After the October 17 breakouts to new highs in the S&P 500 and NASDAQ Composite, I got to thinking about bull markets. I was pondering over how much traders and investors must be loving and profiting from this powerful rally stocks have had in 2013. But then a worrying thought popped into my head. It […]
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On July 2 of this year, we bought Guggenheim Solar Energy ETF ($TAN) in The Wagner Daily newsletter. Three months later, we sold those shares of $TAN for a cool price gain of 44.3%. In this trading strategy article, we detail the top 4 technical tips that prompted us to buy $TAN when we did. Then, […]
After suffering a nasty, two-day decline on October 8 and 9, the stock market ripped higher on October 10, closing the day with massive gains of more than 2% across the board. Feeling a bit of whiplash lately? While the big gains with bullish closing action on October 10 were a positive sign for the […]
Yesterday’s (October 8) selloff was broad-based and ugly, with just about every industry sector getting hit hard (utilities were an exception). The NASDAQ Composite ($COMP) and small-cap Russell 2000 Index ($RUT), the leading market averages in recent months, were hit the hardest with losses of -2.0% and -1.7% respectively. The NASDAQ is now the only […]
Over the past few months, PowerShares Aerospace & Defense ($PPA) has shown great relative strength to the benchmark S&P 500 Index. On the daily chart below, notice that $PPA has broken out twice over the past few months, setting higher highs and higher lows along the way. During that same period, the S&P 500 SPDR […]
If you heard or read any financial news over the past few days, you inevitably found the talking heads rambling about the various implications of a potential U.S. government shutdown. As usual, the media is once again playing on the powerful human emotion of Fear, one of the 4 Most Dangerous Emotions For Traders. This […]
After last Wednesday’s (September 18) surprise Fed announcement on economic policy (no tapering), all the main stock market immediately indexes sprinted to fresh multi-year or all-time highs. However, that afternoon’s bullish knee-jerk reaction faded quickly, causing both the S&P 500 and Dow Jones Industrial Average to wipe out all their Fed-day gains (and then some) just […]
On the evening of Thursday, September 19, we hosted a Live Online Webinar in which we pointed out some of the strongest stocks in the market right now. We also showed attendees how to quickly and easily scan for the best Potential Breakouts and Pullbacks using the new MTG Stock Screener. It was a fantastic […]
As you may recall from this August 26 blog post, iShares Silver Trust ($SLV) was recently in the process of following through on a “bull flag” chart pattern. However, the bull flag breakout failed, causing $SLV to break down below support of its 20-day exponential moving average on September 12. When $SLV sliced through near-term […]
On August 13, we bought shares of LifeLock ($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 […]
