Are you getting whiplash day trading this market?
If you are, that’s a symptom of a vague trading plan. The stock market is offering amazing opportunity right now, if you’re patient. Being patient implies you know exactly what you are looking for.
Being patient also implies you hold the good trades because they meet your criteria (click the chart of DG above from yesterday). If you are exhausted, frustrated and looking for a trading secret that will help you earn six-figures, it’s this…
Pick one strategy. Stop trying to trade everything.
What does this mean for your trade ideas? It means our focus remains industry and sector specific.
Stock Market Today: Map of the S&P 500
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Day Trading Game Plan: The SPY ETF Outlook
SPY price action still above the 20 ema on the daily chart but it could not trade above the open. Less than 68 millions shares gives us another inconclusive day from a volume perspective but…this was the first day in a while the sellers held into the close.
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Pete’s Notes:
- More bad retail news this morning as KSS profit drops 15% y-o-y but stronger than expected. Stock higher pre-market.
- Oil gets technical buy signal.
- AMZN a beast if you can handle the swings.
- NFLX needs to get over %115 for me to want to be long.
Charts in Focus
M Macy’s and other Retail Stocks Drag Market Lower
M and other retail stocks weighed on the market, a higher open today in this sector is another sell-short.
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Stocks to Trade 11-12-15 | Retail Stocks Drag Market Lower
Earnings in play today > 1M avg shares: FOSL, HP, JWN, KSS, SINA, VIAB, WUBA
Relative strength to yesterday’s SPY negative change from the open: AEM, DHI, MSI, QUNR, TAP, TOL, WTW
> 20sma, positive week and closed 2% higher from the open: DHI, MSI, TAP, WTW
<20sma, negative last 5 days and closed 2% lower from the open: m, vrx, mro, apc, twtr, wfm, feye, cvs, dg, esrx, tgt, coh, skx, etp, gmcr, rrc, tjx, nov, fl, cmi, wynn, paa, lulu, dyn, hca, rost, thc, aet, bby, hp, fit, vfc, oke, lng,
Bullish Ideas ATR/Volume/Price: TAP, WTW, BUD, AMZN, BIDU, DLPH, ADBE, FB, CTRP, GOOGL, HON, MCD, INTU, PRU, NFLX, COST, VLO, V, RCL, DIS, PSX
Bearish Ideas ATR/Volume/Price: m, mnk, cyh, gmcr, sm, rrc, skx, vrx, feye, kss, fl, dg, fit, thc, oke, lng, aet, vfc, tgt, wynn, bhi, wba, de, wdc, celg, scty, stx, hcn, yu,m, akam, ibm, mbly, cf, qcom,
Weak Stock Weak Close: m, mnk, cog, cyh, gmcr, urbn, rrc, skx, vrx, lulu, fit, thc, bbby, oke, kmi, lng, apc, etp, aet, vfc, cvs, tgt, sbh, rost, nov, wynn, wba, twtr, wfm
Strong Stock Weak Close: ADSK, C,
Weak Stock Strong Close: fe, tol
Strong Stock Strong Close: WTW, INFN, TAP, DHI, MSI
20 day Breakdown: apc, dg, ete, etp, fl, gmcr, kss, m, scty, urbn, wdc
20 Day Breakout: DHI, GE, TAP
2x Normal Volume: SYF, M, HZNP, TAP, GE, KSS, APC, BSX, ATW, KKR
Watch List Longs: GE, HON, MCD, PRU, JNJ, TRV, COST, VLO, KLAC, DD, EBAY, LUV, TXN, ADBE, INTU, HD
Watch List Short: wmt, bhi, adm, bby, aet, cvs, kss, axp, m, akam, qcom, wynn
Inside days: nvda, mcd, twtr, dal, brcm, mnk, tmus, met, yoku, aal, low, stt, mon, ual, utx, vmw, ba,