Monday, December 28, 2009
CNBC Interview 2003 - Extreme Investing
Sunday, December 20, 2009
The Market's Holiday Gift - A Rally
The market seems to be in the mood to give investors one more gift before the year is over. One more tradeable rally before all is said and done. We've shuffled sideways for the past 8-9 weeks with very few stocks making progress. But we finally have a tape that typically precedes tradeable rallies. Here is what I see:
- Large cap tech stocks have held up beautifully and consolidated their gains into new bases or bounces off moving averages.
- Small and mid caps are leading again with some new leaders and old leaders back at the helm.
- Overextended small and mid cap leaders have digested their gains and allowed moving averages to catch up.
- Recent breakouts have held…VERY IMPORTANT FACT.
- A lot of tight trading action after some wild weeks.
Other secondary opinionated reasons:
- Fund managers are not about to set off a sell off and ruin their year end bonuses. Why not try and run it and increase them.
- Too much of an expectation for a sell off…Market does like to fool the masses (hate clichés, but they are based on truth).
- Many investors that are flat or underwater for the year would love to jump in on a rally resumption to try and make something of this year.
- I can list many more, but all you need to do is listen to the news.
I don't believe the rally will last very long (2-4 weeks). The leadership has narrowed further from previous tradeable rallies and the base foundation underneath is shaky. My plan of attack is to take the trades as they come along, and use my market tops analysis as a trading guide. As of now it has turned positive for the first time since it's correction call in October.
So The market may finally give investors the climactic part of the rally they have been looking for. Of course it's all a self fulfilling prophecy as those same investors will be the one's driving the stocks up, with no one to sell back to eventually. Good luck, don't fall in love with your stocks(trades), and I wish everyone a HAPPY NEW YEAR!
Gennady Kupershteyn
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Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Time For A Bounce?
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Sunday, October 25, 2009
Cash Cash and more Cash
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Tuesday, October 20, 2009
Listen to the Market
I see a market that's running out of steam. Leadership is narrowing, many stocks are well extended, and we're at the perfect TRAP TRAP scenario. Shorts have been made to pay the price since the beginning of this bull. But they have continued to try and hold on and can only endure so much pain. So they need to draw a line in the sand to cover.
Longs have continued to distrust this market, but after watching it rise 70%+, are nervous about missing the rest of the move. So they too have to draw a line in the sand on how much longer they can wait before buying.
As kind as the market is, it gladly provides the line in the sand for both…at the same time…DOW 10K, Critical Elliot Wave Resistance Point, and strong earnings among other things coming together. So the shorts are forced to buy to cover in panic, and the underinvested longs just must get invested. Sounds good on the surface. Wrong again. This was the final money on the sidelines. If they come in and buy, who's left to continue buying? I know the short sellers are ready to short sell…again. That's my theory.
But I need to back up that theory and the question is, how long before it comes to bear? That's where I turn to my market tops analysis that I run weekly. It has run strong since the turn in early October until this week. It dropped to 51% green from the 60% range. In theory, as long it stays above 50%, you should hold. So that's what I have done so far. But, as I went through the analysis, I noticed that it would not take much to tip many stocks to Yellow or Red. Which would drop the Greens under 50% and give the always accurate 2 week warning signal (which means that market will have a short term top anywhere between 1 to 10 trading days). I believe that if I were to run the analysis after tomorrows action, it would give the 2 week warning signal.
The reason is that most stocks are overextended, moving on lower volume overall, climaxing, and other sell signals.
It also activates a different trading playbook for the next two weeks. The most important part of which is to signal to immediately get rid of or tighten stop on any laggard positions. Then continue to rotate that money into the stronger of stocks for another move higher. But these stocks need to be monitored closely for signs of exhaustion. So it's NOT a signal to run for the exits, just that money should start to move to the sidelines or into stronger stocks (the narrowing leadership) with tighter stops.
I've expanded that analysis to give me a better idea of what type of top it is, long or short, and depth. Based on the added indicators, like breadth, leadership, etc…, we're most likely going to see a much longer deeper correction then we're used to. It's going to be at least around 10%+ lasting at least several weeks. Too far to figure out what happens then.
Ridicule me if you want on a big up day, but I'm 200% invested long and on alert. After an awesome rally, I have to worry more about protecting my profits, rather then missing more. By the time the market tells me to get out, I'll watch a nice chunk of profits disappear.
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Thursday, October 01, 2009
Market Update
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Wednesday, September 09, 2009
Bullish..But...
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Friday, August 28, 2009
Stocks Preparing for Next Move
This list needs several iterations. I just see too much possibility right now.
I say next week is down and possibly right after labor day. Which would be a real good shakeout. But we need to be ready if market has other plans.
Thursday, August 13, 2009
Time for a Break
Tuesday, August 04, 2009
Market Needs a Rest
Thanks and Happy Investing!
Wednesday, July 08, 2009
Time To Wade Back In
Thursday, June 11, 2009
A Tale of a Topping Market
06/05/09 | 05/29/09 | 05/22/09 | 05/15/09 | 05/08/09 | |||||||||||||
59 | 49 | 42 | 42 | 39 | |||||||||||||
24 | 40.68% | 16 | 32.65% | 22 | 52.38% | 21 | 50.00% | 22 | 56.41% | ||||||||
4 | 6.78% | 9 | 18.37% | 1 | 2.38% | 3 | 7.14% | 2 | 5.13% | ||||||||
31 | 52.54% | 24 | 48.98% | 19 | 45.24% | 18 | 42.86% | 15 | 38.46% |
Monday, June 01, 2009
Fw: VIX
Here's an updated snapshot of the double top on the VIX I sent out about 2 months ago when the market followed through. It is acting well and trending right along the 20dma and consolidating right near a support area. Another breakdown here could lead to a final leg up for this run. It's probably going to be fast and furious and finally lead us to the long awaited correction, right after the final suck in rally.
Tuesday, April 28, 2009
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
Fw: Ugly Looking Market
Monday, March 09, 2009
Ugly Looking Market
Friday, January 09, 2009
1924 - 1942 compared to 1994 - Present
Sunday, January 04, 2009
The market is truly designed to destroy MOST
The market is truly designed to destroy MOST.
I don't mean to sound pessimistic, since I've done well in it, but after an exhaustive study the past month of monster stocks and my own past trades using both CANSLIM and Darvas, I found that unless you're truly willing to hold through alot of early fiddling around and nasty volatility in the middle, trying to hold out for those promised 100's of percent gains is EXTREMELY difficult. I've bagged the triple digit winners in the past, but only because I did not try and trade around corrections and be too precise. I bought the initial pivot, allowed for the initial fiddle, and patiently waited out the week to see if the stock closed above or below the 50dma, unless the break was just enormous and near an already long bull market or the stock went climactic, as it scaled the chart (there are other reasons not to wait, but that's for another time).
In 2006 and 2007 even though I was able to bag some impressive winners (none over 100%, even though there were plenty), I found I did not really maximize the gain for the exact reasons I mentioned, I was trying to be too fine. The precision allowed me to get out near a top of an intermediate correction, but made it difficult to get back in because of the increased volatility as a stock scaled the charts. There are times for this type of precision, but that's too difficult to explain without illustration.
The reason for the title, most look at these monsters and just assume in hindsight that the moves were easy because of the way it looks in it's entirety. Most don't bother to measure the corrections a stock undergoes day to day, week to week. In many monsters, intra-week volatility can exceed 20% without violation in some cases of even short term moving averages (10 and 20). This simple oversight and misunderstanding leads MOST to overtrade, enter at the wrong time, and then in frustration of all the exhaustive non-profitable trading, become long term holders just as the stock is topping FOR GOOD (the laws of gravity eventually get them all, even if it takes decades, GM). Of course losing the majority of what they invested over typically the next few weeks and months.
Moral of the story, the only way to succeed is to study, study, and study some more and then execute your rule book. YOU MUST create your own rule book. No book or mentor can create it for you. They can get you started, guide and keep you on the right path, but in the end, you must understand how the different variables change and interact from year to year by learning it (repetition). Even though it's the same, there's enough of a difference to cost you plenty. YOU MUST write it down, your memory won't hold it or process it all when money is on the line. Your emotions will make your decisions. But if you learn to recognize the change, you won't be fooled because you will have a rule to handle the situation. It will take years to get it right, but the path is worth the trip once you do.
Most of you know this already, but thought it would make for a good new year reminder.
PS
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Hope everyone had a nice NEW YEAR and all the best wishes going forward.