To become better traders, we look to our historical notes on crucial dates. This write-up revisits a post from April 20th, 2010 entitled “Global Financial Panic or Major Buying Opportunity in Stocks”. Most trades involved familiar companies and their trading patterns. Others came from scanning IBD’s Top 100 List during the panic, running the top 25% [...]
Before writing anything, I very rarely, if ever, write about a penny security (under $1). However, I found APCVZ by running a “dividend + gross margin” scan which brought up a security with potential for a huge score. Full Disclosure: I started buying APCVZ at $.09 to $.1079. So I OWN THIS SECURITY at an [...]
I am always a student of market theory which is dynamic and highly behavioral due to present micro-structure of US markets and the behavior of algorithms, some of which are predatory, others passive, and others just gathering intelligence by searching for natural size. When volatility and correlations spike, you need someone with highly specialized skill [...]
If you look at a chart of CME from late ’08 to the present, you’ll notice it’s gone into a flat-line, just like much of the US equity market. GOOG ended the year right where it started. BIDU (amazing split on the year) and APPL kicked ass because GOOG would do no evil and APPL [...]
There is a noticeable positive seasonal bias surrounding the Christmas holiday and this will keep stocks elevated and maybe even convince some end of year bonuses to go into the market via the mainstream mutual funds. So expect the Nas 100 to move higher in anticipation of a hard and fast sell-off on the 2nd [...]
It’s not free running a free blog, much less something like a Proprietary Trading site based on Global Macro financial research. Every reader knows that they get something out of the site and for each reader it’s unique. Some like the geo-political twists, some purview based on Quantitative Global financial research. While most of you [...]
Remember, it’s times like these when fortunes are made. Contrarian traders have to buy when most market participants think their stocks are going to be worthless, and sell when these participants think they’ve missed the boat. Now is the time for the former so get your buy orders ready, and let’s make some money.
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