Posts Tagged ‘ Technical Analysis ’

Selling in May and Going Away

May 7th, 2012 | By | Category: Featured, Investing Strategies, Technical Analysis
Should you “sell in May and go away?” After Friday’s 1.6% drop in the S&P 500, I’ll bet that a whole lot more people are saying yes this weekend... The idea of selling in May and going away is an old Wall Street adage that’s based on the seasonality of summer ...read more


What the Mega Millions Means for Stocks

Apr 2nd, 2012 | By | Category: Featured, Investing Strategies, Technical Analysis
What does last week’s record Mega Millions jackpot have to do with the stock market? Absolutely nothing. But you wouldn’t know it to look at the Wall Street Journal on Friday... After all, the lotto was featured as a major economic story in the WSJ this weekend. All told, I counted seven different ...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


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


Avoid Serious Losses By Following the Rules

Mar 1st, 2011 | By | Category: Featured, Investing Strategies, Over the Counter Markets, Penny stocks, Pink sheet stocks, Technical Analysis
Another hectic week for stocks is behind us, and more than a few investors have been left scratching their heads. Remember, it’s only natural to get frustrated in a market like this. Don’t think that anyone – present company included – is immune from the frustrations of seeing portfolio positions dip ...read more


Musings of an Options Expert: 20 Years of Successful Trades

Feb 22nd, 2011 | By | Category: Featured, Investing Strategies, Technical Analysis
“We have 2 classes of forecasters: Those who don't know... and those who don't know they don't know.” — John Kenneth Galbraith The year of the American Contagion; the year of chickens coming home to roost; the year of the bailout — 2008 — is heading into history as a momentous ...read more