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 […]
How to Avoid Early Assignment Risk on Your Options Position
One expiration date Friday morning, you turn on your computer and notice you are no longer short 10 about-to-expire SPY calls, instead you are short 1,000 shares of SPY. What happened? How does this affect your options trading? Could you have anticipated this happening? What happened? Almost certainly, you were assigned on your short calls […]
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 […]
Top 25 Trending Quotes over Last 30 Days
These were the 25 most searched for symbol detail quotes on the TradingMarkets Analytics Symbol Details Page for June 2013: AAPL AGQ DIA DRN F FAS FAZ FSLR GDX GLD GOOG IWM LNKD NFLX NUGT QCOR QQQ SPY TLT TNA TSLA TZA VXX VXZ XIV TradingMarkets Analytics offers an easy way to search for stocks […]
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 […]
Getting Ready for Monday Morning’s Trading 7/1/13
Here are the stocks, ETFs, and Leveraged ETFs you need to know for Monday morning. Click here to learn the new rules for shorting scared money – backed by statistics. Introducing Short Selling Stocks with ConnorsRSI. The following securities are the most oversold and overbought according to ConnorsRSI for Monday’s trading. Click here to […]
New Guidebook Reveals Short Selling Strategy That has Held Up Since 2001
The latest addition to the Connors Research Strategy Series of quantified guidebooks details a core short selling strategy for identifying overpriced stocks throughout varying market conditions. Short Selling Stocks with ConnorsRSI contains over 20 different variations of this versatile strategy – all with winning trade rates over 75% – and all structured around the exact […]
11 Rules for Anyone Who Uses Charts
As I often say about my wine savvy, I know just enough to be dangerous. For many traders, the same holds true with regard to charting and technical analysis. They know enough to use an RSI (relative strength index) to gauge momentum but really don’t know why they use a parameter of 14. And they […]
Market Reverses in Time Symmetry Zone
In an earlier commentary last month I was quoted as saying “There is an incredible herd mentality that the Fed will keep the pedal on the QE program etc. which is the so called “magic put” for the market. However, the herd mentality has been and will be wrong again this time as the Fed […]
Trading the Trend – Part 2
In our first installment of this series, we established the simple fact that price action in ALL financial markets behaves quite predictably around its open range of the actual pit session hours. Not every day… but more days than not. Anytime you can find any price behavior that repeats itself more often than not, you […]