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 $PPA has broken out twice over the past few months, setting higher highs and higher lows along the way. During that same period, the S&P 500 SPDR […]
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If you heard or read any financial news over the past few days, you inevitably found the talking heads rambling about the various implications of a potential U.S. government shutdown. As usual, the media is once again playing on the powerful human emotion of Fear, one of the 4 Most Dangerous Emotions For Traders. This […]
After last Wednesday’s (September 18) surprise Fed announcement on economic policy (no tapering), all the main stock market immediately indexes sprinted to fresh multi-year or all-time highs. However, that afternoon’s bullish knee-jerk reaction faded quickly, causing both the S&P 500 and Dow Jones Industrial Average to wipe out all their Fed-day gains (and then some) just […]
On the evening of Thursday, September 19, we hosted a Live Online Webinar in which we pointed out some of the strongest stocks in the market right now. We also showed attendees how to quickly and easily scan for the best Potential Breakouts and Pullbacks using the new MTG Stock Screener. It was a fantastic […]
As you may recall from this August 26 blog post, iShares Silver Trust ($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 $LOCK […]
On August 21, 2013, we bought Yelp, Inc. ($YELP) in The Wagner Daily newsletter, as the stock pulled back to near-term support after a massive breakout (click here to see our original analysis of $YELP on day of buy entry). Since then, shares of $YELP have zoomed to an unrealized share price gain of 27% (from […]
Well, okay, perhaps the title could be construed as a bit melodramatic. After all, since empathy is a normal human emotion, we all care to varying degrees. What we really mean to say is that we don’t let geopolitical news events lead our decision making process with regards to trading stocks and ETFs. Put simply, […]
For the past six weeks, the NASDAQ Composite Index ($COMP) has been uneventfully oscillating in a sideways trading range (a 3% range from the upper channel resistance down to lower channel support). However, we have identified three highly reliable technical indicators that point to a strong likelihood of the NASDAQ soon breaking out to a […]
Although this blog is primarily focused on swing trading stocks and ETFs, it has become apparent that an increasing number of visitors also trade FOREX as well. As such, today we have a guest post for FOREX traders (and for traders of currency ETFs as well). If you have no interest in FOREX or currency ETFs, just […]