Trade Setups

I want to be clear – not all of them are bullish.   There are a mix of stocks that are benefiting from the Coronavirus pandemic – like Kroger (KR), and others that are selling off hard but approaching some major long-term support levels that if it can hold and the market can hold steady (doubtful

About 90% of these stocks are too oversold to short right now, but wait…  The stock market is insanely oversold right now. Can it go lower? Sure, but that doesn’t mean the risk justifies the reward. Right now it doesn’t The market is at historically oversold levels. I’m talking about being on par with October

There are 25 stocks I am paying close attention to here.  The market is hitting massive, massive extremes, only eclipsed by the 2008 recession and the October 1987 stock market crash. The sell-off reached the same fervor as what was seen in December 2018 when that sell-off finally bottomed. 

Is the Coronavirus priced in? Or do you sell all rips? Considering the stock market has pulled back 16% from its all-time highs in less than two weeks, one has to ask himself, “how much of this Coronavirus is now priced in?” So far it isn’t taking off in the United States and spreading like wild

The bulls are trying – gotta give them credit for that at least. Last week if felt  like the market was going straight to zero, this week, everyone is acting like the Coronavirus has a cure and the worst is behind us. Where’s the truth? Somewhere in the  middle. The market is rallying because it

Shorting stocks is relevant again! I didn’t post a short watch-list last week due to the shortened holiday week, but man, I wish I would have now. This market has gone to trash incredibly fast, but personally, I don’t think people are respecting the downside to this market. I have had so many people call

I’m not touching this stock market just yet.  Yeah, the bulls have managed to rally a respectable amount off the lows, 30 points as of this writing, but still a 94 point sell-off, and there have been enough of these kinds of sell-offs before, that it doesn’t take much to pull the rug on traders

I’m a bit surprised this market isn’t down 30-40 handles on SPX today.  I also can’t remember when a company like Apple (AAPL) has been able to warn on earnings guidance and only take just over a one percent hit in the process. I remember the January 2018 decline when they did something similar and

This is (at least) a two-part series on the anatomy of a good trade setup. I go through what it takes to find a good trade setup and what exactly that looks like. Not all of it involves a chart or analysis - in fact, much of it has to do with your approach, and

Shorting stocks in this market feels like an impossible task. I have a few short positions right now, but tons of longs to offset them. Even so, my short positions today are doing enough to really be a real irritation to me today. In fact right now, in the middle of this post, I closed