An Expiration Focus

Monthly expiration is here, and as much as I love trading short-term expirations, I think there’s something to be said for extending the duration of your trade. Let’s compare a few examples with names like FB, NFLX and IBM.

Preparing for Four Central Bank Leaders

The Euro, Pound, Yen, and Dollar are in play, and that makes for potential setups as Draghi, Carney, Kuroda, and Yellen take the mic. Here are the setups I have in mind, as well as how I am managing copper, and aggressive entries in energies. Neil Yeager’s weekly update. The Spreadsheet of Trades The tabs … Read more

Aggressive Swing Trading Techniques

Thursday’s tax reform tantrum showed how a well-placed limit order at exhaustive levels can trigger a trade in a trend with a very favorable risk/reward ration. Here are the other markets I am setting this trade up in and the levels to consider. The Spreadsheet of Trades The tabs at the bottom of the spreadsheet … Read more

Where To Focus

Stocks saw a fair amount of volatility on Thursday, but were able to drag themselves higher to round out the week. There’s a few spots that are working great for me, a few we needed to peel out of and adjust, and a batch of new tickers to look at as we head into November … Read more

Fills in the Dow, Nas, S&P, and Yen Opportunities

We are selling Yen. Why? Because we are long and are sticking with the uptrend in equities. Heck, I even got long PCLN intraday today. The JPY weakness will continue as long as there is risk appetite. We are using a more aggressive approach to these trends and I am also looking to do the … Read more

Flight to Quality or the Pit Bull Low?

Today’s action in stocks had the volume, but lacked the correlated confirmations. This has been typical action the Thursday before monthly expiration. Let’s take a look.

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