by Trent Smalley, CMT | Apr 25, 2019 | Investing, Stock Market Commentary
Happy Thursday. Yesterday’s post highlighted an objective approach in taking a short trade. Today we will reverse course and do the opposite which is take a long trade based on a subjective premise. Triangle chart patterns are second nature to a technical...
by Trent Smalley, CMT | Apr 24, 2019 | Investing, Stock Market Commentary
For the hump day edition of this week’s five setups in five days I wanted to turn your attention to a short setup. I want to preface this post with a disclaimer: Shorts are not my forte. I have never been able to consistently make money by betting on the...
by Trent Smalley, CMT | Mar 19, 2019 | Stock Market Commentary
You may remember my blog back on January 29th titled “Fools Gold” where I put forth some reasons I believe gold was a short. Welp, I was wrong. It happens. But, I think we have another opportunity to profit from selling Gold in the near term. Here is what...
by Trent Smalley, CMT | Mar 18, 2019 | Stock Market Commentary
Relax, it’s just one stock. I am not calling market tops. I’ll leave that to the “pros.” 🙂 I do like to have a short position working in my trading account even in bull markets, and right now that short is Acadia Pharmaceuticals (ACAD)....
by Trent Smalley, CMT | Mar 13, 2019 | Stock Market Commentary
Each week I monitor about 200 different cannabis stocks, both exchange listed and over the counter (OTC). I have long term money invested in both as I see the potential of this industry still in its infancy. In the very early going, technicals were really all that we...
by Trent Smalley, CMT | Mar 12, 2019 | Stock Market Analysis, Stock Market Commentary, Technical Stock Market Analysis
First off, thank you for the kind words about the last post where I gave some advice on trading for a living. If you missed that feel free to check it out here: “My Advice If You Truly Wish To Trade For A Living” It was by far my most read blog post to...