I often get asked about how I find swing trade candidates. Hopefully this post will answer those questions. As I’ve written before, most of the stocks I track initially came up on one of my candlestick pattern scans. (Please feel free to search the archives and/or use the subject index) My [...]

(Edit: You may also be interested in my article detailing how I trade as well as my hardware and software setup.)
I’ve been exclusively day trading for almost three months now. The switch from swing trading has been quite an experience and I’ve had a few ‘light bulb’ moments along the way as you’ll [...]

Here are a couple of more hour-long presentations by Dave Landry. I watched the May 11th session today and I found his commentary about pyschology and money management to be very good — not to mention him clowning Jim Cramer’s show. Where are my damn sound effects?

Plan Your Trade And Then Trade Your [...]

If you’ve got an hour to burn check out Dave Landry’s weekly swing trading lesson. It’s a multimedia (audio & video) presentation in which Dave walks through charts, talks about sector analysis and discusses various trading & money management strategies. (For those who have been wondering about TC2000/TCNet/TeleChart, you’ll get to see it [...]

As you know I was long ADTN for a few days recently but sold it because they were due to report earnings. The reason I get out ahead of earnings is that I have no clue what the company is going to say nor, more importantly, how the market will react to what they [...]

Andy Dunn was nice enough to send me a copy of his new book, Great Companies, Great Charts, to review. In the book Andy explains the trading system he developed after his portfolio took a beating during the recent bear market. His system, which has some similarities to CANSLIM, is very simple — [...]

I thought I’d walk through the NASDAQ chart for the last month or so to show you how I came up with my game plan. This chart will look a bit different than the charts I usually post because I’m showing Guppy’s Multiple Moving Averages instead of just showing the 10, 50 and 200-day [...]

For a while now I’ve been meaning to explain who I am and how I trade. After reading Dr. Steenbarger’s blog today, I’ve been inspired to do it, so here goes. It appears that my trading philosophy is very similar to that of Dr. Steenbarger. I’ll attempt to use similar headings [...]