In yesterday’s blog post, I said that our market timing model has just shifted from “buy” to “neutral,” due to continued institutional selling and weakening of the major indices. This means we are now laying low with regard to new swing and core trade entries. Nevertheless, we have just spotted two very short-term momentum trade setups (one ETF and one individual stock) that could be in play…

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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