This year marks the 15-years birthday of Morpheus Trading Group, which I founded and launched in June of 2002. 15 years? That’s like eternity in the age of the internet! I am certainly proud of what the Morpheus team has built since its humble beginning near the turn of the millennium. But the truth is we […]
Tesla, the dynamic manufacturer of futuristic cars, cutting-edge energy storage, and slick solar panels, was a sweet ride for traders who bought the massive breakout back in April of 2013. Preceded by three years of bullish basing action, that breakaway gap led to a cool 350% gain in the six months that followed. Since then, the […]
Most of the 582 articles (and counting) we have published on this blog are focused on chart pattern recognition and basic technical analysis. Since the primary topic of this blog is swing trading stocks and ETFs, this obviously makes sense. However, becoming a consistently profitable trader requires more than just knowing how to read stock […]
In our previous blog post, we shared our analysis about why small cap stocks could be big winners in 2017. Now, we dig in to a bit of industry sector analysis to reveal why the healthcare sector is on our radar screen and in play for potential breakout entry soon. In this article, we’ll show you our […]
2017 is a special year for me because it marks the 15-year anniversary of Morpheus Trading Group, which I proudly founded with passion and dreams back in 2002. Back then, I didn’t really care about which stocks or sectors generated the best annual performance because I focused only on very short-term trends (typically 1 to 3 […]
When a trader subscribes to The Wagner Daily, our nightly stock trading newsletter, we send a list of four important rules that should be followed in order to be consistently profitable and effective with our trading system. After recently becoming a new member, a trader named Keith asked us a question about rule #1 (we encourage […]
As 2016 rolls to a close, I am excited to think that Morpheus Trading Group will celebrate its 15th birthday in 2017. Maybe it’s just me, but the passage of time around here is really getting supersonic! Anyway, I’ve been feeling nostalgic about the memories of the first year I began writing The Wagner Daily […]
Successful swing traders know that winning stock chart patterns repeat themselves over and over again. As such, you can easily gain valuable knowledge by occasionally taking a retrospective look at “what worked well” with your recent winning trades. In this blog post, I walk through the “before” and “after” stock charts of two winning trades that were […]
It’s been a roller coaster ride in the stock market in the two trading sessions since Donald Trump became elected as our 45th president. But all we’ve seen so far is a typical knee-jerk reaction (volatile, indecisive price action) to an unexpected news event. The real direction of the market’s next move is more important. By […]
From newbie to professional, most traders are quick to tell you that setting stops can be a real pain in the ass. Well, yeah…it certainly can be a pain. But it doesn’t need to be. Continue reading this brief trading psychology article to learn how to let go and set stops the stress-free way! The Illusive Holy Grail […]