Good morning swing traders and welcome to the Compound Trading Weekly Swing Trading stock picks memo (Part 1 of 3) for the week of April 2, 2017! $BABA, $VRX, $NFLX, $WYNN, $URRE, $TAN, $TWLO, $GSIT, $AXP, $ABX, $RIG, $XLE, $SLX, $X, $XME, $AKS and more.

Email us at [email protected] anytime with any questions about any of the swing trades listed below. Or, if we get bogged down private message Curtis in trade room or direct message him on Twitter. Market hours are tough but we endeavor to get back to everyone after market each day.

Notices:

Good morning! 

The following are some of the stocks we are looking to add to our coverage and for now remain on our watchlist only (until this near term decision in markets plays out): $LIT, $CEW, $MYL, $TZA, $TREE, $NVDA, $SOXS, $KBH, $BCOR

Also, one point of discussion with coaching students lately has been returning to the triggers to use when buying and selling swing trade positions – this becomes vividly important especially in times of market chop.

As such, it is critical to understand the basics of PTPTRR – Price Trigger Power Trade Risk Reward. If you do not understand the basics of these principles you need to either get some quick coaching (usually five hours or less is all that is needed) or study up and research these important skills on your own – BUT do not swing trade until you know the basics of these principles please – thanks!

Specific to our picks below, we have updated the most important information and will flesh this out more as we go. 

This weeks publication is in three parts:

You can consider this new document below Part 1 of this week’s picks and the previous picks Part 2, you can find the previous swing trading picks updates here.

Also, click here for a weekly public post on swing trading simple charts for $DXY, $USDJPY, $VIX, $WTI, $GLD, $SLV, $GDX, and $SPY that we will call Part 3 of this weeks picks.

When using live charts (if and when provided), you can either press play button on chart (once opened) for a quick view or click the share icon at the bottom right of chart (just right of the thumbs up symbol) and then click “make it mine” – this will open chart in your browser. Any problems with this let us know. Also, please note, we can only create ten new live charts on TradingView a day so that is why you see some with live charts and over time we publish them.

Indicators on charts are represented as; 20 MA light blue, 50 MA Purple, 100 MA dark blue, 200 MA pink. 8 EMA Yellow, 21 EMA Green. VWAP when available orange.

Any updates below specific to the more recent reports are highlighted in red to simplify the process for you.

Stock Picks Coverage

$BABA

April 4 – Holding long 500 shares from 104.64 now trading 108.17. It is testing all time highs and we may add on a break of all time highs. If it pulls back we may cut for a small profit. First price target is 111.40 (see below)

$BABA Live chart with indicators including that SQZMOM indicator – sweeet tool! https://www.tradingview.com/chart/BABA/Lbao9BVu-BABA-Swing-Trade-going-well-Our-Swing-Trading-side-is-in-at-10/

March 27 – We’re long 104.64 500 shares March 22 at test of 20 MA. Stop is at our entry and we are looking for a fresh break-out. However, the market sentiment is not great right now so we are unsure. There is an upside pivot at 111.38 we are watching for resistance should price continue up. Also watching MACD close.

$BABA, Swing, Trading

$BABA Swing trade

March 20 – Wait for MACD to turn up and confirm and stay long until MACD turns down. The Stoch RSI seems to be frontrunning the MACD fyi. $BABA is one of my favorites right now and I see a long entry early in the week.

$BABA Live Trading Chart – https://www.tradingview.com/chart/SPY/GsGBi5f2-BABA-Daily-100-MA-50-MA-Cross-MACD-Pinch-SQZMOM-up-Stoch-RSI/

$BABA Daily 100 MA 50 MA Cross, MACD Pinch, SQZMOM up, Stoch RSI up. Wait for MACD for long. #swingtrading

$BABA, Swing, Trading, Chart

$BABA Daily 100 MA 50 MA Cross, MACD Pinch, SQZMOM up, Stoch RSI up. Wait for MACD for long. #swingtrading

$NFLX

April 4 – March 29 we entered 145.50 500 shares when MACD turned up per watch trigger below. Stop is at flat at entry and we will re-enter if we have to. Will look at adding pending triggers – will advise.

$NFLX Live chart with indicators https://www.tradingview.com/chart/NFLX/ozKJQ8t4-NFLX-March-29-we-entered-swing-trade-145-50-when-MACD-turned-t/

March 27 – MACD has been flat or turned down since last post. Looking close at MACD turn up and entry this week.

March 20 – The only thing that concerns me is the price staying above approximately 145.05 as a low on any given day. I may also look for that in addition to indicators lists below. Same thing with this one, exit when MACD turning down. Chances are high I will enter long early week.

Live $NFLX Chart – https://www.tradingview.com/chart/NFLX/4RQP5P9P-NFLX-Daily-abover-20-MA-Stoch-RSI-Revved-MACD-turning-up-SQZMOM/

$NFLX Daily abover 20 MA Stoch RSI Revved MACD turning up SQZMOM watch close for green. Long on MACD and QZMOM confirmation.

$NFLX, Swing Trading, Stocks

$NFLX Daily abover 20 MA Stoch RSI Revved MACD turning up SQZMOM watch close for green. Long on MACD and QZMOM confirmation. #swingtrading

$GSIT

April 4 – $GSIT finally cooling off and coming back to earth. Watching that MACD very close for a turn up (after it returns to bottom hopefully).

Mar 27 – Sure enough, it was on its way to the 20 MA this past week and stopped short and got some lift and closed Friday sitting on 8 ema. Will wait for it to line up.

Mar 20 – The reason I have this on the list is because as a break-out stock it is about as clean as they come, however, break out stocks come with risk. So you have two options (and shorting right now isn’t one), you can either wait for it to get near a 20 MA test and go long when other indicators line up or open a short time-frame chart and trade it. I will be waiting for the 20 MA test.

GSI Technology, Inc. to Present at the Global Predictive Analytics Conference http://finance.yahoo.com/news/gsi-technology-inc-present-global-173705866.html

$GSIT in break-out. Daily Stoch RSI peaking, MACD near peak, SQZMOM near peak. Wait for 20 MA retest and MACD confirm for long.

$GSIT, Chart, ,Swing, Trading

$GSIT in break-out. Daily Stoch RSI peaking, MACD near peak, SQZMOM near peak. Wait for 20 MA retest and MACD confirm for long.

$AXP

April 4 – $AXP American Express. So close. SQZMOM about to turn, MACD cross on deck just need PTPTRR to line up. Need volume & power. #swingtrading $AXP Price Trigger Power Trade Risk Reward – PTPTRR #trading Over the Wall!

$AXP, Swing, Trading, Chart

$AXP American Express. So close. SQZMOM about to turn, MACD cross on deck just need PTPTRR to all line up. Need volume and power. #swingtrading

March 27 – MACD has turned down and SQZMOM is red and negative but Stoch RSI is starting to curl – waiting for that MACD to take an entry.

March 20 – This is a trend play. The only thing you have to do is manage your entry point and risk. Wait for indicators to confirm next leg up about to start and take long entry. When MACD turns down on daily that is your exit. I really like this one, especially because MA’s are all on right side (aligned) and trend reversal is in place.

$AXP Setting up for next possible leg up. Wait for MACD SQZMOM Stoch RSI to turn up. Will likely test near 100 MA at min 50MA.

$AXP, Stock, Swing, Trade

$AXP Setting up for next possible leg up. Wait for MACD SQZMOM Stoch RSI to turn up. Will likely test near 100MA at min 50MA.

$ABX

April 4 – $ABX Setting up nicely. Above 200 MA, wait for Stoch RSI to return to bottom and turn if possible, be sure SQZMOM green and MACD turns up and kapow. Some volume and power would help too.

$ABX, Swing Trading, Chart

$ABX Setting up nicely. Above 200 MA, wait for Stoch RSI to return to bottom and turn if possible, be sure SQZMOM green and MACD turns up and kapow. Some volume and power would help too.

March 27 – Very close now. SQZMOM just turned green, MA’s are starting to line up but not all yet, Stoch RSI is turned down at top of range so I would like to see it at bottom when we enter and the MACD is turned up. So we’re waiting for the MA’s to line up and the Stoch RSI to be near or at bottom curling up (ideally).

March 20 – I will enter a long when price above 20 50 100 200 MA’s and will likely wait for the 200 MA to cross 100 MA (although not absolute). Like with all others I will exit when MACD turns down.

Freeport a better buy? https://www.fool.com/investing/2017/03/18/better-buy-freeport-mcmoran-inc-vs-barrick-gold.aspx

Inflation may send Gold higher. http://ir.baystreet.ca/article.aspx?id=528&1489764218

$ABX Daily MACD turning up, Stoch RSI way up, price on 20 MA, SQZMOM needs to confirm, 200 MA 100 MA cross would help with price above.

$ABX, Swing, Trading, Chart

$ABX Daily MACD turning up, Stoch RSI way up, price on 20 MA, SQZMOM needs to confirm, 200 MA 100 MA cross would help with price above.

$TAN

April 4 – NA

Mar 27 – $TAN chart is now “broken” and price is on its way to the lower pivot around 16.44. All indicators are pointing to down. It closed Friday at 17.29. So we will keenly watch it as it nears the lower pivot and see if the indicators line up for a long trade. If it lost lower pivot  we may even consider a short side entry pending indicators.

Mar 20 – Nice reversal play if it turns out. In addition to below watch the 200 MA as resistance if you go long.

$TAN Reversal Play. Daily MACD needs to turn up, Stoch RSI is up, SQZMOM needs to turn up. 100 MA about to cross 50 MA – bullish.

TAN, Swing, Trade, Stocks

$TAN Reversal Play. Daily MACD needs to turn up, Stoch RSI is up, SQZMOM needs to turn up. 100 MA about to cross 50 MA – bullish.

$VRX

April 4 – I thought I’d run a poll on my Twitter feed to help us with this one.

$VRX Premarket up 1%. MACD cross flat… is this the bottom?

$VRX, Premarket

$VRX Premarket up 1%. MACD cross flat… is this the bottom

$VRX Premarket live chart https://www.tradingview.com/chart/VRX/F7bVqHl7-VRX-Premarket-up-1-MACD-cross-flat-could-this-be-bottom/

March 27 – $VRX continues stepping down on the chart… per below, really important to wait for all the indicators to line up. So we remain patient and watch.

March 20 – This was looking like it was going to curl up last week and bounce but it failed. A great example of carefully watching a falling knife indicators before taking a long position. Use patience and when all indicators in play take a long.

$VRX Bottom Play. Daily MACD needs to turn, Stoch RSI turning up, SQZMOM needs to turn then as MA cross-overs occur it will strengthen.

$VRX, Swing Trade, Bottom Play

$VRX Bottom Play. Daily MACD needs to turn, Stoch RSI turning up, SQZMOM needs to turn then as MA cross-overs occur it will strengthen.

$TWLO

April 4 – No change.

March 27 – Price failed when it had to poke through 100 MA and continue – it failed and is on its way (possibly) to the previous low. So here, as with $VRX we employ patience – but get ready because the long in this one will be decent. Use the indicators noted below.

March 20 – Looks like bottom may be in. It is trending up. Looking for 100 MA to cross down under 20 MA (pinching now) and price to trade above 20 MA for long. Be sure to wait for MACD to confirm also first.

$TWLO Bottom Play on Watch. 100 MA needs to cross 20 MA with price over them. Stoch RSI pinch, MACD pinch, SQMOM turning up not green.

$TWLO, Swing Trading

$TWLO Bottom Play on Watch. 100 MA needs to cross 20 MA with price over them. Stoch RSI pinch, MACD pinch, SQMOM turning up not green.

$WYNN

April 4 – We triggered a stop at flat March 27 and had a re-entry at 111.04 when we looked at it again for 500 shares. Currently trading at 116.00 and we are watching MACD.  Which is currently at top. We may exit as MACD turns down and re-enter when MACD turns back up. Alternatively we may ride the MACD turn down as long as our original entry isn’t triggered as stop and when MACD turns back up add to position. Both are valid and we are undecided. 

March 26 – We took a long position at 110.93 for 500 share start on March 21. HOWEVER, we have a stop at our entry price (due to current market sentiment) and it is currently trading at 111.92. Careful with this one. 

March 20 – This isn’t easy to swing but is so hot it would be foolish to ignore, so discipline like with so many other plays in the current market is required. Seeing it hold 110.00 for a full day with indicators in line would put me in a long position.

$WYNN 200 MA needs to cross 100 MA, trade over 110 full day. Stoch RSI peaking, MACD up, SQMOM up.

$WYNN, Swing, Trade

$WYNN 200 MA needs to cross 100 MA, trade over 110 full day. Stoch RSI peaking, MACD up, SQMOM up.

$XME

March 27 – Price action has been poor since last report, the 200 MA is just below price now so we are going to see if the indicators line up for a bounce long position.

March 20 – MACD is pinching and about to turn up, also waiting for price above 20 MA. This is a great looking chart and an argument could be made that a long position before everything lines up as I noted is sound. It’s a great looking chart because MACD is bottom (for clarity), so when it turns if all other indicators look good there should be room for a decent trade. Caution should be noted that now after having gone through a number of charts this evening the market is at a decision so any swing trades should be considered at length and stops should be tight IMO.

$XME Daily MACD pinching, SQZMOM starting to turn, Stoch RSI peaking, Price needs 20 MA

$XME, Swing Trading

$XME Daily MACD pinching, SQZMOM starting to turn, Stoch RSI peaking, Price needs 20 MA

$URRE

March 27 – Almost a replay from last week (the indicators), so we remain patient and watch.

March 20 – Like so many of the charts this week, there is indecision. However, if the indicators line up this has excellent upside potential. The MACD pinching at the bottom is key IMO.

$URRE Daily MACD pinching at bottom, Stoch RSI turn up, SQZMOM needs green, price needs 20 MA.

$URRE, Swing Trading

$URRE Daily MACD pinching at bottom, Stoch RSI turn up, SQZMOM needs green, price needs 20 MA.

Others on watch but not ready to report charting:

$RIG

March 27 – It is holding its 200 MA like a trooper, but I want to see it at least be over 20 MA and other indicators to line up.

March 20 – MACD pinching, watching for it to turn up, Above 200 day but needs to trade above 20 MA for long.

$XLE

March 27 – The 50 has crossed the 100 and the 20 the 200 to downside – this is very bearish in the near term. Watching. It does qualify as a short and best when MACD at top turning down and Stoch RSI at top turning down with confirmation of price action and MA’s.

March 20 – MACD pinching, watching for it to turn up, Needs 200 day and to trade above 20 MA for long or it becomes a short.

$SLX

March 27 – As with $XLE above this also qualifies as a short (pending short term indicators lining up when you take the position). Price lost the 100 MA and the indicators are negative – very bearish. Watching.

March 20 – MACD is pinching on the turn back up – waiting for it to turn up and 45.50 to hold for one day to confirm break out. Or, on downdraft I would look at a 100 MA long entry also.

$X

March 27 – The $X trade is almost identical to $SLX above. Waiting.

March 20 – This one is riskier than most on this list, however, I am watching the MACD for a turn up for a possible long.

$AKS

March 27 – AKS is coming in on the 200 MA test. Watching.

March 20 – MACD is turning up now, watching for price to trade above 20, 50, 100 that are clustered together. It is well over 200 MA.

Email or DM me on Twitter anytime with thoughts or questions!

Cheers!

Curtis

Article Topics; Compound Trading, Swing, Trading, Stock, Picks, $BABA, $VRX, $NFLX, $WYNN, $URRE, $TAN, $TWLO, $GSIT, $AXP, $ABX, $RIG, $XLE, $SLX, $X, $XME, $AKS


Compound Trading Monday April 3, 2017 Review of; Chat Room Stock Day Trading, Swing Trading, Algorithm Chart Trading and Live Stock Alerts. $NVCR, $XIV, $AKTX, $MMEX, $USOIL, $WTIC, $DWT – $DUST, $ONTX, $XOM, $NE, $ASM, $SSH, $LGCY, $TRCH, $ESEA, $MGTI etc 

Intro:

Compound Trading is trading group involved with day trading, swing  trading and algorithmic model chart trading.

Time stamped entries (in permanent archive) copied to this blog are direct live log chat from chat trade room as they occurred (random chat from myself not applicable or other misc chat deleted). Chat trade room is also video recorded daily for trade archive.

In addition to chat, this trade-room has live voice broadcast (that covers in detail what indicators I am looking for in and out off each trade) and has live chart screen sharing right from my monitor to the room with all indicators I am looking at. At times guest traders and associate  traders will screen share charting and/or voice broadcast.

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Notices:

New lead trader blogpostWhen You Learn It – You Are Free (Part 1 of Freedom Traders). My Stock Trading Story.

Big Changes: Even though we post my trades and trading room transcript and video daily (which has been a massive time investment) as of now we are posting intra-day small videos to our Twitter feed and YouTube – every trade as they happen. Each will have details of setup and reasoning for each trade. We will still post complete trading room session to Youtube also.

If you missed it, here is the Previous Day Stock Trading Results Friday Mar 31:

Premarket Trading Plan – Watchlist (member post) for Monday April 3 session can be found here:

 

The Weekly Simple Swing Trade Charting (public edition) is out. This week however had a lot of indecision in the charts:

Swing Trading Simple Charts (Public Edition) Apr 2 $SPY, $VIX, $USOIL $WTIC, $GLD, $GDX, $SLV, $DXY, $USDJPY

Summary Review of Markets, Chat Room, Algorithm Charting, Trades and Alerts:

Premarket watch-list for me was all about: 

$NVCR, $STDY, $DVAX, $APOP, $TSLA, $XIV, $DWT

In play today in chat room and on markets:

$NVCR, $XIV, $AKTX, $MMEX, $USOIL, $WTIC, $DWT

$NVCR, Premarket, Trading, Results

$NVCR Premarket up 60% on news.

I traded $NVCR in momo open for small paper cut and $XIV flat to start day, then $AKTX for a small 160.00 win, then $AKTX for a -460.00 loss and $XIV for a 1535.00 win so I was up 1235.00 on the day not including my swing plays. Tough day actually.

I found most of the momentum stocks ran in premarket so market open was tough to say the least and then when I did lock on a momentum it liquidity and power would dry up.

So today was about trade size management and risk loss management.

The two I wish I would have hit that were both on my watchlist was the oil $USOIL $WTIC related short in $DWT or $DWTI (our algorithm had it set perfectly for me) and $MMEX I had on watch and should have never missed.

ANY EARLY TRADER should strongly consider the video snippets on YouTube from today’s session EVEN THOUGH we had a problem with mic quality and echo and the market was not exciting. The management of technicals, indicators and personal emotional intelligence required to execute with-out a loss and a profit on a day like Monday is mega. Not my ego at work there – it takes a lot of work to harness what is required to do that.

So the videos will help you learn how to trade if you are not an expert – I guarantee you.

So I embed one of the videos below, but there is a better one that came at the end of day when I was scaling in to $XIV that Sartaj will be uploading to our YouTube page sometime Tuesday – DO NOT MISS IT if you’re trying to get over the wall! It got very detailed and it has secrets in it – I am telling you, do not miss it if you are struggling with your trade account.

Stocks, ETN’s, ETF’s I am holding:

I am holding (in order of sizing – all moderately small size to micro sizing) –  $DUST, $ONTX, $XOM, $NE, $ASM, $SSH, $LGCY, $TRCH, $ESEA, $MGTI (this is the daytrading portfolio and does not represent swing trading service portfolio): Looking at moving out of all these small positions over the next month or so. I am now 95% cash in daytrading account.

Note-able Momentum Stocks Today (via FinViz):

Ticker Last Change Volume Signal
CYCC 6.42 74.46% 12552135 Top Gainers
GBSN 0.00 64.29% 432482433 Top Gainers
NVCR 11.10 37.04% 23436179 Top Gainers
STDY 7.50 29.31% 4920876 Top Gainers
JOB 6.39 29.09% 464168 Top Gainers
CALI 1.84 21.85% 323218 Top Gainers
COOL 16.55 21.07% 1301000 New High
IGC 0.60 27.72% 2211851 New High
PNRA 282.63 7.93% 4863263 New High
AZRE 21.75 16.56% 10100 New High
FIZZ 84.53 0.00% 271447 Overbought
PNRA 282.63 7.93% 4863263 Overbought
STDY 7.50 29.31% 4920876 Unusual Volume
CYCC 6.42 74.46% 12552135 Unusual Volume
NVCR 11.10 37.04% 23436179 Unusual Volume
AIA 53.11 1.14% 2835700 Unusual Volume
AMC 31.85 1.27% 2420300 Upgrades
RADA 1.16 3.57% 130080 Earnings Before
HQY 41.73 -1.70% 527561 Insider Buying

The Markets Looking Forward:

Our issue with a market rip is primarily the once in a decade resistance cluster not far over head for oil, and it’s slowly downtrending.

Algorithmic Chart Model Trading / News:

The Charting Algorithm Twitter feeds can be found here: $WTI (@EPICtheAlgo), $VIX (@VexatiousVIX), $SPY (@FREEDOMtheAlgo), $GLD (@ROSIEtheAlgo), $SLV (@SuperNovaAlgo), $DXY (@DXYUSD_Index).

Swing Trading Notes / News:

Simple swing charting that keeps me level when looking at the markets (examples below). Simple charting I find grounds you to simple trades which in turn keeps you profitable in toppy or sideways markets.

US Dollar $DXY $USDJPY $UUP & Currencies of Note:

NA

Gold $GLD $XAUUSD / Gold Miner’s $GDX:

Silver $SLV:

Crude Oil $USOIL $WTI:

Volatility $VIX:

$SPY S&P 500:

$NG_F Natural Gas:

NA

Live Trading Chat Room Transcript: (on YouTube Live):

Compound Trading Stock Chat-room Transcript:

Please note: Miscellaneous chatter removed from transcript and some discussions I will add notes with information I’ve gleaned in discussions online with traders on DM etc also for further explanation (noted with *). Most days at 9:30 ET market open there is moderator live broadcast explaining trades and at times during the day there is also live broadcast market updates and trade set-up explanations (so you have to scroll through video feed to market open etc to catch live broadcast portions – in future we will note in in transcript when we are on the mic so viewers can correlate time with transcript with video feed when reviewing trades). 

Note: We are testing a new trading room. This particular room does not list a time stamp with each chat entry – we are working on a fix.

Note: Apologies, some of the morning (first part) is missing from transcript again (if we get time to transcribe it from the video we will, but nevertheless the video is available above).

HedgehogTrader: $LTBR slicing higher again, though low vol
Curtis M: Off mic no trade on halt
Curtis M: $CYCC halt volatility
HedgehogTrader: i think LTBR is gunning for 200dma at some point
Curtis M: Watching $CYCC for premarket high break out
HedgehogTrader: among miners, an interesting chart is $EXK which is curling up and up (backed by good fundies if metals perk)
Curtis M: Looking for 6 with right indicators on $CYCC
Flash G: Added to $LIT swing trade earlier
Flash G: $ADAP new highs again
Flash G: no trade $CYCC
Curtis M: Dont blame you Flash
Flash G: Was looking at it.
Flash G: I like their story.
Sammy T: Decent company and sttory.
Flash G: Opening $URRE long today at some point likely.
Flash G: Need proper entry point.
lenny: $MMEX OTC looking good – chart intact for a move higher
Flash G: Celebrating $TSLA all time highs here!
Curtis M: Congrats Flash!

Curtis M: I’m in it on swing trading side. Nice action.
OILK: Looks like thats a morning open rap!
Curtis M: May have to wait for oil to test resistance before I try a short in oil related $DWT or $DWTI
Flash G: Curt, our $AMZN swing trade s approaching HOD
MarketMaven: $LIGA OTC long
Sartaj Hundal: FYI Curt: Mic echo was a bit loud
Curtis M: How does one adjust such a thing lol?
Sartaj Hundal: Are you using your headset? I think maybe we’ll have to deal with it after-hours, if it is what I think it is
Curtis M: yes on headset
Flash G: $DWT was a good call on your watchlist Curt
Nicole M: market looks uck
Curtis M: $SPY took signal from Oil for sure
HedgehogTrader: $EXK which i mentioned this morning, beginning a run +4%
Curtis M: Looks like oil is heading back down to support test in that channel so I was hoping it would pop to the dotted white line so I can take a $DWT $DWTI position
Flash G: Early lunch. Back at 12:15 for afternoon.
Michael: Yepp me too Flash
Curtis M: Looks like good timing
HedgehogTrader: $MUX is starting to perk
HedgehogTrader: btw EXK had really good news in the am- significant increase in resources and reserves
HedgehogTrader: today’s rally on the news suggests the bottom is in and the worst was already baked into the shares on the last dip
Dave: Looks good Hedgehog
Dave: Strong trading in it
Ned: $MLP 52 week highs
Shafique: Curt was dead on wth his warnings this weekend with market outlook.
Curtis M: $EXK jiggy again

Curtis M: Nice volume
Curtis M: HOD
HedgehogTrader: $FCEL looks like a good one to keep an eye on this week
Ned: Just looked at $FCEL Hedge good one
Curtis M: Small cap solars on watch here
Curtis M: $ADAP new highs too
Curtis M: $USDJPY reversal possible – Watching $XIV
HedgehogTrader: EXK is up 75% of the time in April and avg gain is 16% in April, it’s best month of year
Curtis M: interesting
OILK: Very quiet day.
Curtis M: $XIV Long 500 712.26 to start
Curtis M: On mic in a min>>>>>>
Curtis M: In mic >>>>
Curtis M: 71.26 500 $XIV
Curtis M: Off mic for now re: $XIV play >>>>>>
Curtis M: $ZBZZT Halt – Volatility
MarketMaven: $XII lift
Flash G: You have a stop on that Curt?
Curtis M: LOD
Curtis M: Back on mic in a min re: $XIV >>>>>>
Curtis M: add 500 $XIV 71.135
Curtis M: $XIV avg cost 71.19
Curtis M: Off mic >>>>> Publishing $XIV charts so folks can use the indicators if they like for themselves.

HedgehogTrader: $TOPS could be an interesting buy low candidate, now at low end of its range; while macd curling up
Curtis M: On mic re $XIV >>>>>>>
HedgehogTrader: (traders should watch platinum which Curtis mentioned via etf $PPLT and platinum producer $PLG which is showing a strong chart)
HedgehogTrader: fwiw my signals get a strong likelihood $PLG rallies this month
Curtis M: $XIV stop 71.19
Curtis M: Stop 71.19 triggered flat trade +- 0.00
Curtis M: $XIV watching now >>>>>>
Curtis M: Looking for power
Curtis M: and Stoch RSI at bottom of range
Curtis M: We;re working on that echo FYI
Curtis M 2: $AKTS 11.56 1000 LONG
Curtis M 2: Stop set 11.09 $AKTS
Curtis M 2: Stop 10.99 changed
Curtis M 2: Stop 11.56
Curtis M 2: Stop 11.72
Curtis M 2: Out 11.72 small win + 160.00

Curtis M 2: Echo wont be fixed until tomorrows session
Curtis M 2: $AKTX bulls are still in it to win it
Curtis M 1: On Mic $AKTX break out
Sammy T: $TRCH had PR today Curt (your swing)
Curtis M 1: 12.16 1000 shares $AKTX
Curtis M 1: Stop set 11.50 $AKTX
Curtis M 1: Stop changed 11.47 $AKTX
Curtis M 1: Long 11.57 add 1000 shares $AKTX add
Curtis M 1: Correction 12.57
Curtis M 1: Stop 11.80 2000 shares set
lenny: In $CYCC play here Curt really impressive
Sammy T: Curt your $LGCY on the move too
MarketMaven: $TSLA killing the shorts
Flash G: You trading $TSLA now?
MarketMaven: Nope just watching cheering you guys on:)
MarketMaven: I was in $CYCC for a nice winner haha
Sammy T: $CBIO HOD w vol
Curtis M 1: Watching $AKTX on another monitor while I stalk $XIV on the room feed
Curtis M 2: Wondering if I should exit stage left $TSLA
Curtis M 2: nah
Curtis M 1: Long $XIV 71.63 500
Curtis M 1: $XIV stop 71.35
MarketMaven: Good meat and potatioes trading knowldge today Curt even though it isn’t big money day.
MarketMaven: 500 Shares add $XIV 71.99
Curtis M 1: Thanks for doing that
Curtis M 1: Bulldog just left lol so I can
Curtis M 1: Long 72.27 $XIV add 500
Curtis M 1: $AKTX 11.90 stop hit loss – 460.00
Curtis M 1: The machines just ate all the stops $XIV
Curtis M 1: Add final 1000 $XIV here 72.34
Curtis M 1: Stop on all 72.34 $XIV
Curtis M 1: Close $XIV 72.60 for a decent intra win + 1535.00

Curtis M 1: Off mic >>>>>>>>
Sammy T: Good trade management lessons there Mr Curt.
Curtis M 1: 10-4 Sam
lenny: Looks like your exit was decent timing.
Sammy T: have a great night guys
Sartaj Hundal: See you all tomorrow
lenny: Cya everybody
Curtis M 2: catch you in mornin

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Article Topics: $NVCR, $XIV, $AKTX, $MMEX, $USOIL, $WTIC, $DWT  – $XOM, $NE, $ONTX, $DUST, $TRCH, $LGCY, $SSH, $ASM – $UGAZ, $DGAZ, $NUGT, $DUST, $USLV, $DSLV, $UWT, $DWT, $JNUG, $JDST, Compound Trading, Learning, How To, Trade, Trading, Educational, Lessons, Results, Wall Street, Stocks, Day Trading, Swing Trading, Investing, Chat Room, Trading Results, $GLD, $GDX, $USOIL, $WTIC, $USD/JPY, $SPY, $DXY, $VIX, $GC_F, $USO, $UCO, $SCO, $CL_F, S&P 500


Compound Trading Chat Room Stock Trading Plan for Monday April 3, 2017; $NVCR, $STDY, $DVAX, $APOP, $TSLA, $XIV, $DWT – $ONTX, $DUST, $XOM, $NE, $ASM, $SSH, $LGCY, $TRCH, $ESEA, $MGTI – Gold $GLD, Gold Miners $GDX, Silver $SLV, Oil $USOIL $WTI, Natural Gas, US Dollar Index $USD/JPY $DXY, S&P 500 $SPY, Volatility $VIX… more.

Welcome to the morning Wall Street trading day session at Compound Trading!

Notes in red text below are new comments entered specifically today.

Notices:

Today’s Live Trading Room Link: https://compoundtrading.clickmeeting.com/livetrading 

New blog post: When You Learn It – You Are Free (Part 1 of Freedom Traders). My Stock Trading Story. 

Friday Stock Trading Results

The Quarterly Daytrading Performance Review P/L with Charting is Published.

The Quarterly Swing Trading Performance Review P/L with Charting is Published. The Algorithms Quarterly Performance Reports are being compiled as I write and will be posted soon.

Most recent Keep it Simple Swing trade Charting Poston Sunday April 2, 2017 (MACD, MA, Stoch RSI, SQZMOM focus):

Current Holds / Trading Plan:

Main watchlist in my trading plan today: $NVCR, $STDY, $DVAX, $APOP, $TSLA, $XIV, $DWT Oil is near resistance and I expect volatility to get crushed again possibly and $SPY to get some lift. The others are momentum plays such as $NVCR, $STDY, $DVAX, $APOP on watch. $TSLA, $XIV, $DWT looking for entries around swing levels posted.

All my holds are small to mid size holds in this order according to sizing – $ONTX, $DUST, $XOM, $NE, $ASM, $SSH, $LGCY, $TRCH, $ESEA, $MGTI.

Per recent;

$DUST I will close for a loss if Gold holds 1260 – sucks, but it was a relatively small position (to portfolio size) but I didn’t follow the golden rule… when a trade goes against your plan cut fast and I didn’t so I will likely pay the price. And I guess what has become the second golden rule… listen to the algos… they haven’t been wrong yet – so yes, I didn’t listen to my own invention ROSIE the Gold Algo (give Rosie a little plug there she deserves it lol). Embarrassing, especially because ROSIE nailed the bottom many weeks in advance of the bottom – all I had to do was listen and boom new house. Sad.

Market Outlook / Trading Plan:

It looks like technology and bio (wide-spread) may be the rotational choices short-term – we will see. I am interested in oversold retail and turn-around energy. 

Per recent reports: There are significant resistance clusters above recent highs in oil and the S&P so I will be very cautious to upside going forward until recent highs are taken out and confirmed. I will also be wanting to move out of my significant swing trading side holdings and pick more closely. The daytrading side I am 95% cash now that I am out of $UWT so I am fine. I see significant upside challenges in Oil and SPY with most recent highs being taken out.

Per recent reports:

Swing trades on watch for me again (in addition to our algorithm models because everything is either at resistance or support) today (some are same as from our swing trading platform side) are $BABA, $VRX, $NFLX, $WYNN, $XME, $URRE, $TAN, $TWLO, $GSIT, $ABX and considering adding $LIT to the list. Also recently added to watch $CEW, $MYL, $TZA, $TREE and today added are $NVDA, $SOXS, $KBH, $BCOR. Also on OTC side new are $USRM, $PLSB, $LIGA and $ASCK.

Morning Momentum Stocks / News and Social Bits From Around the Internet:

Premarket momentum stocks to watch:  $NVCR, $STDY, $DVAX, $APOP

$NVCR, Premarket, Trading, Plan

$NVCR Premarket up 60% on news.

Gaps on these plays: 

News on these plays: $TSLA, $SRRA, $NVS, $KTOV, $XON, $ZIOP, $MRK, $SCMP, $DVAX

Chart Set-Ups: $TSLA

Previous Day Momentum Stocks to watch: $USRM, $XIV

9:45am
PMI Manufacturing Index

10am
-ISM Mfg Index
-Construction Spending

10:30am
William Dudley Speaks

5pm
Jeffrey Lacker Speaks

$TSLA Gapping up in pre-market.

Leap Therapeutics reports FY16 results https://seekingalpha.com/news/3255054-leap-therapeutics-reports-fy16-results?source=feed_f … #premarket $LPTX

$SAGE JPMorgan reiterates as Top Pick ahead of Phase 3 STATUS data. PT $83

$SRRA Sierra Oncology Collaborator ICR Reports Preclinical Synthetic Lethality Data for Chk1 Inhibitor SRA737 AACR

$NVS Novartis drug combination Tafinlar® + Mekinist receives EU approval for BRAF V600-positive advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC)

$KTOV U.S. Food and Drug Administration Grants Kitov a Waiver for New Drug Application Filing Fee

$XON $ZIOP $MRK provide an update on CAR-T strategic collaboration and license agreement.

OncoSec’s IL-12 construct shows positive effect in preclinical testing; shares ahead 8% premarket https://seekingalpha.com/news/3255053-oncosecs-ilminus-12-construct-shows-positive-effect-preclinical-testing-shares-ahead-8?source=twitter_sa_factset … #premarket $ONCS

$SCMP Acquires Vtesse $200M upfront

$DVAX Dynavax Announces FDA Advisory Committee Meeting to Review HEPLISAV-B

If you are new to our trading service you should review recent blog posts, our YouTube Channel and at minimum our algorithm Twitter feeds because they do tell a story in terms of the market and how the inflections of the market determine our day to day trading. You will notice the algorithmic modelling has been undeniably accurate with many time-frames (intra-day, weeks and months out) so I myself have learned to respect their math (they have taken me from a 60% hit rate to 80% in my trading – all publicly posted live trades).

The algorithm Twitter feeds can be found here:$WTI (@EPICtheAlgo), $VIX (@VexatiousVIX), $SPY (@FREEDOMtheAlgo), $GLD (@ROSIEtheAlgo), $SLV (@SuperNovaAlgo), $DXY (@DXYUSD_Index). . Our lead trader Twitter feed is here @curtmelonopoly, lead tech developer @hundalSHS, and associate trader @quadzilla_jr.

Momentum Stocks (Market Open and Intra-Day):

I do trade morning momo stocks, but I do avoid risk – so often I avoid the first 30 minutes (gap and go) and trade momentum stocks later in the day after the wash-out looking for a snap-back. Just prior to open and shortly after open I post momentum stocks to the trade chat room (and Twitter and Stocktwits if I have time).

Some of my Favorite Set-Ups:

(1) Momentum Stock Wash-Outs for Snap Back, (2) Bad News Wash-outs on Stocks with High Institutional Ownership, (3) Getting on the Right Side of a Trend Change and scaling in my position and (4) Our Algorithm Set-Ups.

The momentum stocks (from previous days and morning trade) I continue to watch through the day for indicators that allow a trade.

Morning Stock Watch-Lists for my Favorite Set-Ups:

(1) Pre-Market Gainers Watch-List: $NVCR 40%, $STDY 25%, $DVAX 19%, $APOP $BVXV $EBIO $BCRX $SRRA $MDGS $ELOS $UGAZ $TECK $MTL $TSLA $HPE $LN $MPEL

 I will update before market open or refer to chat room notices.

(2) Pre-market Decliners Watch-List:  I will update before market open or refer to chat room notices.

(3) Other Watch-List: Per above

(4) Regular Algo Charting Watch-List: Gold $GC_F $GLD, Miners $GDX ($NUGT, $DUST, $JDST, $JNUG), Silver $SLV $SI_F ($USLV, $DSLV), Crude Oil FX: $USOIL $WTI ($UWTI, $DWTI, $USO, $UCO, $CL_F, $UWT, $DWT), Natural Gas $NG_F ($UGAZ, $DGAZ), S & P 500 $SPY $ES_F ($SPXL, $SPXS), US Dollar Index $DXY ($UUP), Volatility $VIX ($TVIX, $UVXY, $XIV)

(5) Upgrades: $MHT $ELLI $VJET $HUN $GVA $DOV $ECL $FMC $OAS $EXR $HP $BBRY $AMC as time allows I will update before market open or refer to chat room notices.

(6) Downgrades:$FWP $RWLK $WPC $FPO $FWP $ANET $KCG $MJN $ACOR $UAA $ACN $IBKR $HLT $CNK as time allows I will update before market open or refer to chat room notices.

Stay tuned in Stock Chat Room for more pre-market stocks on watch.

Study:

For new readers, a review of our unlocked posts on our blog would help you get in to the story we are following with the securities listed in this newsletter.

Free scanners to find momentum stocks that you can easily review charts of for indicators that bring probability of your trade being successful up considerably. These are not useful for first 30 minute market open gap and go type plays (you need a good momentum scanner, level 2, and best to have hot-keys for the first 30 mins of gap and go trading)… but are very useful for intra day scalping and swing trading (start with trending stocks and then look at indicators intra for simple set-ups – study scan study scan study scan).

http://finviz.com/

https://finance.yahoo.com/screener/predefined/ec5bebb9-b7b2-4474-9e5c-3e258b61cbe6

http://www.highshortinterest.com/

http://www.gurufocus.com/short-stocks.php

http://www.3xetf.com/all/

http://www.etf.com/channels/gold-etfs

GL!

Curtis

Article Topics: $NVCR, $STDY, $DVAX, $APOP, $TSLA, $XIV, $DWT – $MGTI, $NE, $XOM, $ONTX, $DUST, $ASM, $SSH, $LGCY, $TRCH, $ESEA, – $UGAZ, $DGAZ, $NUGT, $DUST, $USLV, $DSLV, $UWT, $DWT, $JNUG, $JDST, Stockmarket, Pre-Market, Trading Plan, Wall Street, Stocks, Day-trading, Watchlist, Chatroom, $GLD, $GOLD, $SILVER, $USD/JPY, $USOIL, $WTI, $VIX, $SPY, $NATGASUSD


S&P 500 $SPY Trade Update Monday April 3, 2017 $ES_F ($SPXL, $SPXS) Algorithmic Charting Observations

Good morning! My name is Freedom the $SPY Algo. Welcome to my new S&P trade report for Compound Trading.

Current Trade in $SPY S&P 500.

$SPY Live Price Extension Targets Chart: https://www.tradingview.com/chart/SPY/8OOpvg0t-S-P-500-SPY-Symmetry-price-target-extensions-trade-quadrants/

S&P 500 $SPY Symmetry price target extensions, trade quadrants, Fibonacci. Trade Charting Mon April 31

$SPY, Chart, Extensions

S&P 500 $SPY Symmetry price target extensions, trade quadrants, Fibonacci. Trade Charting Mon April 3, 2017

Notes with respect to $SPY Price Extensions and Targets

Recent Trade – $SPY price action has been hitting our upside price extension targets for a number of weeks now. The chart above includes the price extension targets for upward and downward trade.

Recent trade has $SPY confirmed the lower extension price target given in the last report also! Trading just the price targets we have provided on the upside and downside has proven a very profitable signal.

Fibonacci – The Fibonacci levels have been predictable so we are leaving them as they are.

Trading Quadrants – The trading quadrants have been moderately predictable – we are leaving them as they are for now.

Symmetry Extension Targets – The extension price targets we have published the last number of months now have hit the price targets to upside and downside near perfect so they are becoming very predictable! Trade the outside ranges for optimum return and predictability.

Most probable downside price target if trade is in a downtrend is in 229.24 area before a decision.

Most probable upside price target if trade is in an uptrend is in 237.24 – 237.50 area before a decision.

Time / Price Cycles – There are currently no significant cycles in the charting.

Trading Bias – PER LAST REPORT – This is a considerable warning because price has not traded above previous high since we alerted members to this divergence in the algorithm: Current bias is to the upside target, however, there is a divergence in the upward trade extension makes the target a double topped target, which is divergent from recent trade, which does cause us to pause.

Trading on Tighter Time-frames

Use the charts below and the indicators to trade on tighter time frames. Included below is a link to our trading view charting and you can open it, click on share button and “make it mine”. Then use the Stoch RSI, MACD and SQZMOM indicators for your entries.

https://www.tradingview.com/chart/SPY/isDOr3N4-SPY/

Simple Charting $SPY Hourly MACD up turn down, Stoch RSI near bottom, SQZMOM flat, Mix MAs, note sold off EOD Fri. $SPXL $SPXS #DayTrading

On an hourly basis for intra day trading, let the MACD come down to bottom and turn up for a long trade.

$SPY, Hourly Chart

Simple Charting $SPY Hourly MACD up turn down, Stoch RSI near bottom, SQZMOM flat, Mix MAs, note sold off EOD Fri. $SPXL $SPXS #DayTrading

Simple Charting $SPY Daily MACD pinch down, Stoch RSI turn up SQZMOM red, under 20 MA. $SPXL $SPXS #SwingTrading

As with the hourly chart above, for wider swings allow the MACD to come down and turn up for a swing trade with $SPY.

$SPY, Daily, Chart

Simple Charting $SPY Daily MACD pinch down, Stoch RSI turn up SQZMOM red, under 20 MA. $SPXL $SPXS #SwingTrading

Good luck with your trades and look forward to seeing you in the room!

Freedom the $SPY Algo

Article Topics: Freedom, $SPY, Algo, Fibonacci, Stocks, Wallstreet, Trading, Chatroom, Algorithms, $SPY, $ES_F, $SPXL, $SPXS


Monday April 3, 2017 EPIC the Oil Algo Oil Report (Member Edition). FX: $USOIL $WTIC – $USO $CL_F $UWT $DWT $UCO $SCO $ERX $ERY $GUSH $DRIP

Welcome to my new FX: $USOIL $WTI oil trade report. My name is EPIC the Oil Algo and I am one of six Algorithmic Charting services in development at Compound Trading.

NOTICES:

MULTI-USERS: Institutional / commercial platform now available.

PATENT PHASE: I am now in patent application phase. Stay tuned for agreements concerning disclosure and use coming to members.

24 HOUR TRADE ROOM: My charting transitions from FX $USOIL $WTI to 24hr crude oil futures in 2017 and will have 24 hr crude oil trade room.

SOFTWARE: My algorithmic charting is going to developer coding phase early 2017 for our trader’s dashboard program. Please review my algorithm development process and about my oil algorithm story on our website www.compoundtrading.com and my oil algo charting posts on my Twitter feed and this blog.

HOW MY ALGORITHM WORKS: I am an algorithm in development. My math is based on traditional indicators (up to fifty at any given time each weighted on win ratio merit – all not shown on chart at any given time) – such as simple math calculations relating to price and volume, Fibonacci, simple pivots, moving averages, Gann, Schiff and various other charting, geometric and mathematical factors. I do not yet have AI or Geo Political integration – only math as it relates to traditional indicators with the primary goal being probabilities. I am not a high frequency or bot type algorithm – I am represented on and used on a traditional trading chart as one would normally use as a probability indicator. The goal is to provide our trader’s with an edge when triggering entries and exits on trades with instruments that rely on the price of crude oil (specifically FX: $USOIL $WTI and transitioning to futures in our new 24 hour oil trading room).

Below you will find my simplified view of levels that can be used on a traditional chart (both intra-day and as a swing trader or investor). This work, and subsequent trading, should be considered one decision at a time, “if this happens then this or this are my targets”… price – trigger – trade and so on. Questions to; [email protected], message our lead trader on Twitter, or message a lead trader privately in the trade room.

Visit this link for more information about my oil algorithm development, this link explains how our algorithmic charting is done, this YouTube video explains in summary how my algorithm works https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUNyxFoXJp8 this link for more information about our algorithmic stock charting models and what makes them different than most.

EVERY CALL WE MAKE, EVERY PUBLIC INTERACTION, REPRESENTATION OF TRADE (ON EVERY VENUE) IS VIDEO RECORDED (TRADING ROOM), ON SOCIAL MEDIA OR ON BLOG / WEBSITE TIME-STAMPED FOR PERMANENT RECORD AND ABSOLUTE TRANSPARENCY. PLEASE ALSO REFER TO OUR PUBLIC DISCLOSURE https://compoundtrading.com/disclosure-disclaimer/.

FX: $USOIL $WTI Observations:

Below is the link for the live EPIC the Oil Algo Live Trading Chart for Monday April 3, 2017:

https://www.tradingview.com/chart/USOIL/RBhj92W4-EPIC-Oil-Algorithm-Chart-USOIL-WTI/

When you open this oil chart in Trading View you can select the share button to the bottom right corner and then select make it mine and then you can scroll the chart and literally use it and edit it as your chart.

Crude algo intra work sheet 428 AM Apr 3` FX $USOIL $WTIC #OIL $CL_F $USO $UCO $SCO $UWT $DWT #OOTT

EPIC, Algo, Chart, $USOIL, $WTI

Crude algo intra work sheet 428 AM Apr 3` FX $USOIL $WTIC #OIL $CL_F $USO $UCO $SCO $UWT $DWT #OOTT

Support and Resistance. Crude algo intra work sheet 432 AM Apr 3` FX $USOIL $WTIC #OIL $CL_F $USO $UCO $SCO $UWT $DWT #OOTT

Support, Resistance, Oil, Chart

Support and Resistance. Crude algo intra work sheet 432 AM Apr 3` FX $USOIL $WTIC #OIL $CL_F $USO $UCO $SCO $UWT $DWT #OOTT

Upper trading range. Crude algo intra work sheet 435 AM Apr 3` FX $USOIL $WTIC #OIL $CL_F $USO $UCO $SCO $UWT $DWT #OOTT

Trading, Range, Upper, Oil

Upper trading range. Crude algo intra work sheet 435 AM Apr 3` FX $USOIL $WTIC #OIL $CL_F $USO $UCO $SCO $UWT $DWT #OOTT

Lower trading range. Crude algo intra work sheet 437 AM Apr 3` FX $USOIL $WTIC #OIL $CL_F $USO $UCO $SCO $UWT $DWT #OOTT

Lower, Trading, Oil, Chart

Lower trading range. Crude algo intra work sheet 437 AM Apr 3` FX $USOIL $WTIC #OIL $CL_F $USO $UCO $SCO $UWT $DWT #OOTT

Intra-day Crude Oil Trading Range: At time of writing FX $USOIL $WTI is trading at 50.55 at 4:39 AM EST Apr 3, 2017. Some thoughts with respect to traditional charting that may help advance the trading edge:

At time of post oil $USOIL $WTI is trading at 50.55 and the machines are in oil making trade very predictable – but not as clear as a week ago.

Important is that two alpha algo lines are being established – the thicker is more alpha at this point (red dotted) and alpha algo targets. And as mentioned previous be very cautious of Friday targets as they are not as predictable as Tues and Wed.

For each algo line (of the two) there is an upper and lower target for Tues, Wed and Fri. Trading bias is toward whichever (upper or lower) price is closest and trending toward. Unfortunately the targets are close together (the upper and lower for each target day and time).

The most important revelations are that oil now has confirmed this week’s data and last week’s data in this trading range which makes each week more predictable than the last. As long as oil stays in this range as the week progresses the alpha lines and targets should become more clear as a result.

Our traders scaled to 100% positions long in recent rally and closed long positions on Friday to assess early week trade this week – significant gains were achieved on the last support long positions posted.

The alpha algo targets (red circles) and alpha algo lines (red dotted diagonal) are to be considered not official quite yet and simply chart worksheet markings by our data software engineers.

Also of great importance is the upper range diagonal downtrending blue trend-line that I have reported about for the last two months as the most considerable resistance in oil trade in many months if not years (refer to reports going back). Although not near current trade if oil trades upward 52.00 or more you will want to pay note because this did confirm as significant resistance. It is currently downtrending (marked with a blue arrow and blue line) at approximately 54.00 intra-day.

The yellow arrows (horizontal yellow lines) represent significant horizontal support and resistance areas (conventional support and resistance areas from previous time price cycles). There is one at 47.37 another at 49.59 and another at 51.95. Although not ideal, they do represent support and resistance areas of note. There are others overhead also.

More importantly are algorithmic chart modeling support and resistance areas for this specific area of trade at the silver arrows and thicker horizontal silver lines at 47.62 and 50.95. In the interim (until algorithm targets are re-established) our traders will use these as the primary support and resistance areas. Do not consider them hard and fast like you would Fibonacci – consider them general areas of support and resistance.

Our traders may take a short position soon for a test should trade get close to 50.95. But only as a test and they will add to the short as price confirms. Likewise, if oil price confirms over 50.95 they will take a long test and add as it confirms.

If trade confirms over 50.95 then the new trading range is 50.95 to 54.29 (the range oil trade failed in previously).

The silver, yellow and purple arrow marked support and resistance lines are the most significant for this area of trade. Should crude oil trade below the yellow support line at approximately 49.59 and not recover quickly you can consider this area of trade a broken chart and a new chart will be sent to members.

So in summary, your area of trade as it is at time of writing is between 47.37 and 50.95 per above – this is the range our traders will be trading. If oil trades and confirms over 50.95 then the new range is 50.95 – 54.29.

As with previous reports the various other horizontal support and resistance lines are either recent support and resistance lines (purple) or Fibonacci support and resistance.

The diagonal dotted silver lines are algorithmic support and resistance lines (that form quadrants) for intra-day trading that are considered support and resistance and will affect trade (as you can see on the chart) and will also manifest as “channels” of trade on an intra-day basis. Our traders use these for tight intra-day trading. These are available on every time-cycle and are represented on a 30 minute chart in this report. The 24 hour oil trading room will represent all time frames for traders that wish to use these for intra-day trading.

If you are a new member it is highly recommended that you spend some time reviewing the history of this work and how you can use it most to your advantage.

Multi Week Trading Range for Swing Trading:

Note: Be careful with the prices you see in the purple boxes on the right of the chart – they do not line up on chart for price action (they are for indicators).

Trade the ranges noted above.

Diagonal Trend Lines:

Diagonal trend-lines (blue). Diagonal trend-lines are critical inflection points. Please review many of my recent posts so you can learn about how important these diagonal trend-lines are. If one is breached you can look to pull-back to next diagonal blue trend line about 90% of the time. Also pay attention to how thick the lines are – the thicker the line the more important because they represent extensions from previous time / price cycles.

Remember you can come in to the chat room to message the trader and REMEMBER I have posted a live chart link earlier in this post so if you can’t see the lines well on this chart above you can go to the live chart link and watch for member live algo chart links through-out the day in your email inbox!

The diagonal trend-lines are marked on main chart above.

Conventional Charting Observations: 

These charts are from Sunday April 3 so be sure to take current trade in to account.

$USOIL, $WTI, Swing, Chart, Simple, Trading

It wants to go. Simple Charts $USOIL $WTIC Daily MACD cross up, Stoch RSI way up, SQMOM may turn green, Above 200 MA. $CL_F $USO $SCO $UWT $DWT

$USOIL, $WTI, Hourly, Chart

Indecision. Simple Charts $USOIL $WTIC Hourly MACD mid, Stoch RSI near bottom, SQZMOM green, Above MAs. $CL_F $USO $SCO $UWT $DWT #daytrading

5 Min, $USOIL, $WTI, Chart

Indecision. Simple Charts $USOIL $WTIC 5 Min MACD mid, Stoch RSI near bottom, SQZMOM red, mixed MAs. $CL_F $USO $SCO $UWT $DWT #daytrading

Fibonacci Levels:

Watch the lines for support and resistance. Careful using them as traditional retracement levels with crude because the algo lines etc are more dominant / predictable. But the Fib lines are excellent indicators for intra-day trade support and resistance.

The Fibonacci lines are marked on main chart above.

Horizontal Trend-Lines (purple):

Horizontal trend-lines are not as important as the other indicators reviewed above, however, they do serve as important resistance and support intra-day for tight trading and they are important if thick (in other words they come from previous time / price cycles). WE STARTED TO REPRESENT THE REALLY IMPORTANT LINES IN YELLOW FYI FOR EASE. Refer to chart for current applicable horizontal trend-lines.

Horizontal trend-lines are marked on charts above.

Advanced Charting:

Respect support and resistance lines: If you can be patient and take your long and short positions against these yellow lines – that is your highest probability trading.

Oil Time / Price Cycles:

Watch your email and / or my Twitter feed for time price cycles they may start to terminate.

Time / price cycles are the single most important indicator and my record calling them is near 100% – since inception seven months ago. The reason they are so important is that a trader does not want to be holding a crude oil instrument at termination of a time cycle if not absolutely sure if price will go up or down. A trade may choose to enter a large position in advance of a time price cycle termination IF THERE IS A HIGH PROBABILITY OF A DIRECTION IN PRICE and if the market is trading at a really important pivot area. In other words, if the market is trading at the bottom of the upward trending channel at a support (yellow lines) and we knew there was a significant probability of a time cycle about to terminate a trader may enter with a long position. The price really spikes or drops significantly when these important time cycles terminate.

The problem with time / price cycle terminations is they change from minute to minute (depending on where price is on the chart) so you have to be in the trade room to get the alert. Our lead traders will do everything they can in future to send these on SMS but we have to be careful because it can be difficult with so much going on in the room. The reason they (time cycles) change is because they are actually represented by or are geometric shapes in the chart – I know it sounds odd but I have (as I mentioned) hit these calls just shy of 100%. The oil political people know the same algorithmic modeling principles and they ALWAYS TIME THEIR BIG ANNOUNCEMENTS AROUND THE TIME PRICE CYCLE TERMINATIONS.

So if you can picture a triangle on the chart – and price is trading in the triangle – and price is going to come to the edge of the triangle and there is a significant support or resistance or an algo line terminating there too or a target (those type of indications)… then we know there is a high probability of a time and price change. In other words, it is where there are clusters of algorithm points that cross and when price is going to cross over that cluster is where they are. And these are represented on all the different time frames – the larger the time frame – the larger the time price cycle termination – the larger the spike or downdraft. This is where we establish our intra-day quadrants from for sniping trades (which we will put in to the room soon because it looks like the geo political rhetoric is over for a while making them more predictable). Difficult to explain in short. So we will do our best to SMS alert these in future.

Also, the real large or important time / price cycle terminations we know far in advance and they can be put in these newsletters.

If you review my Epic the Oil Algo Twitter feed, my blog posts and my story on our website you will get a feel for how accurate these calls are.

Alpha Algo Trading Trend-Lines (Primary – Red dotted lines. Secondary – White dotted lines):

To determine which algo line is most alpha (or probable) intra day, it is the nearest line to price action. This can also help you determine the trend of trade. If the algo line is trending up the price will follow it up until price is tested at an algorithm indicator (the main tests are diagonal trendlines, horizontal trendlines, time / price cycles etc – as I have shared with you). This is why it is important to watch all the lines because they are all support and resistance. To keep it simple trade the range (yellow lines) as I’ve mentioned but keep an eye on these indicators.

As mentioned above, alpha algo targets and alpha algo lines are just starting to be re-instated on this chart and are test lines and targets only for work sheet purposes.

Current Alpha Algo Targets (Red circles):

Your closest target that crude is trending toward is always the most probable. Crude is currently trending toward a target (red circles on chart) Then, your second most probable is the one that is up or down trend depending on whether general price is in an upward or downtrend for the most recent week or so and what your other indicators look like (such as the MA’s I explained above).

The other way to determine which targets are in play is actually quite simple, you will notice that crude trades between the channel lines up and down and up and down and there are various support and resistance along the way. If it hits a target at the top of the channel you can bet most times (unless the next day like today) that the next target hit will be at the bottom of the channel.

Wait for the price to trend toward a target and take your position and watch as price gets closer and closer to the target. Remember, that the machines trade from decision to decision – or in other words from support to next resistance or resistance to next support or when the times come each week on Tuesday Wednesday and Friday they will trend toward the target that market price action determines they go to.

Our lead trader will explain more in the room and do not hesitate to ask our lead trader in the room by private message or on twitter to explain intra day decisions.

As mentioned above, alpha algo targets and alpha algo lines are just starting to be re-instated on this chart and are test lines and targets only for work sheet purposes.

Current Algo Targets:

The algo targets are not marked on main chart above but will be available again soon as explained above. 

Oil Intra-Day Algo Trading Quadrants (white dotted lines):

Intra-day trading quadrants are available on all time – cycles and all of them are not detailed on this charting. The charting above represents the 30 minute trading quadrants. If you require tighter time-frames please email us and we will update charting for the time cycle you are looking for.

Trading quadrants are simply support and resistance lines that can assist your intra-day trading – they are not alpha or primary support and resistance by any measure. Price action does however typically move more assertively when leaving a trading quadrant.

Indicator Methods:

As explained above, my algorithm is a consideration of up to fifty traditional indicators at any one time – each one given its own weight in accordance to its accuracy (win rate). This is how we establish the probability of specific targets hitting (we call them alpha algo targets).

Alpha Algo Targets, Algo Trend-lines, Algo Timing, Quadrants for Intra Snipes:

Targets did hit last Tuesday and Wednesday so the algorithm charting is becoming very predictable in this range (Friday missed but that isn’t unusual). 

Perfect hit to middle of Wed 1030 target call. Crude algo intra work sheet 1053 AM Mar 29 FX $USOIL $WTIC #OIL $CL_F $USO $UCO $SCO $UWT $DWT #OOTT

Oil, Algorithm, Chart

Perfect hit to middle of Wed 1030 target call. Crude algo intra work sheet 1053 AM Mar 29 FX $USOIL $WTIC #OIL $CL_F $USO $UCO $SCO $UWT $DWT #OOTT

Algo targets are the red circles – they correspond with important times each week in oil reporting land. Tuesday 4:30 PM, Wednesday 10:30 AM and Friday at 1:00 PM. The red dotted diagonal lines are the algo trend-lines. And the vertical dotted (red or green) are marking the important times each week. You will find that the price of crude will hit one of the alpha algo targets about 90% of the time. In the absence of market direction the machines take price to the next algo line and/or target. Understanding how the price of crude reacts to the algos and how they move price from target to target is critical for intra-day and swing trading crude oil and associated instruments.

You will notice that price action of crude will use these algo trend-lines and act as support and resistance, and that price also often violently moves when an alpha algo line is breached either upward or downward.

We cover this in much more detail in the member updates, trading room. A review of my Twitter feed and previous blog posts will help you understand the relation of these indicators. We will start posting video blogs (for my subscribers) on YouTube (in addition to my daily blog posts) for swing traders that work during regular trading hours.

Also… we will cover how to establish algo trend-lines and price targets future forward (as you have seen me do on my Twitter feed for some time now).

Conclusion:

See you in the live trade room! And again, if you struggle to know how to use these indicators as a trader’s edge, it is recommended (if you have earnestly reviewed all of our documentation first) that you obtain private coaching prior to trading a real account with real money – we recommend you use a paper trading account at first.

You can also send specific questions to our email inbox at [email protected] – if you do this be sure to ask a specific question so it can be answered specifically. When the 24 hour oil trading room opens you will have ample opportunity in that 24 hour room to ask questions also.

Watch my EPIC the Oil Algo Twitter feed for intra day notices and your email in box for member only material intra day also.

EPIC the Oil Algo

PS If you are not yet reviewing the daily post market trading results blog posts, please do so, they are on the blog daily and often there is information that also may assist your trading. Trade room transcripts (for example) may review topics pertinent to your trading.

Article topics: EPIC, Oil, Algo, Crude Oil FX: $USOIL $WTI, $USO, $UCO, $CL_F, $UWT, $DWT, $ERX, $ERY, $GUSH, $DRIP, Chart, Algorithm, Indicators, Fibonacci


Compound Trading Friday March 31, 2017 Review of; Chat Room Stock Day Trading, Swing Trading, Algorithm Chart Trading and Live Stock Alerts. $ACOR, $XIV, $UWT, $USOIL, $WTIC, $FWP, $SORL – $DUST, $ONTX, $XOM, $NE, $ASM, $SSH, $LGCY, $TRCH, $ESEA, $MGTI etc 

Intro:

Compound Trading is trading group involved with day trading, swing  trading and algorithmic model chart trading.

Time stamped entries (in permanent archive) copied to this blog are direct live log chat from chat trade room as they occurred (random chat from myself not applicable or other misc chat deleted). Chat trade room is also video recorded daily for trade archive.

In addition to chat, this trade-room has live voice broadcast (that covers in detail what indicators I am looking for in and out off each trade) and has live chart screen sharing right from my monitor to the room with all indicators I am looking at. At times guest traders and associate  traders will screen share charting and/or voice broadcast.

EVERY CALL WE MAKE, EVERY PUBLIC INTERACTION, REPRESENTATION OF TRADE (ON EVERY VENUE) IS VIDEO RECORDED (TRADING ROOM), ON SOCIAL MEDIA OR ON BLOG / WEBSITE TIME-STAMPED FOR PERMANENT RECORD AND ABSOLUTE TRANSPARENCY. PLEASE ALSO REFER TO OUR PUBLIC DISCLOSURE https://compoundtrading.com/disclosure-disclaimer/ .

Notices:

New lead trader blogpostWhen You Learn It – You Are Free (Part 1 of Freedom Traders). My Stock Trading Story.

Big Changes Coming: Even though we post my trades and trading room transcript and video daily (which has been a massive time investment) starting Monday @HundalShs and I have agreed to post intraday small vids to feed and YouTube every trade as they happen. Each will have every detail of setup and why and everything involved in each trade. I will actually find a way to step out and communicate. That should help folks struggling to get over the wall get over.

If you missed it, here is the Previous Day Stock Trading Results Thursday Mar 30:

Premarket Trading Plan – Watchlist (member post) for Friday Mar 31 session can be found here:

 

The Weekly Simple Swing Trade Charting (public edition) is out. This week however had a lot of indecision in the charts:

Swing Trading Simple Charts (Public Edition) Apr 2 $SPY, $VIX, $USOIL $WTIC, $GLD, $GDX, $SLV, $DXY, $USDJPY

Summary Review of Markets, Chat Room, Algorithm Charting, Trades and Alerts:

Premarket was all about: $SORL

$SORL, Premarket

$SORL Premarket up 40.8%

In play today in chat room and on markets:

$ACOR, $XIV, $UWT, $USOIL, $WTIC, $FWP, $SORL

My day consisted of a small momentum play in $ACOR that netted minor gains, an intra-day trade in $XIV netting around 400.00 and trading in and out of a 70% position in $UWT intra-day (adding to 30%) and closing out 100% $UWT swing trade on week for a 13,700.00 gain on that play. One of my better trades for the quarter.

Per last post; My large play is with $UWT, without explaining all the details early in the week I entered a small position $UWT at support and scaled in to the trade (it is a 3 x leveraged ETN related to oil $USOIL $WTIC) and by yesterday I was scaling out 70%. Anyway on 5000 shares scaled in (and trade isn’t done yet) I am up around 12,000.00 this week on this trade and will likely land around 15,000 if I can scale out of last 30% where I think it will find final resistance. So it’s one of my better trades in recent time.

$XIV, Trading, Results

$XIV In 500 at 73.45 and 500 at 73.68 $VIX $TVIX $UVXY #daytrading

Stocks, ETN’s, ETF’s I am holding:

I am holding (in order of sizing – all moderately small size to micro sizing) –  $DUST, $ONTX, $XOM, $NE, $ASM, $SSH, $LGCY, $TRCH, $ESEA, $MGTI (this is the daytrading portfolio and does not represent swing trading service portfolio): Looking at moving out of all these small positions over the next month or so. I am now 95% cash in daytrading account.

Note-able Momentum Stocks Today (via FinViz):

Leaderboard: $TRR 46% $AKTX %28% $SFUN 19% $FC 19.9% $SORL 17% $APEN 16% $DXPE 16% $DRNA $COOL $FMC $MPVD $BBRY

Ticker Last Change Volume Signal
AKTX 11.07 58.51% 18656408 Top Gainers
STDY 5.80 46.84% 405101 Top Gainers
TRR 17.45 46.03% 5060400 Top Gainers
GBSN 0.00 40.00% 122319200 Top Gainers
IDN 2.61 31.82% 317078 Top Gainers
DRNA 3.40 25.93% 2143645 Top Gainers
TRR 17.45 46.03% 5060400 New High
STDY 5.80 46.84% 405101 New High
COOL 13.67 17.84% 492840 New High
FMC 69.59 13.15% 14121930 New High
FIZZ 84.53 0.58% 266041 Overbought
TRR 17.45 46.03% 5060400 Overbought
AKTX 11.07 58.51% 18656408 Unusual Volume
TRR 17.45 46.03% 5060400 Unusual Volume
CTSO 4.50 -17.43% 2511161 Unusual Volume
PXLG 37.31 0.09% 305645 Unusual Volume
AA 34.40 2.72% 5186704 Upgrades
ARCI 1.06 0.01% 9962 Earnings Before
STRS 27.40 2.43% 10591 Insider Buying

The Markets Looking Forward:

Algorithmic Chart Model Trading / News:

The Charting Algorithm Twitter feeds can be found here: $WTI (@EPICtheAlgo), $VIX (@VexatiousVIX), $SPY (@FREEDOMtheAlgo), $GLD (@ROSIEtheAlgo), $SLV (@SuperNovaAlgo), $DXY (@DXYUSD_Index).

Swing Trading Notes / News:

Simple swing charting that keeps me level when looking at the markets (examples below). Simple charting I find grounds you to simple trades which in turn keeps you profitable in toppy or sideways markets.

US Dollar $DXY $USDJPY $UUP & Currencies of Note:

NA

Gold $GLD $XAUUSD / Gold Miner’s $GDX:

Silver $SLV:

Crude Oil $USOIL $WTI:

Volatility $VIX:

$SPY S&P 500:

$NG_F Natural Gas:

NA

Live Trading Chat Room Transcript: (on YouTube Live):

 

Compound Trading Stock Chat-room Transcript:

Please note: Miscellaneous chatter removed from transcript and some discussions I will add notes with information I’ve gleaned in discussions online with traders on DM etc also for further explanation (noted with *). Most days at 9:30 ET market open there is moderator live broadcast explaining trades and at times during the day there is also live broadcast market updates and trade set-up explanations (so you have to scroll through video feed to market open etc to catch live broadcast portions – in future we will note in in transcript when we are on the mic so viewers can correlate time with transcript with video feed when reviewing trades). 

Note: We are testing a new trading room. This particular room does not list a time stamp with each chat entry – we are working on a fix.

Note: Apologies, some of the morning (first part) is missing from transcript (if we get time to transcribe it from the video we will, but nevertheless the video is available above).

Flash G: $MNKD spike
Flash G: $BBRY Resistance looks like a bull trap.
Flash G: I hold $ACIA in my swing trading. One that I will be trimming significantly today.
Sal: What do you think og it long now Flash?
Flash G: Not sure what your upside would be now. Limited RR?
Flash G: Curt? Mathews?
HedgehogTrader: $ICLD closed the gap after its big run
Curtis: Nice call Nicholas
Curtis: $ACIA chart review on mic
HedgehogTrader: MJs are good group to watch as we lead up to 4/20
HedgehogTrader: one wee one is $VAPE if closes over 008
Curtis: Do you have concern with forward earnings etc? Or no?
Curtis: Fundamentals have kept me out but maybe I should look.
HedgehogTrader: i think it could run as soon as next week
Curtis: ok $VAPE is your primary watch?
Curtis: for that group
MarketMaven: $CNAT action
HedgehogTrader: i like $MJTK and $VAPE for leveraged MJs
Curtis: Ha. When I was originally trained on the markets the guy that trained me called this the horns pattern.
HedgehogTrader: lol
Curtis: He’d laugh and say don’t get the horns
HedgehogTrader: beware horny stocks
Curtis: lol
HedgehogTrader: it does look like that too
MarketMaven: hey curt!
MarketMaven: all good got it – thanks for your eye opening chart review I would have jumped in 5 of those :):):)
Curtis: Off mic for transcript – reviewed a bunch of charts prior to this line…
Flash G: I was hoping for a daytrade myself. But I am cleaning up my swings.
Flash G: I really enjoy the explanation of that oil charting.
HedgehogTrader: LAC.TO is a nice lithium junior LACDF for US investors
HedgehogTrader: about $1/share
Curtis: On Mic Review $VAPE
Curtis: On Transcript how to make my charts your own when I share them
mathew: costa rica brother. Going in Nov and possibly jan/feb for a couple months
Curtis: Love costa rica
Curtis: Off mic
Curtis: $CBIO tape bullll
Curtis: On mic re: $CBIO break-out intra
Curtis: off mic $CBIO review
Curtis: We’;; have to remember to come back to $VAPE Monday and follow it through as it plays out.
HedgehogTrader: for sure- thanks for taking a look at it!
HedgehogTrader: i like that momo indicator
Curtis: It’s fantastic
Curtis: Best indicator – chart indicator anyway
Curtis: Why is the $VIX up so high relative to today’s tape? Insurance?
mathew: Sometimes call buying can also spike the vix, but yea most likely cheap insurance. I mean it can’ go to 0 so being in th e12’s is still pretty low hostorically
Sal: omg just seen your tweet
Curtis: Thanks Mat not sure I understand $VIX enough
HedgehogTrader: for any of you who like the lithium space who are looking for an asymmetric opportunity $ILHMF is a holding of mine I like going forward about 10-11c/share
HedgehogTrader: 10-11c per share. Insiders own +50% and a large lithium producer in Chiina owns 18% of International Lithium ILHMF. Unusual since ILHMF has only a 10M mkt cap
Curtis: $AKTS buying
Curtis: I’ll have to put that one on the list Nich
HedgehogTrader: yes, it’s a really nice risk/reward set up as the Chinese are spending 12m on exploration over the next year on one JV with Intl Lithium
HedgehogTrader: developing a world class lithium project 2019 production and ILC will own 20-30% of it (it;s a JV)
HedgehogTrader: Ganfeng is the big partner and Intl Lithium has a second JV with them on another great project in Ireland- great biz model, let the big money develop projects and reap the benefits
HedgehogTrader: sorry for my spiel 🙂 but i think we are at bottom of this lithium cycle
HedgehogTrader: and the most leverage stocks will jump
HedgehogTrader: there’s more to the story- if you like i’ll write it up for you Curtis
HedgehogTrader: trades as ILC.V in Canada
HedgehogTrader: miners showing signs of life again
Curtis: Sorry, I was off in lala land
Curtis: chart land
Curtis: YES for sure is the answer
HedgehogTrader: good stuff I will
Curtis: I just figured out how to turn on sounds notification lol
Curtis: thanks
HedgehogTrader: gold, silver perking
Curtis: touched that algo line to the penny
Sal: lunch!
Flash G: $CLVS Red to green.
Curtis: $FWP halt

$FWP, Stock, Chart

$FWP Halt off halt halt -29.5%

Curtis: $ACOR halt volatility

$ACOR, Stock, Chart

$ACOR Halt off halt halt -26%

Curtis: $ACOR halt
Curtis: $FWP Halt
Curtis: $ACOR Resumed
Curtis: $ACOR long 20.08
Curtis: on mic
Curtis: 1000 shares
Curtis: Stop 20.20
Curtis: stopped
Curtis: On mic re: $USOIL $WTI related $UWT
Curtis: Long $UWT 12:09 EST 70% scaling in
HedgehogTrader: $LIT gapped today and made a new 3 year high
Curtis: Was only able to get 2000 in at 18.53 $UWT so far and out 19.59 ugh – holding 30% swing though
Curtis: 19.53 and 19.59 correction
Flash G: $IWM
Curtis: Leaderboard: $TRR 46% $AKTX %28% $SFUN 19% $FC 19.9% $SORL 17% $APEN 16% $DXPE 16% $DRNA $COOL $FMC $MPVD $BBRY
Curtis: $ACOR resume 13:00
Curtis: Rigs on deck 2 mins
Curtis: I thought the $VIX $UVXY $TVIX trade was too obvious today lol
Curtis: Too obvious normally doesn’t pan out my point. But it did.
Curtis: Looking at long $XIV afternoon daytrade
Curtis: Long $XIV 500 73.45
Curtis: on mic
Curtis: off mic just explained $XIV trade and time of day risk reward thesis. Will cut quick if I have to and re enter. Looking for a turn around 2:30 – 2:45 EST
Curtis: will add if confirms

lenny: Bitcoin action
Curtis: $XIV add 100% now 500 73.68
Curtis: on mic
Curtis: off mic
MarketMaven: I followed you in Curt it seemed sound:)
Flash G: Fantastic call Curt.
Carol B: I followed I admt
HedgehogTrader: btw $ICLD turned up after closing gap this morning
HedgehogTrader: def looks promising
HedgehogTrader: also fyi $LTBR raging
HedgehogTrader: and $URRE getting perky – uranium plays
OILK: Thanks Hedge
OILK: I’m in oil with Curt and $XIV but all of your ideas I am charting this weekend
OILK: hope I can return the favor
Curtis: On mic
Curtis: $XIV review
HedgehogTrader: thanks OILK- i’ve been covering small/microcap resource stocks for quite a while
HedgehogTrader: $EXK nice silver producer to watch- chart looking good and great fundies
HedgehogTrader: $EXK 3 silver mines in production and 3 coming online in next 2 years, main mine is low cost, CEO bought a chunk a coulpe of weeks ago
Curtis: Stop at 73.39 $XIV
Curtis: You can always re enter
Curtis: 73.83 sorry correction
Curtis: Stopped 73.83 closed position
Curtis: off mic
Curtis: On mic re: Oil update $USOIL $WTIC $UWT trade
Curtis: Off mic explained $USOIL $WTI $UTW trade stop area and not holding over weekend on 30% position.
Curtis: Crude oil within .30 of important upside resistance. I will be ratcheting. $FX $USOIL $WTI $UWT #OIL #OOTT
Flash G: Good session for a boring Friday 🙂 Cleaned up everything , excellent ideas in here and school with Curt on the trades. Beneficial for learning needed with many.
Curtis: Thanks Flash. Effort:)
Curtis: I get used to just being able to do it I forget others haven’t maybe learned etc.
Curtis: Learning to help others learn.
jeff: it helped
jeff: watched on twitter then came in after work
jeff: $SDRL moving
HedgehogTrader: Flash you still in LTBR
Flash G: Yes.
Curtis: ok
Curtis: Time to start trailing out other 30% of $UWT
Curtis: Nice trade for sure YUGE WIN around 13700.00 on that trade this week
Flash G: That is the way to do it. Congrats. I had a similar week in my swingtrades. Very profitable week.
Cal: It was good.
HedgehogTrader: $LTBR at hod
Flash G: Yes!
Flash G: I am going to hold.
HedgehogTrader: i agree, good call 🙂
HedgehogTrader: a lot of good stuff happening (ie working with Areva) and still such a tiny mkt cap
Flash G: It will have a great year. My opinion.
Flash G: Yes.
HedgehogTrader: i agee- it’s set up very nicely
Cal: Long $XIV
Cal: 🙂
Curtis: GLGL Cal I’m going to chill
MarketMaven: I’m with ya!
HedgehogTrader: yow $LTBR 1.32

HedgehogTrader: yow $LTBR 1.32
HedgehogTrader: for those who like microcap ideas, put $VICL on watch list
HedgehogTrader: it’s one my signals indicate could make a big move in April
gary y: I’m in LTBR and planning to hold also
HedgehogTrader: oh cool!
Shafique: Ok I will look also
HedgehogTrader: i think we could see stocks trend higher into mid-May
Curtis: $TDW likely bottoming – -indicators not perfect but chart looks to be bottoming
HedgehogTrader: it’s a nice chart
HedgehogTrader: $LTBR woot 1.36
MarketMaven: $MMEX OTC play I have is grrreat
MarketMaven: $PRNA spike
MarketMaven: $MRNS trend to HOD
HedgehogTrader: nice MM
HedgehogTrader: fertile period for microcaps
MarketMaven: hahaha fertile!
Curtis: In to Close Leaderboard $AKTX 56% $TRR 45% $STDY 44% $IDN $FC $SFUN $DRNA $SORL $APEN $DXPE $COOL #trading #stocks
Curtis: I feel like Monday it either drops out or blasts off. No normal. Could be wrong of course lol
jeff: Have a great weekend!
Shafique: Ya thanks guys, great set ups and explanations. it is bud tme
Curtis: enjoy

HedgehogTrader: i agree Curtis
Curtis: Could be interesting
HedgehogTrader: i do get an important inflection point in stocks around Apr 6th (+/- 2-3 days)
HedgehogTrader: and that I am saying is when we should start to see stocks turn up
Flash G: Well that was a fantastic week! One of the best in many months.
HedgehogTrader: sorry if that is too wide a net 🙂
HedgehogTrader: nice Flash
OILK: Agree we rocked it.
OILK: I didn’t see many losing alerts if any.
HedgehogTrader: i hope we get to chat this wknd Curt 🙂
Curtis: Very sound team. Fertile for learning traders and even the experienced if I think about it. Was one of my best in a long while too.
HedgehogTrader: i’m pretty psyched for the next few weeks
Curtis: Yes. Hit me up when you can. Off to do errands now folks. I’ll shut room down in 4 mins. Best!
HedgehogTrader: have a great weekend all
gary y: enjoy the weekend everyone
Curtis: cya gary
Cal: ty!
Curtis: MOC 300 M to sell.

Be safe out there!

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Article Topics: $ACOR, $XIV, $UWT, $USOIL, $WTIC, $FWP, $SORL  – $XOM, $NE, $ONTX, $DUST, $TRCH, $LGCY, $SSH, $ASM – $UGAZ, $DGAZ, $NUGT, $DUST, $USLV, $DSLV, $UWT, $DWT, $JNUG, $JDST, Compound Trading, Trading Lessons, Results, Wall Street, Stocks, Day Trading, Swing Trading, Investing, Chat Room, Trading Results, $GLD, $GDX, $USOIL, $WTIC, $USD/JPY, $SPY, $DXY, $VIX, $GC_F, $USO, $UCO, $SCO, $CL_F, S&P 500


Hello swing traders! Welcome to Compound Trading Swing Trading Keep It Simple K.I.S.S. Charting Review (Public Edition) for the week of April 2, 2017! This edition focuses on MACD, Stochastic RSI, Moving Averages, SQZMOM and a few others. 

Email us at [email protected] anytime with any questions about any of the swing trades listed below. Or, if we get bogged down private message Curtis in trade room or direct message him on Twitter. Market hours are tough but we endeavor to get back to everyone after market each day.

Notices:

Members please refer to the member publications for more detail – THIS WEEK has a lot of indecision so we will detail set-ups for you on tighter time-frames and show you specifically what triggers long and short.

Introduction:

My perspective of the markets can be summarized as go long when you can until it breaks (and I do believe there is a break on the horizon but it doesn’t do you any good to wait around for corrections). The “it can gap down” philosophy has not been on the winning side historically. So we swing trade with managed risk with stops and proper discipline.

Understanding what the simple indicators are for the entry and exit in your trading position in a swing trade is critical – proper entries and exits can not only increase your win rate but also significantly impact your personal investment portfolio return on investment, thus a critical discipline to at least become moderately familiar. The buy and hold concept has served investors moderately well for some time, but even so, they could have do so much better with very little time invested.

Click here also to review our most recent Swing Trading Quarterly Performance Report.

Thanking you in advance.

This Week’s Simple Charts include MACD, Moving Averages (MA), Stochastic RSI and a custom Squeeze Momentum Indicator (SQZMOM) for the US Dollar, USDJPY, Volatility, Gold, Gold Miners, Silver, Crude Oil and the S&P 500. Below are daily charts and some charts include the hourly or even 5 minute charting perspective.

The secret to Swing Trading successfully is understanding and executing Price Trigger Power Trade Risk Reward PTPTRR

A quick word about this discipline before you review the charts below. If you understand the disciplines involved in swing trading, more specifically PTPTRR then good for you! If you do not, I encourage you to learn the discipline before swing trading. You can of course search online the specifics of the discipline or ask us to assist. Either way, a few hours of focused / directed study will go a long way to ensuring that risk reward is always on your side.

The charts below can be used to achieve a very hassle free return on investment as long as you understand the above principles to trading. This will bring your trading in to a predictable process driven realm. Trust us, it lowers stress and provides investing enjoyment instead of it being a negative learning experience.

In short “Price” is simply the price action and target buy or exit of each trade. The “Trigger” is when the indicators have lined up and price has moved in the direction of and confirmed an entry. “Power” is buying or selling action. And a defined “Risk Reward” is knowing in advance what your plan is and it is a scientific process, not random.

I (the lead trader at Compound Trading) published a blog post today that hopefully will encourage you to learn the disciplines required – you can find it here When You Learn It – You Are Free (Part 1 of Freedom Traders). My Stock Trading Story.

It wants to go. Simple Charts $USOIL $WTIC Daily MACD cross up, Stoch RSI way up, SQMOM may turn green, Above 200 MA. $CL_F $USO $SCO $UWT $DWT

$USOIL, $WTI, Swing, Chart

It wants to go. Simple Charts $USOIL $WTIC Daily MACD cross up, Stoch RSI way up, SQMOM may turn green, Above 200 MA. $CL_F $USO $SCO $UWT $DWT

Indecision. Simple Charts $USOIL $WTIC Hourly MACD mid, Stoch RSI near bottom, SQZMOM green, Above MAs. $CL_F $USO $SCO $UWT $DWT #daytrading

$USOIL, $WTI, Hourly, Chart

Indecision. Simple Charts $USOIL $WTIC Hourly MACD mid, Stoch RSI near bottom, SQZMOM green, Above MAs. $CL_F $USO $SCO $UWT $DWT #daytrading

Indecision. Simple Charts $USOIL $WTIC 5 Min MACD mid, Stoch RSI near bottom, SQZMOM red, mixed MAs. $CL_F $USO $SCO $UWT $DWT #daytrading

5 Min, $USOIL, $WTI, Chart

Indecision. Simple Charts $USOIL $WTIC 5 Min MACD mid, Stoch RSI near bottom, SQZMOM red, mixed MAs. $CL_F $USO $SCO $UWT $DWT #daytrading

Indecision. Simple Charts #GOLD Daily MACD mid pinch, Stoch RSI down, SQZMOM green, under 200 MA $GLD $XAUUSD $GC_F #swingtrading

Gold, Daily, Chart, Swing, Trading

Indecision. Simple Charts #GOLD Daily MACD mid pinch, Stoch RSI down, SQZMOM green, under 200 MA $GLD $XAUUSD $GC_F #swingtrading

Indecision. Simple Charts #GOLD Hourly MACD mid pinch, Stoch RSI downtrend, SQZMOM green, under 200 MA $GLD $XAUUSD $GC_F #daytrading

Gold, Hourly, Chart

Indecision. Simple Charts #GOLD Hourly MACD mid pinch, Stoch RSI downtrend, SQZMOM green, under 200 MA $GLD $XAUUSD $GC_F #daytrading

Simple Charts #SILVER Hourly MACD mid pinch, Stoch RSI near bottom, SQZMOM green turning down, above MAs. $SLV $USLV $DSLV

Hourly, Silver, Chart

Simple Charts #SILVER Hourly MACD mid pinch, Stoch RSI near bottom, SQZMOM green turning down, above MAs. $SLV $USLV $DSLV

Simple Charts $VIX Hourly has a heartbeat MACD turned up, Stoch RSI threatening, SQZMOM green, mixed MA. $UVXY $TVIX $XIV #daytrading

$VIX

Simple Charts $VIX Hourly has a heartbeat MACD turned up, Stoch RSI threatening, SQZMOM green, mixed MA. $UVXY $TVIX $XIV #daytrading

Life Simple Charts $VIX Daily Flat MACD mid range flat, Stoch RSI down, SQZMOM flat, 200 MA peekaboo. $UVXY $TVIX $XIV #swingtrading

$VIX, Chart

Life Simple Charts $VIX Daily Flat MACD mid range flat, Stoch RSI down, SQZMOM flat, 200 MA peekaboo. $UVXY $TVIX $XIV #swingtrading

Indecision. Simple Charts $USDJPY Daily MACD down pinch, Stoch RSI uptrend, SQZMOM red, above 200 MA. $DXY $USD #SwingTrading

USDJPY, Chart

Indecision. Simple Charts $USDJPY Daily MACD down pinch, Stoch RSI uptrend, SQZMOM red, above 200 MA. $DXY $USD #SwingTrading

Indecision. Simple Charts $DXY Daily MACD near bottom, Stoch RSI up top, SQZMOM red, above 200 MA. $UUP $USD #SwingTrading

$DXY, Chart

Indecision. Simple Charts $DXY Daily MACD near bottom, Stoch RSI up top, SQZMOM red, above 200 MA. $UUP $USD #SwingTrading

Simple Charts #SILVER Daily MACD mid pinch, Stoch RSI near top turn down, SQZMOM green turn up, above 200 MA. $SLV $USLV $DSLV #swingtrading

Silver, Swing, Trading, Daily, Chart

Simple Charts #SILVER Daily MACD mid pinch, Stoch RSI near top turn down, SQZMOM green turn up, above 200 MA. $SLV $USLV $DSLV #swingtrading

Indecision. Simple Charts $GDX Miners Hourly MACD flatish up, Stoch RSI turn down, SQZMOM flat gr, over 200 MA. #SwingTrading $GDXJ $NUGT $DUST $JNUG $JDST

$GDX, Chart

Indecision. Simple Charts $GDX Miners Hourly MACD flatish up, Stoch RSI turn down, SQZMOM flat gr, over 200 MA. #SwingTrading $GDXJ $NUGT $DUST $JNUG $JDST

Not good. Simple Charts $GDX Miners Daily MACD pinch, Stoch RSI down, SQZMOM green, under 200 MA. $GDXJ $NUGT $DUST $JNUG $JDST

$GDX, Chart

Not good. Simple Charts $GDX Miners Hourly MACD pinch, Stoch RSI down, SQZMOM green, under 200 MA. $GDXJ $NUGT $DUST $JNUG $JDST

Simple Charting $SPY Daily MACD pinch down, Stoch RSI turn up SQZMOM red, under 20 MA. $SPXL $SPXS #SwingTrading

$SPY, Daily, Chart

Simple Charting $SPY Daily MACD pinch down, Stoch RSI turn up SQZMOM red, under 20 MA. $SPXL $SPXS #SwingTrading

Simple Charting $SPY Hourly MACD up turn down, Stoch RSI near bottom, SQZMOM flat, Mix MAs, note sold off EOD Fri. $SPXL $SPXS #DayTrading

$SPY, Hourly, Chart

Simple Charting $SPY Hourly MACD up turn down, Stoch RSI near bottom, SQZMOM flat, Mix MAs, note sold off EOD Fri. $SPXL $SPXS #DayTrading

That’s my simple perspective for the week. Best to y’all this week. For a much more detailed review please refer to the member’s post.

Email or DM me on Twitter anytime with thoughts or questions!

Cheers!

Curtis

P.S.

The charts included in this review may assist you in the endeavor of trade entry / exit and if you wish to become more serious (more profitable) with your entries refer to our swing trading for more insight (includes many equities also in the weekly reports).

The charting algorithm model Twitter feeds can be found here:$WTI (@EPICtheAlgo), $VIX (@VexatiousVIX), $SPY (@FREEDOMtheAlgo), $GLD (@ROSIEtheAlgo), $SLV (@SuperNovaAlgo), $DXY (@DXYUSD_Index).

Article Topics; Compound Trading, Swing, Trading, Stocks, Picks, $SPY, $VIX, $USOIL $WTI, $GLD, $GDX, $SLV, $DXY, $USDJPY, MACD, Charting, ROI, USD, Dollar, Volatility, Gold, Miner’s, Silver, Crude, Oil, S&P 500, Stochastic, RSI, Moving Averages, MA, Commodities, Currencies


Trading Stocks for Freedom. How I Learned to Get Over the Wall and What May Help You.

A quick post on my stock trading story – the pain I experienced learning how to become a consistently profitable trader and how it may help you in your journey to being part of the “Freedom Traders” club.

Updated July 15, 2018. We have come a long way since this article was originally published. Our first machine trading Generation 1 Algorithm Models are being released at the end of July – it has been an amazing 18 month journey. The last six months we have locked in win rates over 90% (recorded and published live for transparency) and the next six months will be a process of rolling out those new machine models that nearly never lose. And yes, you will have to investigate our results for yourself. The report will be released before the next gen models are at the end of the month (or simply ask for a private tour of our time-stamped, recorded, live alerted trading alerts).

My Trading History in Brief.

I preach never give up w/o hesitation because no matter how long it takes, even if you start back at zero, when you get it, you are free.

I started trading when I was twenty-one (so almost thirty years ago) – things were a little different, but the same too. I worked for a large promoter on the markets.

At twenty-one years old I worked with a team of thirteen that engineered IPO’s from ground up then doing road shows presenting to the investor community the offering. So my learning curve was quick – the inner-mechanics of the markets was intense. But that doesn’t help you “get over the wall” to learning how to be a consistently profitable trader.

I went on to various businesses and over time invested those earnings in to the stock market. “Investing” for me is easy, and should be for anyone in my opinion. “Seeking Alpha” or beating alpha isn’t difficult. Investing is not what this post is about.

Then I went on to Swing Trading with success (you will find my trading set-ups / calls / alerts top shelf triple digit annual returns – all publicly posted, recorded, time-stamped for transparency) – so this isn’t even what I call “that difficult”, although it takes more skill / study than investing.

I then went on to daytrading and algorithmic modeling and more recently in 2018 machine trading with significant success ratio, again recorded, time-stamped, live alerted results nearing high 90% win rates depending on the financial instrument (more on that on our website).

And more recently I have looked at taking on options and shorting more – but that’s a whole other topic.

What Got Me Over the Wall to Freedom Trading.

WHERE MY INFLECTION POINT CAME was when I started trading algorithmic model trading. In other words, I went from a 60% win rate (variable with wild swings in performance) to between 60% to 97% (yes near 100% in most categories and few instruments now less than 80%. With oil related for example I have a near 97% hit win rate, again all publicly shared for transparency, recorded and time-stamped).

So what was it about getting in to algorithmic modeling that changed my win rate?

Simple, it became vivid that having a “process” that I can “rely on” over a series of trades “always” had me on the winning side (over-all). That overall winning (over a series of trades) then provides the “confidence” needed to execute trades without “emotion”.

So it isn’t the algo charting that did it – it was the understanding of technical set-ups (the structure of the chart representing the financial instrument) that did it and knowing that if I compromise the “process” I would lose.

So I now have a process I refer to as PTPTRR. Price, Trigger, Power, Trade, Risk, Reward. More on this in a future post.

I Blew Up Two Accounts – Bad! Very, Very Bad and VERY Painful.

I will tell you that late in my trading life – long after I was twenty-one and a noobie, long after I was investing and swing trading, I blew up two accounts and I blew them up bad at a very bad time in my life. Learning how to day-trade was excruciatingly painful – my wins were huge and my losses even bigger.

Read somewhere that becoming a successful Professional Trader is akin to becoming a Brain Surgeon … degree of difficulty is very high

When I blew up two accounts it was during a time in my life where I couldn’t lose, I couldn’t gamble the nest-egg I had – but I did. I literally gambled my whole life (and the financial well being of my family). I was all in (at least 90% all in on the first blow up), and it wasn’t long ago. I took 90% of our wealth and gambled and lost. THEN! To make matters worse I took the last 10% and did the same. True story. Very painful.

So I had two choices, learn how to really trade (vs. long swings and investing which I know isn’t the wealth building vehicle I was looking for) or put my tail between my legs and go back to normal life as a loser (a loser as far as I’m concerned – I’m stubborn).

So I figured it out. And since then, I have publicly traded every trade with transparency to possibly help others along on the journey. It’s a karma thing for me. And I know I know I get people asking, well why do you charge etc… but if you knew the overhead in our start-up you’d be like… oh I get it. We’re simply trying to fund the lift of a democratized platform that we think will be increasingly valuable for the average trader not just for learning on their journey but we see a future not far off that will leave many behind (the rise of the machines). So it’s a bit of a Robin Hood thing. I know, sounds corny but that’s what it is (a give-back thing is our motivation – a few computer scientists and entrepreneurs).

Five years (mark this tweet) u will not find a winning trader that has not embraced #AI #IA Machine Intelligent Assisted Trading. It’s already here. And I’m not talking about the cheap rip you off bots retail can buy. Retail can’t buy the real service. They won’t sell it to you.

A quick note here… we have given up on the idea of the general retail market helping to fund our platform and mission to bring world class machine trading to the everyday investor… we are still bringing it, in fact we haven’t missed a beat… but retail isn’t coming near funding the costs (at best 2% to date). So how are we funding it? Refer to our win rates, investigate our win rates, roll over those rocks and then you should know how we are funding it. At this point… we are nearly never losing. We’re funding 98% + of this roll-out. And yes, if you’re a retail trader that wants access I believe you should at least put a foot forward (have some skin in the game, even if it is a nominal amount of money). Why? It’s simple, if you don’t have at least some skin in the game it has zero value to you and you should have to reach a bit for it – for it to have any value. It’s a reciprocation thing. And don’t forget, 18 months ago I was exactly where any retail trader is today reading this, we reached, we believed and we’re doing it. We’re just asking for folks to reach a bit. Mark my words here now… when our results are published before the first generation of our new machine trading models are launched at the end of July – everyone, and I mean everyone that looks in to our verified record of alerting trades will know that we just do not lose now – very rare

So in summary (as far as this quick note update today is concerned), we still believe we have a mandate to bring this to the general public but we aren’t trying to push that anymore. If people want to get it they can, if they don’t that’s fine, we’ve let that part go. We are publishing at the end of the month our 2018 results to date and then we are going to absolutely conquer our trading environment over the next six months of 2018.

When 2018 is complete, there will be zero doubt that our transparent roll out and development of competing against the largest most sophisticated trading firms in the world has been a success and we will have been the only team to publicly and transparently share the start up process and spawning and development of that complete process to the general public. None of the other firms in our work have done that. Every single group like ours has either gone dark right from day one or shortly thereafter. This has never been available to the general public.

The last quick note here is that much of our current work (the machine trading generation models being introduced soon) is not transparent – the technology and coding we are using, but the trading alerts and subsequent success etc is shared and the process is shared and always will be transparent. The specific machine trading technology is proprietary and will remain so.

Okay back to the quick story…

So I will spare you the very painful details of the story – but I can say without a doubt short of losing a loved one or experiencing a divorce it was the most painful part of my life. Changed almost everything.

But learning how to trade with consistency, knowing that you are going to be on the winning side also can change everything — it is literally financial freedom (and with that many other freedoms), even if you lose it all and start at zero. It is something nobody can take away from you and it is yours for life and that equals freedom – maybe not today, but freedom is then inevitable. It is only time.

“Money won’t create success, the freedom to make it will.” – Nelson Mandela

How to Always be on the Winning Side in Trading – Getting over the Wall.

Below I will share a few pointers or rules that I used to get over the wall, but the truth is the topic is massive. Because it is a series of disciplines and everybody is at a different place in their learning, I will simply share a few key pointers below.

This week we have decided to start sharing every trade I execute via short video posted to YouTube and copied to our social media feeds on Twitter, StockTwits, Facebook, Google+ etc. Then learning traders can view these shortly after they occurred intra-day. We do record our complete trading room session also FYI and to see them live you need to be in the room. But if you are not for whatever reason you’ll be able to view the videos near real-time and they will be snippets (1 min to 5 min videos) that will explain every detail possible of the set-up, process during the trade and closing the trade out and why. This will be our method of helping other folks over that wall to freedom.

A Few Things That Helped Me Trade for Consistent Profit.

Number 1: You need a process that over a series of trades always puts you on the winning side.

You will never win every trade, and in fact I know traders that win less than they lose, but their winners are better than their losers.

For example, I have a swing trading process (see my most recent Swing Trading Quarterly P/L Review), I have a day trading process (see my most recent Day Trading Quarterly P/L Review), we have an Algorithmic Chart Modeling Trading Process (the Quarterly Report will be out soon – and it destroys my day-trading and swing trading results), and then I have my personal trading account trades that I don’t share because I use it for high risk representing a small percentage of my trades (I wouldn’t want to encourage others in that way or be responsible for that) and I also use it for learning (options and shorting and the like). BTW I can trade along any averagely decent options or short seller, but I don’t want to share it with the public until it is locked in and extremely predictable (again I don’t want to be responsible for the possible losses).

So get a process! How do you get a process? Well from folks like us, learning on your own, or various other ways I suppose. Be cautious that the service you pick suits your personality and goals, and be sure you investigate it well (I get notes daily about how much folks spend for services and feel guilty because it was either misguided or didn’t fit with their goals). Check their calls, back check all of their calls and see if they are successful. Be sure the calls are transparent with time stamps. Talk to their clients.

What is my process? My process is structured trading. I know the natural trading structure of each instrument I trade. This process is also my edge and frankly with-out this “tool” – structured trading, it will be very difficult for any trader in the near future to win. The machines are here and it will require a change in the mindset of traders. But here again, more on that in a future post.

But the bottom line remains the same, structured trading wins. I am updating this post today (July 15, 2018) while we I am reviewing our profit loss performance statements… the results from the last six months are stunning. We are releasing them soon (before the end of July when our next Generation Machine Trading Algorithm models are released). The point is…. you can’t compete with a trader that knows the natural historical trading structure of a financial instrument over all time frames (from 1 minute charting to weekly). It just isn’t possible to outperform that trader (the intelligently assisted trader #IA) – with the only exception being the machine. I can’t beat the machines. But I employ them to help me.

There is a reason our win rate is so high. Ask for a tour of our live swing trading or oil trading alert feeds (that are time stamped) – you will see win rates in the high 90% range over the last six months and we welcome folks to visit our free public chat room to ask around about our performance. We put it out in the open. Swing trading and oil trading are our best results being over 90% but our other instruments are also doing exceptionally well also – just not as high.

All that winning alert feed success can be directly attributed to a winning process, that we have near perfected that is in our instance what we call structured trading. Knowing the historical structure on all time frames of the financial instrument that we are trading (assisted by machine data and charting) provides us an edge over the majority of traders in the marketplace.

Number 2: You need risk management. You cannot be a consistently great trader without extreme discipline in risk management.

This post was motivated by the many replies I got on the weekend to a simple tweet (that became a series of tweets) about the pain one goes through to get up over the wall and to the side of freedom in trading. It actually touched me, seriously. The number of folks that messaged me about their stories blew me away. I was an emotional a wreck, and risk management (next to the importance of a “process” seemed to be a consistent theme).

Risk management is knowing where your risk reward lies before you enter a trade and adhering to that with-out fail. Now, I compromise this myself at times, primarily however because as conditions change I will change my threshold. But, you HAVE TO KNOW WHAT YOU ARE DOING before you start flexing on this rule. Study out risk management online because this is intended only as a brief post.

Number 3: Turn off the noise.

Did you know that many of the people telling you about great stock picks on television etc are paid to or have paid the broadcaster for the opportunity to do that? In one way or another there is a payment transfer, it doesn’t have to be in direct payment for service form either. I personally have been invited to a number of programs, I did one recently on premarket show with Benzinga see: PreMarket Prep for December 30: Wrapping up 2016 with our best call of the year, and since I haven’t done one (we have many that have asked – especially to look at our algorithms). I do have some others booked and will do them in the future, but I am being selective for this very reason.

So I won’t get in to all the details, but media (all things considered) should be at best a very light part of your study. You need to know your basic technical information and set-ups – the fundamentals aren’t as important because stops deal with that. Get your technical set-ups in order. Hence why we are going to start publishing every trade intra-day for traders.

Number 4: You need a good home – a trading coach, mentor, trading room or newsletter service (with coaching add-on).

The number of traders (in our service and out) that DM, email or message me in some form daily is becoming astronomical. And I do everything I can to respond to each and every one daily. I say this not to be like oh I am so important, I say this to say that I know with-out a doubt that the average learning trader needs a coach. Good coaches aren’t cheap but they will bring you return (or value) that nothing else can.

Short of that, get in to a good trading room or get a newsletter service set-up that will help you with technical set-ups. When people ask me what I do I tell them I do oil changes. Seriously I do. Why? Because it’s the same. You take your car in for an oil change because it is more efficient or it brings a value to you and that’s why you go. You’d rather spend 50.00 on the oil change than do it yourself. That’s what a newsletter service will do for you – for the 50.00 or 300.00 a month or whatever, it will provide you the free time to do other things while someone else is doing the grunt work compiling technical set-ups for you.

Number 5 – Emotional Intelligence.

What is emotional intelligence? Emotional intelligence is simply the identification, tracking and management of your emotions. Emotional intelligence is much more important to your trading success than your IQ because what you do is inexorably connected to how you feel. In other words, emotions are organizing principles of our human system and they cannot be separated from us. In fact, they are, to a large degree, what makes us human as as such this is directly attached to your success or failure as a trader.

Again, because this post is simply a brief I encourage you to research emotional intelligence and what expert traders have to say about it. Study, study, study.

There it is… emotional intelligence. The nemesis I had to beat. Great tweet.

Number 6. Trading With Transparency

Last but not least, in fact I think for me was most important, was when I started trading with transparency. I started publishing trades in trading rooms in 2015 that I was investigating (when I was learning how to daytrade vs. swing trading and investing).

Then in 2016 I began posting my trades in and out to Twitter and Stocktwits and later in 2016 to our service.

Now I post my trades all over the place haha – I have to be cautious how I do that because we have subscribers, but I trade live in our room and post trades to social and our blog. I even post our trading room footage and a transcript daily to Youtube and our blog.

And this week Sartaj will be taking each of my trades and posting them intraday to Youtube and our social networks. This will cause me to have to be more verbal (I have a fear of public speaking) but I will learn. My goal is to broadcast everything I can think of in each trade fo that each video snippet will be very detailed for trader’s learning.

There are many more points or “rules” to trading (number 7 would have been stay away from morning momo stock plays haha).

In Closing

That is it for now. I will write more on this topic in the near future.

It is Sunday and we’re in the lab processing our weekly Swing Trading newsletter, running the charting algorithms for our six models in Oil, $SPY, $VIX, Gold, Silver and the US Dollar and I have to get ready for a big week in the trading room.

We are after all stepping it up a notch in that we are not only publishing the trading room video and transcript at the end of each day going forward – WE ARE PUBLISHING EVERY TRADE to our social networks right after they occur intra-day all day every day for now on! That is a big deal! Why? Because I believe it will be a primary way that traders desiring with all their will to get over the freedom wall, will in fact have another important tool in that endeavor! You can’t follow another’s trade but you can certainly crack open their method and make it yours!

Don’t follow other people’s trades. You don’t know their position size, time frame, stop loss, or exit strategy.

Message me anytime with your story or questions – I WOULD LOVE to hear the stories. I’m being serious here, I have never been that guy, but there is something about this, helping others get over that wall that has seriously inspired me to action.

Peace and best.

Curtis

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Part 1 : My Personal Stock Trading Story. How I Blew up Two Accounts and then Learned How to Trade.

Part 2: Trading Checklist (Rules) I Follow Before Triggering a Stock Trade.

Part 3: Now I’m Inspired. A Struggling Trader That Inspired Change. 

Part 4: We Want (Need) You! Apply to Nearest Recruiting Station.

Part 5: Learn How to Trade Stocks (Build a Small Account) Following my Journey.

Part 6 a: Trading Set-ups. How-To Develop a Systematic – Predictable Process.

Part 6 b: Trading Set-ups. Video Explains Predictable Winning Process (companion to part 6 a).

Part 7: How I Develop a Trading Plan Watchlist (Swing Trading and Day Trading). Part 7 a) “Freedom Traders” Series.

Part 8: How to Swing Trade Like the Pros and Win Most Trades. 

Get up. Dust off. And never give up.

 

Article Topics; Freedom, Trading, Trader, Learning, Stocks, SwingTrading, DayTrading.

 

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