• Holiday Trading Hours and Volume

    Futures are surprisingly making a move in the premarket Whether it holds will be a whole other question. Gap highers tend to be shakey business of late. Even Friday, where the market was solid all day long, chose to sell off in the final 10 minutes of trading and wipe out about 80% of the

    By |Published On: July 3, 2017|3 min read|

  • Dead Cat Bounce or Sustainable Selling

    Stock market is on shaky ground That doesn't mean the market is simply going straight down from here - if it were only that easy. That's because, despite the sudden bearishness that has been prevalent throughout this week, there is still that pesky dip buying mentality of the stock market that won't let the 8

    By |Published On: June 30, 2017|3 min read|

  • This is a Dicey Market

    Nasdaq selling off again, SPX flat The technology purge looks to resume again this morning, while most of the overnight gains have been lost by the large caps. This market is becoming a bit less predictable in the latter half of this month. yesterday's bounce looked reminiscent of the bounce following the May 17th sell-off,

    By |Published On: June 29, 2017|3 min read|

  • Bounce Like You Never Sold Off

    Buy Machines Continue to Bounce following One Day Sell-offs If the premarket is any sign of what looms for the market today, it will be yet another hard bounce following a one-day sell-off. 

    By |Published On: June 28, 2017|3 min read|

  • Stocks Trends Continue to Move Sideways

    Stocks and Indices continue to trend sideways Outside the first trading day of the month, the market has absolutely gone nowhere. Stock trends in general have been totally sideways or in more technical terms, “consolidating”. 

    By |Published On: June 27, 2017|2 min read|

  • End of Quarter Window Dressing Ahead

    Prepare for the funds to start window dressing their quarterly and 6 month reports This is one of those points in the year, where the funds become very concerned by their performance. So much so, that they’ll start what is commonly known as ‘window-dressing’ their portfolios with all the right stocks so that they can

    By |Published On: June 26, 2017|3 min read|

  • Swing Trading Stock Market Performance for May

    It was another great May swing trading performance in the stock market for members of the Trading Block As you know by now, I am a huge proponent about swing trading transparency when it comes to my stock market performance. There are so few traders out there that actually show their results, much less go

    By |Published On: June 26, 2017|8 min read|

  • Wild Ramps At the End of Day Continues

    The latest episode of “wild ramps” at market close, saw 10 straight 5 min red bars. The S&P 500 and the market as a whole was holding steady for the entire trading session until about 40 minutes remained and then that is when we saw another example of how wild ramps into the close can

    By |Published On: June 23, 2017|3 min read|

  • Breakout Trading Leads to Head Fake

    On Monday, it looked like the market was prime for a breakout in trading Since then it has only resulted in a head fake kind of maneuver. I'm glad to be back after a short summer vacation over the last week. But when it comes to trading, there isn't much time off, so while I

    By |Published On: June 22, 2017|3 min read|

  • SPX Setting Up with a Darvas Box Breakout

    The famous Darvas Box Breakout setup is back at it again.  But trading Darvas’ box breakout doesn’t mean you ignore the downside risk either, because if the market breaks down and out of the box, it becomes just as legitimate of a trade setup as the breakout would be. 

    By |Published On: June 19, 2017|2 min read|