Friday, February 26, 2010

GOOG looking like a good short


One of my new Custom indicators measuring price/volume relationships showing weakness in GOOG

A daily chart of 3C and an extended long range 3C in blue-both showing negative divergences in GOOG or distribution.

Despite any bounce attempt, this looks like a decent short today.

This am's trading action

This morning's trading range as of 10:02, a break above or below it usually determines which way the market will close for the day.

5-min 3C showing selling into yesterday afternoon's Buy Trade Program


Another 5-min 3C showing the same with a negative leading divergence this morning.


Here's  1-min chart suggesting that price will rally from support or at least try at least once more

*Update
The Trades I'm especially liking-whether you got in already or are looking to include:


CYMI
KLAC
UGP
GOOG
GS
DGP

All from last night's list

TRADES FOR THE 26TH ARE UP

There are longs and shorts in there, some interesting plays as well considering the market's Buy program that hit around 1:45-I think it was filling a gap, but tomorrow we'll know more. In any case, it gives us better short positioning.

Thursday, February 25, 2010

Adding a Few Positions Intraday

Here are a few positions that will be on tonight's list, but you may want to take a look at them now:




-JPM (S) and GS (S) are both in good position for a new short or an add-to
-PWRD is a short featured here, it is a good short or add-to now
-EDZ (L) looks good and it's pulling back intraday-I'd establish a small position for now and add later

-TWM (L) an UltraShort on the Russell 2000, make sure you are not too correlated with the market in other positions or you'll have to reduce this one. This is your basic market short.

-Possibly a little DGP (GOLD double long ETN) Keep this position small as it is still "iffy", but it has broken and held a major downtrend line and is up today.
-GOOG (S)

-(S) SLV or (L) ZSL I believe silver has downside and it is not as correlated to gold s people think.
-AAPL (S) is acting perfectly in a Broadening top scenario
-UGP (S) this is another I'd establish a small position in for the moment
-KLAC (S) KLAC has fallen out of a flag and is a long term short
-CRM (S) there's a high probability this is coming off the right shoulder of a H&S top, this is a high probability/low risk short.
-FLEX (S) appears to be coming down out of a large triangle top.
-CYMI (S)-especially if it appears it will close below $31.37-this is a large double top.

Tuesday, February 23, 2010

New Trades are up-All are for the open at marlet

New Trades are up-anything from the list-the new list is in play.

Monday, February 22, 2010

Boring

For awhile today it looked as if we might see a bearish engulfing pattern-the Q's did, but the rest of the market didn't and XLF was actually up today. Everything was missing any sense of direction. It may be like a doji day (which it wasn't) in which upside momentum waned and perhaps tomorrow we'll see something definitive, but as of now, still sitting on our hands and waiting for this market to tell us when o jump back in -either one gun or both barrels blazing.

If you are a swing or day trader let me know and I'll come up with some trades for you, but if you are following our current model-Trend, then just sit tight.\\
a few trades of recent that I still like-PWRD (S), AMZN (S), MOT (S), the TASR long has performed well-18% in 3 days, MSO (L) still looks ok, CRR (S) is performing, INAP was up as much as 10% in  days.

So for now, again, we'll sit this out another day, but at least we are moving in the right direction.

Patience is a Virtue

Right now we are sitting on our hands until the effects of the Fed decision are fully realized. In the past, the original reaction (this time was a rally) is almost always the wrong reaction and the markets reverse within days. It's my opinion that the Fed is making $ for the banks and such more expensive for a single reason and moving the discount rate terms from 30 days back to overnight confirms my suspicions which have been with me for awhile as Fed and Treasury statements in the near past have all seem to be aimed at the banks, "Close your Carry Trade Positions"-I see this move as a shot across the bow, thus perhaps that's why we saw such a wild early market decline today.

We will see. Thursday/Friday formed a small Harami reversal and today-thus far it looked like we were not only getting confirmation but a bearish engulfing pattern as well.

If you are not afraid of risk then I think you can short in these areas, we prefer to sit on our hands for a day and wait confirmation-we won't be missing that much of the move. It will also allow me time to see who is going to get hit the hardest (read as -where has most of the Carry Trade money gone?-gold, semi's, emerging markets?). So that's the analysis for now, it may be updated later today.

Friday, February 19, 2010

No post last night

I had a lot going on last night and didn't get to post, but basically we have been in a holding pattern because there's no confirmation on the short side and not close to enough evidence or market strength to go out on the long limb. The Fed's announcement caught many if not everyone off guard, except a select few I think got wind of it around 2:15 pm-look at the Q's or any market average at that time and watch the behavior. In any case, this will likely be a day were you might want to take a look t the shorts on the list, tonight I will see were the high probability low trades ended up and post them, but others mentioned recently can probably be initiated.  I might wait until a morning trading range forms and breaks to the downside or the 2:15 level from yesterday is taken out or the open from yesterday is taken out. Just some sort of confirmation and maybe a little later in the am after the retail trades are out of the cards.

Wednesday, February 17, 2010

New Trades for tomorrow are up-

I think this market is headed down, but it is acting very erractically lately, probably the currency tug of
war.


There are several longs in there that look exceptional-the shorts from the list previous are still in play and many faired ok today even in an up market.


I'll be putting up a bunch of charts of the trades -I have a little extra time, this way you can see what I'm
looking at.


AMZN's confirmed H&S top
3C distribution into the top as you'd expect to see.
The bearflag in CRR
The 2-day chart makes it easier to see


The huge rounding bottom in MSO -it's like a cup and handle except for where it falls, everything else is pretty much there and now it's broken out!
Here's the handle breakout.


The daily 3C chart which calls accumulation in the "U" and even points out accumulation right before the breakout.




Finally TASR in my trend/stop channel which held the entire consolidation.

Tuesday, February 16, 2010

Feeling more confident now

Take a look at this post from Trade Guild-I feel a lot better about ll the trades from yesterday (at a significant discount-forget the stops, we'll reset them) except the first two. All the UltraShort and the trades I added intraday today are all back in serious play, this is the clear signal I've been looking for:

http://www.trade-guild.net/2010/02/mighty-dollar-might-and-market.html