Consolidation

It looks like we are forming a consolidation in all of the majors. My vision is much better now that I am studying under my mentor Dutch or Yoda as I call him. He has me aligned with John Person’s team and it is really great. I should have made this move a long time ago. Stay tuned for amazing results.

Resistance Possible

This has been a nice run since I posted on the 8th. I really am surprised this run is going as long as it is. I do expect this to go into a whip saw motion now. All of the majors are forming a topping pattern. SPY Doji, DIA first down day since the 6th, QQQ is a doji and IWM is hitting resistance. So let’s see how it goes from here.

Finding Support

Looks like we have a bounce. Yesterday it found support and today we are moving up. My last post on IWM said support would be much lower. I am not sure where I came up with this number. It is too far away from the price. I may have made a typo. Regardless we are moving back up. It is a good time to get in for the swing trades. I am staying away due to the testing we are doing with a day strategy.

IWM Going Down

IWM has made the move to the downside. It is below it’s 30SMA and has support at 73.92. We will have to see if it bounces up off of this support. We have gone from paper trading to live with what I call the Camarilla and Persons Pivot system. We are only trading a small portion of the portfolio until we have it down. We discovered on Friday that we need to multiply the position size calculated from the stocks price by the delta. This keeps the risk reward in right relationship.

Testing Testing Testing LIVE

We are very busy testing strategies learned from two books I have read lately. The first book is Candlestick and Pivot Point Trading Triggers written by John Person’s. This is an eye opener to the use of pivot points. The second book is Secrets of a Pivot Boss written by Frank Ochoa. This is a book that opens your eyes further to the use of pivots. To give you an idea we are testing a strategy that is a day trading strategy. It catches swings inside the day. This strategy is yielding some great results. This week we traded 83% success. This is only with two triggers. I call it a S1 R1 bounce. We should be going live after one more week.

A Little about January

This is a pretty easy trade. The market is in a huge BULL rally. There is a liquidity problem in the world and traders are looking for a place for their money. Well guess what equities are the place for now. Gold is a good play also. I am going to be looking for ways to buy gold. If anyone knows a correct way to accomplish this please advise.

I’m BACK.

I have not been here in a few weeks. It has been crazy. I changed a clutch with a friends help on a Ford Explorer. I am studying and reading trading books like crazy. I have read the Disciplined Trader, Candlestick and Pivot Point Trading and a pdf about Opening Ranges. In my spare time I have been back testing various trading strategies. I am excited to report this is paying off. We are finding strategies that are working very well. So stay tuned….I will be posting some of this as we bring on various rules.

Santa Clause Rally…Here we go

I spent most of the long weekend studying the market. I am reading a book by Mark Douglas called The Disciplined Trader. It is very insightful. This book came from a recommendation by Tom “Dutch” Holland with Masterswingtraders.com. I am now a member of his site. Well with all of that said we are testing everything before going live with any of it. So I imagine I will be in study mode for a while.

One of the main lessons I have been reminded of is that the markets are reality. So seeing the Santa Clause Rally this morning will be interesting to watch. Whether we are right or wrong does not matter. It is whether we control our losses and make some money that is important.

Resistance Close at Hand

I am not comfortable with the low volume. All of the majors SPY, DIA, QQQ & IWM are at resistance. The SPY and the DIA moved above one line of resistance and are facing another line pretty close to where they are. The QQQ and IWM are right a their diagonal resistance. With the low volume I am going to stay on the sidelines. I am looking into starting with masterswingtraders.com. I feel they will match the style I am trying to adopt. We shall see.