The broader markets are trying to hold steady just barely down on the day after having started the day just barely up. But those indices are hiding the ugly action underneath, with lots of stocks down 3-5% and breadth stinking too. Work those buy orders slow and/or look to add to some of the shorts […]
A flattish open! Stop the presses, it’s…
A flattish open! Stop the presses, it’s been a long, long time since we last had a flattish open. Well, it’s been a few days at least. At any rate, it feels a bit slippery out there to this trader and I expect the path of least resistance for the intraday action today is lower. […]
The days just come and go in a hurry as …
The days just come and go in a hurry as we sit here staring at these blinking lights all morning and afternoon, don’t they? Look at any intraday chart of any major stock index and you’ll see the same pattern I mentioned earlier about how the stocks seem to stay right about where they open […]
One unmistakable pattern in the markets …
One unmistakable pattern in the markets the last couple weeks — where they open, they pretty much close. While we’ve had our fair share of 1% intraday moves since I started trading again, we haven’t had a full intraday swing from positive to negative or from negative to positive in a long time. The markets […]
I shorted some XLF, an exchange-traded f…
I shorted some XLF, an exchange-traded fund (ETF) that represents a bunch of financial, mortgage servicers that gets me short the TBTF, bankster stocks that are somehow still receiving “emergency” welfare and interest rate loans from the taxpayer and are now going to start literally transferring some of that taxpayer largesse that they are receiving […]
Big moves across the board in most of ou…
Big moves across the board in most of our stocks this morning and the market breathed a sigh of relief that Japan isn’t any worse than it is. We were buying aggressively at lower levels and our portfolio shows that relief today. I’m probably going to work to start building on some of my short […]
It has been a very volatile trading sess…
It has been a very volatile trading session as expected this morning. There was no Oomph since the open. I didn’t do any trades today and I’m going to go fishing instead. Remember to enjoy life and I’ll see you guys early this Monday.
Another strong rally to start the day bu…
Another strong rally to start the day but once again it feels like there’s to be little oomph from here to the close. I won’t be looking to force any trades today but there are still a couple new names that I’m looking to buy, so we will see. The market is indeed looking past […]
We never did get much of a lift from the…
We never did get much of a lift from the opening pop, though the close was indeed rather strong. Things can change in a heartbeat, as always, but it sure does seem like the market’s path of least resistance is higher, if we can avoid more traumatic headlines from Japan. My best trade […]
It sure looked like we were going to fad…
It sure looked like we were going to fade all the way back to flat or down on the day there for a while, but the market has stabilized as the contra hour starts. I’m not pulling any triggers this afternoon. On another note, doesn’t it figure that the current Republican/Democrat Regime leader, President Obama, […]
I’m following almost the exact same play…
I’m following almost the exact same playbook I’ve been outlining for the last year. Despite the pullback they were already in, and despite the heart-wrenching tragedies and worrisome radiation threats from Japan, the broader stock markets have hung in there, down only 5-10%. Meanwhile, many of my favorite “app revolution” stocks, some of which were […]
And here comes the relief rally predicat…
And here comes the relief rally predicated upon the not-horrid news flow out of Japan. That’s not to say the news flow isn’t tragic and worrisome. We’ve got a nice, wide rally to start the day but I don’t expect we’ll get a whole lot more magnitude of a move to the upside for here […]
The DJIA has again rallied more than 100…
The DJIA has again rallied more than 100 points intraday off its lows…and just starting on the contra-hour. I was actually hoping that we’d get down to 11500 or so today so I could really step up the buying, but as it is, I’ve continued my disciplined, steady approach. Barring a major sell-off into the […]
Bought some Apple common and some more R…
Bought some Apple common and some more Riverbed. Markets are freaking out over the reality that Japan’s nuclear problems are indeed worse than the Japanese government had been letting on. I’ll look to buy more every 100 points lower for now and I’ll be more aggressive each tranche in.
Just bought about 10% of what I’d consid…
Just bought about 10% of what I’d consider a full position in Riverbed. The stock’s triple from where it was when I first put it into the Revolution Investing portfolio, but I think it will be headed higher in coming years, so I pay up for it today. Baby steps for now though. If DJIA […]
Its a flattish open and the Japanese nuc…
Its a flattish open and the Japanese nuclear disasters are dominating the news once again. My biggest fear both as an investor and as a human being is that the government is downplaying the damage already being done to our planet. I remember mocking the five to six thousand barrel a day original estimates from […]
And the contra-hour was a strong one tod…
And the contra-hour was a strong one today, with the DJIA rallying more than a hundred points from its intraday lows and cutting its daily loss in half. I’ll continue to step up the buying into any coming weakness. I’m walking around with butterflies in my stomach as I start trading again the last couple […]
I did a nice bit of buying this morning …
I did a nice bit of buying this morning as noted earlier and am now watching the stocks try to lift into the close. The action, given the Japanese nuclear disaster layered on top of the recent pullbacks that we were in the midst of anyway, seems to point towards a market that wants to […]
I’ve bought some common stock in Celesti…
I’ve bought some common stock in Celestica, Cypress and Nokia, as planned. I’m as nervous as any other trader about the downside possibilities if this Japan nuclear crisis gets any more extreme than it already has — if you even believe that the governments aren’t downplaying the contamination and damage already done. But as an […]
Yesterday after the market close I said …
Yesterday after the market close I said that if we had had a down 2% day I probably would have bought more stocks yesterday. Well we have that 2% close down day this morning as the world wakes up two more nuclear headlines out of Japan. I am indeed looking to scale into long positions […]