How to find stocks with earnings breakout in last one month
Thursday, July 09, 2009
Wednesday, July 08, 2009
Earnings season is when new growth stocks come to the attention of the market
Tuesday, July 07, 2009
How to profit from earnings season
- Context of the earnings. Is this a first major earnings acceleration.
- What caused this acceleration. Is it one time or likely to persist.
- Does this earnings trend represent a structural change in the industry or the position of this company.
- Is this surprise reflected in current price level.
(like say 100% plus kind of) moves in next 1 to2 months post an earnings will have huge volume surge, typically of 10 times or more compared to average volume. The volume on earnings day might be the highest volume in the history of the stock or multi year high volume.
- Stock with no analyst coverage
- Stock with analyst coverage
- 100% plus EPS+100% plus sales+ first or second earnings acceleration+float below 25 million+prior neglect+no analyst coverage. Best combination
- 40% plus EPS+ IPO of less than a year. Second best combination.
- 100% plus earnings surprise+below 100 million float+ one month price growth below 5%+first earnings surprise. Third best combination.
- Retailer+price within 25% of 52 week low+earnings surprise of 25% plus+float below 100 million. Fourth best combination.
How To Trade Earnings
How to trade earnings Part2
How to trade earnings Part3
Earnings and Bulkowski
Improving odds in earnings breakout
Earnings Season- Time to be very careful...
Earnings and Dan Zanger
Earning Surprise System for $1495
Trading Earnings Breakouts
Earnings Acceleration- Long Term Impact
Trading Earnings Breakout -Part1
Trading Earnings Breakouts -Part2
Trading Earnings Breakouts -Part3
Monday, July 06, 2009
The earnings season starts
This week will officially kick off the earnings season. Around 18 companies are confirmed to release earnings this week. Alcoa , a component of S&P 500 will be the company in focus as it kicks off earnings season on Wednesday.
How To Trade Earnings
How to trade earnings Part2
How to trade earnings Part3
Earnings and Bulkowski
Improving odds in earnings breakout
Earnings Season- Time to be very careful...
Earnings and Dan Zanger
Earning Surprise System for $1495
Trading Earnings Breakouts
Earnings Acceleration- Long Term Impact
Trading Earnings Breakout -Part1
Trading Earnings Breakouts -Part2
Trading Earnings Breakouts -Part3
Thursday, July 02, 2009
Light volume day likely
Market has been unable to make much progress in weeks now.
It is trading in a narrow range. While IBD kind stocks are having b/0, the follow through is poor. We will likely have very low volume day today . So it is better to start holiday early.
Wednesday, July 01, 2009
The culture of conspiracy
Conspiratorial culture communicates the idea that nothing just happens by accident: somebody is at fault. Fantasies about international terrorist networks, paedophile rings, corporate conspiracies to fool people about an impending environmental disaster and neo-conservative cabals compete with one another to gain public attention. Virtually every misdeed, it seems, is the outcome of a carefully worked-out plot. Conspiratorial culture helps fuel suspicion and mistrust towards public life. It displaces critical engagement with society in favour of a destructive search for the hidden agenda. It distracts from any clarification of genuine differences and helps turn public life into a continuous crusade to unmask the perpetrators of malevolent deeds. The media fuel this attitude by frequently arguing that what is important is not what public figures say but what theirreal agenda is. The media incite the public to look for hidden motives; that normalisation of suspicion and mistrust is the key accomplishment of today’s conspiratorial culture.The rise of conspiratorial thinking expresses the loss of causality and meaning in the contemporary world. History demonstrates that nothing is more frightening than when a community lacks a system of meaning through which it can understand the problems it confronts. In such circumstances, people feel powerless and confused and are sometimes drawn towards a simplistic version of events where everything is black and white or good and evil. What is truly disturbing about the contemporary era is that it is not only the frightened and dispossessed who have internalised this cultural narrative, but also significant sections of mainstream society. Who needs The Protocols or other elaborate conspiracy theories when contemporary culture continually incites people to fear invisible forces? What is needed is not so much the debunking of these fantasies, but the elaboration of positive, future-oriented ideals that help people to understand things and take control of their lives. It is all too easy to condemn the simplistic meanderings of marginalised sects; it is far more difficult to question mainstream prejudices about hidden agendas and to overcome our own predilection to gain meaning through blaming.
Tuesday, June 30, 2009
IPO's in last five days
Slowly this market is reviving. There are more IPO in pipeline for next month.
Stocks up 50% in a month
Monday, June 29, 2009
Chinese Stocks continue to offer opportunities
The hundred year old art of swing trading Part5
Last week we looked at the basic philosophy behind swing trading . In that post we also looked at some of the books on swing trading. In next series of posts we will look at some of the details of method discussed in these books. We will start with Dave Landry. The basic idea behind all the Dave Landry set ups is "pullback" in a strong thrust. The objective is to capture the thrust after the pullback. The method works only in stocks with momentum.
Friday, June 26, 2009
The hundred year old art of swing trading Part4
Basic building blocks for Dave Landry's Persistent Pullbacks will be :
Scan for 20 day persistence.
One way to do this is using our relative linearity or fractal efficiency scan. The Relative Linearity or Fractal Efficiency scan in Telechart can be done as:
(C - C20) / (ABS(C - C1) + ABS(C1 - C2) + ABS(C2 - C3) + ABS(C3 - C4) + ABS(C4 - C5) + ABS(C5 - C6) + ABS(C6 - C7) + ABS(C7 - C8) + ABS(C8 - C9) + ABS(C9 - C10) + ABS(C10 - C11) + ABS(C11 - C12) + ABS(C12 - C13) + ABS(C13 - C14) + ABS(C14 - C15) + ABS(C15 - C16) + ABS(C16 - C17) + ABS(C17 - C18) + ABS(C18 - C19) + ABS(C19 - C20))
Using above scan you can pick stocks with greater than +0.30 readings. They tend to have smoother trends.
Scan for 20 day persistence.
Or another way is by defining persistence as ability of stock to make say a new high every 3 or 4 days. A scan for that would be , if using 4 days:
Stock should be up 10 points in 20 days prior to pullback, one of the ways to do this is:
Some liquidity condition to eliminate low volume stocks:
This is just one of the ways to translate it in to Telechart.
Thursday, June 25, 2009
The hundred year old art of swing trading Part3
Sometime back we looked at the basic philosophy behind swing trading . In that post we also looked at some of the books on swing trading. In next series of posts we will look at some of the details of method discussed in these books. We will start with Dave Landry Dave Landry's Persistent Pullbacks
Wednesday, June 24, 2009
The hundred year old art of swing trading Part2
Sometime back we looked at the basic philosophy behind swing trading . In that post we also looked at some of the books on swing trading. In next series of posts we will look at some of the details of method discussed in these books. We will start with Dave Landry
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
Buyers strike
Monday, June 22, 2009
Market in pullback mode after big rally
Market Monitor Market in pullback mode
after a
big three month rally Type Indicator Value Comments Daily # of Stocks Up >4% on high volume 318 A positive day. Need to see 500 plus
day to be aggressively bullishDaily # of stocks down >4% on high volume 136 Primary # of stocks up >25% in a quarter 2542 Primary # of stocks down >25% in a quarter 437 no major damage to breadth so far Secondary #of stocks up >50% in a month 20 Secondary #of stocks down >50% in a month 2 Secondary #of stocks up >25% in a month 154 Secondary #of stocks down >25% in a month 24 not climbing fast indicates sideways move Not much opportunity for shorting. Primary fast MM 34/13 + 1828 This ratio will be the first to indicate
breadth has turned negative.Primary Fast MM 34/13 - 1272
Friday, June 19, 2009
How to find stocks likely to make 50% plus move
The key to finding stock with potential for explosive move is to find stock with explosive earnings. Some of the stocks with explosive earnings have now started to breakout and some have already made big moves of 40% to 50% in a quarter. What really is explosive earnings. On Members site we are looking at series past examples and trades of past explosive moves and earnings behind them. Two stocks with such explosive earnings we discussed were NTRI and CROX. Nutrisystem has been around in the market since 2000.Till 2005 no one cared about it. It was a neglected stock. In 2003 new management took over. The new line of food introduced in 2004 was what kicked off the earnings. Crocs is often cited by shorts and critics of growth investing as an ideal example of what is wrong with hot momentum stocks. But what they don't understand is that if a growth stock is bought at right level, you can make incredible amount of money. One of the ways to find such stocks is to run a scan in IBD scanner with following conditions:year eps sales low
pricehigh
price2002 0.08 28 1 1 2003 0.03 23 1 2 2004 0.03 38 1 4 2005 0.59 210 2 44 2006 2.30 565 32 76 2007 3.00 776 20 74 2008 1.75 687 10 30
Article: Pre Market movers
In my studies of historical EP's, i believe that nothing quite has the potential and tradability of a hot consumer discretionary stock particularly when the expansion of that product is mostly a matter of distribution (as opposed to opening physical stores). If the story gains traction then the market opportunity factor can be given a lot of value and that can lead to an incredible move in the stock. They trade at increidble PE's sometimes because it is not seen as a product cycle, it is secular and long lasting. Something like HANS is the ideal example of a success story here. Very simple high margin product, easy to mass produce, with a huge market opportunity. The stock can trade ahead of YEARS of EPS growth instead of just a few good quarters of a product cycle situation.
I always take very seriously anything in consumer discretionary, i have a natural inclination to "like" GMCR's story because i see the similarities to HANS, NTRI, etc. Even if its a CROX it wouldn't be bad, CROX had a very solid EP in '07 that led to a 6 month rally. It turned out bad but it had a great rally on 2 data points (2 EPS reports), the 3rd killed it obviously. Just look at how CROX's rally was framed within the EPS reports and you will see that it was very tradable and not as risky as it looked.year eps sales low high 2003 -0.01 1 - - 2004 -0.01 14 - - 2005 0.22 108 - - 2006 0.81 355 10 25 2007 2.00 847 21 75 2008 -2.04 721 39 1
Thursday, June 18, 2009
Market in pullback mode
Market Monitor Market in pullback mode after a
big three month rallyType Indicator Value Comments Daily # of Stocks Up >4% on high volume 150 Daily # of stocks down >4% on high volume 260 Another negative day.
The pullback continues.Primary # of stocks up >25% in a quarter 2529 Breadth is still positive. So this is
correction/pullback
in primary bullish trend. Primary # of stocks down >25% in a quarter 437 There is no major deterioration in breadth so far. Secondary #of stocks up >50% in a month 17 Overbought levels are finally below 20. Secondary #of stocks down >50% in a month 3 Secondary #of stocks up >25% in a month 101 Secondary #of stocks down >25% in a month 31 Primary fast MM 34/13 + 1926 This ratio will be the first to indicate
breadth has turned negative.Primary Fast MM 34/13 - 1374
Wednesday, June 17, 2009
Some new books
Tuesday, June 16, 2009
Your methods are under your control
Methodology trumps the market. The market is a unknown variable, it does its own thing, you cannot control it.
Market is ever changing.
Market is full of surprises.
Market is not predictable all the time.
Market is complex.
Market offers too many choices.
Market is full of traps.
Market is not controllable but.....
your methods are compltely under your controll. Your reaction to the market is under your control. What you can control is your own method to trade the market.
Trading decisions fall in to five "controllable" categories which I call Trading Mix:
1. What time frames to trade (trade frequency)
- Day trade
- swing trade
- position trate
- macro trade
equity
growth
momentum
value
technical analysis
futures
options
currencies
etf
3. When, where, and how to enter them (entry selection)
4. When , where , and how to exit them (exit selection)
5. How to manage risk (risk management)
how much to risk per trade
where to put stops
how and when to use margin
The profit opportunity is in the market if you get the mix of above elements right the result is profit. Each of these five variables are completely under your control.
Monday, June 15, 2009
How to find pullbacks using Telechart
The market has been churning at this level.Many stocks which had gone up in past month or so are having a pullback now. Some of these are having very orderly low volume pullbacks. Some of these stocks will resume their uptrend after few days.
There are many ways to find such stocks. One of the ways is by using a Telechart scan
(100 * (C - C21) / C21) >= 20 AND (100 * (C - C5) / C5) <= 0 AND (100 * (C - C5) / C5) >= ( - 15)AND (100 * (C - C1) / C1) < 2 AND C >= 5 AND V >= 1000
As of now the scan will give you 164 stocks. You can further reduce the list by taking only pullbacks which are within 8 to 10% of 52 week high or six month high.
If you want to take stocks within say 10% of six month high you can use the following scan to sort the above list:
(100 * ((C + .01) - (MAXC130 + .01)) / (MAXC130 + .01))
To further eliminate low liquidity stocks you can sort the list by Volume (Dollars) 1 day and take those with above USD 5 million volume.
Saturday, June 13, 2009
Why do you invest in the stock market?
This is a guest post.
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Christopher Colvin
Chris is the Founder, CEO and Managing Director of JLCC Capital Management, LLC, a private investment company that provides investment opportunities through equity-based and private equity funds. JLCC Capital manages The Crucible Fund, a long-short US equities fund that focuses on ETFs. Chris founded JLCC Capital Management and The Crucible Fund with his partner, John Lee, in 2005, and they began trading operations in January 2006. Chris and John met when they worked together as stock brokers in New York City. They began to see fundamental and disturbing flaws in the transactional retail brokerage business that prevented clients from making money consistently. So, they developed a trading strategy and struck out on their own. Originally having designed their strategy for trading in individual common stocks, Chris began back-testing the strategy on ETFs in 2007. Chris and John switched over completely to trading ETFs in August 2007, when market volatility started to crank up. Their strategy was put to the ultimate test in 2008, and, despite the extreme volatility in the financial markets, they produced a net return of 36.4% for the year. Since their switch to ETFs, Chris and John have produced a total return net of all fees of 87.3% as of April 30, 2009.
Chris is happily married to Jessica Yunker, a licensed acupuncturist and traditional Chinese medicine practitioner, and they live in New York City.
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Why do you invest in the stock market?
If your answer is anything other than, ‘to make money,’ then stop reading, because I cannot help you. A great percentage of people, tragically, invest to satisfy needs that have nothing to do with making money, and frequently have everything to do with losing money. This, incidentally, is why businesses like TD Ameritrade and MF Global will be around in one form or another for a very long time. …Bars too. So, what does it mean to invest? Unless a gain on an investment can be realized and pocketed, there is no point to investing. If Warren Buffett’s cost basis on 1million shares of GE is 25¢, and he gifts his GE shares to a charity when the stock is $50, he looks like a superstar because he ‘made’ all this money by correctly buying and holding the position. Buffett is the best at what he does and is truly alone in his class when it comes to long-term investing. However, if the charity simply holds the position with no clear plans to liquidate it, or, perilously, borrows against the stock on margin, and the position drifts down into the single digits, and then, at the worst possible time, the charity needs to sell the stock in order to fulfill their operational needs, the gifted stock position valued at $50million is suddenly just a fraction of the original gift size, and hardly what it seemed at first. Therefore, if you have no exit plan for your investments, you have no plan, period, and your ability to make money in the stock market becomes nothing more than pure chance.
Stocks are paper, and, therefore, each stock investment must be viewed as a trade – a position that you enter by putting money at risk, and at some point exit, retrieving more than you started out with. Simple enough. Really – it is. There is no need for complexity in trading. What most investors lack is a simple systematic approach to trading profitably. It is utterly hopeless to attempt to attain, understand, evaluate, and then act correctly on every piece of information that affects the equity markets. So what are we to do? What are we to rely on to consistently make money in the market? Since our goal is to take out more money than we put in, the only thing that matters is price. You go long because you aim to sell at a higher price, and you go short because you aim to cover at a lower price. So, one must be a student of the movement of the price of equities, i.e. price trends, in order to trade successfully.
Am I preaching to the converted? Let’s not pretend that we don’t stray from our core trading strategies from time to time trying in order to justify the position we’ve just entered. It starts out innocently enough: your system triggers a buy, and you go long the fertilizers…you’re up 3% – nice entry - off to a good start…quickly you’re up 5% – your system is working great - rock n roll…your position drifts down 2% – you scoff at those foolish bears, who’ve been wrong the whole way up anyway…back to break-even – it’s a natural pull-back - steady as she goes…-4% – you call a few friends who you know will reassure you that your position is solid…back up near break-even – look at those fools on CNBC wondering if this is ‘the beginning of the end’…+2% – slight bearish RSI divergence, but it’s no big deal – you’re back on track…-5% – let’s wait for the oil inventory numbers…-8%...um…-10% – but India and China are supposed to be consuming everything except anti-matter in ever-increasing quantities for as far as the eye can see!...-15% – but that perma-bear just turned bullish!!! -- what the hell?!... and before you know it your position is well below your ‘mental’ stop-loss, and your news-searching and rationalizing have steered you deep into the Crab Nebula, light-years away from your core trading strategy. We’ve all played that game too many times, and we all know how it ends.
Even if you have a workable trading strategy you will get taken off course. You absolutely know when you are straying from your core strategy – when you feel yourself about to stray, stop and ask yourself, “Should I be trying to scalp 2% out of this short-term move even though I trade weekly trends?”, or, “Should I really be holding onto my position for three days even though part of my strategy is to go home flat every day?” The solution to straying is to devise a system and test it rigorously for robustness in all types of market environments – this will give you complete confidence in your strategy. (I will leave the fundamentals of strategy generation for a future discussion, as it is an important topic unto itself.) Devising a profitable trading strategy is much easier than sticking to it, but it helps immensely if you have a system that you believe in.
Once you have a system in which you are confident, study what is important for the current trend in the timeframe in which you trade – each trend is always different from prior trends in some way, and you must correctly discern those differences, not the similarities, which are usually quite salient, in order for you to apply your core strategy correctly. That is, study what price levels/trend-lines/moving averages/oscillators, etc. that the market is reacting to in the current trend. Maybe in the last uptrend the market bounced every time it pulled back to the 30-day simple moving average (SMA), but this time it is bouncing at every test of the 15-day SMA. Maybe in the last uptrend the market pulled back every time the RSI hit 60, but this time it’s not pulling back until the RSI hits 70. News flow and fundamentals will always be different in different trends, and there is no reliable objective way to measure the impact of news and fundamentals on the market. We can say the average P/E of the S&P500 over the past 50 years has been 16, and currently the P/E is X – but how does this help you to make money? If the P/E is currently 22, then should we just short the market, assuming it will revert to the mean? What if it reverts to the mean not via a drop in price, but rather via growth in earnings? Then shorting would be a major misstep. Or what about the 4th quarter of 2008 when the P/E was Ø because there were no earnings for the S&P500 for that period? How does a P/E of Ø revert back to the mean?? Taken seriously, trading based only on analysis of fundamentals and underlying businesses assumes that others will eventually come to the same conclusions that you have come to. If others do arrive at the same conclusions, this will manifest itself in price movement – market participants vote their opinions by buying and selling, which determines the price of equities. So why not just cut out the guesswork and go straight to the price action so that you have an objective idea of when others have come to those conclusions and how strong their opinions are?
Bringing the study of price to the real world of trading, there are two opposing trends, one long-term and one intermediate-term, that are converging right now in the market. A study of price trends in the major stock indices going back to 1928 shows that the 200-day SMA provides a useful demarcating line between primary bullish and bearish market activity. That is, the market behaves differently when it is above the 200-day SMA versus when it is below. Following are a few charts from each of the rolling multi-year bear markets since 1929 – in each of the charts the red line is the 30-day SMA, the green line is the 50-day SMA, and the yellow line is the 200-day SMA. Without looking at the actual price, just follow the market along with your eyes and notice how it reacts close to the 200-day SMA.
Here are a few charts from the 1929-1932 Bear Market in the Dow:
It is as if the 200-day SMA is a light bulb to the market’s moth: the market is curiously drawn to the 200-day SMA, but once it nears it, the market gets too heated and retreats, only to return later on and repeat the process all over again.
Now take a look at the current bear market in the S&P500:
Notice any differences? Any real, structural differences? …Me neither.
So how do these massive multi-year bear markets end? What does the new buying paradigm since the March lows imply? What is the market likely to do from here? Stay tuned for my next post on How Bear Markets End/How To Know When an Emergent Bull Market Has Arrived at my blog Trendseer.
Friday, June 12, 2009
20% profit trade example : WH
Bought on 10th June 2009 for 5.30
Trade Alert 20% plus potential stock (6/10/2009 10:09:00 AM EST) |   |
WH
5.30
stop=4.75
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How to find stocks likely to go up a lot
Big earnings explosions create big trends. Doubling of earnings is good but the stocks which really make big monster move have huge earnings and sales.
NTRI: between 2004 and 2005 the earnings jumped from 3 cents to 59 cents. That is monster earnings growth. What happened price of the stock went up from 1 dollar to 44.Look at the sequence of earnings before that . For 2002 it was 8 cents, for 2003 it was 3 cents , for 2004 it was 3 cents and then the explosion happen.
GMXR: Between 2004 and 2005 earnings went up from 19 cents to 79 cents as a result price went up from 6 to 42.
MT: 2002 earnings was 40 cents. 2003 was 1.83 dollar and 2004 was 7.31. What happened price went up from 1 dollar to 42 (actually it was below 1 dollar when I first found EP on this stock but IBD rounds it to 1 dollar)
SINA: in 2002 had 3 cent loss. In 2003 had 75 cents earnings. Stock went up from 1 to 46. This was the best performing stock in first phase of 2003 bull market.
SOHU: 3 cents loss in 2002. 81 cents profit in 2003. Price went up from few pennies to 43 in one year.
MICC: earnings went up from loss of 5.90usd in 2002 to 2.26 profit in 2003, stock price zoomed from 1 dollar to 20 dollar.
FSLR: from 2006 to 2007 earnings went up from 6 cents to 1.43 dollar. Price went up ten times from 27 to 283
and I can go on and on. Many of the mortgage stocks which were the biggest winner in 2003 bull market first phase had earnings growth of 500% plus. All of them have gone bankrupt now. But they made 1000% plus price moves in few quarters because of explosive earnings.
Those are the kind of stocks one should look for if you are looking for explosive gains. All the above stocks were unknown , neglected stocks , before they were noticed by market because of their explosive earnings growth. In current market some of those kind of stocks with explosive earnings have started to move now.
You can spend lot of time drawing trend lines, support and fib extensions, or looking for value stocks and cigarette stubs and turnaround situation or search for macro theme, or latest charting techniques or exotic Japanese charting technique, or listening to Crammer, but none of that stuff matters.
Thursday, June 11, 2009
How to use technical analysis :-)
Most traders are devote followers of technical analysis. Many only know technical analysis. So in current market what do these traders see. What are the major topping formations:
Wednesday, June 10, 2009
20% profit trade example
Second profit taken on next 25% of position
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