RE: WATCHES FOR THOSE THAT ARE TIME CRUNCHED

This post dated April 7th showed as of that date this port list at 13 gains 5 losses 2 breakevens with an overall port gain of 7.4%
It now stands at 13 gains 2 losses 5 breakevens with a nice increase in overall port value of 13% !

The 2 losses are minor:

WITM -4%
BQI -2%

Heading the gainers list are:

RPTN +41%
SUF +38%
ANO +30%
IVAN +24%
ONT +22%
ASTI +22%
BMD +20%
LJPC +18%
ESLR +16%
SIGA +12%
ZROS +11%

Update after 2 (9 days in this case) weeks:
Gainers:

SUF +43%
RPTN +32%
ONT +32%
ANO +30%
ASTI +29%
JDO +28%
BMD +23%
IVAN +23%
LJPC +18%
SIGA +18%
ESLR +17%
SDRG +6%
ZROS +5%
NNPP +5%
BVSN +2%
DSTI +2%

Losers:

WITM -9%
BQI -1%
OVTI -1%
VION -1%

16 Gainers 4 Losers Overall port value +16.35

Of the ones that I still have in play I'll set a tighter trailer,take my profits,and move on to a new list of MZ pullbacks which I will scan for sometime this weekend.

Muddy Goes to Hollywood!

LOL, okay, he's not really in the "movie", but he is mentioned a lot. Jeanne over at Blonde Money has a lot of nice things to say about him in her latest video.

Jeanne has only been trading for about a year I think, and Muddy has been trying to help her out. For newer traders here, you might want to watch the whole video and take note: simple is better.

RED, RED AND MORE RED!!!!

Don't make trades when the markets are red?

Why not? Been told not to? Read a book that said to stay away?

Plenty of opportunities come up even on red market days, you just have to know where to find them.

High of day list / good average day range stocks making 52 week highs are the way to go. Muddy has said it over and over again in chat and in this blog, it works. Today the markets were red as you know-

Wanna see what came up in chat? I stopped counting at 35 alerts because well, I just stopped:)

Some of the highlights: Symbol / Alert price / HOD

CTLG .75 / .95 AVII 3.04 / 3.22 ASTIZ 2.50 / 2.75

AMKR 14.02 / 14.30 DESC 1.80 / 1.91 FWLT 63.48 / 64.49

BHIP 2.34 / 2.55 JASO 19.78 / 20.28 GLBL 19.97 / 20.33

AMRN 3.25 / 3.39 VOLC 18.40 / 19.35 RIGL 12.00 / 12.44

NEXC 12.10 / 12.93 AHM 20.10 / 21.91 VRAZ 6.80 / 7.20

VNUS 11.00 / 11.47 MDII 1.45 / 1.70 PGNE .34 / .57

LEND 9.60 / 10.35 NFI 5.08 / 5.38 ISON 1.45 / 2.20

POWL 34.90 / 35.67 JDO 1.69 / 1.87 PDLI 22.70 / 23.62

PARL 5.20 / 5.59 and so on.

Anatomy of a trade today:

Spot VOLC coming across the rolling HOD list at 18.30. Have traded it in the past, remembered it had a decent day range. Checked the news, nothing today for it. Volume seemed good, nice break north so I dove in with a .30 trailing stop.

As you can see it continued north for a nice run to a hod 19.35. In this trade I sold just before the hod for a nice profit. Notice at no time did I mention overall market conditions, ticks / trins, etc. Does it matter? Sure does. Do I follow the overall market conditions? Yes I do, along with Gold, Oil, S & P futures and I listen to CNBC all day long.

Point is this: Trade what is front of you, if a stock is running, it's running. I may tighten my stops a bit and take smaller profits when the markets are down / lite volume days, but that is about it.

If you don't trade on down days and it works for you then that is great. If your looking to expand your capabilities then give the HOD list / 52 week high method a try, you might like it.

OK, the "Pile on theory" or "Everybody into the pool":

I think on red market days this method is even more effective than on green market days and here is why. Less stocks are green, traders who don't short much are looking for green. The result is that less stocks are running so the ones that pop green, hit HOD's and or 52 week highs get the goods. Make sense? Do you think ISON would have run as far and hard today if the markets were green and stocks were popping all over? Just a little theory.

Going Long Update 04.10.07

Long Portfolio Update

As mentioned before, we plan to update this port every ten weeks. I'm a day late but hey, not daytrading here! Prices for buys and sells are at close today, 04.10.07.

First Going Long Post
First ten weeks result of 14 stocks:



Dropped:
SYX MGM WPSC CVS(formerly CMX) ENR SINA HMIN ORBC

Split the cash evenly and added:
GLBL DYN FRG AVCI TTEC AMKR SBGI

New Port:

ANOTHER RUSH - AGEN

This one on my watchlist because as I've said many times,it's the kind that have been a squeeze/volume/breakout recently.
A sq/vol/br on 3/30 with a volume increase of 1.3 mil shares from previous day 77k this one started to hit the hod list with big vol at around 3.15 and was alerted.
About half an hour later it hit it's hod of 4.60.