Technical Analysis

Why You Should Be Betting Against Financial Stocks

Jan 30th, 2012 | By | Category: Featured, Technical Analysis
Investor uncertainty about Europe’s massive debt debacle is on the verge of dragging down the financial sector. Today, I want to show you why Europe still remains a threat — even though Wall Street seems to have forgotten about it — and how you can make one single move to ...read more


Chart Smarts: Why July Could Bring a Rally in the S&P 500

Jul 14th, 2011 | By | Category: Featured, Investing Strategies, Technical Analysis
The market has been a mess recently... Thumbing through the financial pages of any newspaper, I could pick out a half-dozen conflicting, convoluted, or crazy market predictions for the second half of 2011. And none of it is doing much good for individual investors. When the volume of noise on Wall Street ...read more


Chart Smarts: Squeezing Gains From This Toxic IPO Market

Jun 16th, 2011 | By | Category: Featured, Investing Strategies, Technical Analysis
To most people, the shares of recent IPOs – new companies that become publicly traded for the first time – look red hot... Yesterday the market’s latest IPO, Pandora Media (NYSE:P) rallied double digits. Back in May, LinkedIn’s IPO (NYSE:LNKD) rallied 47% in its first day of trading. Again, to most people, ...read more


Chart Smarts: Generating 45.5% Gains With a Low Risk, 2-Day Trade

Jun 9th, 2011 | By | Category: Featured, Investing Strategies, Technical Analysis
I realize that the idea of generating 45.5% gains in just two days sounds like fantasy. It sounds like the sort of gain number that’s reserved for the well-connected hedge-fund types, not for everyday retail investors. Worse, it sounds like a quick turnaround on an incredibly risky investment. But looks ...read more


Why Now’s the Time to Buy the Tech Company Everyone Else Hates

May 19th, 2011 | By | Category: Featured, Over the Counter Markets, Penny stocks, Pink sheet stocks, Technical Analysis
You may have heard of “the cloud” before. No, it’s not a white, fluffy thing in the sky or the catchphrase in a recent mattress commercial — it’s the latest and greatest industry buzzword out there in the tech space today. And unlike most, it’s a buzzword that has significant ...read more


A Trader’s Take: Should You Still Buy Silver?

May 3rd, 2011 | By | Category: Commodities, Featured, Investing Strategies, Over the Counter Markets, Penny stocks, Pink sheet stocks, Technical Analysis
At the beginning of 2011 I gave a special forecast to Agora Financial Reserve members (see below)… the resounding recommendation was for silver. Specifically I was quoted saying “I see more potential in silver [than gold.] I look for silver to double in price this year, again.” In retrospect that was ...read more


Use “The Force”: Harnessing Volume to Predict and Understand Stock Prices

Apr 15th, 2011 | By | Category: Featured, Penny stocks, Technical Analysis
“A Jedi’s strength flows from the force.” — Yoda Dear Penny Sleuther, Although market volume is a crucial piece of investment information, the majority of the public is ignorant of it. Fundamental analysts do not consider volume, whereas technical analysts underutilize it. In my new book Investing with Volume Analysis I discuss ...read more


Why Penny Stock Investors Should be Watching for a Breakout in Metals

Mar 31st, 2011 | By | Category: Featured, Investing Strategies, Technical Analysis
Serious bullish setups are taking place in scores of precious metals and metal stocks right now. Here’s everything you need to know as a penny stock investor to take advantage of a breakout in metals… Historically, when stocks fail to produce gains, investors have turned to “safer” alternatives like gold or ...read more


Chart Smarts: How to Trade a Head-and-Shoulders for 51% Gains

Mar 18th, 2011 | By | Category: Featured, Options, Over the Counter Markets, Penny stocks, Pink sheet stocks, Technical Analysis
If you’ve been following the markets for a while, chances are you’ve heard of the “head-and-shoulders pattern”. I’d venture to say that it’s probably the most well-known chart pattern in the world of technical trading. But just being able to spot this formation on a chart doesn’t necessarily mean that ...read more


3 Important Steps That Could Save Your Portfolio

Mar 16th, 2011 | By | Category: Featured, Investing Strategies, Over the Counter Markets, Penny stocks, Pink sheet stocks, Technical Analysis
First it was unrest in the Middle East. Now it’s a natural disaster of unfathomable proportions in Japan. The world is throwing everything it can at the economy, and yesterday, stocks here in the U.S. tumbled under the pressure. Before you begin thinking about where to go from here, it's important ...read more