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how to setup 200 day moving averages on think or swim

I added the 50 and 200 Day Moving Averages.

The second picture I sent are my graphs all modified. This was sent in an email I couldn’t post it here. Email me if you want them.

This is a screenshot of the financial indices, notice it is struggling to get over 200 DMA? Not good for overall market.

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www.csquaredtrading.com

Ben Brinneman

                      

http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/3477588

Rehash + Notes of the Great Streaming Video from C2 Trading/Ben Brinneman:
Video/conference was conducted on 12/26/2009 by Ben Brinneman (C2).
With added commentary and analysis by Jim Ditsworth in BLUE
Use limit orders, never market orders.
A Limit Order is a (Buy or Sell) order at the best price.
Market orders can be filled at unusual prices since they are handled by market
makers. In other words, you can get screwed. Limit orders will always be filled at
the best fill price. The market maker cannot hold onto the order and manipulate
the spread for a profit.
Example: Stock is trading at 7.40 and you want to BUY. You can send a BUY limit
order using any price above 7.40. This avoids chasing the price with consecutive
limit orders that don’t fill.
Example: Stock is trading at 7.40 and you want to SELL. If you enter a limit order
at 7.40 it may not fill. But you can type in any price below 7.40 and the order will
execute immediately at the best fill price. By law, the market makers are required
to fill your order at the best price.
So !! IMPORTANT !! If a stock is trading at $12.42 and you want to BUY the
stock, you will place a BUY limit order above the current trading price so that it
will almost certainly fill.
Commentary/analysis (using a little internet research):
Limit orders get better treatment on the New York Stock Exchange than on
Nasdaq. Specialists on the NYSE floor are required to give limit orders priority
over their own trades at the same price. In Nasdaq, where several dealers make
a market in the same stock, market makers must honor only their own customers’
limit orders. That’s an improvement from the early 1990s, when Nasdaq dealers
routinely ignored less-profitable limit orders. Now, when a Nasdaq dealer receives
a limit order better than his own bid or ask price, he must either fill the order or
route it to one of nine electronic markets, such as Instinet, Island, or Archipelago,
for display to other dealers and investors.
***
Understand what will happen when you place a limit order. It can only be executed
at the specified price or better.
For a buy limit order, “better” will mean at or lower than the price you set; for a
sell limit order, it means at or higher than the price you set.
***
(RESTATEMENT OF THE IMPORTANT CONCEPT HERE)
If you’re concerned that the market may move away from your price before your
order is executed, consider placing a buy-limit order that’s slightly higher than
the quoted market price, or a sell-limit order that’s slightly lower. This allows for
a small amount of price movement, while still protecting you from an unexpected
execution price.
Market makers are not allowed to fill orders at a price worse than the market
price, even if your limit order allows for it. Building in a little extra room to ensure
your order is filled will not cause you to overpay—you should still be filled at the
prevailing market price when your order comes to the front of the line.
C2 talked about the DJIA from the 1930s and compared it to now. There could
be some weakness in the DOW that could manifest itself in the next few months.
Be careful going long… Follow the charts. Don’t try to predict the future.
***
(Here’s the Skype Chat during the video. Commentary is interspersed with the
chat.)
anybody watching the video http://www.ustream.tv/channel/learning-how-to-
daytrade
[12/26/2009 10:56:29 AM] rich.blinds: I can hear and see you fine
[12/26/2009 11:01:49 AM] alaska1004: How do you come up with the stocks you
are scanning for the day?
Example: BIDU
Stock is sitting at the lower vwap/bb on the 6month/daily chart
On a daily chart, look for stocks that are bottom/or upper bb
First of all, look for a stock on a long term chart that is either sitting at the upper
BB and upper vwaps; or the lower BB and lower vwaps. If on the long term chart
the stock is hovering over the lower BB and is encountering resistance, then you
can consider going LONG on short term charts when you are bumping up against the
lower BB and/or vwap bands.
If the long term chart of a stock shows the price hovering near the upper BB and/
or vwap lines, and is beginning to encounter some resistance, then you can consider
going SHORT on short term charts when you are bumping up against the upper BB
and/or vwap bands.
Use FINVIZ.com with corresponding tables. See example.
Look for stocks that have a big move on significant volume. Then go and check
the news to see what, if anything, is driving the stock. Look for pullbacks to the
opposite vwap (or just the middle vwap if the stock isn’t trading from band to
band). Do a little internet research on the stock. Is the move warranted by the
news?
You may be able to “catch the move” on news…
Commentary: Open up a new watchlist and put in ALL of the VINWIZ stocks,
gainers, new highs, overbought, unusual vol, earnings before, insider buying,
etc. Examine ALL of these on a 1 year-Daily. Do any of them meet the above
requirements? I.e., are they sitting near an upper BB? Lower BB? Even better,
near both upper VWAP and UPPER BB?
Hopefully you will find a few possibles for additional research.
[12/26/2009 11:02:34 AM] rich.blinds: You talked about the EMA flattening out
when watching for a stocks movement. Is that when it is running up off the middle
bollinger band or the middle VWAP?
Look at RIMM as an example. This is a daily chart. See the gap? This was a
short in 71-72 price range.
See the following two charts but there are better ones below when this question is
addressed again…
Look at the EMA on the 1m and 5m charts and watch to see it leveling off.
(Example RIMM).
Here’s the 1 min chart from RIMM’s open on the GAP
day. EMA (cyan line) is definitely flat or headed downward.
[What and when do you buy? ]
Look for stocks with big moves on DAILY charts that have been taken to an
extreme. You are looking for a pullback. Find a stock that meets the TWS or
VWAP parameters. Then switch to the minute chart and find a good buy point
in the direction that you want to trade. “Trade with the trend.” This means
on longer term charts, if the stock is generally headed higher, you will want to
lean towards long trades instead of short trades. On stocks that are generally
declining, lean towards short trades vs long trades.
Example: BIDU Options Play that C2 made. Waited for the price to settle down
before making the buy. Used 3 day 5 minute chart at the start. Then switched to
the 3 day 1 minute chart for the actual buy decision. When you sell, just watch
the 1 min chart…
“And when it hits the upper vwap, sell and get out…”
[12/26/2009 11:11:58 AM] rich.blinds: So you bounce back between the 1 min amd
5 min?
[12/26/2009 11:13:29 AM] vnp1688: your entry is base on 1 min or 5 min ?
C2 uses lots of charts, including: 1 year daily, 5 month daily, 3 day 5 minute, then
finally when it’s time to buy, he uses the 3-day 1 min.
The bigger time frames allow you to see the overall trend of the stock. Is it
generally bullish or bearish?
Decision to purchase the stock is made on the 5 minute chart… Entry is based on
the 1 min chart.
“On a 5 minute chart, the candles will sit right on top of the ema”
Jim’s note: EMA leveling off is still not entirely clear to me but I’ll take
a look at the 5 min charts in addition to the 1 min charts from now on.
[12/26/2009 11:15:26 AM] rich.blinds: Would you mind discussing stop limits, when
you use them and what distance you place between entry and exit
This is personal preference. You can use hard stops or mental stops. Good trading
using our TWS and VWAP strategies should lead to very few stops actually
happening. And our entry prices should be very good.
For buy trades: stop is 2 or 3 cents below the low of the day; or a “significant
distance” below the lower vwap, or at a $300 stop loss. This occurs after the buy,
after everything has lined up, after the 5-day ema has leveled out,
[12/26/2009 11:18:57 AM] C Squared Trading: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/
learning-how-to-daytrade
[12/26/2009 11:19:03 AM] rich.blinds: So you use the upper VWAP to use to grab
profits when its moving up along with the other indicators moving in the same
direction.
Yes, when it hits the upper vwap, I’m out.
Mike’s rule: 3 tick rule. If it hits the upper vwap and doesn’t move higher in 3
ticks, he’s out.
This is a good rule that will allow the stock to run.
C2 sometimes sells ½ position on the run up to the upper vwap. Seems like a good
idea cuz the stocks don’t always go to the upper vwap!
[12/26/2009 11:22:09 AM] vnp1688: why short MIC now
MIC is riding the upper vwap on the weekly and daily charts and is pretty high on
the minute charts. It also has a high beta so if there is a bad day for the market,
MIC tracks and follows the market but is more volatile so it should go down plenty.
[12/26/2009 11:25:31 AM] vnp1688: can u take a look on ATI weekly chart for
me , yhx
Looks like a short.
[12/26/2009 11:25:57 AM] rich.blinds: Which stocks do you think will have some
movement this week?
AAPL may go to 230. It’s broken out to a new trading range. Rumors of new
tablet reader. But the volume has been key.
[12/26/2009 11:27:47 AM] rich.blinds: Will you buy options or the stock?
[12/26/2009 11:28:24 AM] rich.blinds: AAPL
[12/26/2009 11:29:28 AM] rich.blinds: Jan expiration
Like to buy the options on stocks that are up in the $200, $300 range. For AAPL,
would need for the stock to pull back to the $199, $200 area. Options are tricky.
Buying out of the money stocks can give you better pct return than in the money
stocks.
[12/26/2009 11:33:40 AM] alaska1004: Had a good xmas. I am still in PUDA in my
ira it has had a good run up. do you think I shud sell a portion or let it ride
Not recommending, but would sell at this time. Looks like a stock offering is in the
works.
What will Jan 2010 bring?
Usually don’t care what the market is doing. Look at individual stocks and don’t
try to predict the future. Look for triple whammies, setups, and vwaps. Don’t
focus on overall stock market. But look for individual stocks that are moving.
Discussion of Level II stock screens and manipulation:
Level II screens show the buyers and sellers who are currently in the market. BID
= buyers. ASK = sellers. You can get an idea of the strength of buying or selling
from the level II screen. Another tool that you can use, but you have to learn how
to use it.
Discussion of 2 monitor setup:
On left screen, has 3 level II screens, watchlist, charts in top left, main monitor,
news, account…
[12/26/2009 11:39:12 AM] vnp1688: could u please repeat Rich’s question: You
talked about the EMA flattening out when watching for a stock’s movement. Is
that when it is running up off the middle bollinger band or the middle VWAP?
Timeframes are important. Wanted to buy RIMM and it was tanking from the
70s to 68 or so. On 5 min chart, the EMA was pointing down. On the 1 min chart,
the EMA was pointing down. Playing off the bottom vwap. Watched as the 5
min EMA leveled off… Then switched to the 1 min EMA to look for buy point.
This looks like the time in question. This EMA line (5 day 5 min chart though, not
3 day 5 min which C2 used) is still going down until the 9th candlestick past the last
violation of the vwap. That was 9:45 when it finally leveled off. The decision to
buy RIMM was made from this screen, as long as everything else pans out on the 1
min screen to follow.
On the 1 min chart, the EMA line has leveled off at 8:59 or 9:00.
Watch the EMA on the 3 day 5 min and also the 1 day 1 min chart and stay out of
the position until the 1 day 1 min EMA is level. Don’t try to catch a falling knife!
Look for the candlestick confirmation above the ema. 9:00 candlestock has closed
above the cyan ema here.
This is riskier, but C2 also likes to “buy in” when the stock plunges down deep below
the vwap lines to hopefully get the lowest price, but then he still looks for ema
confirmation (or a quick exit if the stock decides to tank!). This is the difference
between scientific chart buying and art. Recognize the risk that is being taken.
Or play it safe and don’t buy until the confirmation occurs.
Overview of next week:
Light volume. Stay out of stocks that are < 100,000 daily volume. Focus on the
runners and oversold/overbought. Use charting. Let’s look for the runners though
cuz you can make a bunch of $ on them if you can find one.
Secrets to trading:
Minimize the trades. Do 1-2 a week. And/or stick to rules. Don’t shoot in the dark
like a midnight cowboy. Be consistent. Don’t try to make a big buck in one trade.
Be patient and add to your winners:
Remember to cut your losses. Don’t hold onto your dogs and/or your losses.
[12/26/2009 11:50:55 AM] rich.blinds: When you talk about adding to your position
as a price rises, how much of your available trading dollars do you typically use,
to use in long positions that you might hold for a few months versus a few days?
Allocate accordingly. How many shares? 10,000. First lot will be 3,000. As stock
rises, another 3,000 (on a pullback). Finally, on another pullback, another 3,000.
Keep adding 1/3 of a position at a time.
Price target or % target. And then scale out of the position.
Have an overall position in mind before initiating first trade.
[12/26/2009 11:52:58 AM] rich.blinds: It does thanks
[12/26/2009 11:54:25 AM] vnp1688: thx
[12/26/2009 11:54:48 AM] rich.blinds: This has been excellent, thanks for taking
your saturday and time to continue to help out! Later.:)
[12/26/2009 11:55:15 AM] C Squared Trading: no worries! Thanks Ill be on next
week. (dance)
[12/26/2009 11:55:34 AM] alaska1004: thx ben.

                      

If this type of thing does not interest you please disregard and my apologies for sending it.

Ok, so I was looking at some charts tonight on BP and combining that with reading articles. Attached is a chart, and some data that I was going through. If I am crazy for thinking this, please write me back, but basically I am going short (this is a way to make money on a stock for the downside) on BP (British Petroleum) according to 3 things. If I get this right in my account I may soon retire Just kidding, but seriously… ( I would not try this at home)

My 3 reasons

1. Chart on BP looks horrendous. Absolute capitulation.

2. The data posted below.

3. Gut feeling.

My Price Target on the downside is $25.80 for now. and the second sell-off to $20. IF they get the well capped all bets are off.

Please read below. Very Interesting. May be the short of a lifetime besides Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers.
In an exploration plan and environmental impact analysis filed with the federal government in February 2009, BP said it had the capability to handle a “worst-case scenario” at the Deepwater Horizon site, which the document described as a leak of 162,000 barrels per day from an uncontrolled blowout — 6.8 million gallons each day.
Now, I am warning that the amount of oil still in the reservoir might be much bigger than BP is admitting.

Specifically, BP claims that there are 50 million barrels worth of oil in the reservoir underneath the leaking spill site.

But the Guardian noted Friday:

But the 50m figure cited by Hayward took some industry insiders by surprise. There have been reports the reservoir held up to 500m barrels – the figure quoted by Hayward’s questioner, Joe Barton, a Republican from Texas.

“I would assume that 500m barrels would be a more likely estimate,” said Tadeusz Patzek, the chairman of the department of petroleum and geosystems engineering at the University of Texas at Austin. “I don’t think you would be going after a 50mbarrel reservoir so quickly. This is just simply not enough oil to go after.”
Indeed, Wolf Blitzer said:

One — one expert said to me — and I don’t know if this is overblown or not — that they’re still really concerned about the structural base of this whole operation, if the rocks get moved, this thing could really explode and they’re sitting, what, on — on a billionpotential barrels of oil at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico.
Bloomberg notes:

The ruptured well may hold as much as 1 billion barrels, the Times reported, citing Rick Mueller, an analyst at Energy Security Analysis in Massachusetts.
Oil industry expert Matthew Simmons also puts the number above one billion barrels (see thisBloomberg interview, for example, where he says that – unless stopped – 120,000 barrels a day will leak for 25-30 years; that adds up to 1,095,000,000 to 1,314,000,000 barrels).

And Rob Kall claims that a source inside BP tells him:

Size of reservoir – estimated by BP and its partner, Andarko to be between 2.5B and 10Bbbl. (that’s 100,000,000,000 gallons and 400,000,000,000 gallons).
Yes – all of those numbers are BILLIONS.
Given that BP’s nearby Tiber and Kaskida wells each contain at least 3 billion barrels of oil (see this,this, this and this), estimates of more than a billion barrels for the leaking Macondo reservoir are not unreasonable.

Basically if this well blew up and billions of oil leaked into the ocean it would be the worst thing to ever happen to BP and in the world as far as manmade disasters go.

I used to work as a CDO Bond Trader and here is some more data as far as counterparties that would also blow up. RIG, APC and several credit facilities that banks are holding for this company.

BP’s Bankruptcy Would Impair 117 (18% Of Total) Collateralized Synthetic Obligations, Lead To Pervasive Losses

Even as increasingly desperate falling knife catchers try to convince someone, anyone to buy up some or all of their shares of BP stock, which is certainly on its way to a guaranteed doubling, tripling or more, the real investing community is ever more carefully looking at the worst case, and its implications. Said implications would be vast, and in addition to wiping out billions in capital from BPs direct counterparties which are already limiting their BP exposure, a topic we touched upon briefly previously, would also impair indirect holders of pre-packaged securitized BP exposure. Today Moody’s provides an analysis of which CSOs (just like CDOs but packed purely with synthetic products – think Goldman’s Abacus) would be impaired should BP go bankrupt. The rating agency does not stop there, and also analyzes what a bankruptcy of BP peers Halliburton, Anadarko Petroleum, Transocean Inc., and Cameron International would look like, and who would be wiped out. Below are the results, which upon further analysis will likely indicate total loss potential well beyond BP’s total outstanding debt exposure.

As the recent civil case involving Goldman and the Abacus (and soon potentially others) CDO showed, collateralized products have a special place in the heart of the regulators, due to their avalanche quality of blowing up seemingly completely unrelated entities, which share merely the stupidity of having invested in the same entity. BP, as a company with over $20 billion in debt outstanding, has over the years, seen many of its CDS packaged and repackaged in the form of many and increasingly more complex CSOs. Last week’s blow out in BP spreads, in which the 1 Year CDS surged beyond 1,000 bps, has got many people concerned: the least of which are counterparties that are on the other side of the short risk trade. Others include investors in just such CSOs, and other companies whose CDS comprises various tranches in these synthetic obligations, as forced liquidations in any given CSO would result in the blow out spreads in even perfectly solvent companies who just have the displeasure of being packaged in one and the same CSO.

Moody’s summarizes:

In the event of BP’s restructuring or bankruptcy, CSO transactions referencing BP or its affected subsidiaries may experience what is called a “credit event.” If the credit event occurs, the CSO transactions will have to meet their payment obligations to the protection buyers, which will result in the loss of subordination to the rated CSO tranches. In cases where the subordination is no longer available, CSO investors will incur the loss.
The rater elaborates:

Last week, credit default swap (CDS) spreads on BP plc widened to all-time highs, reflecting the mounting costs of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill and the ensuing rating actions. BP’s credit deterioration is in turn a credit negative for collateralized synthetic obligation (CSO) transactions that reference BP or the companies involved in the Gulf incident.

Rising Costs of the Spill. After almost two months of unsuccessful attempts to stop the worst oil spill in history, BP is potentially facing billions in containment, clean-up, and litigation costs. It is unclear what these expenses will ultimately amount to over the coming years, as the assessment of the damage is just beginning.

BP Downgraded, CDS Spreads Widen. Our recent downgrade and placement on watch for further possible downgrade of BP and its guaranteed subsidiaries reflects intensified risk that the extended oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico will significantly siphon the company’s free cash flows. Spreads on BP’s credit default swaps rose as much as 124.5 basis points (bp) in one day to a record 630.6 bp as of 16 June 2010. BP’s debt maturing next year recently traded at distressed levels, and there is a growing concern among credit investors over a scenario where BP plc might default.
Enjoy your evening,

www.csquaredtrading,com

Regards,

Ben Brinneman

                      

See our new articles coming shortly about the market update for today.

Regards,

Ben Brinneman
ben4trials@gmail.com
Contact me with any questions.

                      

The stock plunged on no news this morning so we purchased at below the vwap prices and added to the position.

The market provides oppurtunities everyday to earn an income. I will tell you tho it is hard to watch a position go down and down. So this is where rules come from.

These guidelines, or more like rules, are taped right on the wall next to my computer when I trade. I follow these rules, I try not to break them, or I lose money. That simple. Compiled over the years of trading, and order no importance. I follow them all. Your welcome.
1) NO TRADING ONCE THE DAYS LOSSES EXCEED XXXX.XX. (Insert your dollar amout) I find myself, when a get a loss over 5,000 dollars, I chase that loss, and ending up LOSING more money than the originial trade. Trading frustrated is no way to trade.
2) DO NOT OVERTRADE. Simply mathematics…the more high frequent trades I make, the more I get out of control, the more long term profits I end up losing.
3) NO TRADING THE SAME STOCK AFTER TAKING A LOSS THAT IN THE STOCK ALREADY THAT DAY. Using YRCW short example I did last week, shorted 10k at 5.17, stopped out 5.42, lost 2.5k. I Honestly think this stock is an absolute pig, and wanted to reshort it badly, but I did not due to my rule, and YRCW ended up going over 6 that day.
4) THE MORE STUBBORN YOU ARE, THE MORE YOU WILL LOSE. THE STOCK MARKET IS ALWAYS RIGHT.
5) NO TRADING OF PINK SHEETS OR .OTCBB STOCKS. I bring this up because everyone says “I missed VRMLQ.PK run. Well, for every VRMLQ.PK run, I have seen thousands, and I mean thousands of pink sheet or .otcbb stocks scams.
6) ALWAYS SET YEARLY AND MONTHLY TRADING GOALS, AND NEVER LOOK AT A DAILY CHANGES IN ACCOUNT. No one will be right everyday, impossible. But over time, months, year, years, you will see what your true success rate is. This is most important, there will ALWAYS BE BAD TRADES. I guarantee it.
7) DON’T CHASE STOCKS JUST TO DO A TRADE. AVOID BOREDOM TRADES. IF NO TRADE IS THERE, PASS, AND SOMETIMES DON’T TRADE ANY STOCKS AT ALL.
TRY TO GET IN BEFORE THE HEADLINES INSTEAD OF BUYING THE HEADLINES. Market homework absolutely required to be a success.
9) NEVER, EVER TRADE OVERNIGHT/EARNING PLAYS ON MARGIN. No swing long or swing short trades on margin. Shorting itself requries margin, but if I short long term it’s in small size compared to account balance. I NEVER hold overnight on margin, EVER, no exceptions.
10) SHRUG OFF ALL LOSSES IF RULES ARE FOLLOWED. It’s the trades when rules are broken that bother me, which is rare. If rules are followed, I learn from the loss, but move quickly to the next opportunity.

These are from John Welsh

                      

If you haven’t subscribed to the stock alerts or purchased the course I can tell you that you are truly missing out… however I do want to say that all my subscribers love that fact that I am only 26 years old and am trading with a leveraged amount of right near $600,000. This is to tell you about me go to www.covestor.com and search for csquaredtrading and you will find my verified track record and profile!

One of my buy and hold accounts are going to be posted here in a screenshot just to show you what I am working with.

A million-dollar-banker buddy of mine used to purchase stocks he liked at whatever price. Now he calls me to verify a good entry point on a company that he loves! The strategy is named the Triple-Whammy Trading Technique. And for an extra $100 (which you will make all of that back in the next few days) is a course that we had a hedge fund help us develop.

Once you have downloaded the package and read through the strategy and the course, then I will setup a personal phone call with you (never heard of in this industry) either on SKYPE or landline and set up your charts all for free, the charts are free as well so if you are paying I will show you how to get free charting that will blow your mind.

The goal this year is to take a $5000 account to $100,000. It is going to be difficult but can be done! To be on the same page this will obviously be posted for members, but I hate to say that others can’t watch… Over the next few days I will be emailing trades that are profitable and it may take you a while to get used to the trading style. Some of my trades can be super fast scalps, daytrades, or swingtrades. There is also the long term investments that I am in.

Here is a good market overview, something to titillate your senses and tingle your emotions!

The question that runs through many Traders, Investors, and Fund Managers minds lately has been “Where is the market going”? The reason for ever-ones curiosity is to have a better sense of what to do with their current investments or sideline cash. If you are unsure about what to do, cash is sure. Meanwhile all the Super-Stars, Celebrities, Money-Managers, and Hedge Fund Managers are sitting around counting their shillings while the little guys suffer and feel they have missed the rally or they didn’t seize a certain opportunity at some point in the last six to eight months. I would like to point out a few items via charting examples in order to have a better sense of where the market will potentially head. Then I will delve into some simple fundamental statements about the economy. Mark Twain said that the markets don’t repeat themselves but that they rhyme. I want to demonstrate that by taking us way back to the great depression and doing a comparison/contrast of what the charts looked like in that time period and what they look like today that this will give us a good indication of what the markets may do starting in January.

The areas that are circled are the comparisons, see how they match each other in a similar way. One main difference is that the plunging of our sell-off didn’t start until about one year into the bear market whereas in the Great Crash it happened almost overnight. Either way we have declined about the same percentage amount. If the rest plays out to match the 1930’s we could see the Dow 2000’s. I hope that never happens but the reality is that we are in a really bad economy not just in the United States but globally speaking! This makes the market a traders market and a great place to learn to trade and profit from the volatility.

Like any sports star that took years to figure out how to bat the ball, make a 3 point shot, or kick a field goal, trading and investing also takes a hundreds of hours of practice. The sports industry has produced a number of successful traders and investors. To name one, Pete Najarian, the Pit Boss, is ranked one of the top 100 traders by Trader Monthly magazine, is co-founder of optionMONSTER.com, a news and information site for options traders. Following a football career that included several seasons with the NFL’s Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Minnesota Vikings, Najarian took up options trading in 1992 joining his brother, Jon ‘DRJ’ Najarian, at Mercury Trading, a market-making firm at the Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE). Two years later, he assumed responsibility for Mercury’s risk and arbitrage and later led its entry onto the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE). (quoted from http://www.cnbc.com/id/18945714)

There are others that failed at the game. Lenny Dykstra being one of them. Dykstra played for the New York Mets during the late 1980s before playing for the Philadelphia Phillies during the early 1990s. He threw and batted left-handed and played primarily as a leadoff hitter. (quoted from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenny_Dykstra) In August 2009, Dykstra was living out of his car and in hotel lobbies. He owes more than $30 million to investors of which he lost all their money in the market crash of 2008 and beginning of 2009.

One strategy that is used by traders to avoid catastrophe in unknown waters is one that I will describe below. This is not a majeur force strategy just a way to earn income in the markets while being indecisive about going all in with your sideline cash and investing for the long haul. Until all this mess with the economy blows over , you will want to wait for big-sell-offs of various equities especially in the over-bought emerging markets such as China. Currently there has been a large sell-off in Chinese ADR’s listed on the american markets and they have presented some good buying opportunites fundamentally (numbers) and technically (charts) speaking.

In my strategy that I sell which works extremely well in this market, you will learn several items that you have never seen before.

These companies that I have researched, traded, and invested in have been outperforming the market on a day-to-day basis. Even when the U.S. markets are down, my account will remain flat or even go up because of the resilience of these companies. Many of these equities have a “low float” (a low number of shares outstanding), precluding that whenever a flood of buying occurs, the stock soars or vice versa the stock tanks on selling, a lot faster than an equity with a large number of shares outstanding, such as existing U.S. companies that are listed.

Value-Growth Chinese companies are relatively undiscovered, and once investors realize what potential future growth they have, they will be drooling at their low PEs and beautiful fundamentals and piling in. I would be cautiously optimistic allocating only 35% of my portfolio in China.

I have a dynamic watch list, 13 trading rules, and a training video that I give out for free at www.csquaredtrading.com, but the most important part is the strategy that I have developed with a partner over the last ten years in order to trade in and out of these volatile and uncertain markets accurately. Without this, you fellow trader and investor, are merely shooting in the dark like a midnight cowboy as you trade. Even if you are investing, this will help you create a margin of safety on your purchases. This is where a sports fanatic can relate as it ties in to having an edge in what you do. Has somebody ever covered a topic or a problem and never handed out a possible solution? Well I have outlined just a few things in my course to keep in mind when purchasing or selling a stock.

Hope you have a great rest of the weekend! And I hope to see some of you get the course, study it, and be prepped and ready for Monday!

Until next time;

HAPPY TRADING!

the C² Trading Team

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Hope you are having a good trading day!

Enjoy your RINO gains today from the scalps we did the SKYPE room.

Regards

Ben Brinneman

                      

CYCC has raked us in at least a thousand each while we have traded it.

RINO scalp this morning from subscribers brought in $800 and now we are waiting for NEP to ripen. It continues to move up and up and up

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(1) We scan the entire Stock Market, all day every day, seeking stocks which are setting up to make a BIG MOVE in their stock prices. When we find such a stock, we immediately ALERT YOU; and later, when it’s time to sell the stock and take the big profits, WE ALERT YOU AGAIN.

For example, in the morning of May 27, for $540.00 you could have bought 300 shares of the stock of a company called Oculus Innovative Sciences (stock symbol: OCLS), and sold those same 300 shares just 24 hours later for $1725.00 — for a quick easy profit of $1185.00.

Another example: The same morning, May 27, for $904.00 you could have bought 800 shares of the stock of a company called Angiotech Pharmaceuticals (stock symbol: ANPI), and sold those same 800 shares the very next morning for $2064.00 — a quick easy profit of $1160.00.

Almost every single day that the Stock Market is open, there are stocks that make BIG MOVEs like this with their stock-prices — and it’s OUR JOB to find these stocks and ALERT YOU, so you can enjoy huge, quick, easy profits.

(2) It is also our job to teach YOU how to BUY a stock when the price is LOW, then SELL the stock when the price is HIGH. It’s EASY to learn (if you have an excellent teacher); and then you will be able to do it over-and-over again, earning HUGE profits whenever you want to, like this (see the stock chart below): OH you cant see it, sign up for our email list!

Regards,

Ben Brinneman

                      

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Trading it with our stock market system mixed with an econ report should bring some nice movement into this stock…

Regards,

Ben