Top Trading Tweets: Week 3/5/15 I see a ‘bubble’ in the number of times #CNBC uses the word “bubble”. — traderstewie (@traderstewie) March 5, 2015 Hitting a stop and watching a stock rally definately hurts. Not hitting your stop and watching a stock go down hurts a hell of alot more. — Assad Tannous […]
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“A stock operator has to fight a lot of expensive enemies within himself.” – Jesse Livermore Jesse Livermore was a pioneer in the trading world. He was one of the very first trend traders, rule based discretionary traders, and traders of pure price action. He was a trail blazer. It was not his methodology that
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Chart Courtesy of Stockcharts.com In late 2000, as the Internet bubble continued to melt from it’s historic 5000 level, I was learning for the first time that markets don’t always rally and bail you out on the long side. Sometimes, pullbacks turn into corrections, bear markets evolve into meltdowns, and bubbles pop. I suffered a
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Chart Courtesy of StockCharts.com $GOOGL has broken out above the 200 day. This is a viable option to buy with correct position sizing with a stop loss placed at a close below the 200 day. Options in $GOOGL are also liquid, giving the trader a way to cap their risks at only the cost
Chart Courtesy of StockCharts.com My February $TQQQ Trade I entered $TQQQ at $97.19 on February 10th in the morning after the gap and go break out over the 50 day sma. This was a momentum buy signal crossing the 50 day, the 5 day ema, and it was a gap up over the previous day’s
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Chart Courtesy of StockCharts.com 10 Fast Facts About the $SPY Chart The long term uptrend is still in place. $SPY is within striking distance of all time highs. The RSI still gives it room to run up. $SPY closed below the 5 day ema. Momentum is waning. The MACD is close to a bearish
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Trading Tweets of the Week 2/27/15 Sometimes no position is the best position. A compulsion to trade leads to disaster. — Peter Brandt (@PeterLBrandt) February 2, 2015 How to ride a trend 1/ Believe it 2/ Small position size 3/ Use stops that mean something 4/ Hold on tight cause its never easy — DK1
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I have been aggressively long the $SPY and $QQQ using leveraged ETFs since they both broke above the 50 day sma. I also took $IWM long at the break out to all time highs. I have been holding $SPXL $TQQQ $TNA & $SPY for great returns on capital in February. I am still very bullish
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The Costly Dangers New Traders Face: The bid/ask spread on some illiquid options and penny stocks can be very expensive. Never let it be too expensive to get in and out of a trade because of the slippage in the trading vehicle. Penny stocks: they’re dangerous. Period. High commission fees can eat away at your trading
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