by Ryan Mallory

Brutal market today, if you played it safe, and executed your stop-losses early on this morning, you likely are to see the stocks rallying much higher at this point (I'll be doing a post on this later so stay tuned). 

However, consider yourself a success if you followed the plan of your trade, regardless of what the market has done to you today to stick it to you.

I'm not sure where this market goes from here. I am in a holding position with only one position in the portfolio. There are plenty of people who will tell you otherwise, as if they have a crystal ball, but I'd avoid such prideful traders with such certain beliefs, because such pompous beliefs usually leads their trades down a very uncertain path. Your own beliefs about the market can blind you to a reality that is unfolding without the ability to recognize it. 

With that said, I give you today's Lazy Swing-Trades Long & Short. The first is Harmonic (HLIT) that is sporting some nice consolidation at the highs of recent price activity, followed by Travelers (TRV) which is breaking down with a double-top confirmation. 

Check out these trade setups. 

by Ryan Mallory

A dip in a stock is not necessarily the end of a stock, unless the dip buyers fail to jump in. 

Now that is what I call the motto of this stock market, stocks, and every instrument of trading that has been on a continuous upstream for the entire year of 2013. 

I've provided here a list of the stocks that are setting up nicely for an opportunity to get long on. I cleaned house last week with a number of stocks on the list as a number of stocks that I was following had simply lost the trade setup I was looking for and had become way to overextended to ever have an ideal trade setup in the near future. 

As a result I am using only those stocks in this list that have an opportunity for a trade opportunity to get long in the very near future. 

Whether it is on the pullback or the breakout there is something for everyone here. 

Few swing trade setups to keep an eye on

I've got a close eye on Kinross Gold (KGC) as it has shown over the last couple of months A LOT of accumulation in shares, and once it gets above $5.75, this stock will be ready to rock and roll. 

Pullbacks are not so common these days, but the one in Dean Foods (DF) has me interested and could very well push to new highs and be over $21.50 in short order. 

While I prefer eating at McDonalds (MCD) over Burger King (BKW), there is no doubt that the accumulation taking place in BKW could lead to a bigger move that puts the stock back over $20. Consider jumping in this stock over $19.10. 

Here's the rest of the my swing-trading watch-list. 

by Ryan Mallory

Two ideal trade setups

We are pulling back off of the highs of the day, and for good reason... none of the stocks are going up with this market. So there really isn't anything to hold the market up today, unless individual stocks can find some motivation today. And we are going to need to see greater partcipation among stocks if this market wants to keep its good thing gong. 

I've provided two setups - one long and one short depending on where this  market utlimately heads. Both stocks have huge potential to them, it is just a matter of timing them correctly with the market's direction. 

Here's today's Lazy trades long and short.

Long: Maxwell Technologies (MXWL)