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By TheStockBandit on January 21, 2010  |  Comments 0

Prepare for Anything

Learning to purposely manage a malfunction in a controlled environment helps avoid panic should it ever happen unannounced.

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By TheStockBandit on January 19, 2010  |  Comments 0

ANF Looking Vulnerable

Anytime I see a stock crack support and fail to reclaim it, I pay attention.  Especially when it makes no effort to rebound and merely consolidates after that key breakdown.

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By TheStockBandit on January 15, 2010  |  Comments 4

5 Years!

In the world of trading where 5 minutes can seem like an eternity, 5 years feels like a really long time.  That’s the number I’m celebrating today, as it was 5 years ago today that I published my first post over at my original blog.

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By TheStockBandit on January 13, 2010  |  Comments 0

Keys From a 6-Month Streak

Anytime you find yourself in the midst of a streak in your trading, it’s worth paying attention to. When you’re winning, you need to find out why.

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By TheStockBandit on January 12, 2010  |  Comments 0

Is NFLX Leading Again?

With new highs being hit almost daily in the market, there has been an abundance of long-sided trade candidates. However, weak stocks are still in our midst, and it can serve us well to watch for those outliers - whether as individual profit vehicles or simply as hedges.

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By Jeff White on January 07, 2010  |  Comments 2

The Envy of Other Traders

If you have traded for virtually any length of time, you’ve no doubt found yourself on both ends of the spectrum when it comes to winning and losing.

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Video Review of the Indexes 2-7-2010

Last week proved to be an eventful one, although you wouldn’t know it from the net changes in the indexes from the prior week.  What started out as a relief rally quickly turned into another nightmare selloff for the bulls, before a late surge Friday erased much of the damage.

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Video Review of the Indexes 1-31-2010

Following an initial pullback from the January highs, no bounce was produced last week with the dip-buyers failing to appear.  The group which has been so responsible for upside follow through since the market turned higher in March of 2009 suddenly disappeared, and stocks have been declining steadily for a couple of weeks now.
Key levels [...]

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Video Review of the Indexes 1-24-2010

Last week we saw the market closed on Monday, making for a holiday-shortened week of trading.  That certainly didn’t translate into quiet action, as traders made every day count.
Tuesday’s upside tested resistance, but without a breakout.  From there, the sellers took control, raising cash more and more aggressively as the week progressed.  In the end, [...]

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Video Review of the Indexes 1-18-2010

The bulls maintained their overall control last week, although they did allow the market to slip a little.  The NAZ led the downside, but no key technical breaches occurred.

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I See You PCU

Strength in this market has been relentless, and that means many individual names are riding the wave.  It can be difficult to work through robust watch lists in search of great plays, but often times it boils down to identifying the most valid levels, knowing if they’re violated that opportunity will emerge.

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Video Review of the Indexes 1-10-2010

The New Year is underway, and it has started just like 2009 ended - with strength.

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Nothing Wrong WIT This One

Solid technical setups often times will have more than one positive thing going for them.  It may simply be having the market’s wind at its back, or it may be more like the stock I’m going to show you today.