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08/15 – ETF Trading – Loss on XLE, DIG

Our etf exit signal finally triggered for this agonizing trade in XLE. Unfortunately we took a loss in the trade – 10.23%. The leveraged etf trade in DIG yielded a loss of 19.82%.

This is our first loss since May, but has been, by far, the worst trade made in the 2+ years of making trades. Our etf trading is “high probability trading” – not “guaranteed trading.” But it’s still hard to take a loss – emotionally as well as financially. Larry Connors has a great article about dealing with losses.

I have no new etf trading opportunities to suggest today. We’ll wait for a broader market trend to offer new etf trading opportunities.

Learn more about the etf trading strategies we use here. They’re in the book by Larry Connors: High Probability ETF Trading. His etf trading strategies have just a few simple rules and you’ll be able to back-test and apply the strategies to the next trading day. Get your copy today and be ready for the next trading session.

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.

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• 10/14 - ETF Trading - USO, SCO For our short trade, USO closed lower yesterday, and triggered our 5 day moving average signal for a gain of 1.77% - all in less than a week. The inverse trade in SCO yielded a gain of 3.28%. Updated charts are posted below. If you're waiting for the RSI 2......
• ETF Trading - A Look at QQQQ No stock trades here today.  We're waiting on a pullback in oil and the effect on USO and SCO.  See my post from yesterday. Just when you think a stock looks overbought, it goes higher still.  QQQQ defies logic.  And who says markets aren't a reflection of emotion?! Trades are......
• 08/10 - ETF Trading - XLE, DIG Yesterday I mentioned that even the best of us can't entirely remove human emotion from trading. But letting your emotions control you will lead to disaster. In a 3-part series, Larry Connors offers 9 Tips to Trading Without Emotion. Take a look - it's certainly appropriate for a little self-analysis......

• Lessons in Personal Finance The past few years have been especially tumultuous for many people as far as personal finance is concerned. There are a number of lessons that can be gleaned from this, and if you can take these lessons away from the past few years of losses, you may be able to......
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08/12 – ETF Trading – XLE, DIG

XLE closed higher yesterday, triggering one of our exit signals.

Our etf exit signals are triggered when the etf price is greater than it’s 5 day moving average, or – for a potentially larger gain (or smaller loss) – when the RSI 2 is greater than 70. We’re using the latter.

Follow the signals for XLE when trading DIG. Updated charts are posted below. All trades are at the market close. Please trade responsibly!

Join me everyday to follow these etf trading signals. All of the signals and strategies I use for etf trading are found in the book by Larry Connors: High Probability ETF Trading. His etf trading strategies have only a few rules and you’ll be able to back-test and apply the strategies to the next trading day. With easy to follow trading strategies, clear explanations, and years of tested results, there is no better place to start finding new trading edges than in High Probability ETF Trading. Get your copy today and be ready for the next trading session.

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.

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Can’t make a trade? Let Warren Buffett manage your portfolio – AlphaClone

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• 05/26 - ETF Trading - IWM, UWM IWM closed higher yesterday, but not enough to trigger our etf exit signals. Take a second and final trading position should IWM close lower than our entry price and the RSI 2 falls below 6. Otherwise, our exit signals are triggered when the closing price for IWM is higher than......
• 08/05 - ETF Trading - XLE, DIG Wow - what a sell-off yesterday. We're patiently waiting for our etf exit signals to trigger. XLE closed strongly lower yesterday. XLE is severely over sold and is due for a correction - notice that the RSI 2 is less than 1! You might ask why we don't have a......
• 08/17 - ETF Trading - No Trades Today The broader market moved just a bit lower yesterday and remains oversold (see the updated chart for SPY below - notice the low RSI(2) reading). And since the broader market is below its 200 day moving average, we'll patiently wait for a stock market rebound to trigger new short trading......

• Successful Investing Tips and Techniques The true, most basic motivation behind investing is to grow our investment. People who have invested before will take their time, looking at the differing companies and the market, trying to predict how a stock will do in a year or two. Those investors whom are without the experience to......
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• The Pros and Cons of Investing in ETFs In last decade, specialty ETFs (Exchange Traded Funds) are probably the hottest thing to hit Wall Street since the rise of the discount brokers in the mid 1990s. Initially, ETFs were not very popular because they only tracked the performance of a few stock market indices. However, in today's investing......

08/11 – ETF Trading – XLE, DIG

We continue to wait for our etf exit signals to trigger. XLE closed a bit lower yesterday – we’re waiting for it to move higher.

Our etf exit signals are triggered when the etf price is greater than it’s 5 day moving average, or – for a potentially larger gain (or smaller loss) – when the RSI 2 is greater than 70. We’ll be using the latter.

Follow the signals for XLE when trading DIG. Updated charts are posted below. All trades are at the market close. Please trade responsibly!

Join me everyday to follow these etf trading signals. All of the signals and strategies I use for etf trading are found in the book by Larry Connors: High Probability ETF Trading. His etf trading strategies have only a few rules and you’ll be able to back-test and apply the strategies to the next trading day. With easy to follow trading strategies, clear explanations, and years of tested results, there is no better place to start finding new trading edges than in High Probability ETF Trading. Get your copy today and be ready for the next trading session.

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.

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Can’t make a trade? Let Warren Buffett manage your portfolio – AlphaClone

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• 12/1 - ETF Trading - No Trades Today Good morning. Our entry signals for FXI, IWM, and UWM did not trigger as these etfs moved up in price at the market close yesterday. We'll wait for a stock market pull-back to trigger some new entry signals. While we're waiting for the next set of trading signals, give yourself......
• 01/07 - ETF Trading - Why Trade ETFs? No trades today. The broader market remains overbought - see the high RSI(2) value on the chart for SPY below. Some of the sector indices are starting to turn over. However, we'll wait for a stock market pull-back to trigger our etf trading signals. Why trade etfs? John Nyaradi, in......
• 11/09 - ETF Trading - XLF, SKF XLF closed lower yesterday, but not enough to trigger our exit signals. Updated charts are posted below. To review, we have a short trade in XLF in progress. Our exit signals for the trade are triggered when the etf price is less than it's MA(5), or - for a potentially......

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08/10 – ETF Trading – XLE, DIG

Yesterday I mentioned that even the best of us can’t entirely remove human emotion from trading. But letting your emotions control you will lead to disaster. In a 3-part series, Larry Connors offers 9 Tips to Trading Without Emotion. Take a look – it’s certainly appropriate for a little self-analysis when trading in turbulent markets.

We’ll continue to wait for our etf exit signals to trigger. XLE closed higher yesterday, but not enough to trigger our exit signals.

Our etf exit signals are triggered when the etf price is greater than it’s 5 day moving average, or – for a potentially larger gain (or smaller loss) – when the RSI 2 is greater than 70. We’ll be using the latter.

Follow the signals for XLE when trading DIG. Updated charts are posted below. All trades are at the market close. Please trade responsibly!

Join me everyday to follow these etf trading signals. All of the signals and strategies I use for etf trading are found in the book by Larry Connors: High Probability ETF Trading. His etf trading strategies have only a few rules and you’ll be able to back-test and apply the strategies to the next trading day. With easy to follow trading strategies, clear explanations, and years of tested results, there is no better place to start finding new trading edges than in High Probability ETF Trading. Get your copy today and be ready for the next trading session.

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.

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Can’t make a trade? Let Warren Buffett manage your portfolio – AlphaClone

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• 08/02 - ETF Trading - No Trades Today Glad to be back from vacation. Let's get back to etf trading. The broader market looks to be a bit oversold (see the updated chart for SPY below - notice the low RSI(2) reading). And since the broader market is below its 200 day moving average, we'll patiently wait for......
• 07/01 - ETF Trading - No Trades Today Late-day selling pushed the market lower yesterday. The broader market remains oversold (see the updated chart for SPY below - notice the low RSI(2) reading). And since the broader market is below its 200 day moving average, we'll patiently wait for a stock market rebound to trigger some new etf......
• 06/29 - ETF Trading - No Trades Today Our entry signals for shorting USO yesterday did not trigger. As such, we did not take the trade. The broader market is oversold (see the updated chart for SPY below - notice the low RSI(2) reading). And since the broader market is below its 200 day moving average, we'll patiently......

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08/09 – ETF Trading – XLE, DIG

Wow – yet another sell-off yesterday. If you bailed on the trade, I don’t blame you. I don’t think you can ever totally remove human emotion from a trade even when you’re armed with etf trading strategies that have years of positive market proof. A market crash is just plain sickening if you’re on the wrong side of the trade.

Take another look at the article by Larry Connors about protective stops. Years ago, he wrote a report explaining why trading stops can actually hurt your trading returns. You can read more about this here.

With that in mind, we’ll continue to wait for our etf exit signals to trigger. XLE closed strongly lower yesterday. XLE is still severely over sold and is due for a correction – notice that the RSI 2 is still less than 1!

So, our etf exit signals are triggered when the etf price is greater than it’s 5 day moving average, or – for a potentially larger gain (or smaller loss) – when the RSI 2 is greater than 70. We’ll be using the latter. Let’s get out of this trade.

Follow the signals for XLE when trading DIG. Updated charts are posted below. All trades are at the market close. Please trade responsibly!

Join me everyday to follow these etf trading signals. All of the signals and strategies I use for etf trading are found in the book by Larry Connors: High Probability ETF Trading. His etf trading strategies have only a few rules and you’ll be able to back-test and apply the strategies to the next trading day. With easy to follow trading strategies, clear explanations, and years of tested results, there is no better place to start finding new trading edges than in High Probability ETF Trading. Get your copy today and be ready for the next trading session.

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.

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Can’t make a trade? Let Warren Buffett manage your portfolio – AlphaClone

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• 01/10 - ETF Trading - SLV, AGQ Good morning. SLV closed lower on Friday and you took your third and final position in the etf trade. Likewise for the leveraged etf trade in AGQ. Now, we'll just wait for our exit signals to trigger. Our etf exit signals are triggered when the etf price is greater than......
• 03/03 - ETF Trading - FXI, FXP Good morning. FXI moved higher yesterday and you took your second short position in the etf trade. Take your third short position should FXI close higher today. Otherwise, our exit signals are triggered when the etf price closes lower than it's MA(5), or - for a potentially larger gain -......
• 08/05 - ETF Trading - XLE, DIG Wow - what a sell-off yesterday. We're patiently waiting for our etf exit signals to trigger. XLE closed strongly lower yesterday. XLE is severely over sold and is due for a correction - notice that the RSI 2 is less than 1! You might ask why we don't have a......

• Trading the Wrong Market If you know the pitfalls of trading, you can easily avoid them. Small mistakes are inevitable, such as entering the wrong stock symbol or incorrectly setting a buy level. But these are forgivable, and, with luck, even profitable. What you have to avoid, however, are the mistakes due to......
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