Archive for September, 2009

9/30 – ETF Trading – FXI, USO, UCO

Good morning. We’re still in our etf trades with FXI, USO, and UCO.

Our etf trading strategy is to buy additional positions should any of these etfs move lower than our initial entry price. Otherwise, our exit signals are a closing price greater than MA(5) or the RSI(2)>70. It’s your call on which exit signal to use.

All of these trades are based on the strategies found in the book by Larry Connors: High Probability ETF Trading. All trades are at the market close.

Join me every day as I offer new etf trading strategies for you to follow.

Disclaimer:The content on this site is provided as general information only and should not be taken as investment advice. All site content, including advertisements, shall not be construed as a recommendation to buy or sell any security or financial instrument, or to participate in any particular trading or investment strategy. The ideas expressed on this site are solely the opinions of the author(s) and do not necessarily represent the opinions of sponsors or firms affiliated with the author(s). The author may or may not have a position in any company or advertiser referenced above. Any action that you take as a result of information, analysis, or advertisement on this site is ultimately your responsibility. Consult your investment adviser before making any investment decisions.

• 02/02 - ETF Trading - EWH, EWZ, SPY, SSO Markets closed higher yesterday and triggered our exit signals for EWH and EWZ - unfortunately for us, at a loss. We still have full trading positions or SPY and/or SSO. Should the market move higher today, we will be able to take our gains! Our exit signals are triggered when......
• 05/10 - ETF Trading - Blog is Up - EWH How prophetic - my etf trading blog crashed late last Monday and the markets soon followed! What a dramatic week to miss, too. Thanks for being patient while the site was down. To get caught up, We're into a full trading position for EWH, and down in the count. We're......
• 12/10 - ETF Trading - USO, UCO, FXI With yesterday's close lower, we're into a full trading position for USO (and UCO). We've scaled into three trading positions over the past several trading days. From our watch list yesterday, FXI moved lower, and we scaled-into our first trading position. Take a second position in FXI should it move......

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9/29 – ETF Trading – FXI, EWW, USO, UCO, XLU, UPW

Good morning. We took trading gains yesterday as half of our etf stock picks from last Thursday (9/24) triggered their exit signals. All of these etf trades are based on the strategies found in the book by Larry Connors: High Probability ETF Trading. All trades are at the market close.

Here’s where you should be:

FXI, EWW – Country ETFs: These moved higher yesterday, and we took our gains on EWW – a nice 2.83% for sitting in the market for 2 days! We’ll patiently wait for FXI to make a move.

USO, UCO – Commodity ETFs: These both moved higher yesterday, but not enough to trigger our etf trading exit signals.

XLU, UPW – Sector ETFs: These both moved higher yesterday and we took our gains. We took only a small .76% gain for XLU, but it’s still a gain. For UPW, we took a gain of 1.76%. Again, these gains are for sitting in the market for just 2 days.

So we’re left with FXI, USO, and UCO. Our etf trading strategy is to buy additional positions should any of these etfs move lower than our initial entry price. Otherwise, our exit signals are a closing price greater than MA(5) or the RSI(2)>70. It’s your call on which exit signal to use.

Join me every day as I offer new etf trading strategies for you to follow.

Disclaimer:The content on this site is provided as general information only and should not be taken as investment advice. All site content, including advertisements, shall not be construed as a recommendation to buy or sell any security or financial instrument, or to participate in any particular trading or investment strategy. The ideas expressed on this site are solely the opinions of the author(s) and do not necessarily represent the opinions of sponsors or firms affiliated with the author(s). The author may or may not have a position in any company or advertiser referenced above. Any action that you take as a result of information, analysis, or advertisement on this site is ultimately your responsibility. Consult your investment adviser before making any investment decisions.

• 04/14 - ETF Trading - USO, UCO, EWT Good morning. USO moved lower yesterday and you took your second position in the etf trade. For the leveraged trade, UCO also moved lower and you took your second position in the trade. Should these etfs move lower today, take your third position in the trade. Otherwise, our etf exit......
• 11/20 - ETF Trading - EWH, SPY, SSO Good morning. Yesterday, EWH moved lower and you took your initial position in the trade. Should EWH move lower today, take a second position in the trade. Otherwise, our exit signals are triggered when the etf price is greater than it's MA(5), or - for a potentially larger gain -......
• 07/08 - ETF Trading - XLU, SDP, SPY, SDS Wow, what a rebound yesterday. XLU closed higher yesterday and you took your first short position in the etf trade. For the leveraged etf trade, you took your first position in SDP. Updated charts are posted below. As mentioned yesterday, we'll scale in with up to three 3 positions. So,......

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9/28 – ETF Trading – FXI, EWW, USO, UCO, XLU, UPW

Good morning. Friday’s stock trading action gave us just a few opportunities to scale into our etf trades. Here’s where you should be:

You should be long in the first position for any of the following etfs that I listed last Thursday (9/24).

FXI, EWW – Country ETFs: These moved higher on Friday, but not enough to trigger our exit signals. We’ll patiently wait for the market to make a move. (The highlighted bar in the charts shows today’s etf trading action.)

USO, UCO – Commodity ETFs: A bit of divergence here with USO moving a bit higher and UCO moving a bit lower. Per our rules, that means holding steady on USO and buying an additional position on UCO. However, in my own opinion, when there is divergence between an index etf and a leveraged copy of the index etf, I would follow the signals from the index etf – USO in this example. So, since USO moved higher on Friday, we’re invested only in the intial positions we took for USO and UCO on Thursday.

XLU, UPW – Sector ETFs: These moved lower on Friday. You should have added a second trading position in these etfs.

Our etf trading strategy is to buy additional positions should any of these etfs move lower than our initial entry price. Otherwise, our exit signals are a closing price greater than MA(5) or the RSI(2)>70. It’s your call on which exit signal to use.

All of these trades are based on the strategies found in the book by Larry Connors: High Probability ETF Trading. All trades are at the market close.

Join me every day as I offer new etf trading strategies for you to follow.

Disclaimer:The content on this site is provided as general information only and should not be taken as investment advice. All site content, including advertisements, shall not be construed as a recommendation to buy or sell any security or financial instrument, or to participate in any particular trading or investment strategy. The ideas expressed on this site are solely the opinions of the author(s) and do not necessarily represent the opinions of sponsors or firms affiliated with the author(s). The author may or may not have a position in any company or advertiser referenced above. Any action that you take as a result of information, analysis, or advertisement on this site is ultimately your responsibility. Consult your investment adviser before making any investment decisions.

• 07/12 - ETF Trading - XLU, SDP, SPY, SDS XLU closed higher on Friday, enough to trigger taking a third and final short position. The higher closing price for XLU also triggered a third and final etf trading position for SDP. We'll watch for our etf exit signals now. SPY also closed higher on Friday, triggering a second short......
• 10/06 - ETF Trading - FXI, SPY, SSO Good morning. Another winning etf trade as FXI moved higher yesterday. We took our gain as the price moved higher than the MA(5). SPY and SSO moved higher yesterday, so we did not enter the trades. We'll wait for the next market correction for new trading opportunities. All of these......
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