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Expiration Week Notes

Posted Mar 17 2010, 08:35 PM by Bagger Vance with no comments

Expiration Week May Bring Pause This week brings us the first big expiration of the year, a quadruple witch comes Friday Mar 19. We've discussed the relative importance of this quarterly ritual. The...

Market Moves Well Above Resistance

Posted Mar 17 2010, 08:12 PM by Bagger Vance with no comments

While we've seen the market on a huge roll the moves have been relatively small, and mostly right up into the resistance zone. That ended on today as the most recent tough area fell like a hot knife...

Markets Back to Highest Edge of Range

Posted Mar 14 2010, 07:29 AM by Bagger Vance with no comments

[View:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJWKyARKudc] The SPX finds itself at the upper crust of a range, which on the surface seems to be narrowing. How is that so? Just look at the daily chart and you'll...

Marking Time in Space

Posted Mar 08 2010, 09:12 PM by Bagger Vance with no comments

Sittin' back! [View:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YKS5-jxINQ] Markets really didn't do much on Monday, and frankly that's expected from the low VIX, which is pushing down toward 17%. Some...

Weekly Roundup - 03.07

Posted Mar 08 2010, 05:58 AM by Bagger Vance with no comments

Great trading week for us! You can get these results with me...if you're not getting the alerts, sign up with the third party alerts link at the bottom of the page, or right here. https://www.myhappytrading...

Hitting on All Cylinders

Posted Mar 05 2010, 04:19 AM by Bagger Vance with no comments

We've been locking in nice winners this week as our tree continue to bear fruit. We're in some new names, but for those who missed: (fyi, you can sign up and get the email alerts via the 3rd party...

Markets Churn, Burn and Wait

Posted Mar 04 2010, 04:54 AM by Bagger Vance with no comments

Yesterday's action was indicative by some underlying strength early, but stalled late and barely closed even. The ISM number came in a bit better than expected, the ADP jobs report was rather mixed...

Market Finishes Week Strong, Still Not Much Movement

Posted Feb 27 2010, 05:58 AM by Bagger Vance with no comments

In a wild and crazy week of churning, markets were down modestly but every selling attempt managed to be bought up. For the week the SPX was down about 4 points while the Nasdaq was down a similar fraction...

Gains From Jobs May Not Be Easy To Come By

Posted Feb 27 2010, 05:56 AM by Bagger Vance with no comments

With the looming jobs report for February we find ourselves at an inflection point. The optimist would point to a swift end to the pain of hundreds of thousands of job losses, just seen a year ago, and...

Rate Hike Has Mixed Reactions

Posted Feb 20 2010, 04:39 PM by Bagger Vance with no comments

So the Fed raised the discount rate, and in a cryptic way they seemed to get by without much damage. Did they really foretell such a move, and if so why put this out there on a Thursday after the close...

Mixed Action Makes For Select Trading

Posted Feb 20 2010, 03:56 PM by Bagger Vance with no comments

The markets find themselves back near levels from the beginning of the month. Like the elevator/window analogy, it took only three days to lose ground and eight days to recapture it. Such is life on the...

Fed Hike Considered

Posted Feb 19 2010, 04:35 AM by Bagger Vance with no comments

Last evening the Fed raised the discount rate. Big deal? Well, only if you believe in history. But, one has to ask...is it different this time around? And, if you believe so...and you believe the Fed and...

Strong Rally Before the Long Weekend

Posted Feb 11 2010, 06:15 PM by Bagger Vance with no comments

Next week is Expiration Week, a short one to boot as the country celebrates President's Day. There was a good move by the bulls on Thursday, mostly stoked by some heavy shortcovering...which is buying...

Learning Something from the Saints

Posted Feb 08 2010, 05:02 PM by Bagger Vance with no comments

What a great Super Bowl! The Colts gave the Saints all they could handle and then some, but it was a late turnover and some aggressive calls by Coach Payton that was the difference. Many expected a huge...

Volatility is Back with a Vengeance!

Posted Feb 05 2010, 09:50 PM by Bagger Vance with no comments

The hourly charts offer some of the best chances to latch onto short term trends, especially good for option trades. I primarily use these to find the most persistent trends and ride them out over the...