Gaps Archive
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Interesting Stocks for 12/27/2010 – Some ETF Love with a Twist from the Pacific
Today we have three etfs for your amusement and edification. The stock market has been really thin on volume. We expect that as managers go on vacation and leave their evil minions (underlings) to play with their egos, algos and their little computers. However, price over volume and price action has been good. We take [...] -
Want to Trade Without Stops? (Part Deux)
Treehouse was recommended as a long buy on this blog on June 29, 2010. A parabolic stop took us out of the trade, made a bit of money and put it someplace else. We did not think too much of it until two days ago when the market gapped THS down hard. Lessons learned: 1. [...] -
Interesting Stock for 8/9/2010 – Where the Longs are Drying Up Edition.
We got three total longs flashed by our systems on Friday. That is a pittance compared to about the 50 long signals that we saw at the start of this latest market rally. Is a new bear showing its claws? Probably… We will see everything with clarity when we start seeing those inverse ETFs peeking [...] -
Stock Market Trade Entry Optimization.
A lot has been written about how and when to enter a trade. However, in all the books we have read about the stock market we never encountered a discussion about how to buy stocks to get a fair price after your system generates a buy signal for the next morning. Do you chase stocks [...]