I Screwed up the UAUA UAL Corporation Trade

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I hope this post does not turn into a rant.  I screwed up and missed the UAUA trade yesterday and it has been bothering me all day today.  I didn’t even bother to write up the possible scenario here at BestOnlineTrades and maybe that is partly why I screwed up the trade because I did not talk myself through the necessary parameters of this trade.

Two days ago I did my usual scans of almost 5000 nasdaq and NYSE stocks and nothing was coming up in my scans.  Nothing good was coming up anyway and so I was getting discouraged.  Also I have been somewhat off center lately because I have been confusing my own forecasts with that of other’s who are looking for market crashes and big downside.  I am not blaming others for my own general confusion now, I am just saying me dipping my hands into the cookie jar of other’s market forecasts has messed up my own judgement.  That is just a fact.

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What is the Current Trading Psychology?

In a word. Thoroughly confused.  I can still see the broad market trending higher maybe even for the rest of September.  The price action continues to show little interest in breaking down.

What is bothering me is that I started following Larry Pesavento’s forecasts recently and he keeps talking about a big market drop that is supposed to happen soon and happen suddenly and that will eventually break the March lows.  It has screwed up my own psychology of the markets because I have been generally bullish and am still seeing enough bullish setups in individual stocks.  The market still has not given signs it wants to start a major downward trend change yet.  So why try to pick a top?  It just seems fruitless at this point.

The monthly SPY price bar so far rejected the lows and now appears to want to expand topside.  To be sure, when the REAL correction comes it will come suddenly and a good portion of the damage will happen in a matter of hours.  But until that point comes I am still bullish on this market!

The entire rally we have had since the March lows has been on lighter and lighter volume.  This is a warning that eventually a nasty correction will start but the problem comes in trying to pick a top.  Low volume rallies can seemingly last forever sometimes.

There is a gap on the SPY ETF that would be filled if the SPY hits 107.41.  It is possible we are going to go up there and fill that gap in the days ahead and then turn around from there.  107.41 is not that far from where we are today on the SPY.

I am also seeing a possible triple bearish divergence developing on the SPY ETF.  It will probably take another week or two to develop but it is worth keeping an eye on.

In the meantime I am still focusing in on ABK because I think ABK at least has the chance of being a blockbuster trade, maybe even better than the gold and silver breakout.  I like gold and silver but the problem is those markets can take forever to move.  I want to try to find something that moves soon and moves big.

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SLV Silver ETF does a Confirmed Breakout from Inverse Head and Shoulders

The SLV ETF did a confirmed breakout from the large inverse head and shoulders pattern that has been forming for quite a long time. This is significant because it is basically saying that silver should now be in a new longer term uptrend. The breakout was achieved with a confirmed sign of strength in price … Read more

I still like ABK Ambac Financial for a Potential Buy Setup

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Despite how lousy the broad market has been lately and will probably continue to be, I am still watching ABK Ambac Financial for a possible buy setup.  I would like to see ABK get over 1.75 and also see volume come in heavy again.

I am thinking that ABK probably will not be able to do that until a couple more weeks consolidation.  I could be wrong, but that is the theory I am running with right now.

ABK’s business is supposed to be dead right now along with the other bond insurers because they are not writing new business.  But then why are the stock prices trending up so bullishly? The stock prices are powering higher apparently because of an uptick in home sales which could mean lower losses on mortgage backed securities.

But as you probably know by now I am not a ‘fundamental kind of guy’.  I am more a technical analysis kind of guy (that sounds bad doesn’t it ?).

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Spot Gold Trades Over 1000 Again

It is time for the gold 1000 Party!  Remember CNBC had that Dow 7000, 8000, 9000 and 10,000 party? I forget if they did it for all of those milestones or just one of them.  Maybe they should start a gold 1000, 2000, 3000, 4000 and 5000 party too? Wait, scratch that.  I forgot, people … Read more