My Swing Trading Strategy I added some financial exposure yesterday, and will consider adding more long exposure today, should the market conditions warrant it. Indicators Volatility Index (VIX) – VIX sold for two straight days, and 6.8% yesterday alone, with the potential to see a retest of 12.00 in the very [...]
My Swing Trading Strategy I closed out one of my trades yesterday that simply wasn’t doing anything for me and was simply wavering far too much due to the low volume, summer trading. However, I added one additional trade to the portfolio and looking to ride my two positions that [...]
My Swing Trading Strategy The market decided to throw a temper-tantrum on Friday, with above average volume, and sell-off that wiped out one of my long positions. Should the market want to shake off the sell-off, I am more than open to adding a new long position, however, I am [...]
My Swing Trading Strategy I was stopped out of my Disney (DIS) trade yesterday, primarily due to the heavy influence from the Netflix (NFLX) earnings miss. However, I added two additional trades following the stop-out, and will consider adding a third position if the early morning strength can hold. Indicators [...]
My Swing Trading Strategy I booked some profits yesterday with a +2.4% profit in Nike (NKE) and +2.1% in Twitter (TWTR). I had a day-trade in Square (SQ) that started out great, but couldn’t hold the gains into the close, so sold it for a small profit of +0.3%. I only have one position [...]
Sectors as a whole remain bullish, despite recent market pullback. The two sectors that I like the least are the financials and the materials. Both of them look problematic, and the financials are showing more weakness today, despite already being oversold. […]
Half the sectors look solid – the other half, not so much. Technology continues to be the place to trade. The thing I have to be careful of is that I don’t get overloaded in that sector, because we have all seen the days where tech is selling but nothing [...]
