Category Archives: Trends

Name That Technical Pattern!

Posted on March 24, 2011 by Tom

Three different stocks, three different (possible) technical patterns.  Can my readers tell me where and what these technical patterns are? Stock #1 Stock #2 Stock #3

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Breakout Stock Pattern Recognition

Posted on January 19, 2011 by Tom

I love trading breakouts and piling into trends.  As such I’ve been spending an awful lot of time trying to understand patterns that the assets make prior to breaking out and forming new trends. It’s not rocket science, from a … Continue reading →

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SLV Tricked Us!

Posted on February 22, 2010 by Tom

$SLV seems to have tricked us after bouncing and closing above the 50 WMA last week.  That's good news and it appears SLV will be gaining steam this week as it rides up trend channel.  If $SLV closes above the … Continue reading →

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The Euro Is About To…

Posted on February 19, 2010 by Tom

Blow chunks, suck donkey dick, or  whatever metaphor you want to use if it breaks through and closes below $1.35.  Could it be temporary? I don't know but the daily chart (not shown in this post) already shows the 50 … Continue reading →

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Would You Buy DNDN?

Posted on February 16, 2010 by Tom

$DNDN is routinely making all time highs and the question I pose this morning is, would you buy it now?  A lot of people are scared to buy all time highs. They think that since its at an all time high, … Continue reading →

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Is SLV Tricking Us?

Posted on February 11, 2010 by Tom

$SLV is acting strangely again. A warning flag came up in my model that the trend might be breaking down in this ETF BUT it sure looked that way back in July 2009 as well.  Then it broke below the … Continue reading →

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A Review Of My RFV Trade

Posted on January 26, 2010 by Tom

$RFV was a winner for me. In fact it was my largest winner in the bunch, clocking in over 12% or about +3R.  However, it got taken out via a stop on 1/21/10 as the market looked like it started … Continue reading →

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A Review Of My V Trade

Posted on January 26, 2010 by Tom

I entered Visa ($V) back on 12/22/09 after it made an all time high, with heavy volume, the day before.  It then went sideways for a month and I was finally taken out on 1/22, right below its 50 DMA. … Continue reading →

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A Review of NEP

Posted on January 25, 2010 by Tom

I've been posting a few candlestick chart scans and asking my readers, "would you buy them" here and now or just posting some basic commentary about them being screwed.  Let's take a look at how one of them faired after … Continue reading →

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Making Money In Microcaps

Posted on January 20, 2010 by Tom

I got taken out in FDM yesterday after riding a bit of its trend.  I made money on this one, about 8.5%.  Not too shabby.

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Mr. Market Took Me Out Today

Posted on January 20, 2010 by Tom

And yesterday out of a total of 5 positions.  One position was a good gain (FDM) but the others added up to slight losses; add them all up and I'm down only $5.  I'm not upset, just satisfied my system … Continue reading →

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Would You Buy BIDU?

Posted on January 18, 2010 by Tom

Well would you punk?  BIDU made a gap up under heavy volume after the anouncement that Google might leave China.  The first candlestick after the news was a hammer at the top of a resistance line, which brought out the … Continue reading →

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