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Mikey's Short Term Trading Rules

1) Make up a list of stocks, commodities or ETF's to trade. This list should be names that have good earnings and high relative strength.
2) Monitor this list and throw out the weaker names
3) Buy only stocks or ETF's that are intermediate and daily up (green) and the market is Daily and intermediate term up (green)
4) Buy pullbacks on these stocks to the 20 and 50 day averages
Usually you get 4 to 6 20 day pullback buys and 2 or 3 50 day pullback buys in an intermediate term trend
5) More agressive traders can buy the 7 day average in the first 3 to 8 weeks of the uptrend.
6) Buy pullbacks not runups. A buy should not be easy or exciting but difficult and somewhat scary. DO NOT CHASE
7) Place stop at 5% below the buy price. Do not remove
8) Sell 3 to 5 days after the stock price takes out its most recent 2 week high with at least 15% gains
9) Uptrends that are 12 weeks or more may be ripe for a correction. The first 2 pullbacks to the 50 day are usually safe.
Intermediate term uptrends and downtrends generally last from 8 to 16 weeks with 12 weeks being the norm.
10) Shorting is a viable strategy in downtrends for experienced traders only. In general, reverse the above rules
11) Tweet Mikey @themarketshadow with questions or ideas

Monday, November 3, 2008

Would you buy an Auto stock now??? I would..Why because they are going to double. Read this to find out why

9:14 DJIA 9375 +46.59 VIX 54.50

Raise you hands if you would buy a US auto stock now. That was the question given to a panel of experts on CNBC just now. That also was just after Ford (2.19) realeased the worst auto sales since 1980. The reaction was predictable. Why buy these when there are so many other cheap stocks out there to buy. GM is 5.56 and Ford is 2.19. They have to be doubles from here and in a fairly short period of time. I just bought GM friday and will buy F here.
What will happen after the new Pres...insert name...takes over is that there will be a massive bailout for the auto makers and the stocks will double or triple.
If you rememeber my call on the airlines in July when oil was going to 200...well this is the same kind of thing. The airlines all doubled and tripled and I would expect GM and F to do the same. The experts will then recommend them because they will make more sense then. The beat goes on...Mikey

4 comments:

truthbetold said...

The most successful guy in the stock market that I know of gave me GM as well. Now that you like it, I know its a winner. All in.

Mikey's trading account said...

TBT This is the airline trade all over again.

Mikey's trading account said...

You should not go all in buy in stages they may give you a better price. I just made a buy friday my second I wiil buy again if it approaches the low. In the near term I would think it would be weak

truthbetold said...

I bought some on friday as well. Looking to get some more soon. Maybe at the close. Appreciate your advice