Author: jamesnsv

All right, let’s all chill out for a second. I know everyone’s excited about the action Friday, but things aren’t 100% sure just yet. This would be a good newsletter …

Last week’s e-mail was titled “Time for the bears to eat.” Wow – did they ever. A truly historic decline. Every few years the market does something no trader has ever seen …

Here’s where it gets tricky. You won’t always be on the right side of a trade, but when you are, you have to navigate greed and discipline – when to …

Go with the flow. That’s generally my motto when trading. If you follow my trading long enough, you’ll see that my style tends to be fluid, unstubborn and emotionless. Or …

If I squint, I can start seeing bearish signs. We’ll see if they’re real, or just another headfake. Even though the SPX continues to chop around near its all-time high, …

Is this the beginning of the long-awaited market pullback? Well, as most of my regular followers know, the more “long-awaited” something is, the more skeptical I am.   It was a choppy week …

Well, you can’t catch them all. After weeks of expressing caution in this newsletter, and even making a small short bet (that I too quickly exited), the market seems to finally be …

The market doesn’t care about you. Yes, the S&P 500 is overbought. And the technicals are losing momentum. And technical indicators like the MACD and DMI have been building negative divergences. But …

As I’ve sat down to write this e-mail the past few weeks, I get the sense that my market thoughts for the week keep sounding like I’m repeating myself from the week before. …

Never force trades. Sometimes there are trades or investments you really want to make, but the set-up isn’t quite there. It’s human nature to rationalize away the risks and convince …