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I don't think this can be answered because it depends on your time scale and the behavior of the price action. A five week moving average works well when you're looking at weekly candles in a swing trade. But that's a 25 day moving average if you're looking at daily candles. Also, when I...

In my opinion, every time I've tried to use a subjective entry condition I've had problems making money. Same with a subjective exit. if your entry is a cup and a handle, or a pennant, or whatever, then that puts you in the position of trying to decide whether the pattern is really what you...

Decided its best to stay on the sidelines and wait and see what shakes out of this Asian market drop. European Markets fell 3+ percent in sympathy, and futures on U.S. markets say we're already down that much. So playing either direction can get a guy whipsawed. Probably fun if you're a day...

OK, well that was quick. Sold at 123. Made close to 3.5%. That's plenty enough to avoid holding over the weekend.

Alrighty then! That sure worked! Offset my losses in SBUX and COST. I think rather than lock in a profit on SCO, I'll try to hold for a bit. I like where this is going.

Stopped out of SBUX and COST. Lost 2% and 3% respectively. I shouldn't have stayed in after the market started going south. Bought some SCO this morning. I have a really wide stop on it. Just going to hold that for now.

Bought sbux at 57.83. Nice pattern on this one.

Sold SO at 46.03 for a loss. Put a trailing stop on SDS.

Bought more SDS again this morning since futures are down. Got in at 20.15. Just enough to hedge my long positions.

Sold it for a scant 11 cents a share profit. Just wanted some assurance the market wasn't going to plunge. Looks like the market is just twisting around without direction.

Added some SDS at 20.37 as a hedge.

Boy do I feel stupid! This thread inspired me to search Scottrade one more time to see if they have a bracket order. I just found it. I had looked for it before, but I didn't recognize it. This is Karma in action folks...I do help people here and this was my payback. This will really help...

I usually swing trade 2 to 4 positions. I don't do it full time...I have a day job. I follow a couple dozen stocks, so only a handful meet my criteria for a buy-in at a time. I usually know which ones to monitor closely well before I buy-in since I can see a set up forming at least a day in...

Same old, same old. As price rises volume is dropping on these, so that's encouraging. Market seems to be turning around some too, so I'm staying the course even though I think I could get out evenly. Interestingly, of the stocks that I track, these have the better looking charts.

Staying the course. Nothing in my charts telling me to exit.

Swing trade daily charts. I do this, and I wish that I had your schedule. When you swing trade daily charts, you need the current day's candle to be established before you can make a decision. Sometimes the morning volatility can fool you. If I did my own system perfectly correctly, I should...

This chart makes me real comfortable with COST over the medium term: http://stockcharts.com/h-sc/ui?s=COST&p=D&yr=0&mn=7&dy=0&id=p03313254572 Looks like it may be repeating February and March's action. The chart on SO http://stockcharts.com/h-sc/ui?s=SO&p=D&yr=0&mn=7&dy=0&id=p54127285006...

Bought COST at 146.19 and SO at 46.56. I think the power companies are the beneficiaries of the low oil prices, which is why they are on a tear. Costco isn't getting creamed by this downturn, which appears to be tapering off. We'll see what happens.

Wish I hadn't been in the field. Ah well. At least I didn't lose anything.

There are internet based search programs that aren't terribly difficult to code. I used stock fetcher for a while. But after a while, I realized that if you keep your eye on a few dozen stocks that have the proper types of cycles or patterns that you like to play, then you'll always be able to...