Volatility Index (VIX)

Swing Trade Approach: So here’s the thing, I closed out Royal Caribbean (RCL), my last position at an 11.4% profit today. The sell-off today was demoralizing as my longest holding swing-trade of two months to the day was knocked out of my portfolio. Granted, I took home 11.4% on the second half and +12.6% on

Swing Trade Approach: Quiet day on Friday for me, until the end, when I booked some profits in Suncor (SU) for +3.3% in profits. Netflix (NFLX) was another profitable trade, and one that I had to take profit son with earnings on Tuesday. The profits taken from that trade was for +2.8%. But the best part of the

Swing Trade Approach: Added two new long positions on breakouts yesterday while moving my stop-losses up on a number of existing trades. A number of my positions are also tracking the moving averages and any close below them, will lead me to closing out my positions. The stock market is looking at a 3-day weekend,

Swing Trade Approach: Overall a profitable day. I scaled back a tad, my long exposure, while keeping my short exposure the same. Still, I’m not against adding more positions here, but I have no desire to take on a ton of new long positions. I sold half my position in Shake Shack (SHAK) for a +12%, sold half

Swing Trade Approach: Closed out the last half of my Beyond Meat (BYND) trade $119.95 for a +37% profit. Stopped out of my Amazon (AMZN) position for a +2% profit. It’ll be interesting to see how much the Target Sales slash trickles into the rest of retail today. I’m not being overly aggressive to the long side right

Swing Trade Approach: Good day for profit taking, taking half of my position off in UBER at $34.27 for a +13.7% profit, and Beyond Meat (BYND) at $94.57 for a 8% profit. In both cases, I’ll let the rest of the position ride out. I added one additional long position, and still have a number

Swing Trade Approach: Took off half my position in Baidu (BIDU) at $140.29 for a +9% profit, and will let the rest ride. Also closed out all together my positions in Lowe’s (LOW) and Take Two Interactive (TTWO) for +2% and +3% in profits respectively. The profits are piling up and the rally in the market is quite amazing as the bulls managed

Swing Trade Approach: Took half my position off the table in McDonalds (MCD) for a quick 4.1% profit. I’m looking at this point for obvious reasons to close out a trade. As good as this rally has been, I don’t want to be a person who doesn’t take advantage of an amazing market rally and squander

Swing Trade Approach: Took some small gains off the table of trades Amgen (AMGN) and Starbucks (SBUX) that simply wasn’t providing enough return for the risk I was taking. Got knocked out of my Micron (MU) short trade at the open, following that damn upgrade they received this morning. Overall, I was fine with the returns of

Swing Trade Approach: I mean, the market gives little incentive to those looking to short this market, so it is hard to have any sizable short presence in this market. I have a few positions, but I am by and large, very long on this market. I’m looking for reasons to book gains at this