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Swing Trading BLOG – Week in Review – July 8, 2011

Sunday, July 10th, 2011

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$DIA - Swing Trading ETF

Traders watched as the indices pushed higher this holiday shortened week.

One thing to point out this week is the fact that an oversold or overbought market can still become MORE oversold or overbought.

A lot of Swing Traders were prepared to SHORT this latest rally but when the market moved higher Wednesday and Thursday some were caught in the mix.

Now if you have a tried and true (and tested!) strategy for trading against the market then have at it!

There are a million ways to make money trading so far be it from us to tell you how to trade.

What we are saying though is don't start trading by the seat of your pants using the latest overbought/oversold indicator or oscillator.

There is no doubt that a retrace in the market will happen…it is just a matter of when.

Friday's price action (Gap Down and Reverse) tells us that the BUYERS are still there.

When we open for trading on Monday that could all change but for now don't try to guess what what the market will do.

As we look at the charts for next week we can see that the market is still extended a bit.

There are a ton of good looking charts to watch in the future.

One sector  that stood out this week was Real Estate.

Here is a look at the chart for the Dow Jones Real Estate sector ETF ($IYR).

$IYR - Swing Trading ETF

From a technical analysis perspective $IYR put in a higher low at the end of last month.

As the market rallied recently $IYR has traded up to a NEW HIGH for the year on Thursday.

$RTH - Swing Trading ETF

The Retail sector ETF ($RTH) has also rallied nicely as is flirting with NEW HIGHS.

Watch out for the possible overhead resistance in the $114 area first though.

The Technology sector is also on our Watch List as we move forward from here.

Here is a look at $XLK

$XLK - Swing Trading ETF

As far as individual stocks go keep an eye on $AMZN, $ERTS, $JAZZ, $ELN, $LULU and $HAL just to name a few.

Like we said earlier there are a TON of stocks that should be on your list this week.

The volatility is likely to continue so keep that in mind as we head into trading this week.

As always have plan in place for whatever the market decides to do from here.

Until next week…Good Trading to YOU!

Swing Trading BLOG – Week in Review – June 17, 2011

Sunday, June 19th, 2011

Swing Trading BLOG – Swing Trading BOOT CAMP

DIA - Swing Trading ETF

Swing Traders saw more of the same this week and the overall market continued to drift lower.

Tuesday traders watched as the market had a decent GAP UP but this was quickly followed by a GAP DOWN the next day which erased all of the gains.

Thursday and Friday the indices floated around on lighter volume but that didn't stop some of the sector ETF's from continuing their moves lower.

The Semiconductors ($SMH) continued to free fall as did the entire Technology sector ($XLK).

Here is a look at the chart of Inverse ETF ($SSG) for the Semiconductor sector.

SSG - Inverse ETF

The Energy and Oil sectors also pushed lower after showing signs of losing strength last week.

$USO finally broke out of a month and half long sideways trading pattern to trade down to new multi month lows.

USO - Swing Trading ETF

The Steel sector ($SLX) pushed to new lows and finally the Agriculture ETF's ($MOO $DBA) also became the latest to succumb to the selling pressure.

$MOO

As far as individual stocks go there were plenty of SHORT swing trading opportunities this week.

$CREE and $RIMM were two notable standouts this week.

$CREE was actually on out LONG Watch List at the end of last month.

After the lack of follow through to the up side it quickly returned to a SHORT watch earlier this month.

$CREE - SHORT Swing Trading

If you have followed our Swing Trading BLOG for any length of time you will know that we have been bearish on $MOS for quite awhile.

The moves in $MOS to the downside have been very "clean" moves and this week was no exception!

After a "double bottom" bounce the selling resumed Monday and the move lower was a good one.

$MOS - SHORT Swing Trading

There are still a few stocks that are holding up nicely and some are actually making new highs.

Although situations stick out to us we are clearly in a bearish phase of this market so why fight the trend (now that its clear)?

We are due for a retrace in the market so as always continue to wait for those setups with good risk reward ratios.

Until next week…Good Trading to You!

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