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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

Friday, April 26, 2013

Here comes the US Treasury auctions


The US treasury announces its May auctions next week and sets the stage for the May Auctions. It is important to keep an eye out for these auctions because they need to sell billions of dollar in debt.  To do this they need to make the economy look weak, the dollar to look strong and normally push stocks out of the way. I would expect a weak reading on the economy trouble in Europe and weakness in stocks in early May.

Mikey


DJI Close 14712.55 +11.75
    DJI Trend Summary
    Long Term UP/ Intermediate UP/ Daily UP/Short Term up
    Dollar Index 82.82.57 -.27
    US Dollar Long Term/ Intermediate Term / Daily Trend / Short term
    Hourly up 14642 4-23
    Daily Uptrend: 13412 on 1-2 (79 days)
    Intermediate Uptrend: at 13412 on 1-2( 79 days)
    Long Term Uptrend 11315 on 11-1-10  2 years + 5 months
    IBD  MARKET confirmed correction 4-17 14618
    Current Trading range   14539- 14826
    Step Down trading Range 14050- 14539
    Resistence: 14826
    Support 1 14539 
    Support 2 14344
    Support 3 14036

    Average watch
    50 Hour Ave: 14635 Price below
    20 Day Ave: 14659 Price below
    50 Day Ave: 14423 Price above 
    20 Week Ave: 14024 Price above
    50 Week Ave: 13410 Price above
    200 Week Ave: 11771 Price above

    NYSE A/D -519 NASDAQ A/D -570
    NYSE A/D line 94764 NASDAQ A/D line -6201
    Put/Call  .90 10 day .97  Put Prem/Call Prem .90 10 day 1.07
    % Stocks above 50 day average  53.51
    CNN  Fear/Greed Index 52 neut (100 Greed to 0 Fear)
    VIX 13.61 1 year range (27.73 to 11.05) Fear (25 high 11 low)
    Bulls 44.3  (58.8 to 21.3) Bears 19.6 (54.4 to 15.6)  Ratio 2.26
    Mutual Fund Pur/Redemp: 1.25 (.66 to 1.46) High public buy
    New Highs NYSE 160 NASDAQ 100
    New Lows  NYSE 14  NASDAQ 26


    Notable  trend changes


    Closing Prices
    US Stock

    DJI 14712.55 +11.75 DJT 6115.89 +5.18  SPX 1582.24 -2.92
    DJU 532.03 -.08 Compx 3279.26 -10.73
    US Debt Markets
    US Gov: 3 mo .061% 2 yr .234% 5 yr .709% 10 yr 1.70% 30 yr  2.89%
    Mortgage Rates 30 year 3.43% 15 Yr 2.67%
    IEF(2-10 year) 108.91 +.41 TLT (US 20 yr) 123.39 +1.12
    Muni Bonds 111.72 +.15 Cal Muni (NCA) 10.14 +.03
    LQD (Inv Grade Corp) 122.33 +.44 High Yield 95.37 -.10

    Commodities 
    CRB Commodities Index 285.40 -1.73
    Gold 1453.60 -8.40  Silver 23.76 -.38
    Copper 3.15 -.08 Platinum 1476.50 +12.40
    Oil  93.00 -.64 Gasoline 2.83 +.02 Nat Gas 4.15 -.01

    Dollar Index 82.57 -.07
    US Dollar Long Term/ Intermediate Term / Daily Trend / Short term
     
    All Market Trends: 
     
    Commodities
    Gold: (GLD)    Long/ Intermediate   Daily / Short term
    Silver: (SLV)   Long  / Intermediate / Daily / Short term
    Copper:(JCC) Long / Intermediate / Daily  / Short term
    Oil: (USO)       Long / Intermediate / Daily/ Short term
    Gasoline (UGA) Long/ Intermediate / Daily/Short term
    Nat Gas:(UNG)Long Term/ Intermediate/ Daily/ Short term
    Commod (USCI) Long Term/ Intermediate / Daily / Short term
    Bond Markets
    US Bonds LT (TLT) Long Term/ Intermed  Daily   Short term
    US Corp BBB (LQD)  Long Term/ Intermed/ Daily  Short term 
    US Muni  (MUB)      Long Term Intermed/ Daily/ Short Trend
    High Yield  (HYG)   Long Term/ Intermed/ Daily/ Short term
    Utility stocks (XLU):Long / Intermed/ Daily  / Short term
    Stocks
    US ($DJI)      Long Term/ Intermed Term/ Daily Trend/  Short term
    Europe(IEV) Long Term/ Intermediate Term/ Daily Trend/ Short term
    China (FXI)    Long Term/ Intermed Term/ Daily Trend/ Short term
    Brazil EWZ)  Long Term/ Intermediate Term/ Daily Trend/ Short term
    India  (PIN)   Long Term/ Intermediate Term/ Daily Trend/ Short term
    Emerg Mkt(EEM) Long Term/ Intermed Term/ Daily Trend/Short term
    Japan (EWJ) Long Term/ Intermed Term/ Daily Trend/ Short term

    Stocks I like 
    Buy when Daily and Intermediate are green the short term turns green from
    red or price TRADES DOWN the 50 day average THE FIRST TIME
    Place stop @ -5% Sell 3 to 5 days after 20 day high or after stock double tops
    (These are not reccomendations as I am not an analyst or financial planner
     
    AAPL Long Term/ Intermediate Term/ Daily Trend/ Short term
    ABX Long Term/ Intermediate Term/ Daily Trend/ Short term
    APA  Long Term/ Intermediate Term/ Daily Trend/ Short term
    APC  Long Term/ Intermediate Term/ Daily Trend/ Short term
    ATHN Long Term/ Intermediate Term/ Daily Trend/ Short term
    AUY Long Term/ Intermediate Term/ Daily Trend/ Short term
    AXP Long Term/ Intermediate Term/ Daily Trend/ Short term
    BP  Long Term/ Intermediate Term/ Daily Trend/ Short term
    BWLD  Long Term/ Intermediate Term/ Daily Trend/ Short term
    CLNE Long Term/ Intermediate Term/ Daily Trend/ Short term
    COG Long Term/ Intermediate Term/ Daily Trend/ Short term
    COP Long Term/ Intermediate Term/ Daily Trend/Short term
    COST Long Term/ Intermediate Term/  Daily Trend Short term
    CRM Long Term/ Intermediate Term/ Daily Trend/ Short term
    DAL  Long Term/ Intermediate Term/  Daily Trend Short term 
    FB   Long Term/ Intermediate Term/ Daily Trend/ Short term
    FDX Long Term/ Intermediate Term/ Daily Trend/ Short term
    GG  Long Term/ Intermediate Term/ Daily Trend/ Short term
    GLW    Long Term/ Intermediate Term/ Daily Trend/ Short term
    GMCR Long Term/ Intermediate Term/ Daily Trend/ Short term
    HFC Long Term/ Intermediate Term/ Daily Trend/ Short term 
    KORS Long Term/ Intermediate Term/ Daily Trend/ Short term
    LCC  Long Term/ Intermediate Term/ Daily Trend/ Short term
    LNKD long Term/ Intermediate Term/ Daily Trend/ Short term
    MELI Long Term/ Intermediate Term/ Daily Trend/ Short term
    NOV  Long Term/ Intermediate Term/ Daily Trend/ Short term
    ORB Long Term/ Intermediate Term/ Daily Trend/ Short term
    PAA  Long Term/ Intermediate Term/ Daily Trend/ Short term
    PG  Long Term/ Intermediate Term/ Daily Trend/ Short term
    PPP   Long Term/ Intermediate Term/ Daily Trend/ Short term
    QCOM Long Term/ Intermediate Term/ Daily Trend/ Short term
    RAX  Long Term/ Intermediate Term/ Daily Trend/ Short term
    SLB Long Term/ Intermediate Term/ Daily Trend/ Short term
    WAG  Long Term/ Intermediate Term/ Daily Trend/ Short term
    WFM Long Term/ Intermediate Term/ Daily Trend/ Short term
    Z  Long Term/ Intermediate Term/ Daily Trend/ Short term

    Securities I like:  Long Term
SPXU (2X Short S & P) 4-14    26.48 Long / Int / Daily / Short
SJB (Short High Yield bonds) 4-14   30.92 Long / Int / Daily/  Short
SEF (Short Financials) 4-14  24.90             Long / Int / Daily/  Short
VIXY (Short term VIX futures) 4-14 9.91 Long / Int / Daily/  Short
UNG ( Gas ETF) 4-14   23.10                    Long / Int  /Daily/  Short
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