Archive for October, 2011

  • This is how we trade reversals (as opposed to “catching” falling knives)
    Posted by on October 30th, 2011 at 11:15 pm, Comments: 0

    Share on StockTwits   We’re all about looking for a tradable spot for reversion to mean trades, and then waiting for it to hit.    [...]

  • What started as a boring night….
    Posted by on October 30th, 2011 at 10:47 pm, Comments: 0

    Share on StockTwits   Yen intervention causing lots of fun and games in the overnight session — here are some levels we have on our [...]

  • The most common pattern
    Posted by on October 30th, 2011 at 6:51 pm, Comments: 0

    Share on StockTwits Looking through charts this weekend really brought home the new “correlation 1″ meme constantly written about these days in the finacial blogosphere.    [...]

  • Gold and Silver: Hello… I’m back!
    Posted by on October 25th, 2011 at 6:05 pm, Comments: 0

    Share on StockTwits   Silver ($SI_F) looking like it wants higher as it’s poking out of its range — has room to the 200SMA.   [...]

  • Updated Game Plan
    Posted by on October 17th, 2011 at 4:14 pm, Comments: 0

    Share on StockTwits Our resistance short spot was taken out in the overnight session. Our $SPY 123.5 short roughly corresponded to ES_F 1230-1233 zone which [...]

  • Game Time
    Posted by on October 14th, 2011 at 5:20 pm, Comments: 0

    Share on StockTwits   Very bullish close for the market as it easily closed over 122 resistance on the $SPY.   Next up is 123.5 – [...]

  • Our time-frame is short
    Posted by on October 12th, 2011 at 7:16 pm, Comments: 0

    Share on StockTwits We’re realizing, through comments left on our previous post, that there are readers of our posts who do not know our time-frame.   [...]

  • Watch who you fade!
    Posted by on October 12th, 2011 at 5:16 pm, Comments: 0

    Share on StockTwits   We can’t remember a time where levels worked so well –  anecdotally speaking — it seems to us that market just [...]

  • Hysterical market needs to chill
    Posted by on October 10th, 2011 at 1:00 pm, Comments: 0

    Share on StockTwits   V type markets can be tough as they don’t let the “wrong side” traders out to breathe — when we went [...]

  • The Fade,The Easy Trade, and Now What
    Posted by on October 8th, 2011 at 5:35 pm, Comments: 0

    Share on StockTwits     We always regret not calling ourselves “Base Trading Group — BTG” instead of HCPG.   Everything in our strategy circles around [...]