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.

• 05/14 - ETF Trading - No Trades Today The broader market is now in neutral territory - see the RSI(2) value on the chart for SPY. Nothing we can do - we'll just patiently wait for a stock market pull-back to trigger our etf trading signals. Europe is down this morning which may trigger some selling here in......
• 12/29 - ETF Trading - Scale In Strategies Good morning. My stock screener is telling me that we have no etf trading opportunities today. Markets are in an overbought condition. We'll wait for a stock market pull-back to trigger new entry signals. Once we enter an etf trade, we won't always take just one trading position. There are......
• ETF Trading - XLI, SIJ Looking at the stock market mid-day, a shorting opportunity arises with XLI. Short a starting position at the market close should the price close higher than yesterday's close. One note of caution - don't short XLI should it close above it's 200 day moving average. As an alternative, you can......

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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.

• ETF Trading - AGG, EWT, EWC, GLD AGG moved higher yesterday, and you took your gains at the market close! EWT retreated yesterday. We'll patiently wait for our exit signal in order to take our gains. Among my "watch list" suggestions yesterday, EWC and GLD turned out to be the most promising. Perhaps you took your first......
• 02/18 - ETF Trading - FXI, FXP Put FXI on your watch list today. Consider this etf as a short trade candidate. Should it move higher today, take your first short trading position. For a leveraged trade, consider FXP. Take your first long position in FXP should it move lower today. Though this etf is below its......
• ETF Trading - SLV, EWJ, EWY Nice move on SLV yesterday (AGQ, too)! Too bad we didn't get into this trade last Friday. If you got into the trade intraday, take your stock trading gains at the market close today provided the stock price moves above it's 5 day moving average. EWJ started a small move.......

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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.

• 07/13 - ETF Trading - XLU, SDP, SPY, SDS XLU closed higher yesterday. We have a full trading position in XLU and/or SDP, and we're just waiting for a stock market sell-off to trigger our etf exit signals, now. SPY closed ever so slightly higher yesterday, enough to trigger taking a third and final short position. The higher closing......
• 06/16 - ETF Trading - USO, SCO, FXI, FXP USO closed higher yesterday, enough to trigger taking a second short position. Take a third and final short trading position only if the closing price of USO moves higher from here. Use this signal to make the trade for SCO, as well. FXI closed higher yesterday, enough to trigger taking......
• 03/17 - ETF Trading - Gains on GLD, UGL Nice gains on our trade! Markets closed higher and triggered our exit signals for GLD and UGL. We gained 2.11% on GLD and 4.11% on UGL. Our exit signals were triggered when the etf price moved higher than it's MA(5), or - for the larger gain - when the RSI(2)......

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