Quick Resistance Trade Planning in Goldman Sachs GS

Goldman Sachs shares currently trade into an inflection point with likely downside potential. Let’s take a focused perspective on the current range resistance pattern and plan a bullish dominant and bearish alternate trading scenario. We’ll start with the simplified Daily Chart of GS shares in a rising rectangle: With the exception of a little Bull…

March 7 Jobs Report Intraday Trending Stock Scan

In the aftermath of the March 7th big “Jobs Report,” which stocks are topping our list of Intraday Trenders to the upside and downside? Let’s start as usual with the uptrenders: Stocks at the top of today’s “Uptrending Intraday Trend” list include VF Corporation (VFC), Loews Corp (L), Coach Inc (COH), and Southwest Energy (SWN)….

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Quick Charting Dow Jones Stock Performance in a Simple Grid

Swing traders often rely on relative strength when selecting stock candidates to trade, as stocks that are strong tend to get stronger while stocks that are weak tend to get weaker. Let’s take a quick look at all the Dow Jones Index’s 30 stocks on a annual percentage comparison basis and highlight the current winners…

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Another Bull Trap and Lesson from Crude Oil

Bull Traps are the enemy of Breakout Traders, and it’s important to learn the educational reference lessons when these scenarios trigger. Goal #1 is to protect yourself from escalating losses on a breakout opportunity that failed and Goal #2 (for aggressive traders only) is to profit from a trade outcome failure by playing into the…

March 5 Midday Quick Check on Market Internals at the Highs

With the S&P 500 at all-time highs, what are internals revealing “behind the scenes” of the market? Let’s take a quick look at price with internals in motion: For reference, we’re seeing the S&P 500 index with three key Market Internal symbols underneath: $ADD = Breadth or NYSE Advancing Issues minus Declining Issues (Advancers –…