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    Swing Trading is the Holy Grail

    Just purchased 88 shares of DFS at $32.36, stop $30.94
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    Swing Trading is the Holy Grail

    This market is not being kind to my strategy right now. I do not think this has anything to do with the strategy other than picking a bad time to start trading it. Any long position would be suffering right now
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    Swing Trading is the Holy Grail

    Tomorrow I will be watching the following stocks: dfs, avb eix, aph, dhr, mco, spg
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    Swing Trading is the Holy Grail

    Purchased 27 shares of GWW at 213.30 stop is at 208.95
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    Swing Trading is the Holy Grail

    I picked a good time to start trading this strategy with the market entering a correction potentially. However, as long as I continue to stick to the strategy, it will out-perform over the long run
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    Swing Trading is the Holy Grail

    Purchased 100 shares of HRS at 43.76 stop at 42.46
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    Swing Trading is the Holy Grail

    Tomorrow will be a very BUSY day. I have 9 stocks in total that I am watching for potential entries: RTN,SLE,EQR,DHR,DIS,GWW,HRS,VLO, and JNS I likely take 2 or 3 of these signals tomorrow depending on how the market behaves.
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    Swing Trading is the Holy Grail

    My strategy did not perform very well this week, but at least it is outperforming the S&P Thus far I have used 128 patterns which focused on oversold conditions. Going forward, I have now added another 33 patterns and broken it out into two methods. An <a...
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    Swing Trading is the Holy Grail

    I do like the idea of ETF trading from a stability standpoint. I need to do some testing of my method against various ETFs to see how it performs.
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    Swing Trading is the Holy Grail

    Purchased 73 shares of HPQ at 23.23 stop at 21.53
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    Swing Trading is the Holy Grail

    Tomorrow I am watching TIE and HPQ
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    Swing Trading is the Holy Grail

    I was stopped out of NEM and APOL this morning for a combined loss of $200 I purchased 200 shares of GNW at $8.05, stop set at $7.42 I purchased 100 shares of BTU at 28.77 stop set at 27.57
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    Swing Trading is the Holy Grail

    The strategy struggled today, but no positions were stopped out. For tomorrow I am watching GNW and BTU
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    Swing Trading is the Holy Grail

    Only one stock GNW is on my watch list for tomorrow. More details on my blog <a href="http://www.mystockanalysis.com/stocks-to-buy/stocks-buy-4212/">Stock Analysis 4/2/12</a>
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    Swing Trading is the Holy Grail

    Close my position in GAS at 39.68 for a profit of $163
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    Swing Trading is the Holy Grail

    I have updated my per trade risk to .5% per trade which equals $125. Purchased 312 shares of RSH at 6.24, stop at 5.85
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    Swing Trading is the Holy Grail

    You make a valid point. While designing this method, the gap risk was apparent. I had considered purchasing deep in the money call options as a way to limit this exposure. It would produce a near 1 to 1 move with the underlying with a very small premium. But there would be some slippage...
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    Swing Trading is the Holy Grail

    I currently have 128 unique patterns that have been trained on S&P data, ES futures data, NYSE-TRIN, and NYSE-TICK. Each of these patterns were trained to find a "statistically valid" edge in the market. Most of these edges are relatively minor, such as increasing the chance the stock will be...
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    Swing Trading is the Holy Grail

    Taken from my blog <a href="http://www.mystockanalysis.com">www.mystockanalysis.com</a> GAS: Purchased 192 shares at $38.82, stop $38.29 APOL: Purchased 48 shares at $39.02, stop $36.98 NEM: Purchased 40 shares at $51.50, stop $48.97 You will notice the number of shares purchased is...
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    Swing Trading is the Holy Grail

    Yes, my trades will be posted but somewhat delayed. After placing my trade, I tweet it on my twitter account @MyStockAnalysis real time. Then will repost here as a summary or if its a slow day real time.
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