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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

Tuesday, February 14, 2012

News Highlights



Mikey

Key Indicators

Current trading range: 12500 -12903 DJI Close 12878
The Trends
Short term (50 hour) up (14 Hr) ...signal 2-13 12766
Current trend (50 day) Up (45 days)...signal 12-2-11 12019
Intermediate trend (50 week) Up (11 weeks)...signal 12-19-11 12294
Long term trend (50 month) Up (15 months)...signal 12/1/10 11577
IBD Current trend 12-20 Up  (37 days) Market in confirmed uptrend 12103
Volume(Millions) NYSE 741 NASDAQ 1,880
Advance/Decline NYSE -800 NASDAQ -599 Mikey A/D line 47720
New Highs NYSE 107 NASDAQ 81 New Lows NYSE 4 NASDAQ 13
Overbought/Oversold (+100 overbought/-100 oversold)
Mikey5 (-4) Neutral, Mikey10 +74 Neutral, Mikey20 +141 OB, Mikey50 +184 OB
% Stocks above 200 day ave 74% (above 50% uptrend)
Trader Psychology
Put/Call day .70, 10 day .74,  Put Premium .57 10 day .61,  
Bull/Bear Ratio 1.81 Bulls 52.1%, Bears 28.7%
Mutial Funds Buy/Redeem ratio 1.01
MACD  Hourly ( +1.92) , Daily (+146.6),Negative cross 2-13,
Weekly (+290.41 ), Positive cross 10-24-11, Monthly (496.35) Positive Cross 9/1/09
VIX 19.54  VXZ 54.36 Mikey Fear 82 (80 Low 20 High) 

Averages (uptrend 20>50)
20 hour 12828  Falling/ Price above
50 hour 12847 Flat/Price above
20 day 12754 Rising/Price above
50 day 12418 Rising/ Price above
20 week 12161 Rising/ Price above
50 week 12055 Rising/ Price above
20 month 11780 Rising/Price above
50 month 10782 Flat/Price above

Closing Prices

US Stocks
DJIA 12878.28 +4.24  S/P 500 1350.50 -1.27  NYSE Comp 8029.62 -26.61   
NASDAQ  2931.83 +.44 DJT 5284.12 -38.07 DJU 450.32 +.91
US Debt Markets
US Gov rates: 6 mo .1459%  2 yr .2860% 5 Yr .8282% 10 yr 1.96 30 yr 3.10
Ave Mtg rates : 30 Yr 3.87% 30 Yr Rifi 3.94% 15 Yr 3.18% 5/1 ARM 2.84
IEF (US 7-10 yr) 105.40 +.23 TLT (20 yr) 117.75 +.61
MUB (NatlMuni) 113.67 -.27 Cal Muni (NCA)9.84 -.11
BND Total Bond Index 83.81 +.12
Commodities
CRB Commodities Index 313.95   
Gold 1717.70  Silver 33.35 -.27 
Copper 3.82 -.02 Platinum 1628.00 -21.90
Oil 100.75 -.74  RBOB 2.98 -.02 Nat Gas 2.53 +.09
US Dollar Index and World Currencies
Euro 1.3073 -.0061 Pound 1.5553 -.0086 Swiss Franc 1.0724 -.0048  
Yen  1.2550 -.0048 Aussie 1.0700 -.0047 Canadian Dollar ..9948 -.0002
Dollar Index 79.53 +.22
World Debt markets
BWX (Intl Treas) 60.02 -.04  PCY (Emerg debt) 27.81 +.07 IBND (Intl Corp)32.72 -.24



All Markets Current Trends 

US SECTORS

(Green up Red down White Neutral)

NASDAQ
DJ Trans
DJ Util
Long Bonds
Energy
Tech
Healthcare
Materials
Retail
Housing
Consumer Discrestionary
Consumer Staples
Airline
Metals and Mining
Financial

World debt markets
US Bonds: 2-3 current trend down
US Natl Muni Markets:: 11-21 current trend up

Intl Treas Bonds 1-26 current trend up
Intl Corp Bonds 1-26 current trend up
Emerging Markets Debt: 1-26 current trend up
US High Yield 12-12 current trend up
US Preferred Stocks 11-30 current trend up
Currencies markets
US Dollar Index 1-26 current trend down
Aussie Dollar 1-10 current trend up
Euro 1-26 current trend up
Brit Pd 1-26 current trend upl
Swiss Franc: 1-27 current trend up
Jap Yen 1-27 current trend up
Canadian Dollar 1-18 current trend upl
Mexican Peso 1-18 current trend upl
Brazilian Real 12-12 current trend up
Indian Rupe 12-12 current trend up

Commodity index
(Broad based) 1-19  current trend up
Metals
Gold: .1-26 current trend up
Silver: 1-21 current trend up
Copper 1-17 current trend up
Platinum 1-18 current trend up
Palladium 1-17 current trend up
Agg, Fiber, Wood
Grains 1-24   Current trend up
Cotton 1-17 current trend upl
Livestock 1-24 current trend up
Coffee 2-7 current trend neutral
Sugar 1-18 Current trend up
Lumber 2-3 current trend up
Energy
Oil  2-8 current trend neutral
Heating Oil 1-3 Current trend up
Gasoline 12-21 current trend up
Natural Gas 7-28 current trend down

World Stock markets
US Stocks: 12-14 current trend up
Europe 1-18 current trend up
China: 1-17 current trend upl
Brazil 1-17 current trend up
Japan 1-18 current trend up
India 1-17 current trend up
Russia 1-18  current trend upl
India 1-17 current trend up
Total world markets 1-17 current trend up

Intermediate Term Trends
Dollar:Up
US Bonds: Up
Emerging Markets: Up 
Total World Stocks: Neutral
Emerging Debt: Up
World Bonds: Neutral
Oil: Up
Gold: Up
Silver: Down
Commodities: Down
China: Up
Brazil: Up
India: Down
Europe: Down

Trend changes today:
World Stocks: 
Currencies:,Oil down
Commodities:
World Debt
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