Shorting Stocks

It is one thing to keep a list of short setups in this market, it is quite another thing to act on the ones you are tracking.  Right now, the short plays aren’t rewarding investors and traders alike. When the market starts to act a bit dicey as it did on Friday, I’ll add a

The bears are simply trying to show us now, how quickly it can blow golden opportunities. Yesterday’s 20 minute sell-off was impressive. For moment there, it looked like it could really, really get ugly, but it didn’t. Instead a change to the Senate schedule (favorable towards getting health care and tax reform done) was released

We all need some short setups in our lives every once in a while right? Well, the S&P 500 is breaking the 20-day moving average and looking to make a move back down towards the 50-day moving average. I’ve closed out half of my long positions and holding on to a few longs still. while

How many times have I wrote a post that includes the phrase “The bears blew another opportunity”? Except for a handful of occasions, over the past 8 years and more specifically, over the past year, sell-offs tend to be nothing more than a blip on the radar.  You have to take them serious, but it

Risk On Attitude has Created a No-Fear Market Trading Atmosphere Intraday sell-offs aren’t even being taken serious by traders any more. Before the market can drop five points on SPX, mentions of BTFD and “Buy the ‘you-know-what’ dip” begins to permeate throughout financial social media.  You want to know why the VIX is in the

Bearish Trade setups – to watch, for now.  The bears, or what’s left of them, are really struggling to make sense of this market. I do too, at times, but that doesn’t mean I go shorting it. There will be a time for that, and when that time is, nobody knows.  For now, you have

The market refuses to sell-off hard and avoid even a short-term breakdown. Even today, yes you have some downward pressures but all that it has really been good at doing is selling off the market’s afternoon gains of late.  SPX is down 3 out of the last 5 trading sessions. The two days that SPX

All my bullish swing trading setups to follow this week Bulls are back to being in full control of this market. We got today what we haven’t gotten in a long time from the market and that is follow through. Follow through from a previous day’s rally. Follow through on a break through a key

My bearish watch list for the week How many people were anticipating a UK Snap Election prior to today? Yeah, nobody. It is quite amazing how many things, of late, the market can find to freak out about. Brexit was last year, it is happening! Apparently the algos have yet to get over it. They

My watch list to follow this week So far the bulls are actually managing to put together a bounce this week and my watch list of long setups are looking pretty nice. Granted, it is only Monday, and the volume is likely to only be about half of what has been seen on average. So