Archive for January, 2007

Dude…. QuoteTracker is awesome, part 2

Wednesday, January 31st, 2007

Prospectus put up a nice article on QuoteTracker paintbars today. The more I learn about QuoteTracker, the awesomer I think it is.

RIMM paintbars
Shown above is my proprietary secret NR3 signal, of which the formula is:

if ABS(Bar High-Bar Low) <= ABS(Bar High[1]-Bar Low[1]) AND ABS(Bar High-Bar Low) <= ABS(Bar High[2]-Bar Low[2]) AND ABS(Bar High-Bar Low) <= ABS(Bar High[3]-Bar Low[3]) AND (Bar High<=Bar High[1]) AND (Bar Low>=Bar Low[1]) set color to Blue

73 stocks closed at all-time lows

Wednesday, January 31st, 2007

“It is one of the great paradoxes of the stock market that what seems too high usually goes higher and what seems too low usually goes lower.” - William O’Neil

Symbol Price Volume Avg. Volume % Vol. Increase
YMI 1.74 10495400 574956 %1725.42
TVIA 0.42 2231180 332124 %571.79
SFUN 13.95 1297521 167872 %672.92
AVR 15.8 1156100 791594 %46.04
VG 5.68 1064900 690332 %54.25

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559 stocks closed at all-time highs

Wednesday, January 31st, 2007

“It is one of the great paradoxes of the stock market that what seems too high usually goes higher and what seems too low usually goes lower.” - William O’Neil

Symbol Price Volume Avg. Volume % Vol. Increase High Alpha
JPM 50.93 18413400 10872000 %69.36
EOP 55.55 14374900 7596980 %89.21
DIA 126.24 9790200 7479840 %30.88
HOLX 55.45 8815181 831298 %960.41
CMX 61.26 8594100 7781860 %10.43

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A dummy a day: Hovnanian Enterprises Inc. (HOV)

Wednesday, January 31st, 2007

Since day trading is a lot about recognizing the patterns in charts, I have decided to post a chart every day that would have resulted in a profitable dummy trade. I will post these in the dummy-a-day category which you can simply click to review for practice. The chart will be displayed as it looked when the trade should have been executed, and when you move your mouse over the image, it will show how the trade would have resulted.
Here is one I missed today, HOV:


If you bought HOV when it broke above the 10:00 candle at $32.02 with a stop below it at $31.79, you would only risk 23 cents. Holding until the end of the day would have given you about 123 cents for every share you owned, or over 5 times your risk.

Ugly Picks

Wednesday, January 31st, 2007

Good morning, my name is the chartist formerly known as Ugly, and I am a loser. I have it in me to do serious financial damage to my account.

Dear Diary,
Crummy fed day.
JADE is going nuts. Maybe I will start writing directly on the charts, kind of perezhilton-style.
JADE
I saw Ghost Dog last night. I don’t know man, I didn’t really like it that much. I guess it was okay. There were some funny parts, and at least it introduced me to the Hagakure.

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A dummy a day: AK Steel Holding Corp. (AKS)

Tuesday, January 30th, 2007

Since day trading is a lot about recognizing the patterns in charts, I have decided to post a chart every day that would have resulted in a profitable dummy trade. I will post these in the dummy-a-day category which you can simply click to review for practice. The chart will be displayed as it looked when the trade should have been executed, and when you move your mouse over the image, it will show how the trade would have resulted.
Here is one I missed today, AKS:


If you bought AKS when it broke above the 12:00 candle at $20.51 with a stop below it at $20.42, you would only risk 9 cents. Holding until the end of the day would have given you about 35 cents for every share you owned, or nearly 4 times your risk.

73 stocks closed at all-time lows

Tuesday, January 30th, 2007

“It is one of the great paradoxes of the stock market that what seems too high usually goes higher and what seems too low usually goes lower.” - William O’Neil

Symbol Price Volume Avg. Volume % Vol. Increase
MPEL 19.19 4007541 7855870 %-48.98
AVR 16.24 1192700 782676 %52.38
AOD 20.68 868400 0 %N/A
PXLW 1.78 641642 584768 %9.72
ECR 0.93 514000 266352 %92.97

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408 stocks closed at all-time highs

Tuesday, January 30th, 2007

“It is one of the great paradoxes of the stock market that what seems too high usually goes higher and what seems too low usually goes lower.” - William O’Neil

Symbol Price Volume Avg. Volume % Vol. Increase High Alpha
CFC 43.53 15829100 4868480 %225.13
FHN 43.92 8230600 639482 %1187.07
UTX 66.95 7571000 4262770 %77.60
X 80.27 6971500 3809270 %83.01
GXM 25.44 6463400 120192 %5277.56

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A dummy a day: Focus Media Holding Ltd. (FMCN)

Monday, January 29th, 2007

Since day trading is a lot about recognizing the patterns in charts, I have decided to post a chart every day that would have resulted in a profitable dummy trade. I will post these in the dummy-a-day category which you can simply click to review for practice. The chart will be displayed as it looked when the trade should have been executed, and when you move your mouse over the image, it will show how the trade would have resulted.
Here is one the ATS got today, FMCN:


If you bought FMCN when it broke above the 11:00 candle at $82.49 with a stop below it at $81.89, you would only risk 60 cents. Holding until the end of the day would have given you about 236 cents for every share you owned, or nearly 4 times your risk.

78 stocks closed at all-time lows

Monday, January 29th, 2007

“It is one of the great paradoxes of the stock market that what seems too high usually goes higher and what seems too low usually goes lower.” - William O’Neil

Symbol Price Volume Avg. Volume % Vol. Increase
SEED 8.82 2233648 35952 %6112.86
AOD 20.61 1013900 0 %N/A
AVR 15.83 924200 766226 %20.61
GMET 8.41 703312 261416 %169.03
TWTR 1.29 417640 600683 %-30.47

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