With $SPY down -1.1% year to date, 2015 continues to be a flat year. I don’t understand the continuous perma-bull celebrations on the rally to nowhere. Perma-bulls and buy and hold investors have likely made few returns this year. The 70 RSI is the near term overbought resistance on the $SPY chart. The 200 day […]
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Year-to-date: $121 billion out of stock mutual funds $125 billion into stock ETFs http://t.co/8T4zUno2xO pic.twitter.com/7pCxWVoNNZ — Downtown Josh Brown (@ReformedBroker) October 16, 2015 Oh no. That’s it. The scary monster pattern is forming: http://t.co/XRdZAHXqDp $SPY $SPX pic.twitter.com/ezV08XkoS7 — StockTwits (@StockTwits) October 16, 2015 The year-to-date performance of Amazon vs. Walmart $AMZN +75% $WMT -28% CHART:
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With the increase in volatility and faster price action in the markets caused by the volume and speed of high frequency traders there are ways to adapt our trading to stay out of much of the randomness and chaos caused by these new market participants. Here are some things I have started to do more
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There is a big difference between trading up trending markets versus range bound markets. Different signals are profitable in different markets. In up trending markets you can buy high and sell higher profitably, in range bound markets you are rewarded for buying weakness near support and selling near resistance. In up trends a price gap
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$SPY has closed above the 5 day EMA for six straight trading days indicating a strong short term uptrend and momentum. This could provide short term support. Bullish 5 day / 50 day EMA crossover. Bullish MACD indicating momentum. Five straight days of higher highs and higher lows. $QQQ already over the 200 day and
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Top Trading Tweets of the Week 10/9/15[/caption investors (pictured below) react to the Fed minutes pic.twitter.com/WP2JxCiWkD — StockCats (@StockCats) October 8, 2015 "the market can stay overbought longer than I can remain sober" – old Wall St. saying — StockCats (@StockCats) October 9, 2015 One thing that made me successful is the ability to realize
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Here are the ten key things I have learned that have allowed me to make money in the markets, and some of the characteristics of the best traders I know. The ability to buy pullbacks in uptrends. Buying at the right pullback levels while everyone else is afraid is typically profitable. Selling strength short at
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