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Swing Trading Update: Buy Signals Everywhere


Taking a quick break from my “vacation” to update you guys on the setups we’ve been trading over at Simpler! With a focus on our buy signals, let’s take a look at some of the cleaner trends in the market.

(p.s. sorry for the stuffy voice; allergies)

Swing Trading Watch List: XLE, GLD, LMT, MO


While we wait for pullbacks in the indexes and FANG stocks, here’s a few of my favorite setups and trends “off the beaten path”. Do you have any setups you think I should be keeping an eye on?? Let me know in the comments below.

Options Trading Basics: How to Read the Tape (Time & Sales, Level 2)


What is reading the tape?

Reading the tape is a way to look at the order flow of the stock market. Because of this, you can think of it as looking “under the hood” of the market.

The tape is what creates charts, candles, and support/resistance. There are two parts of tape reading: Time & Sales and Level 2.

In the video above, we’ll discuss how to use the tape in our options trading practice to get an edge.

Options Trading Mid-Week Update: Big Clouds in Play


 

After the market bottomed this week and hit a large level of support, the market popped and is heading toward resistance. The biggest thing we want to focus on is the daily Ichimoku Cloud. The S&P 500 (/ES) broke through the bottom of the daily Cloud and is now approaching the flat top line. We’ll review this major inflection point along with other major levels that could help us determine where the market is heading next.

Stay Focused!