$GOOGL | TRADE IDEAAnother prime short contender that can see nice downside potential IF market weakness accelerates. Simple longterm bullish channel that has held since last year. Notice every time we reach the red region, we see some sort of pullback either back to the median (white line) or support (green line). I have a small short position as a hedge to the overall bull market. Play cautiously and good luck out there!
Puts
Spy Puts - "The Bunny Hop"This trade idea was made by studying the current pattern of how the SPY has been bouncing on the 50 ema while remaining above the 200 ema in regular intervals. I'll call this the "Bunny Hop". This is significant because it's a sign of the stock market overheating. If you look through history, the majority of bull runs are spent bouncing across the 200 EMA with slow and steady growth which has been a good area to buy. Considering that the market is going parabolic, it only makes sense to look for opportunities to be bearish. What comes up must come down, and what goes parabolic, must crash. There's also economic factors that play into this.
To start off, I wanted to look through history and see how many times we've been in a similar situation, I found 8. I admit that there was a bit of subjectivity in picking these because some situations were similar, but had larger time differences than the current bull run. Using each of those instances, I measured several things as if I had an omniscient point of view that new exactly when to long and short.
1. How many times we bounced.
2. Average days spent going up from the 50 ema and average days spent going down if you were to immediately switch positions.
3. Average percent gained in both directions.
4. The win rate of each side.
5. How things ended after breaking the pattern.
I averaged out all the instances and came up with an average long of 23 days with an average short of 11 days. I then back tested each instance by blindly going long at the 50 ema for the average days up and switched to going short right after. Longs generally had win rate around 75%, but the shorts would only win about 50% because they had less time to come true. After adding some rules, the short win rate improved to 68%.
1. You can only open shorts at the top of the range (or close to it).
2. You must also be at or past the average long date (23 days), not before.
3. The short position must be held for 18 days.
4. You must close your short once you've hit the 50 ema (or close to it).
5. If the 50 ema was skipped and it bounced again, you'd have to open another short once it reaches the top of the range.
All instances:
Let's also talk about the federal reserve. Since Covid, they've drastically dropped interest rates to .25% and have been stimulating the economy with 120 billion every month by buying bonds. The point of this is to try and boost employment levels by making debt more accessible and keeping businesses afloat. The issue however is inflation. If you take a look at the Producer Price Index along with the Consumer Price Index, it's clear that inflation is going parabolic due to all this printing. If the fed doesn't control these inflation levels soon, there's going to be a less buying due to high prices and company earnings will start to tank. So we don't get to this point, they'll raise interest rates and stop the quantitative easing. They've said this will happen in 2023, but in order to do so gently, they'll begin tapering a year earlier. This could be anywhere from this month to early 2022, but once it begins, I suspect we'll see a 5-10% correction.
Back to the idea, it's pretty simple. Total average time up along with average time up for this current overheating is 23-27 days. At this point, we find a short ONLY if we're at the top of the range which we hold for 18 days unless we hit the 50 day ema in which we sell (or close to it). Since the average amount of bounces is 4 and we're currently on 6 (only one time has reached 7), you could hold it past the 50 ema, but that's a bit greedy so do so at your own risk. I personally went long this month, but I don't plan on doing so again until we see our correction. My next target dates are from Sept 10th - 15th. If the requirements in this post are met, then I'll open another short position.
Last trade I did on this was August 13th which I sold on August 19th for a 50% ROI. This was done by buying deep ITM 1 month DTE puts. Since option IV generally goes higher when things crash, I was able to sell for a higher premium when volatility increased. The reason I'm not doing long options at the 50 ema btw is because of the volatility spike which results in a higher option premium so you can substitute that part with leveraged etfs or regular longs.
Win rate so far: 1/1
XOM to 52We have seen signs to dictate that XOM was heading to the downside and we have got just that. The initial signs of bearishness was the Weis Wave showing that less buying volume was used in its recent push towards the upwards. Now we are seeing increasing selling momentum. The greatest sign of bearishness is our EMA crossovers on the Willy showing that the dominant trend is towards the downside following the incredibly bearish signs we are seeing on the weekly showing that buying volume has decreased.
Bearish Signals
-Selling Momentum
-Weis Wave(4h+weekly)
-Willy Oscillator
Price Target
-52
MARKET ALPHA - GAINERSNYSE:CSU
Capital Senior Living Corp came up on the top gainers for Friday. The stock is showing no real strength in this massive downtrend the stock has experienced. Be careful by jumping into too quickly before you get your information. The Lag RSI Still shows significant weakness ahead.
EGHT back down to $8 - ShortI saw EGHT 11/19 $20 PUT sweepers and they caught my eye as I've honestly never even heard of this stock. Great time for me to learn.
After checking the chart, it appears to be a nice short set up so I followed the sweeps :
-Bearish death cross
-Bearish MFI and RSI/Williams
-DEC 20 unfilled gap below
-Huge volume gap , can easily "fall off a cliff"
-Rejected at anchored VWAP
Stop is above VWAP with volume at $25.3
Golden Opportunity for PUTS(AMD)AMD has rose massively these past couple of weeks but we are finally seeing major signs of a pullback. We are seeing a very strong signal from the VCPI to sell, meaning that AMD's recent uptrend isn't supported by volume. Not only are we seeing indications of a downwards movement on the daily but the 4h timeframe already started to indicate bearishness by crossing to the downwards on the Willy Oscillator without displaying any oversold signals. We have monthly support resting at 99, which would be a great time to exit puts if we see the necessary signals to exit at that time.
Short Signals
-VPCI
-Willy oscillator
-Reducing momentum(4h)
Price Target
-99
MARKET ALPHA MEME STOCK - AMCNYSE:AMC
Update for AMC seems to have played out nicely. We are experiencing some bullish underlying momentum and may get a pop but this could also be a large fake out with more room to the downside seeming imminent.
Look at the LagRSI to show the bullishness but in the current time frame we are still bearish.
Pfizer Getting Stronger by DayHi TV Community!
I just got settled into my new place and wanted to do a quick ta on pfizer. This stock has been experiencing large call option buying recently and the price action supports this bullish context. We are breaking above important areas with ease and my target resistance level would be the upper yellow trendline.
As we continue to see devastating coronavirus cases and mutations, this company is positioned well.
AMD looking to correct and retraceAMD wicked right off of the 100% fib extension after 3 consecutive days of insane bullish momentum... This is also the exact height and price range from the May 13 (bottom of cup) low to July 7 (upper lip of cup) high. Textbook target price of a cup and handle breakout has been reached.. This extension level is most likely the end of this breakout move in the short term. If showing signs of weakness or overall bloody market, puts can pay here but be cautious as it can always keep pushing higher considering the recent volume of price action. Short term 🐻
JPMorgan to $80 by October 2022NYSE:JPM
Jamie Dimon and his army of minion traders at $JPM are printing the classic bear pattern of a H&S top (green). Measuring that formation, that should put us at a local bottom sometime in October.
From there I would expect the Santa Rally to be our retest of the neckline, before creating the base of the much larger H&S pattern in yellow. Measuring that pattern out gives me my price target of $80 when it is all said and done by October 2022.
And yes that is a price gap at $110 (purple box) that I expect to be filled in these moves.
- Penny
The Nasdaq Can Give Up Gains QuicklyNASDAQ:QQQ
Overall, there are a lot of bearish technicals in this market. The Q's put in a weaker bullish engulfing after bearish engulfing which is showing weaker bulls than bears at the moment. Bears could see a big opportunity here. It's still hard to bet against this market.
This Might Be Difficult to Stomach for TSLA BullsSymbol: NASDAQ:TSLA
Indicators
Laguerre RSI
Multi-Time Frame EMA x2
Thoughts: This is really showing weakness on every part of the chart. The view is in log scale which brings into perspective the downside risk.
My fear is for the loyal TSLA shareholders. These would be the last to sell.
Big Earnings Might Not Be Enough for AAPLSymbol: NASDAQ:AAPL
Indicators
Laguerre RSI
Multi-Time Frame EMA x2
Thoughts: The technicals are holding up strong despite earnings coming out. The Laguerre RSI is starting to slope down which could be a sell signal. Watching this over the coming days to see how this indicator trends.