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UP UP AND AWAY!
Which rhymes with:
WITHOUT ANY CONSOLIDATIONS ALONG THE WAY.
And that is the trend for the last two months. All for one and one for all, by that we mean every single index and most stocks are all in alignment. One goes they all go. That is really the way its been and as a side note I sometimes find it funny when people on TV talk about the fundamentals of this and that when one looks at the index charts and most stocks it really doesn’t seem to matter, for the most part that is.
Look all I’m saying is we are still in a very volatile time band (its been that way for 2 plus months) which makes things hard to trade from a low risk entry point perspective. By that we mean straight up and straight down that’s been the trend, just look at the charts of almost every issue in the update and you’ll see.
 What we are really looking for is some actual consolidations that last for more than a day. A good example of a consolidation or shall we say pullback off highs (POH) can be found in the chart below. What I want you to key in on is the actual pullback under the pink line, it lasts for days and allows a stock to catch its breath before another move higher.
 This chart is EXACTLY what we all strive for! Memorize the look.
Yesterday we said:
Folks, its real simple, until we get some sort of pullback there is nothing to do on the longside, that is unless you like chasing buses at these levels. We don’t and we won’t. But if we get some sort of ABC pullback? A Pullback Off Highs (POH)?, then a launch? Sure then we can SELECTIVELY step up to the plate.
This is still the order of the day.
Short term ten minute charts
  Sixty minute time frequency charts
  Daily Time Frequency Charts
  As you can see from every chart above they are all vertical with no real consolidations along the way. If thinking about going long here CONSIDER YOURSELF WARNED and that you are chasing a bus AFTER the fact. Stay centered emotionally ,don’t react and most importantly ALLOW THEM TO COME TO YOU, they always do.
From here its what to do with a pullback. And of course the depth of that pullback that we really want to pay attention to. We’ll know in the next few days. Suffice it to say we are leaning to the longside from now till end of year.
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For Traders Looking For A Game Plan
Something to think about here may be that of devising a trading plan for between now and year end. One may to look at between now and year end from a hit and run get in get out standpoint and be a trader.
After all $200 a day is $1,000 a week is $4,000 a month and over the next three months between now and year end that’s $12,000 added to the bottom line in a perfect world. All things considered given the way the year has been turning out? There is nothing wrong with that if you ask us. Heck on a $100,000 portfolio that’s a 12% return from here. How’s that for a game plan should one be on the hunt for one. Just a thought.
  10-12 Buy the dips and short sell the rips and we just ripped folks.
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SHORT SIDE WATCH LIST
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LONG SIDE WATCH LIST "Only The Best And Forget The Rest "
"We Trade What We SEE, NOT What We Think, Hear Or Fear "
10-9 Remember with all the charts below ITS ALL ABOUT THE PINK DOWNTREND CHANNELS.
FFIV
NEW NAME
 Keep in mind, those blue lines are what we’d LIKE to see BUT the market is the boss and we have no way of knowing this is what is going to transpire. If it does though, you’ll want to be prepared. And that is what this list is all about, a watch list to be prepared in advance with vs reading about it in the paper AFTER it’s already moved.
Keep in mind that IF IF IF this comes to fruition and it crosses back over the red line after a pullback that will be construed as a "Right Side Of Cup Crossover". Remember by the time a traditional IBD’ers get interested (retest of highs on verge of a breakout) we’d be WAY AHEAD OF THE CURVE at that point. This is what we mean when we say ALTERNATIVE ENTRY POINTS. Same goes for NANO below.
NANO
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 CMI
 CRM
 SPRD
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 PANL
 10-12 Backtesting the trendline break to upside?
AAPL
 10-12 speaking of out of control take a look at AMZN below, See any technical pattern that jumps out at you?
  10-12 Note AMZN and ALXN are not issues we are adding to the watch list, these are just a few examples to show you what to stay away from with regards to new money deployment, same can be said of AAPL too right here.
ATHN
 NUS
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FEATURED BUT NOT TRADE TRIGGERED BY US LIST
GLD
 OIH
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All About Options In The World According To All About Trends Over the weekend we posted an article in this space entitled:
OPTIONS –Your best friend and worst enemy
That article is at the bottom of this newsletter for reference anytime you need it.
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. Keep an eye on the new long side WATCH list.
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CURRENT POSITIONS
Let Your Stocks Tell You What To Do By The Action They Exhibit"
LONG SIDE POSITIONS
NONE but that will change sometime in the next week
SHORT SIDE POSITIONS
LULU
 10-11 Reminds me of WYNN!
10-12 Well here we are with a gap up market and this issue is into a congestion zone and it tagging the 50 day average. We are down a whopping $500.00 on our position currently so there really isn’t anything to talk about with it at this point. We are going to stand pat with our short sell right here.
Especially considering what the indexes look like here?
Remember the name of the game is buy the dips, and sell the rips so with us selling short the rip we did what we were supposed to per the dips and rips plan.
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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 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 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! ==================================================
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 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 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 Remember the market IS the boss. IT is going to do what IT wants to do.
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OPTIONS — Your best friend and worst enemy Let’s talk about options for a moment. First off this is a big universe with a lot of advanced strategies and terms like theta, delta , straddles, butterflies and the whole gambit. For the purposes of this conversation we’ll keep it real simple and not try to get to deep. We’ll approach it from simple buy puts (short side) buy calls (long side). The first thing I want to mention is that options attract the fast money crowd in hopes of turning 500 into 10,000 overnight. This is also the get rich quick crowd. And more often than not these type of people get broke faster than they get rich. Please don’t be one of them as greed kills. Time and time again we hear from people who like to trade options, and time and time again we hear the horror stories too. When we hear the horror stories nine times out of ten we can guess as to why their option went to zero. Nine times out of ten it was because they bought out of the money options or at the money options. This is the reason why 80% of those who do options lose money by the way. Sure there are folks who use out of the monies and at the monies but those are experienced traders that know the ins outs ups and downs.
You see the trick is to NOT pay for time. You want as close to a point for point move as possible with the stock because there is nothing worse than seeing your stock move yet your option does nothing or very little, know the feeling?
So for All About Trends we only want to look at IN THE MONEY CALLS OR PUTS and we DO NOT WANT TO PAY FOR TIME, sure they cost more BUT we want to be as close as possible to being able to see a point for point move with the stock.
We hate paying for time. We want true value without the time. We’re not saying our way is any better than others, we’re just saying it’s what works for us.
Now let’s touch upon how we would build a portfolio dedicated to options and how to make it a piece of your overall portfolio via allocation. Keep in mind this is more geared towards beginners so you advanced people might be bored with it but then again it never hurts to revisit the basics every now and then. At All About Trends Trends we talk a lot about never biting off more than you can chew and trade size position management. We do that for a reason, we do it so as to when Murphy’s law shows up it never devastates us or blows us up. Typically we try to stay within a 5-7% position size when we do a trade. The same thing goes for options. If we were to start a portfolio of options or shall we say allocate a portion of our overall portfolio to options the way we would look at it is the following: For example, let’s say the total value of your portfolio is $100,000. The most we’d consider allocating towards an options strategy is 10% of the whole portfolio. In this case $10,000. So now you’d have a $10,000 option portfolio to work with. Now let’s say that you are the worst trader on the planet (we doubt that!) and you lose the whole option portfolio, what’s the risk to the total value of the overall portfolio? 10% in which case you live to play another day. Now let’s touch upon that $10,000 you allocated toward options. Let’s reduce the risk even further (and we haven’t even talked about what stocks to trade yet). Let’s take that $10,000 and split it up into no more than 10% ($1,000) can be allocated to anyone position as a guide. (Sometimes 1000 can get you 3-4 contracts you know). Now let’s say that one of those positions goes bust (and they will! and sometimes more than one at the same time we assure you.) What is the total impact to the overall options portfolio? 10% right? Now let’s take that a step further. What’s the total impact to the overall investment portfolio of 100,000? 1% – that’s right 1 measly percent. When it comes to options you need to employ some sort of portfolio risk management structure parameters as this way you can get in trouble and you don’t lose sleep – you just have a bad day that’s all. As for getting rich overnight? Forget about it. That’s just a marketing ploy. As for taking 50,000 and turning it into millions? Ain’t happening overnight but it sure sounds good doesn’t it? And that is why people bite on those marketing ploys. As for time? We never go out months. As a swing trader we’re in positions for only a couple of weeks best case so why pay for the time to go out further in time when you don’t have to. When the stock moves whether it’s right away or not they sure seem to suck that time out of you just as fast anyway right? Typically we’ll look at the front month (current month) or the next month but not months. When we say front month if options expiration is a week or sometimes even two weeks away we’ll look out to the next month and not the current. While time is our enemy in most cases, in this case it’s your friend. It’s just that you don’t want to pay for it. ==================================================
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