Hit And Run Trades Give Good Profits
Elections, QE2. Do news driven events like this matter?
From a technical standpoint they don’t. Although those events are most likely going to get us unstuck from the current trajectory of our current trend channel.
If we are going higher, we need to break 1195.
If we are going lower we need to break trend channel support as shown in the short term index charts below.
Short term, the markets are at trend line support. The big question is whether the trend line support will hold. IF so, then the next barrier is 1195. If we can get through that, then it’s a retest of the 1220 highs. But watch out for a retest of 1195 and failure.
IF we are going lower, then how far and what should we be watching for right? If you look at the chart below, you’ll see numerous levels of technical support.
We’ve got the neckline (long blue line) of the head and shoulders bottom which also just happens to be the 50 day average and one could say spitting distance away from the 200 day average as well. Then we’ve got the little blue line as another support level to contend with as well. These are all serious levels of technical support that initially will be defended. So we say bring it on!
It may be a huge opportunity on the long side for an into the end of the year push in the indexes. So if the markets get slammed to the technical levels mentioned above, GREAT as we’ll be ready for it with leading stocks to buy. THAT is where the big trades between now and year end are going to come from on the long side.
Better to be aware of it now and be prepared in advance so when and if it occurs, that’s where you can play catch up and make your whole year if you play it right. In the meantime, we’ll pick off a few here and there and wait for big trades to come our way.
We are in the middle of the road on the indexes and in an uptrend, albeit an accelerated one with very small consolidations along the way. By the way, those little consolidations in a sell off in the market will get cut like a hot knife through butter.
In the meantime, the real action is in individual stocks. It’s a market of stocks, not a stock market. Last week was a good example of that. All last week we could have gone either way with all the gyrations yet in the end we went nowhere. Going forward expect more of that until we test either of the levels mentioned above.
Our swing trades in ARUN and RAX are the types that all add up in the end and make for a stellar year, year in and year out, from now through eternity.
The indexes and most mutual funds are really just glorified cookie cutter index funds in disguise and haven’t gone anywhere for the last 10-12 years and when all said and done probably won’t go anywhere for the next 3-4 years either. So that said, we are focused upon 8 trades that are setting up right here and right now — just like the two standouts from last week.
DID YOU TAKE THESE TRADES?
ARUN — Aruba Networks
This is a classic Pullback Off Highs long side set up. Notice how it pulled back to support of the green trendline and the 50-day moving average? That’s what you want to see.
Another classic pullback to support and then a launch higher and another quick gain of close to 8% on this one!
Take a look at how AAPL is setting up:
There is short-term support where AAPL closed Friday at 300 and there is better support at 280. As we saw with NFLX last week, it pulled back for just a few days and then pow — launched higher:
AAPL is high on our “hit and run” trade priority list next week.
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