Trying to pick tops is an easy way to lose a lot of money. In the modern era of financial Twitter and trading blogs, being the first to catch the …

It’s the holidays, so let’s make this quick and get back to stuffing our faces and stockings. The market continued its march higher, breaking to new all-time highs and ignoring the permabears …

This should be short and sweet. In fact, the last couple of my e-mails to close out the year should all be short. As we wind down 2019, my mentality …

The markets move fast, and so too has my trading lately. Like many traders, I always see opportunity somewhere. While I usually try to focus on swing trades that I …

I try to be as contrarian as possible when looking for trades.  As I look at spots to go short here, I realize that it’s not a completely contrarian view. Despite …

The easy money has been made on the long side for now. SPX made yet another new all-time high during the week, but closed off of those levels. We’ve seen …

You can’t make profit, if you don’t take profit. It’s an old, corny saying that traders sometimes use. Yeah, it’s cheesy, but it’s also conceptually true. To be long-term successful …

Let’s put aside everything we know about the market fundamentals for a second. That means we’re going to ignore what we know about the recent past – the free fall …

If it was easy, everyone would be rich. A month ago, the sky was falling, the permabears were tweeting crash targets, and politicians were posting stock charts.  A double top …

Another week of sitting on our hands…and hopefully making money. For weeks, I’ve been saying we should be on auto-pilot. And for weeks, that strategy has worked. I’ve been 100% fully …