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All you need to know with regards to the indexes are in the short term one minute chart below.
This week earnings season kicks into high gear around here. There are hundreds of names reporting this week and as usual it’s not the number as we all know everyone always beats by a penny. It’s the reaction to those numbers that matters.
One of our holdings — MOBI — has earnings due on the 26th and that is tommorrow. We have a choice with that one here. We can hold it all, sell all or sell half. We are currently up 41% on this issue and we must say it has been quite the name. What we don’t know is what will happen after earnings are released. So we are going to employ the happy medium here.
We are going to lock our gains in half of our position here today right after this mid-day update.
If this issue takes off on earnings? Great we still have some. If they tank it on earnings? At least we sold some at a higher price and will then look to jump in again assuming technically it’s intact. It’s times like these that we need to remind ourselves that these are the problems we want to have.
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LONG SIDE WATCH LIST
If I were to put money to work here. Where do I put it?
4-19 NOTE: It’s earnings season, make sure you know when that is to occur with whatever issue you are stalking.
We have 2 new names on the long side watch list.
CVLT
NEW NAME
SGI
NEW NAME
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SHORT SELL WATCH LIST
NONE
FEATURED BUT NOT TRADE TRIGGERED BY US
This is where names that we have on our watch list that have triggered but for whatever reason we did not take them (can’t do them all) in our trade trigger alerts. This section is because a lot of our subscribers opt to use our information as they see fit from a do-it-yourselfer standpoint.
Long side
DANG
ILMN
PPO
PANL
In summary: For the most part to see the indexes go sideways here is just what we want to see. Call it consolidating at the highs (catching its breath) before another move higher. If the indexes are going to breakout it will be because of earnings announcments and yep you guessed it probably in a gap up form.
SLV
GLD
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All About Options In The World According To All About Trends
NOTE: The exchanges recently started WEEKLY EXPIRATIONS of options. Going forward, make sure that you check to see which ones you are buying. Let’s stay with traditional options expirations which are the ones that expire the 3rd Saturday of every month.
Options Watch List
ALL MAY Expiration Folks Current Holdings
MOTR (We are now long 3 MAY 10 Call Options to open at 3.50)
As we post they are currently at 4.20
DE (We are now long 1 MAY 85 Call Option to open at 9.40)
As we post they are currently at 10.00
PAY (We are now long 2 MAY 46 Call Options to open at 7.40)
(We are now long 1 MAY 46 Call Options to open at 8.10 from 4-19-11)
As we post they are currently at 8.50
CAT (We are now long 1 MAY 95 Call Options to open at 12.80)
As we post they are currently trading at 14.20
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"Let Your Stocks Tell You What To Do By The Action They Exhibit"
LONG SIDE POSITIONS
BSFT (We are LONG 300 shares at 42.89 as of 4-18-11)
SPRD (We are LONG 300 shares at 21.17 as of 4-18-11)
SWKS (We are LONG 200 shares at 25.59 as of 4-18-11)
DE (We are LONG 150 shares at 93.54 as of 4-15-11)
CAT (We are LONG 150 shares at 107.35 as of 4-13-11)
PAY (We are LONG 200 shares at 52.00 as of 4-12-11)
MOBI (We are LONG 250 shares at 12.39 as of 4-11-11)
Shown above
MOTR (We are LONG 300 shares at 13.15 as of 4-13-11)
BIDU (We are now SHORT 100 shares at 127.81 as of 3-23-11)
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To our NEW SUBSCRIBERS
What we’ve tried to do is break our watch list down into chart pattern recognition structure from a visual standpoint. Learn the patterns and the components of patterns and you’ll blow those Wall Street MBAs away. You don’t need a $3,000 software program either. All you need is a BURNING DESIRE to be the best that you can be and we’re here to help.
We have a lot of new folks here and we thank you! We want you to take it easy, get to know how the routine works around here for awhile and to feel comfortable.
We hope you all aren’t here because you are chasing performance. For us it’s more about educating and making you the best you that you can be first (that’s what we focus upon!). Like many of our long time subscribers they have all found out that they have no use for traditional Wall Street (and we don’t blame them) and it’s our hope that over time you’ll have acquired enough knowledge from us to say the same with conviction.
One of the most important things we want to stress is that of RISK MANAGEMENT via POSITION SIZING. You don’t need to stack your account with just a few big positions as we’ve seen it time and time again that those who get into trouble are the ones who take large positions and do not employ any risk management system IE shoot for the fences. Those are the people who live on the fringes of extremes and yes ultimately get burned.
As a guideline a good initial system is that of the following example.
Let’s say you have a $100,000 virtual portfolio and let’s say that as a guide you never place more than 10% ($10,000) into any one position. Now let’s say that one day a news driven event hits (over which you have no control over anyway) and one of the positions tanks 20%. On its own that position is sporting a $2,000 loss, while that may seem devastating on its own its really no big deal overall.
Why? Simple its all about risk management being properly employed. What is the impact of a $2,000 loss to the TOTAL VALUE of the virtual portfolio in this example.
Answer: A whopping 2% LOSS. Now you know why we say no big deal.
We can also tell you new people here that you will get stopped out of names and you will take hits. There is nobody on the planet living that has ever hit 18 holes in one and there never will be. We’d rather get you grounded in reality right away vs talking about pie in the sky all the time like a lot of other sites. In so doing your head is screwed on straight from the start and when those days happen (and they will) mentally it won’t mean a thing to you. To us that’s what’s most important is YOUR state of mind as it’s your most important asset. We hope you appreciate our honesty.
We have a very good retention rate here at All About Trends and a lot of great outstanding people here. We like to think that a part of that is being upfront about what can happen (in both directions). Verses those up 500%, I turned $50,000 into $3 million or some other absurd number to get you to bite. That’s not who we are.
WELCOME ABOARD!
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Lastly with regards to taking any trade:
Remember the moment you take a trade you are at the mercy of the market and have no control except when to sell. If you are not willing to take the risk and are not willing to pay that price do not take the trade. We are willing to take that risk knowing full well the end result could be a loss. That said make sure that virtual portfolio management trade size is used accordingly. With any position you may take make sure that should something go awry the amount of total impact to your account does not devastate your acct. Try to stick to a 5% position That’s the key to virtual portfolio management, not biting off more than you can chew.
Remember the mechanics of reality with regards to the stock market states a stock can only do one of three things: Up, Down, Nowhere. The moment you hit the enter button you are at the mercy of the market therefore the only control you have is when to sell/cover. You can’t manage your gains as you have none to manage initially. Knowing this in advance it allows you to stay in outcome, that being you will either:
1. Make a gain
2. Wash
3. Get stopped out at a loss
Remember the market IS the boss. IT is going to do what IT wants to do.
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