The SPy is not quite as bullish looking but the short term momentum is clearly higher which is making an excellent long trade environment...for now. Risk management is job #1

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Below are 10 stocks I will be watching for potential trades. There are 2 potential short plays (CINF & PWRD) and 8 potential longs. The numbers written in on the chart are levels where I have set alerts on my trading system, they are not necessarily buy or sell levles. I set alerts to ensure I don’t miss an opportunity as the stock gains momentum. If I trade any of these stocks I will most likely buy on strength and sell short on weakness, I like to enter as momentum builds from a critical level. I will often sell a small piece of a position if it moves as little as 20-30 cents very quickly and then continue to hold remaining shares for more strength. These are not recommendations, just some ideas which appear to be ready for movement. I know nothing about …

at KNIGHT TRADER BLOG wrote a review of MY BOOK. Here is an excerpt "Brian Shannon's book technical analysis through multiple time frames is a modern day version of Stan Weinstein's trading principles applied to 21st Century technology. Brian takes difficult technical analysis concepts and explains them in a way that makes them easy to understand and comprehend." Read the entire review HERE and be sure to check his blog each day for trading ideas. I'm still having difficulties with getting recordings done on my new computer, but here are some stocks I will be looking at during the first couple days of the coming trading week. Again, these are just what appear to be low risk/ high potential profit setups, they are not recommendations. There is still a lot of opportunity in many of the volatile shipping and solar plays for aggressive intraday traders. POTENTIAL LONG CANDIDATES...

The point of showing my order book yesterday was to emphasize how my number one focus is always risk management. At the time I entered many of the stocks, I expected them to continue to trend for most of the day. Even with expectations for continued movement higher, I sold partial positions into strength early on. I tend to go in aggressively as momentum builds and then scale out into continued strength. It is never my thought that I am selling at the top, instead, I am trying to reduce risk by realizing some profits and reducing my exposure. There are many times that a stock will continue to go higher without me and I am comfortable with that because, as we saw yesterday, the market can reverse quickly and erase all profits if you do not aggressively manage open positions. Some people say ...

Bulls and Bears make money Greedy pigs get slaughtered and disciplined pigs become rich!

Last Saturday I posted some stocks I would be watching for Potential trend trades those stocks are in the table below. As much as I liked some of the setups, I did not expect the group to do as well as they did. The average stock on the list gained over 8% on the week. Seventeen of the stocks were up more than 10%! The best performing stocks were related to solar, shipping and Chinese companies. Of course there were losers too. Only one of the six short sale candidates declined in price, but the worst loser was a long candidate. The stock which lost the most was one I traded and posted the trade on FEED As the title of that post indicates, risk management is job number one of any market participant. I traded that stock long on ...

One of the principal reasons for asset allocation is risk management. 

Market risk is generally defined as return fluctuation – volatility.  That is different than issue risk (the risk of owning a single stock or bond issue), which includes not only volatility, but also the risk of company bankruptcy or default on bonds.

While most investment professionals understand and take the risk reduction aspect of asset allocation for granted, that is not the case for all investment advisory clients.  We have been asked on more than one occasion, how we know that to be true, and for some evidence of that truth.

There are probably many ways to respond to that question, one of which is with a practical example with real market data.  We have created one such example for this article.

The image below shows the relative weekly return and weekly rate of change of six index investment funds representing six major

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The fast paced world of trading excites us - buyers vs. sellers, large capitalized players vs smaller and quicker/nimble players, etc.However we at Trade-Ideas recognize that for many in the investing public, trading twenty or thirty times a day is a lot - completely alien. That's why our tools are also made for longer-term traders.Let's define some terms first.The difference between day traders and swing or position traders is length of trade: the day trader exits position by the end of the trading day. Longer-term traders ride the position for a couple of days or weeks.How can a real-time intra day scanner be used to find longer term trades?

We asked them (our surveyed customers) and they responded. Trade-Ideas focuses on getting the longer-term trader through the best initial entry point and getting him/her to the next day and beyond. That's

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