Here is a run down of the six trades I have alerted in the chatrooms today. Additionally I have various threads on here and a one month free trial to ET members that you can use to find out what we do.
My current thread is located http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=14135 and I post my trades there most days.
Chart.
http://www.tradingfrommainstreet.com/img/Marc4SP.gif
This is the chart of the SP500 from the first trade of the day which was a short in the ES. As you can see we opened the day into the moving average with a five minute bear flag. This set up resistence right away, and with the recent touch and go nature of the market I felt fairly sure it would not build the early momentum to take it out. So, that was our first trade. Simple bear flag.
Chart
http://www.tradingfrommainstreet.com/img/March4NVLS.gif
Pretty much the same as the SP. NVLS opened up into the moving average with a bear flag. It had pierced its lower band which said to us that as it comes into the MA we are likely to be able to profit from shorts.
Chart.
http://www.tradingfrommainstreet.com/img/March4QCOM.gif
Third trade of the day was a short in QCOM. As the morning moves on you want to be looking for the strongest and weakest stocks by % change since the open. At the time QCOM was forming this bear flag it was the 8th or 9th weakest stock on the NSD. This tells us that the momentum is on the short side, and that we are likely to be rewarded there. At the very least we will be taking less risk in shorting the weaker issues. The lower Kband was pierced which indicates there is a very good chance of testing the prior pivot low, so we took the short here.
Chart.
http://www.tradingfrommainstreet.com/img/March4CDWC.gif
Another one that was very weak. This was in the top 20 weakest stocks on the NSD (I dont recall its location). The stock is in a very obvious downtrend in this timeframe. After it pierces its lower band it then moves up and forms a bear flag for shorts. Another nice trade.
Chart.
http://www.tradingfrommainstreet.com/img/March4NSD.gif
This was our second index trade of the day. The market had not been showing any strength, so I wanted to keep an eye on it for short setups. I dont want to just chase it down though. Here we started to get a very small bear flag that you can see on the one minute chart. This setup the trade for us.
Chart.
http://www.tradingfrommainstreet.com/img/March4GENZ.gif
This chart shows our trade in GENZ, which represtents the only stop we have had so far today. The stock has been a relative strenght leader all day. After shooting up out of the open it based nicely near its highs. Once it broke above that base we had a decent long setup. As it moved in our favor we adjusted our stops up to breakeven which hit.
Brandon
My current thread is located http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=14135 and I post my trades there most days.
Chart.
http://www.tradingfrommainstreet.com/img/Marc4SP.gif
This is the chart of the SP500 from the first trade of the day which was a short in the ES. As you can see we opened the day into the moving average with a five minute bear flag. This set up resistence right away, and with the recent touch and go nature of the market I felt fairly sure it would not build the early momentum to take it out. So, that was our first trade. Simple bear flag.
Chart
http://www.tradingfrommainstreet.com/img/March4NVLS.gif
Pretty much the same as the SP. NVLS opened up into the moving average with a bear flag. It had pierced its lower band which said to us that as it comes into the MA we are likely to be able to profit from shorts.
Chart.
http://www.tradingfrommainstreet.com/img/March4QCOM.gif
Third trade of the day was a short in QCOM. As the morning moves on you want to be looking for the strongest and weakest stocks by % change since the open. At the time QCOM was forming this bear flag it was the 8th or 9th weakest stock on the NSD. This tells us that the momentum is on the short side, and that we are likely to be rewarded there. At the very least we will be taking less risk in shorting the weaker issues. The lower Kband was pierced which indicates there is a very good chance of testing the prior pivot low, so we took the short here.
Chart.
http://www.tradingfrommainstreet.com/img/March4CDWC.gif
Another one that was very weak. This was in the top 20 weakest stocks on the NSD (I dont recall its location). The stock is in a very obvious downtrend in this timeframe. After it pierces its lower band it then moves up and forms a bear flag for shorts. Another nice trade.
Chart.
http://www.tradingfrommainstreet.com/img/March4NSD.gif
This was our second index trade of the day. The market had not been showing any strength, so I wanted to keep an eye on it for short setups. I dont want to just chase it down though. Here we started to get a very small bear flag that you can see on the one minute chart. This setup the trade for us.
Chart.
http://www.tradingfrommainstreet.com/img/March4GENZ.gif
This chart shows our trade in GENZ, which represtents the only stop we have had so far today. The stock has been a relative strenght leader all day. After shooting up out of the open it based nicely near its highs. Once it broke above that base we had a decent long setup. As it moved in our favor we adjusted our stops up to breakeven which hit.
Brandon