As we approach Christmas Day, many traders and investors are anticipating a “Santa Claus rally” in the stock market…and with good reason. According to a recent Forbes article (three steps on how to trade the Santa Claus rally), the S&P 500 has scored a December gain in 17 of the past 20 years. The Dow Jones […]
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After several years of testing and perfecting the preset formulas to scan for the best breakout, pullback, and short selling setups for US, Canada, UK, and India stocks, the Morpheus Stock Screener said goodbye to beta mode and was finally launched just three months ago. While in beta mode, we produced several demonstration videos explaining […]
Have you ever prepared to buy a momentum-driven breakout on a stock that formed a great chart pattern (such as a cup and handle), but for whatever reason you missed the entry point on the day the stock breaks out? If you are like most swing traders (including ourselves), that has probably happened to you […]
On the evening of Thursday, September 19, we hosted a Live Online Webinar in which we pointed out some of the strongest stocks in the market right now. We also showed attendees how to quickly and easily scan for the best Potential Breakouts and Pullbacks using the new MTG Stock Screener. It was a fantastic […]
On August 13, we bought shares of LifeLock ($LOCK) with a $12.37 entry price. Since then, $LOCK has climbed to an unrealized price gain of approximately 15% since our buy entry (over a 4-week holding period). In today’s stock trading strategy video, we show you the exact technical signals that alerted us to buy $LOCK […]
On August 21, 2013, we bought Yelp, Inc. ($YELP) in The Wagner Daily newsletter, as the stock pulled back to near-term support after a massive breakout (click here to see our original analysis of $YELP on day of buy entry). Since then, shares of $YELP have zoomed to an unrealized share price gain of 27% (from […]
In an uptrending market, the two main types of technical setups we buy for swing trading leading individual stocks are Breakouts and Pullbacks. Over the past four weeks, Internet giant Amazon.com ($AMZN) has been in pullback mode and may soon provide a low-risk buy entry with a positive reward-risk ratio. Because $AMZN has retraced just […]
There are many technical indicators that help increase the odds of picking the right stock that will move higher after buying it. Our disciplined, rule-based stock trading strategy incorporates the most effective, yet simple of these technical indicators. However, one frequently overlooked element of profitable stock trading is knowing how to pick the stocks with […]
The challenge of trading around quarterly earnings reports When I first began my trading career about 15 years ago, I had no idea how to manage trades that coincided with the quarterly earnings reports of various stocks. Whenever I simply held my positions through earnings and hoped for the best, I was somehow wrong a […]
On January 24, 2013, we hosted a Live Online Trading Webinar in which we conducted simple and objective technical analysis of various stock chart patterns that attendees requested us to review. If you were unable to attend that live event (described in this post), our video recording of this educational trading strategy webinar is now […]