On Friday the news hit of a fire on a Boeing 787. Yes, that same plane that BA was forced to take out of service because of lithium battery fires during flight. I don’t know about you but I prefer my flights without fires on board. BA tweaked and fixed the battery issue and the 787s were back in flight. … Read More
Webinar: Create a System to Trade Breakouts with Steve Spencer
Join SMB partner Steven Spencer on Thursday, July 18 at 4:30pm ET for a discussion on short-term breakout trading. He will cover recent trades in NFLX and DDD and help you to gain a better understanding of which setups are more likely to work. If you would like to know more about the breakout setups Steve will be covering in … Read More
The 3PM Bull Basket
I was sitting on our trading desk looking at SPY this Friday. I felt a very strange sense of déjà vu that it was 1998, the year I was relative strength trading semi-conductor stocks, and MSFT, INTL, DELL. This was before the Internet Boom but when these sectors were red hot. At 3PM we would add to our strongest-acting stocks … Read More
Mastering Breakouts: Do You Have a System to Identify and Trade Breakouts?
I read a statistic several years ago that the majority of what traders call “breakouts” fail. For this very reason there are algorithmic trading programs that fade breakouts. And there are some manual traders who love to fade all breakouts as well. There are many others who like to load up in the direction of the breakout 100% of the … Read More
Real Companies Get Bought When They Gap Down… Except for UPS
If you sit near me on our trading desk you have heard me say, “In a strong market real companies get bought.” What I mean is when a real company gaps down, in a strong market, it is likely to find a big buyer and find a way to trade higher. But then there was UPS on Friday. This was … Read More
The Falling Knife Trade– $AAPL
I bought AAPL on the Open today. One of my favorite trades in the first few minutes of the Open is entering a position on a quick dropout to the prior afternoon support. I make this trade in a stock that is trending higher on a multi-day time frame in the hope of getting an excellent risk/reward entry. AAPL close … Read More
Forex Trading: Summer Time Forex/Futures Scenarios 7/8
In this segment, Marc Principato CMT analyzes the S&P500 CFD, EUR/USD, GBP/USD and AUD/USD for possible technical scenarios that can unfold throughout the week. To learn more visit: http://bit.ly/smbhome Be sure to follow me on twitter: http://twitter.com/marcpmarkets [purehtml id=22] — Marc Principato, CMT, Risk Disclaimer *No Relevant Positions
A Quant Test on a Trading Thesis
Hi Mike, I was halfway through typing my question when I remembered a blog post similar to my original question: http://www.smbtraining.com/blog/how-do-you-determine-how-far-stock-can-move I was wondering if you’ve found any statistical information by back-testing the above since then. For me personally, I first find important support/resistance levels on a stock & after that do I then consider the likelihood of those support/resistance … Read More