A Quick Primer on Trading Options
The popularity of trading options has continued to boom in recent years, with more and more individual traders looking to take advantage of the gains options trading can offer without having to risk nearly as much capital as with other securities. The Connors Research team has developed a strategy designed to better control the risk […]
Getting Ready for Monday Morning’s Trading 7/29/13
Here are the stocks, ETFs, and Leveraged ETFs you need to know for Monday morning. Click here to join Larry Connors for a live webinar to learn about the new frontier of options trading. The following securities are the most oversold and overbought according to ConnorsRSI for Monday’s trading. Click here to download your free […]
Getting Ready for Monday Morning’s Trading 7/20/13
Here are the stocks, ETFs, and Leveraged ETFs you need to know for Monday morning. Click here to learn how to identify and systematically trade high probability options setups in a free webinar with Larry Connors. The following securities are the most oversold and overbought according to ConnorsRSI for Monday’s trading. Click here to download […]
Essential Skills for Swing Traders: Part 3
We’re all aware that there are a myriad of ways to approach identifying pullbacks in the market, from simply cherry-picking securities to using complex variations of multiple indicators. We rigorously test and retest to create quantified pullback trading strategies that produce maximum consistency and accuracy. One of the factors we prioritize is the ‘quality’ of […]
Getting Ready for Monday Morning’s Trading 7/15/13
Here are the stocks, ETFs, and Leveraged ETFs you need to know for Monday morning. Do you want to simplify the entire process of trading options? Click here to learn about a quantified, systematic approach to trading options. The following securities are the most oversold and overbought according to ConnorsRSI for Monday’s trading. Click here […]
How to Successfully Swing Trade – Part 2: Buying on Pullbacks
Now that we’ve covered the initial basics of what swing trading is, and covered why buying above the 200-day moving average is so important, we can move forward to another core rule of successful swing trading: buying on pullbacks. To briefly summarize – a pullback refers to a market closing lower than it did the […]
How to Successfully Swing Trade – Part 1
One of the fundamental ideas we base our research around is the relatively static nature of the ‘human factor’, or more simply that human behavior rarely changes. What changes are the markets, and we are buying and selling at extreme moments of either fear (we’re buying) or greed (we’re selling). There are two extremes on […]
Essential Skills for Swing Traders: Part 2
Throughout the years of research and development we’ve put behind our quantified trading strategies, one stands out singularly for its consistent accuracy. The S&P 500 Selective strategy has regularly indicated high-potential value trading opportunities both in real-world trading and throughout our extensive historical back-testing. This systematic trading strategy pinpoints trading opportunities for buying and selling […]
Getting Ready for Monday Morning’s Trading 7/8/13
Here are the stocks, ETFs, and Leveraged ETFs you need to know for Monday morning. Stop the guesswork! Click here to learn how to enhance your short selling with ConnorsRSI. The following securities are the most oversold and overbought according to ConnorsRSI for Monday’s trading. Click here to download your free copy of An Introduction […]
24 Winning Trades in a Row for The Daily Battle Plan
Larry Connors’ Daily Battle Plan has now posted 17 consecutive winning trades throughout 2013 in the ETF Model Portfolio, extending the successive winning streak that began back in September 2012. As of today Larry Connors’ Daily Battle Plan has secured 24 winning trades in a row since the streak began. Below are the total trade […]
The Top 5 Trades from The S&P 500 Low-Volatility Growth Portfolio
The following trades are the 5 biggest winners in the S&P 500 Low-Volatility Growth Portfolio gained throughout June 2013. Entry Date Symbol Entry Price Exit Date Current/Exit Price % Gain Strategy 6/03/2013 REGN $232.20 6/7/13 $255.59 10.07% Trading New Highs S&P 500 6/1/2013 BCR $103.09 Open $108.68 5.42% S&P 500 Breakout 6/12/2013 EA $21.70 6/18/13 […]
Essential Skills for Swing Traders: Part 1
We like emphasize the key elements of time, price, and scaling into trading positions when formulating some our popular trading strategies. What we refer to as Scale-In Trading has proven to be one of our most successful strategies taught by the Connors Research team, and has gone through a long development history that traces its […]