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How Multiple Signals Create Strong Setups
Monday morning’s report concluded, “It looks like volatility has come out of hibernation. The balance of the year should be marked by intense swings—in both directions. But the move on Monday with a 1000 point Dow decline in 30 minutes that broke the back of the short volatility trade followed by Tuesday’s 500 point opening […]
Continue Reading -->Fed Flintstone | Volatility & Velocity, The Corsican Twins
Shades of 1987 played out on a Black Monday in 2018. The top came in as flagged in this space precisely 365 MONTHS from the August 25th, 1987 top…a natural harmonic of time with there being 365 days/degrees in a year. The panic cycle was further underscored by the fact that 1987 was 31 years […]
Continue Reading -->How I Create an SPX Projection Using Moving Averages, Retracements, the Principle of Squares and Time
I heard too many times on Thursday and Friday that this was a garden variety pullback. Only if your garden is full of man-eating Venus Fly-Traps. I heard too many times last week that you only lose money if you sell. No. You only make money if you sell. There always has to be some […]
Continue Reading -->AAPL: Fast Moves Come From False Moves
Last Friday we wrote a report, The AAPL doesn’t Fall Far From the Market Tree where we warned a Triangle Pendulum sell signal in AAPL indicated the January breakout over a 2 month consolidation was a false move…for AAPL and that the market would probably follow suit. Fast moves come from false moves. AAPL’s Triangle Pendulum sell signal coincided with a […]
Continue Reading -->The Rise In Rates and The Rate Of Rise & TWTR Update
In July we showed a weekly TNX noting a big picture Cup & Handle that spelled higher yields. In mid-January, 6 months later, TNX is accelerating and we followed up asking, do “Gentleman Prefer Bonds?” suggesting 10 year yields may be targeting 3.90% Many believe rates are on the rise, but few on the Street think they are going […]
Continue Reading -->OLED & PYPL: Combining Moving Averages With the Square Of 9 To Capture Explosive Moves
PYPL has been a strongly trending name that gapped down on earnings this morning. In so doing it tested/flushed its 50 day line. At the same time a print of 77 satisfied a 90 degree decline from yesterday’s all-time 86 high. When a spike to a widely-watched moving average plays out in tandem with a […]
Continue Reading -->Jeff Cooper Mailbag: Was the Apple Shakedown ‘Orchestrated?’
Jeff Cooper’s Daily Market Report MailbagThis mailbag question comes from Daily Market Report reader B.H.:Jeff, Since down moves are often orchestrated, what are the odds that this recent AAPL dip is orchestrated (negative news et.al.) for a surprise earnings win?Thanks! -BHWhat makes you think UP moves aren’t just as prone to be orchestrated? 🙂Not to […]
Continue Reading -->Shake-Out Or Correction?
They say the trend is your friend, but is the trend bending? How can one determine the trend? First you have to define trend. Trend is different for every trader. It depends on the time frame they are trading. Then you must know that there are trends running concurrently like a double helix. There are […]
Continue Reading -->SPX Short Term Analysis
As we offered in the morning report, the SPX looked like a Gallows sell setup. After yesterday’s Breakaway gap, the index was hanging by a tread with its 20 and 50 dma’s beckoning below. This morning’s rally provided a text book risk to reward short as the Daily Swing Chart turned up on trade above […]
Continue Reading -->Take A Picture Of This
“We ruled the world, we stopped the time, we knew it all, we owned this city. Running with the crowd, carefree and proud I heard somebody say, Take a picture of this” Take A Picture Of This, Don Henley “In photography there is a reality so subtle that it becomes more real than reality.” Alfred Stieglitz “The nature […]
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