In a raging bull market, you can do pretty well by simply buying nearly any stock that breaks out to new highs on strong volume. After all, as JFK famously said in 1963, “a rising tide lifts all boats.” But when the stock market is in correction mode, breakouts and other reliable bullish patterns have a greater […]
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For years, traders have been bombarded by self-proclaimed “gurus” on trading psychology. They say things like, “If only you could learn to manage your emotional tendencies, you could improve your trading results and live happily ever after.” But I say, “Forget about it!” If you had a perfect trading system that consistently generated profits, with rarely […]
After three weeks of choppy, indecisive price action, the S&P 500 Index ($SPX) broke down below its range with a 1.2% plunge on Tuesday, March 21. But while the bears may have suddenly put a damper on overall market sentiment, the good news is that $SPX is now sitting near an important area of support. […]
When I was a new trader, I believed it was quite difficult to find a monster stock that could double in price within a month or two. But I quickly learned that I was wrong! On the contrary, it is not unusual for high-momentum small-cap growth stocks to rapidly score such massive gains. However, what is challenging is simply holding onto your winning […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
