by Trent Smalley, CMT | Oct 23, 2019 | Investing
We live in the strangest of times, not excluding capital markets. Seasonality shows that the coming two weeks in the major U.S. market indexes is especially rocky. Factor in unique situations including but not limited to Brexit, Presidential impeachment threats, and a...
by Trent Smalley, CMT | Oct 21, 2019 | Stock Market Analysis, Stock Market Commentary, Stock Market Trends
Let’s start with a victory lap and a smidge of shameless self-promotion shall we? One of my first blogs of 2019 was entitled “Close Your Eyes And Start Buying Apple.” I hope at least one of you heeded said advice for if you had you are up handsomely....
by Trent Smalley, CMT | Oct 18, 2019 | Investing, Stock Market Commentary, Stock Market Trends
As my main focus has been centered around overall portfolio management and building trading systems as of late, I still want to point out individual stocks from time to time when the risk/reward objectives are positively skewed. One example of this is a stock I...
by Trent Smalley, CMT | Oct 16, 2019 | Investing, Stock Market Commentary, Stock Market Trends
It’s frequently quoted in the financial media that the U.S. is the best house in a bad neighborhood in terms of markets in which to invest. While warnings of economic growth slowdown, negative interest rates and geopolitical turmoil are abundant, a common theme...
by Trent Smalley, CMT | Oct 15, 2019 | Investing, Uncategorized
It is common for the novice trader or investor to begin their quest for financial freedom by searching far and wide for the “holy grail” trading system. Oftentimes, the novice scours the internet looking for a self-proclaimed guru’s advice or they...
by Trent Smalley, CMT | Oct 8, 2019 | Stock Market Analysis, Stock Market Commentary
Among the many technical indicators available to us as market technicians lies one in particular that to this day I have trouble wrapping my mind around. These tools aren’t necessarily difficult to use or interpret, but trying to grasp why these work takes some...
by Trent Smalley, CMT | Oct 1, 2019 | Investing
Welcome to Q4, 2019. It’s hard to believe a year has passed since my final exam. I don’t mean a university, FINRA or other written exam given by a financial institution. I mean the final exam given to me by Mother Market that I along with several other...
by Trent Smalley, CMT | Sep 25, 2019 | Finance 101, Investing, Stock Market Commentary
“Most of the successes and failures we see are a combination of skill and luck that prove maddeningly difficult to tease apart.” – Michael J. Mauboussin (The Success Equation) Around the time I turned 21 years old and visited a casino for the first...
by Trent Smalley, CMT | Sep 17, 2019 | Bitcoin, Crypto
The world’s second largest cryptocurrency Ethereum has broken out as I predicted back on September 3rd. On the back of news that BitPay will now accept Ethereum, we got the breakout with slightly above average volume today: What is much more interesting is the...
by Trent Smalley, CMT | Sep 16, 2019 | Stock Market Commentary
For my second entry of the day (I’m exhausted) I’m lining up a trade in Career Education Corp, $CECO). Earlier I spoke about an entry I took in $AUDC and you might notice that this setup exhibits some similarities from a technical perspective. Let’s...
