Shorting Stocks

My Swing Trading Approach I plan to let the stop-losses in my existing long positions do their work, while my one short position should help to mitigate any of their losses. A major sell-off today that would put price back into the gap from Wednesday's price action and would likely stir the bears to start

My Swing Trading Approach Following a massive stock market rally yesterday, across the board, I have a few trades in mind for today, but don't see myself adding but one new additional trade, and that is assuming the market can hold yesterday's gains, which looks slightly problematic at this point.  Thursday's Swing-Trade Ideas: Take a

My Swing Trading Approach The market is rallying following mid-term election results that give the United States a divided government with the House going back to the Democrats. This was pretty much priced in over the past month, and now, should the early morning strength hold, I'll look to add 1-2 new positions to the

Market has bounced off of the lows of last Monday and all seems to be good in the world again. However, we have a nasty mid-term elections today, and the results will be announced after the market closes and throughout the night. So the possibility for a volatile overnight trading session looms large here depending

My Swing Trading Approach I swung a trade to the short side yesterday, but quickly covered it in the afternoon, when the market started to pop higher. I'm not overly aggressive ahead of the midterms here simply because, it is hard to determine with any confidence what the ultimate outcome will be, particularly when it

My Swing Trading Approach I am coming back from a two day-hiatus from trading - one of my firsts in a very long time. I'm coming in 100% cash, and will look to deploy some of it, should the market provide some direction. I am careful here about getting overly zealous to the long side

My Swing Trading Approach I added three new trades to the portfolio yesterday, while being stopped out by another. Right now they are all positioned well, to add to their gains from yesterday's rally. However, caution is warranted as this market has proved plenty of times this past month that it doesn't like to hold

My Swing Trading Approach The bulls were unable to hold any of the early morning profits yesterday, which ultimately was nothing more than a sell-fest immediately following the market open. The potential for a bounce here in the market here looms very large, and likely to see it this week at some point. Morale among

My Swing Trading Approach I spent last week positioning myself, with a set of new long positions to be ready for an eventual bounce that looks to be unfolding today. I may add one additional long position if the rally continues to hold up, but early on, I will be letting my positions that were

My Swing Trading Approach  This is a tough market, too oversold to short, but not enouch conviction for a sustained bounce. In fact, there hasn’t been a single day of back-to-back gains since September 20th. That’s incredible really. Despite the huge, negative earnings reaction out of AMZN yesterday, and the market’s weakness today, either it