The Market Speculator

Sometimes swing trading is easier than we make it. In the trading game it literally pays to keep it simple . Our stock of the day, EA is a...

Salvador Dali Have no fear of perfection, you will never reach it - Salvador Dali  As swing traders we all know that a market pullback...

I am short ACI at $28.05 based on the extreme overbought readings in stochastic, along with extended price action. This coal setup was feat...

CBI : 200 shares at $11.00 This stock, as with most of my trades, was mentioned in the Trade Report last night. It's holding above bot...

As noted in yesterday's Trade Report, I went short GLD @90. My stop is around $93 with an initial target in the $84-86 range. The cha...

I bought 350 shares of NOV at an average price of $60.54 (trade posted on blog Friday morning). The Setup : Oversold Bounce. Extremely over...

Commodities are extremely oversold. This sets up one of my favorite trades, the oversold bounce trade. I will likely go long a commodity o...

In last night's Trade Report , I highlighted commodities as an oversold bounce setup. I used POT as my primary example and entered toda...

I took a small short position today in JRCC. The stock has been in a strong topping downtrend and has pulled back up to the 50 day MA. Stoc...

Here is a list of sectors with the highest stocha stic readings. I use this information for three setups: 1. To find sectors with good cha...

I bought 100 shares of APA at $133.34. Setup : Trend Pullback. The stock has pulled back to the 50 day moving average, where it found supp...

I bought CYBS four days ago, after the stock had pulled back from the breakout point and stochastics crossed over from oversold territory. ...

Over the past few months overbought stochastics readings have given reliable short term sell/short signals. We are just about there right n...

Long time readers know one of my mantras is to keep on doing it until it ceases to work. Once I see a pattern emerge, I will continually go ...

I'm scared as hell to buy a financial, even with a small position size. However, if I didn't know the name of the company behind th...

I bought 200 shares of SSO at $65.84. For those that didn't read last night's post , this trade is based on the oversold stochastic...

If recent history is any indication, the next time the stochastic indicator hits an extreme oversold reading of less than 20, it will be tim...

Way back in November I asked readers to submit questions for a Q & A session. The response was much more than I anticipated, and even a...

Exxon Mobil Corp. (XOM) broke out to new highs on above average volume. A low volume pullback to the prior highs, just under $79, would nor...