Swing Trade Setups & Scans

I often get asked about how I find swing trade candidates. Hopefully this post will answer those questions. As I’ve written before, most of the stocks I track initially came up on one of my candlestick pattern scans. (Please feel free to search the archives and/or use the subject index) My process is no different [...]

Thoughts on Day Trading

2011 Update: You may also be interested in my article, Tools of the Trade, detailing how I trade as well as my hardware and software setup. 2010 Update – I (Mike) now trade exclusively with MB Trading. I suggest using stock brokers comparison site StockBrokers.com to compare the best day trading brokers. I’ve been exclusively [...]

More Lessons from Dave Landry

Here are a couple of more hour-long presentations by Dave Landry. I watched the May 11th session today and I found his commentary about pyschology and money management to be very good — not to mention him clowning Jim Cramer’s show. Where are my damn sound effects? Plan Your Trade And Then Trade Your Plan [...]

Dave Landry’s Weekly Swing Trading Lesson

If you’ve got an hour to burn check out Dave Landry’s weekly swing trading lesson. It’s a multimedia (audio & video) presentation in which Dave walks through charts, talks about sector analysis and discusses various trading & money management strategies. (For those who have been wondering about TC2000/TCNet/TeleChart, you’ll get to see it in action.)

This is Why I Don’t Hold Stocks Through Earnings Reports

As you know I was long ADTN for a few days recently but sold it because they were due to report earnings. The reason I get out ahead of earnings is that I have no clue what the company is going to say nor, more importantly, how the market will react to what they say. [...]