Stock Market Analysis and Trades

I am restricting new long trades currently. I am still buying stocks sparingly, with a great setup, but much of my account will remain in cash until conditions improve. I am trading contraction patterns and trend channels. We are getting...

I am still buying contraction pattern trade setups when they occur. The watchlists below are based on this pattern.I created this watchlist during early market hours on May 12, since I will be away the next couple days and won’t be able...

I am still buying contraction pattern trade setups when they occur. The watchlists below are based on this pattern. There has been some fantastic setups and breakouts recently. This is a positive, although the Nasdaq index has rolled over a bit and...

I am still buying contraction pattern trade setups when they occur. The watchlists below are based on this pattern. There was a warning sign with the market indexes, but that is subsiding. I am willing to deploy up to 80%...

I’m willing to buy valid trade setups, but while I’m finding quite a few nice setups, few have been triggering the last few weeks and even fewer have been following through to the upside. I have primarily been focusing on...

I am continuing to focus on trading Contraction patterns for my swing trading…but a lot of nice patterns recently broke out and then dropped. When the patterns aren’t working it shows buyers are getting weaker as the upward momentum can’t...

I am continuing to focus on trading Contraction patterns for my swing trading, but there are more Trend Channel trades popping up as well as Double Consolidations. See those articles for the basic strategy guidelines on all those patterns/strategies. Since...

It took this last week off from swing trading. The market is choppy and not a lot is moving. That said, the S&P 500 is at highs and is actually forming a contraction pattern itself. This is the pattern I...