• Yesterday I posted my long watch-list and on that long-watch-list I showed McDonald’s still on there despite a crazy head and shoulders pattern forming on the daily and the intraday charts. If you know me for any time now, you’ll know that I steer away trying to trade against those obvious pattern types.  However, just

    |August 16, 2012|2 min read|
  • Yesterday I posted my long watch-list and on that long-watch-list I showed McDonald’s still on there despite a crazy head and shoulders pattern forming on the daily and the intraday charts. If you know me for any time now, you’ll know that I steer away trying to trade against those obvious pattern types.  However, just

    |August 16, 2012|2 min read|
  • The Chart of the Day…   Quick Glance at the Market Heat Map and Industries Notables: Technology continues to look plain awful! Merck (MRK), McDonalds (MCD), and Proctor & Gamble (PG) is loving life… for today at least. 

    |July 12, 2012|1 min read|
  • One of my favorite stocks for years now has been McDonalds (MCD). Like their food or not, the company knows how to sell a hamburger. As for me, I consider myself to be a fast food connoisseur and I can tell you, after years of experience at consuming countless hamburgers at fast food joints ranging

    |June 8, 2012|2 min read|
  • I don’t typically dive into the fundamentals when deciding whether to take a trade, and rarely do I post this kind of stuff on SharePlanner. But nonetheless, I felt like it was necessary today, considering we are just a half hour away from its IPO launch and there is more hype behind this stock than

    |May 18, 2012|2 min read|
  • This is by far, one of my favorite stock screens that I run. I have probably found more winning stocks (and big % ones at that) off of this screen, than any other one that I run. These stocks make it a habit to trade on their own merits and not that of the market itself.

    |January 11, 2012|1 min read|
  • Here is my list of top defensive plays in this highly volatile and mainly bearish market. If you’re looking for some nice defensive stocks to weather this storm, yet be in position for the possibility of a sustained move to the long side, then take a look at the list of stocks below that are

    |August 29, 2011|1 min read|
  • Here is my list of top defensive plays in this highly volatile market. If you’re looking for some nice defensive stocks to go along with the rest of your long positions in the portfolio, then take a look at the list of stocks below that are more defensive than growth oriented. They are stocks

    |June 28, 2011|1 min read|
  • Here is my list of top defensive plays in this highly volatile market. If you’re looking for some nice defensive stocks to go along with the rest of your long positions in the portfolio, then take a look at the list of stocks below that are more defensive than growth oriented. They are stocks

    |June 2, 2011|1 min read|
  • Some of you may be getting a bit nervous about holding on to a lot of high-flying stocks after the rally that we’ve seen over the past couple of days, and your concerns are warranted – over time the market never goes straight up, and since Wednesday, that is exactly what’s happened, with little in

    |December 3, 2010|1 min read|