Monday, May 26, 2014

Market wants to break out 5/26/14

The market wants to breakout, my bones say. It has pushed its head above the sideways range it has been bound by. But I don’t follow what my bones say and without my ICE buy signal on SPY, I will stay out on my 401K and only trade individual stocks like GD, SU, TAN, CL and look towards trading NASDAQ e-mini futures (NQ) using a daily system. That is likely to move a lot more. Even 1 contract of NQ can move $1,000 on a daily basis… and I will only be watching it end of day. The charts do not show any real signs of breakdown yet. But one can make a lot more money on NQ when the markets fall...

I have been reading a book called “Timing the Markets”. I will write about it after I finish reading it. Interesting theories combining the November – April buy stocks and sell in May, along with Presidential election cycles, as we are now in mid-term. Research done by Vakkur. I was surprised to find that we have not had any down years during an election year cycle over many past such events. I will have to do some research on this myself. Combining the two with technicals and loading up sounds very attractive.

SU has now given a down signal and I have an open sell order on limit for my Call options for Tuesday. Today is Monday, memorial day and a holiday. I will buy put options and look to trade the down side on it, although I don’t expect a reversal as it made such a strong mover upwards. But mine is not to question and follow my signals.
See chart on SU below.


Next I have a sell order on GD which I have been trading in and out. Fairly frequent signals and it has done quite well. See chart on GD.



Finally I have a trade active again on RFMD. Just got in. Also see a buy signal on TAN and I will go ahead and place a trade on that as well for market buy tomorrow morning.

I missed taking advantage of the upward momentum from the Indian elections. After Narendra Modi (NAM) was elected, the Indian markets have been on a tear upwards. There is a lot of hope that he will fight the lethargy and old school thinking that had pervaded the previous Government.. 


1 comment:

  1. Rahul very interesting post. ..great call on SU...interesting synopsis on the book you are reading, as well as the note about the happenings in India...keep up the great work.

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