After a bit of a blogging break over the Thanksgiving holiday week, we’re back. Miss us? Today, we walk you through the anatomy of a volume-driven breakout stock trade from The Wagner Daily newsletter that led to a 37% gain over a 1-month holding period. When doing our nightly stock scanning research, both manually and with […]
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 […]
Many traders, particularly newbies, are on a continual quest to find the holy grail of trading. “If I could just find that one perfect trading system, the one that works every time, I’d be rich!” “Stock trading is too hard for me, but I know I will definitely make it big time if I start […]
Since our market timing model shifted out of “Buy” mode on November 7, we have been focused on trading ETFs with a low correlation to the direction of the stock market, rather than individual leading stocks. On November 11, we detailed 2 potential ETF trade setups with low to no correlation to overall stock market direction: ProShares UltraShort […]
Immediately after our market timing model shifted out of “Buy” mode (just one day before the Nov. 7 sell-off), we changed our focus from buying leading individual stocks to trading ETFs with a low correlation to the direction of the broad market (commodities, currencies, fixed-income, etc). While our most profitable momentum trades in healthy bull […]
On September 6, while the NASDAQ Composite was still chopping around in a multi-month range, we wrote an article that listed the top 3 reasons the NASDAQ would soon breakout to a new high. In the very next trading session, the NASDAQ indeed jumped 1.3% and broke out to a fresh 13-year high, causing our market […]
In July 2013, we bought a breakout in US Silica Holdings ($SLCA). Three months later, we sold the stock for an average share price gain of 43%. In this educational trading strategy article, we use six annotated stock charts to walk you through the entire trade from beginning to end. Upon finishing the article, you will […]
We’ve begun seeing a bit of sector rotation lately, with leading stocks and sectors cooling off and formerly lagging industries seeing a bit of buying interest. Institutional sector rotation is common in bull markets, and the rotation of funds from one industry to another enables broad-based uptrends to remain intact, even when certain sectors are […]
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 […]
Have you ever sold a stock as it was nearing your protective stop loss price, thinking you would save a bit of money by getting out early, only to painfully watch the stock reverse in the right direction shortly thereafter? I was guilty of that all the time when I was a new trader back […]
