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Cobra’s GATE … but use a stop for goodness sake!
Posted on October 24, 2013 Leave a Comment
the emotions are controlled but elevated and then you hear the “fights on, tapes on” and you know it’s time to get er’ done … not often used, but very very effective, is the term “GATE” and that means FULL THROTTLE and MAX OUT on the direction of the threat to ENGAGE and KILL “Cobra’s GATE Barber […]
the Pound, gorilla’s and juggling dynamite …
Posted on October 22, 2013 1 Comment
“once you decide to deploy capital, in any market, realize that you are entering a cage w/ gorilla’s and OBTW they are juggling dynamite” Joe Dinappoli (www.fibtrader.com) STUDENT: Larry what is a good month of trading? (www.tradingtutor.com) MENTOR: “looking at your P&L and seeing $.01 or 1 cent” I deploy capital in one of […]
DJTA from the beginning 10/29/1896 w/ a dose of a 2.6 is 4.0 to me
Posted on October 21, 2013 3 Comments
true confession time … some of you might know and some of you might not know that I spent my first 11 years out of college w/ the privilege and honor to serve in the United States Navy. I flew jets, saw the world and knew absolutely NOTHING about the economy. In fact, here’s the […]
Russell 2000 IWM and it’s repeating moves – CAVEAT EMPTOR
Posted on October 21, 2013 Leave a Comment
measured moves are powerful tools and on long term charts they are very useful for forecasting price moves. take a look at the chart below … the BLUE arrows are the lengths of the bull moves in the IWM. appears the current move will converge nicely in/around 113-114. Then, since we are all working w/ […]
the “Ray Charles” count on BIDU
Posted on October 21, 2013 Leave a Comment
counting waves is hard … you have to develop your eye and you have to figure out when to trust a count or just let it go and “hope” (a strategy) that the count will show itself. I particularly like counts on long term monthly type of charts. simply, all the noise is filtered out […]
More Pumpkin Soup … added a new ingredient to the recipe: GOOG.
Posted on October 21, 2013 1 Comment
classic or not that certainly proved to NOT be a head and shoulders neckline but a launching pad for a SATURN 5 and kaboom it exploded. as you can imagine the short well, took it on the chin to say the least: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=05PKG_pWsVY ! Howard (Founder/CEO of Stocktwits) commented “as for me, I’ll stay long.” WELL PLAYED […]
Plotting the next move in fixed income …
Posted on October 21, 2013 Leave a Comment
fixed income has bounced rather nicely and now the big question is “are we going to go to new highs?” 1.5 years ago, as fixed income flirted w/ the all time highs for 5 months we correctly saw multiple correlations that put the sell pattern present in context … http://allstarcharts.com/are-interest-rates-at-a-key-inflection-point/ from there, the bonds fell […]
Part 2 of Part 1-V on the S&P
Posted on October 20, 2013 Leave a Comment
Part 1 was a look around the world at different equity indices based on ETF’s: https://bartscharts.com/2013/09/14/part-1-the-sp-500-but-first-we-need-to-go-around-the-world/ of note is the Global Equity ETF (ACWI) and the SELL pattern that is appearing as we showed in our last “around the world” update shown below. Overall, nothing to crazy but the analysis appears to have been correct. […]
