Maintain the position until the downtrend is broken. … Read More
Free Webinar Recording – Trading Follow Through Trades with Steve Spencer
The theme for Steve Spencer’s 2012 Webinar Series will be “Do the Right Thing”. On the third webinar of the year, Steve discussed how to enter follow through trades in the days following a powerful earnings move. He discussed GMCR, FSLR, FOSL, KORS and LNKD. Trading Follow Through Trades with Steve Spencer from smbcapital
Nasty Is As Nasty Does
On February 7th we discussed CSTR in the AM Meeting. It was gapping higher on a better than expected earnings announcement. But the price action in the pre-market was erratic. There were no clear pre-market trends and when it moved above/below s/r levels it would quickly reverse. This is a stock that I will not touch on the Open. Stocks … Read More
Rally Monkey Come Out and Play
Today we saw good strength on the financials with our money maker WFC leading the market. It was definitely a good stock to watch today on the open. It was a bit sketchy into the close and it made it easy to churn away profits in the middle of the day. But overall if you stuck to buying and selling … Read More