As we have warned several times in recent weeks,
swing trading in low - volume environments is challenging because day - to - day price action tends to be more erratic and indecisive.
On October 8, we also closed
a swing trade in Bitauto ($ BITA) for a price gain of 36.7 % with just a 1 - month holding period.
Yesterday, we sold
our swing trade in DB Gold Double Short ($ DZZ), a «short ETF» that inversely tracks the price of spot gold, for a solid gain of 9 % over a two - week holding period.
Last week, on October 2, 2012, we locked in an 11 % gain on
a swing trade in US Natural Gas Fund ($ UNG), a commodity ETF designed to roughly track the price of natural gas futures contracts.
Last week (May 17), we sold a breakout
swing trade in Pandora Media ($ P) for a net gain of 14 % with a holding period of less than three weeks.
Today, we analyze the technical setup and subsequent result of a profitable breakout
swing trade in InterOil Corporation ($ IOC).
Click here to view our detailed cumulative and individual trade performance of
every swing trade in The Wagner Daily since 2002.
Recently, we bought Netsuite ($ N) as
a swing trade in The Wagner Daily newsletter.
This is a review of our recent
swing trade in Polaris Industries (PII).
Unlike most stock and ETF trading newsletters and services, we have been publishing the results of every stock & ETF
swing trade in our nightly Wagner Daily newsletter since the company's inception in 2002.
Recently, we did so with
a swing trade in Onyx Pharmaceuticals ($ ONXX), which enabled us to score a 10 % gain on the price of the stock over just a 3 - day holding period.
However, the price action in both names as of late should be a blinking red light as far as initiating long
swing trades in general.
Not exact matches
In early Asian
trade on Monday, the Shanghai bourse posted dramatic
swings on either sides of the flatline and was last seen more than 2 percent lower, despite the People's Bank of China's (PBOC) bigger - than - expected easing package over the weekend.
But behind the scenes as CES — touted to be the world's largest tech
trade show — was
in full
swing with major tech announcements from all of Apple's competitors, the company still featured prominently
in the news cycle.
Market Makers also provide another service
in periods of high volatility: if the market exerts upward or downward pressure on a security during a
trading session, the Market Maker will mitigate the pressure by absorbing some of the orders, thereby limiting excessive price
swings.
Traders also blamed computerized
trading and sharp moves
in obscure volatility funds that use leverage for the market's recent
swings.
«A renegotiation of the North American Free
Trade Agreement could adversely impact Midwestern manufacturing states who
swung for Trump
in 2016,» according to Gregory Daco, an economist at Oxford Economics.
Additionally, Tchir argues that European investors have shown a proclivity to rush into
trades leading to what he calls «periods of violent indigestion,» pointing to the big
swing in German bund yields seen early last year following the European Central Bank's announcement of more QE as a prime example.
Following wild price
swings for markets
in the first quarter, Wall Street's
trading desks are poised to report one of their best three - month periods
in years.
On October 8, $ BITA finally broke below the prior day's low and hit our trailing stop, enabling us to lock
in a solid 37 % gain on a one - month
swing trade.
As always, subscribing members of our
swing trader newsletter should note our preset and exact entry, stop, and target prices for this new
trade setup
in the «watchlist» section of today's report.
In every issue of The Wagner Daily
swing trade newsletter, we provide an easy way for subscribers to quickly determine our current overall market bias, based on the objective rules of our system for market timing (click here for an overview of how the timing system works).
While learning to master our winning system for
swing trading stocks and ETFs
in the early years, we tested a plethora of technical indicators.
If you wish to receive the specific entry and exit prices for our best stock and ETF
trades, such as those discussed
in the above video, sign up for your risk - free trial subscription of our
swing trader newsletter, The Wagner Daily (less than $ 2 per day based on annual rate).
Given the high volume breakout
in IWM yesterday, we are now stalking ProShares Ultra Russell 2000 ($ UWM) for potential
swing trade buy entry going into today's session.
This breakdown
in the Russell is noteworthy because most of the individual stocks we
swing trade are either small or mid-cap growth stocks.
Both $ CRCM and $ RP have explosive potential
in the coming weeks, so I humbly suggest you sign up for my nightly
swing trading report to be instantly alerted if / when either stock triggers for
To be alerted of sudden changes to our market timing model (a rule - based strategy of knowing when and how aggressive to be
in the market), and to receive our best nightly stock and ETF picks, sign up now for your 30 - day risk - free subscription to our
swing trading newsletter.
Yesterday, for example, 4 of the 11 stocks
in our
swing trade newsletter gained at least 1.5 %, even though the NASDAQ Composite was flat.
Our
swing trading system for stocks focuses on identifying explosive breakouts primarily
in small and mid-cap stocks,
in which these stocks typically gain 10 % to 20 % over a 1 — 4 week period.
If you wish to receive the specific entry and exit prices for our best stock and ETF
trades, such as those discussed
in the above video, sign up for your risk - free trial subscription of our
swing trading stock newsletter, The Wagner Daily (less than $ 2 per day based on annual rate).
Both of the above ETFs we analyzed ($ EIDO and $ THD) are «official» setups for potential
swing trade buy entry
in today's Wagner Daily
swing trading newsletter.
In today's stock pick video, we discuss the potential swing trade setups in 2 stocks and 2 ETFs: $ SPY, $ IBB, $ TPX, and $ M
In today's stock pick video, we discuss the potential
swing trade setups
in 2 stocks and 2 ETFs: $ SPY, $ IBB, $ TPX, and $ M
in 2 stocks and 2 ETFs: $ SPY, $ IBB, $ TPX, and $ MW.
Over the past few days, we at Morpheus have been doing a bit of housekeeping
in the portfolio of our
swing trade newsletter by taking profits on winning
swing trades, while bailing out of a few dogs.
But since the April 12 decline was so large, and because we run an end - of - day
swing trading service, we were unable to immediately take advantage of selling short the breakdown
in $ GLD (or buying the breakout
in $ DZZ).
In this blog, we like to remind you that lots of patience is necessary when holding on to winners, and several of the intermediate - term
swing trades we've recently closed are a good example of this.
First, it is crucial to realize that
trading in the same direction as the dominant broad market trend is the most important element of our
swing trading system because approximately 80 % of all stocks move
in the same direction as the major indices.
In order to achieve these type of gains, the stocks we
swing trade are typically high beta, with plenty of volatility.
If you are new to momentum
swing trading, or have had little success
in the past, it is a great idea to get
in the habit of planning your
trades and
trading your plan.
Moving averages play a very big role
in our daily stock analysis, and we rely heavily on certain moving averages to locate low - risk entry and exit points for the stocks and ETFs we
swing trade.
Since we have exclusively been
trading only stocks and ETFs since our company was formed
in 2002,
swing trading of equities is where 100 % of our focus goes.
Obviously, this has made it challenging to allow solid technical
swing trade setups to follow through
in either direction for more than a day or two.
On December 31, 2012, we bought the iShares MSCI All Peru Capped Index ETF ($ EPU) as a short to intermediate - term
swing trade entry
in The Wagner Daily ETF and stock
trading report.
As such, we consider a solid gain for an ETF
swing trade to be
in the neighborhood of 10 to 15 %, rather than 20 to 30 %.
Presently, the $ UNG
trade is already
trading approx. 10 % higher since my January 30 buy entry
in my
swing trade newsletter.
Here we walk through our recent Discretionary COT signals providing examples
in interest rates, forex and energy of how we use the COT report to
swing trade the commodity markets on a daily basis.
In today's stock market trading video, we point out the technical swing trade setups for potential buy (or short sale) entry in the following stocks and ETFs: $ SPY, $ GOOG, and $ CR
In today's stock market
trading video, we point out the technical
swing trade setups for potential buy (or short sale) entry
in the following stocks and ETFs: $ SPY, $ GOOG, and $ CR
in the following stocks and ETFs: $ SPY, $ GOOG, and $ CRM.
Two days ago, we notified you
in this post of Dr. Jack's
swing trade buy entry into $ EEM and $ EEM call options.
In our Wagner Daily
swing trading newsletter (a completely separate service of the stock screener), we manually scan through hundreds of charts every night, cherry pick only the best - looking stock and ETF
trade setups, then e-mail subscribers our exact and predetermined buy trigger, stop, and target prices.
Trading was choppy, with the Dow swinging between positive and negative territory while the S&P 500 gave up most of its gains in the last few minutes of t
Trading was choppy, with the Dow
swinging between positive and negative territory while the S&P 500 gave up most of its gains
in the last few minutes of
tradingtrading.