The Market Speculator

I entered four positions today, 3 shorts and one long. My market bias has turned bearish with recent distribution (price down stong oh high...

The FXI weekly chart is quite illuminating and a good example of the importance of volume. What does the current volume pattern tell us? ...

I went short 100 shares of MON at $120.76. Rather than analyze the trade setup as I have been doing, I'd like to take a look at MON...

I am hearing a lot of bullish chatter amongst bloggers and media about the near future for gold. This seems to always happen when a former l...

GTLS is an earnings breakout play that has shown accumultion as it consolidates the breakout move. A key day was early last weak when it ...

During every cycle I have a few stocks that I use as "go to" plays over and over again. I'll keep taking the same trade in a s...

Gold is getting interesting as a short term play (bearish) that is counter to the longterm trend (bullish). If light volume continues on th...

Before we look at the current chart, take a look at my recent DBA posts for a refresher on finding stocks/markets that are topping and read...

I've made a few trades that I'll have to update later. In the meantime, take a look at this chart of DECK. It's been one of my...

I know Agriculture has dominated my posts over the past two weeks, but it's too hard to ignore the lack of accumulation in the sector. ...

I took a small short position in MON today, shorting 150 shares at $108.53. As noted in my previous posts , distribution has taken over ag...

As I previously discussed , I am no longer bullish on the ag sector. As DBA shows, the ETF is showing a distribution pattern common among t...

On February 26th, I noted my skepticism about the ag sector. At the time ag ETF DBA was trading at $43. As of this posting, it is at $39....

I went short 400 shares of CPLA at $55.68. This was a textbook short play that took a nose dive shortly after I entered. I bought after the...

I've been very busy, so I haven't had a chance to update my trades. As stated in the comments section this morning, I unloaded a bu...

I bought 200 shares of DUG at $46.56. DUG is an ETF that is short oil and gas. Looking at the chart, we see major accumulation and a pul...

As I expected, last week's bounce was prone to failure and it looks like we are going to test the late January lows. I am weighted to t...

I am short 100 shares AAPL at $177.68. I'll take 50 shares off the table at the recent low of $170, and the other 50 if the stock reache...

It is inevitable that most momentum stocks will fall just as far as they climbed. Many investors and traders end up losing most or all of th...

Tereas Lo has posted an excellent article highlighing sentiment cycles. It's ironic that she uses the dry shipping industry as an examp...