{"id":13447,"date":"2011-07-22T14:16:47","date_gmt":"2011-07-22T18:16:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/?p=13447"},"modified":"2023-04-10T10:31:16","modified_gmt":"2023-04-10T14:31:16","slug":"patience-pays-mcp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/patience-pays-mcp","title":{"rendered":"Patience Pays &#8211; $MCP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A lot of the work in trading is just sitting and watching. Yesterday the market was absolutely dead into the close. The S&amp;P futures sat tightly in a 3 handle range.<\/p>\n<p>At 3:45 EST, $MCP appeared towards the bottom of the Price Spike list of the SMB Radar. This was unusual because it hadn&#8217;t been on the list the entire day. Still, this could just be a large order causing a spike, so nothing to do but watch.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/MCP_7-2121.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13450\" title=\"MCP_7-21(2)\" src=\"http:\/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/MCP_7-2121.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"601\" height=\"470\" srcset=\"\/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/MCP_7-2121.png 858w, \/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/MCP_7-2121-300x234.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 601px) 100vw, 601px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Within seconds $MCP climbed straight to the top of the list (first two arrows). This was very unusual. The radar uses volume as an input, so we know there is actual volume flowing into the stock &#8211; at a very aggressive rate. This was a gift for experienced momo traders (3 arrows indicate momo entries).<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re serious about trading professionally you must continue sit and watch, even when the market is dead. But you also need to know <em>where <\/em>to watch.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/smbcapital\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/twitter-badges.s3.amazonaws.com\/follow_me-c.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A lot of the work in trading is just sitting and watching. Yesterday the market was absolutely dead into the close. The S&amp;P futures sat tightly in a 3 handle range. At 3:45 EST, $MCP appeared towards the bottom of the Price Spike list of the SMB Radar. This was unusual because it hadn&#8217;t been on the list the entire &#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/patience-pays-mcp\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":290,"featured_media":13450,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1395],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-smb-radar-update"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.1.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Patience Pays - $MCP | SMB Training<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/patience-pays-mcp\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Patience Pays - $MCP | SMB Training\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A lot of the work in trading is just sitting and watching. 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