By the way, some of these ultra etfs looking mighty good. If the Nasdaq100 can make it through that trend line, then we have an etf we can buy that will give you twice the pop.
A few months from now, Im going to leave my old strategies and just trade with these ultraetfs.
Trading indexes is very easy because charting the overall market is easy. Its easy to see which way the market is going on a chart, up or down. Then when it chops, its telling you that its about to go down like I pointed out in the Qs chart. We can draw trend lines and make a reasonable assumption when things will bounce or crash. Look at my QQQQs chart. When you look at the trend lines and the entire chart, its not that hard to reasonably predict where the price is going.
Trading individual stocks can be a crap shoot and mentally taxing. Who knows when something might happen or what announcement will be next...Im getting older and dont want to put up with stocks like LIZ, RACK, OPBL or MAMA. I dont want to wake up to find a text message on my cellphone stating "margin violation".
In the traders almanac, they have a chart of when certain etfs do well seasonally. So combining traditional technical analysis with the seasonality tables we can game these double short or double long etfs and make a decent return.
Look at the ultra oil&gas etf. It went from 64 to 85 dollars. 32% in two months. Not quite the return of say certain stocks that doubled or tripled in that time frame. However, who knew that they would have doubled or tripled. For every Valero or Tesoro there is a Transmeridian or Vaallco. Who knows what that CEO will say at these earnings calls? Will we see a wild waterfall dump one of these days on these stocks that climb to new highs?
The potential for swing trading the double long/short etfs is very much there without the white knuckles or mental stress.
http://www.proshares.com/funds/dig/5391566.html
A few months from now, Im going to leave my old strategies and just trade with these ultraetfs.
Trading indexes is very easy because charting the overall market is easy. Its easy to see which way the market is going on a chart, up or down. Then when it chops, its telling you that its about to go down like I pointed out in the Qs chart. We can draw trend lines and make a reasonable assumption when things will bounce or crash. Look at my QQQQs chart. When you look at the trend lines and the entire chart, its not that hard to reasonably predict where the price is going.
Trading individual stocks can be a crap shoot and mentally taxing. Who knows when something might happen or what announcement will be next...Im getting older and dont want to put up with stocks like LIZ, RACK, OPBL or MAMA. I dont want to wake up to find a text message on my cellphone stating "margin violation".
In the traders almanac, they have a chart of when certain etfs do well seasonally. So combining traditional technical analysis with the seasonality tables we can game these double short or double long etfs and make a decent return.
Look at the ultra oil&gas etf. It went from 64 to 85 dollars. 32% in two months. Not quite the return of say certain stocks that doubled or tripled in that time frame. However, who knew that they would have doubled or tripled. For every Valero or Tesoro there is a Transmeridian or Vaallco. Who knows what that CEO will say at these earnings calls? Will we see a wild waterfall dump one of these days on these stocks that climb to new highs?
The potential for swing trading the double long/short etfs is very much there without the white knuckles or mental stress.
http://www.proshares.com/funds/dig/5391566.html
