Choppy Enough for Ya?

It’s been an interesting couple of days so far this week. We’ve had a good amount of volatility intraday on the indices as well as some day trader / momentum specials in small stocks. (What got into GOAM today???) Despite all of that the market is just moving sideways and working off its overbought condition. [...]

Watchlist for November 23, 2004

Yesterday’s action created a lot of bullish candlesticks (bullish engulfings, hammers, and piercing patterns) so I had a lot to choose from for the long side today. The dips in these stocks were not as deep as I, and I think many others, would have liked but since when does the market do what we [...]

Dumb Luck Trade of the Day

I was in several of the secondary Apple plays today as day trades with so-so results. One of them was Sigmatel (SGTL). I was going to close it out at the end of the day but then I realized that it was at new all-time highs so I said “what the heck, lemme hang on [...]

Watchlist for November 22, 2004

There are a lot of longs on the list today but I’m not looking to buy anything just yet. I want to see how this dip plays out. I have a feeling that there will be some good day trading opportunities this week as people try to push stocks around in the light holiday volume. [...]

Reversal Watch

Last week we finally got enough selling to break the short term uptrend. For the moment I’m content to try to hold on to my remaining longs and look for a point to make some more purchases. I’d like to see some bullish candlesticks pop up once (if) the indices reach oversold levels. The S&P [...]