52nd day of $QQQ short term up-trend; Market indexes extended

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I learned this idea from my stock buddy, Judy. Whenever a rising stock or index floats above its rising simple 4 week average (the weekly low is well above the average), that security often times is extended and  it reverts to the average. This weekly chart of the SPY shows times in the recent past when this index ETF has become extended according to this definition. The red dotted line is the 4 week average. We may be facing a consolidation or brief pause now as DIA and QQQ are also showing this pattern.

 

On David Ryan and my new #TC2000 scan for GLB rockets bouncing off up of support: $PLAY

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One of my favorite stock gurus, David Ryan, William O’Neil’s protege, when asked about the types of set-ups he looks for, said:

“I basically simplify it down to two, breakouts and pullbacks. Don’t get confused by all the different formations. You don’t really have to look for cup with handles, or saucers, or “W” formations. You just have to draw a line across the top of where most of the stock’s trading has taken place. Then you buy as it moves through that line. It is as simple as that. I always like to see a very tight price pattern before the stock breaks to new highs. Buying pullbacks are a bit more complicated but offer another entry point to get aboard a leading stock.”

Momentum Masters, Mark Minervini, David Ryan, Dan Zanger and Marl Ritchie II, 2015, p. 72.

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Momentum Masters  compares  answers to a series of  questions asked of four of the best stock traders ever. I highly recommend it. By the way, David Ryan is doing a webcast for IBD on his current take of the market this week. Click the link or go to investors.com for information to register.

Ryan’s quote above really fits in well with my trading strategy. I draw a green line at a stock’s all time high that has not been surpassed for at least 3 months. I then look for a break above that line (Green Line Break-out, GLB). I set an alert in TC2000 to tell me when the GLB occurs and when it does I then inspect the stock for signs of unusual break-out volume and good fundamentals. Alternatively, and more often, I look for a stock near or just above a recent GLB that has pulled back and become over-sold and started to rise. If I buy it, I place my sell stop close, just below the recent bounce/support. I never know if a bounce will work out, but if it fails, I exit with a small loss. That is the key to  this game–a few large gains and many small losses. Many successful traders say they are right on fewer than 50% of their trades.

This weekend I created a new TC2000 scan that you can run yourself when you get TC2000 (See $25 coupon offer at top of this page). All of the students in my new honors class will learn how to use TC2000. Once on TC2000, join my Club and select this scan: 01292017ATHhipast40daysBLBB. All of my publicly available free scans are described in the Glossary tab for this blog. This new scan looks at all stocks in my ongoing WatchList of about 800 stocks that have recently hit an all-time high (ATH). It finds the subset of them that hit a new high in the past 40 days and that is now bouncing from up from its lower Bollinger Band.  In simple words, the scan finds rocket stocks trading near their ATH that have recently hit their peak and that have since pulled back and started up. I next look to see if the stock is above its last GLB. Many stocks rise after their GLB and then pull back and resume their advance. PLAY is one of the 15 stocks that came up in this scan, which I give as an example.

PLAY gapped up on unusually high volume in December and then traded sideways since. Last Friday it bounced off of its lower 15.2 daily BB and closed near its high of the day. Is this the beginning of a resumption of its rise?  No one knows, but it might be. If on Monday PLAY  trades higher than Friday’s high of 54.88, I might get interested enough to buy some. Unlike a break-out, a bounce does not require higher volume. The low trading volume is a sign that the selling has dried up. Note from the line at the top of this chart that PLAY is due to report earnings on 4/4 and last quarter’s earnings were up +127% according to stats in TC2000. It has a recent short ratio of 7.2 and is up 47% over the past year. It is also on the current IBD50 list with a COMP rating of 93 and EPS rating of 99–not too shabby….

Meanwhile the GMI remains at 6 (of 6).

 

12th day of $QQQ short term up-trend; $QQQ and $CDW have an RWBCount= 12

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For a long time I have thought that my adapted Guppy charts composed of 13 weekly moving averages provide an excellent method for identifying stocks in a significant up-trend. Six of the exponential averages are red (3,5,8,10,12,15) and 6 longer term averages (30,35,40,45,50,60) are blue. When all the red averages are rising above the blue averages such that there is a white space between them, this constitutes a red white and blue (RWB) up-trend. I also add a 13th average (1) as a dotted line which shows the closing price each week. When all 13 averages line up with each shorter average rising above the next one (1>3>5>8……..60) this constitutes a really strong up-trend. I have created a new indicator that counts the number of averages that are rising above each longer average. The indicator, called the RWBCount, goes from 0-12. This indicator can be applied to both ETFs and individual stocks and in the future I will often provide the RWBCount.  Below is a weekly chart of the QQQ, which has an RWBCount=12. Note that each line is above the next one. The RWBCount for DIA=12 and the SPY=12. So right now all 3 indexes are in very strong RWB up-trends.

NVDA has an RWBCount=12 and has been 11 or more for months. Note how weekly price leads all of the averages up.

There is no way to know when an RWB pattern will end. I strive to  hop on  stocks with an RWBCount=11 or12 when they bounce up off of support and ride them until the trend ends. By the way, 60% of the Dow 30 stocks have an RWBCount=12. The current Dow dogs are: PFE (5), WMT (5), KO (3) NKE (2). Here is what a “2” looks like.

And a stock not in the Dow, GILD= “0”

Get the picture–I call such stocks BWR or submarine stocks and consider them for shorting…

CDW is an example of a stock with an RWBCount=12 that bounced off of support last Friday. I took a position and placed my stop right below Friday’s low. If for any reason CDW declines on Monday so that I am sold out, I will take my small loss–no emotion. (A stock does not have to rise just because I think it should!) On the other hand, if CDW holds Friday’s low, I will ride it as long as its RWBCount remains high (11 or 12). My goal will be to ride the strong up-trend until it ends and not to try to hop off the first time it shows signs of weakness. Why sell a stock in a strong up-trend? If CDW should rise a few percent, I will move my stop up to break-even. Small losses and large gains–that is the way to succeed in this game. The daily chart of CDW is below. Note the recent green line break-out (GLB) to an all-time high and Friday’s bounce up off of the 30 day average (red line) and its lower 15.2 daily Bollinger Band. Earnings are set for release on 2/14/2017.

Here is the RWB chart for CDW. In the near future I will publish a scan for finding stocks with IRBCount of 11 or 12 that are bouncing off of support. You can sign up for access to my free TC2000 scans at wishingwealthblog.com/club.

The GMI remains at 5 (of 6).