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NASDAQ 10012000 target very close, expecting the level to print today. Whats next? - 11750 level sounds reasonable. why? Everybody thinks the bottom is in, which is a great opportunity for fund managers to offload more assets to retail. plus we still have high inflation, with CPI printing more than expected today. The higher reading on CPI was already indicated yesterday when Biden released a press message that he will speak on inflation today after the release of the numbers. The only reason why he would do that is that he knew yesterday that the numbers would be bad.. they are playing games with one. Let's see how it plays out, I could be wrong. Happy trading :)
CME_MINI:NQ1!Short
by Fx-AlphaStrats
Mitigating High Risk Long Positions with CoveringStop losses are an, often unwelcome, but ultimately necessary and life saving tactic to day trading. When going long, setting a high stop loss can be beneficial for getting out of bad trades quickly with small losses, and opening yourself up up more opportunities for good trades. Setting a low stop loss on the other hand, can be beneficial by greatly increasing your profit. Many trades that seem bad initially end up rallying and turning profitable. Generally speaking, the lower your stop loss, the higher your percentage of good trades. The downside to a low stop loss of course is that trades take longer, locking your funds up, and what if price actually hits your super low stop loss? You've lost a super amount of money. In my trading career so far, I've preferred a low stop loss. Losing out on a good trade due to a conservative stop loss is more painful to me than the risk presented by a liberal one. But this is a high risk to accept. Losing, say, 20% of my trading capital is definitely something I want to avoid, but not at the cost of a high stop loss. So, I can hedge my position, mitigate my risk, in one of a few ways. I can open a short position when I see my long position go south. Or I can engage in Dollar Cost Averaging: I buy more as the price falls to lower my average position size and ultimately my target profit. These are good options, but come with their own side effects. Opening a short position opens you up to risks associated with a short position, i.e. price suddenly shoots up. And Dollar Cost Averaging requires additional funds to keep buying. What else can I do? Enter "Covering". From Investopedia: "To cover is to take a defensive action to lower the risk exposure of a position" The graph attached here is a demonstration of Covering (the exact spots for buying/selling were picked hastily; this example is purely conceptual and an ideal situation). The basic idea is: when price begins to fall, sell it, just like a stop loss. However, unlike a stop loss, the intention is to buy back in at a lower price when price begins to rise again. This is like dollar cost averaging, because you're, in a sense, lowering your average position size. The difference is you don't need additional funds. This is also like short selling, because you rely on the price continuing to fall, but you haven't borrowed anything in order to benefit from this fall. As you can see in the diagram, as you sell and buy back, the amount of shares/coins/whatever you can afford off your initial capital increases, thus either increasing your profit if the trade hits the profit target, or decreasing your losses if the trade hits your actual stop loss. Here's how Ive been setting up my covers: When price begins to fall, I set a conditional market sell somewhere below the nearest support. If price falls to this level, I immediately sell everything Once I've sold all my shares, I set a trailing stop loss for the cover; I generally do ~1.2%. If, after I sell, price rises 1.2%, I buy back as many shares as I can with the money I got from selling earlier. Ideally, this trailing stop falls well below where I sold. Rinse and repeat until price either hits your original take profit or your original stop loss. Some things to note. Do not buy below your original stop loss! The purpose of this strategy is to respect your original decision, not make new ones . This is meant to mitigate a high risk situation, don't expose yourself to more risk in doing so. Also, you theoretically want to buy back above your original stop loss, even if it looks like it's going to fall through. Make your own call here, but by not buying back, you've essentially just changed where your original stop loss is, and thus changed your original trade decision. Of course, nothing is without its own risks. It's quite possible that you get stopped out for a loss every time you sell, i.e. you sold, price went up, so you buy back at a higher price to stay in the trade. This will eat into your profit if the profit target is eventually hit, or simply add to your losses if the stop loss is hit. From my point of view, that risk is less painful than the risk of hitting a low stop loss without covering. You theoretically give yourself more chances of being right with these micro trades inside of your larger trade, and if you get lucky, as is the case in my diagram, you might actually profit even if your original stop loss is hit. This strategy requires attention, for sure, but if you're both strategic and lucky, you can really save yourself from the downsides of a high risk trade without adding money to the pool, or exposing yourself to short selling risk.
COINBASE:COMPUSDEducation
by tapRoot_coding
1
CLOV Retracement, Massively Oversold but Needs PRCLOV has not received much love these past few weeks after the short report from Hindenburg came out, but I believe that the short report does not hold much substance as well as the fact that CLOV had posted phenomenal earnings. CLOV stock had dropped about 12% after reporting great earnings but weak guidance for 2021. CLOV is also being investigated by the DOJ due to the short report which has created a lot of uncertainty for the stock. But all of these variables do not discredit the fact that CLOV has been massively beaten down along with having great earnings. I see CLOV most likely trading sideways until the DOJ investigation is over. Any type of good PR for CLOV will send the stock skyrocketing with immense upside, but if the DOJ investigation materializes into anything, CLOV's stock price might be sent down into the 5s. Key support for CLOV is 9$ and then 8.50$. My prediction for CLOV is it having a short-term spike up to 9.70$ then bottoming out in the low 9s. This is not financial advice, I am not advocating the buying or selling of CLOV stock.
NASDAQ:CLOVLong
by kediguy
RELIANCE to break support, steep fall in the coming days NSE:RELIANCE is about to see major fall in the coming days with price likely to fall as low as 1810 . The Moving Average 50 has just crossed over the Moving Average 20. Past performance shows this results in price falling to around 2-3%. Moreover the Moving Average 200 is closing gap with MA50 and MA20 and if crosses above them, the stock can see an even greater fall going below 1800. Furthermore past few days show huge bearish body candles showing a downtrend. Only positive news (Global or Company related) can take the price up.
NSE:RELIANCEShort
by stonksksk
How to trade a temporary pullback and a breakout gap? How to trade a temporary pullback and a breakout gap? Some security will make a temporary pullback before making a new high with a breakout gap. How to trade a temporary pullback? A trader may be bearish during the temporary pullback formation. A trader may consider going short during this pattern formation or the trader may consider waiting to avoid losses during the price drop. How to trade a breakout gap? A trader may be bullish when a bottom is identified. A trader may consider accumulating shares in anticipation of a breakout. What are some of the reasons one may fail to trade this pattern? Correct identification of the chart pattern is essential to trade this pattern. Not all stocks will pullback before a breakout to a new high. Possibly misidentification of a trend change as a pullback. Possibly a temporary bottom was identified, but the downtrend continued and changed the pattern. Thank you for reading! Greenfield Remember to click "Like" and "Follow!" Disclosure: Article written by Greenfield. A market idea by Greenfield Analysis LLC for educational material only.
NASDAQ:NFLXEducation
by GreenfieldAnalysis
1
Short Selling Put OptionsI’m Markus Heitkoetter and I’ve been an active trader for over 20 years. I often see people who start trading and expect their accounts to explode, based on promises and hype they see in ads and e-mails. They start trading and realize it doesn’t work this way. The purpose of these articles is to show you the trading strategies and tools that I personally use to trade my own account so that you can grow your own account systematically. Real money…real trades. Short Selling Put Options When short selling put options, a question people ask me is, “Okay, Markus, how do you decide what strike price do you want to sell and whether there’s enough premium in there?” I made a put options calculator called “The Wheel Calculator” that I gave away as part of my recent class on selling put options (Theta Kings) that helps me determine just that. This calculator is now also integrated within The PowerX Optimizer Software as well. Using my put options calculator, I can enter a few different figures and it quickly lets me know if this stock makes sense to sell put options on. I started a small account with $25,380, and have continued to grow it substantially. This was all done by selling put premium using my handy put options calculator! So let’s take a look at a few examples using the airlines. Here’s how you can quickly compare if an option makes sense to sell. So United Airlines UAL , at the time of this is trading at $31.08/share. So I’m going to take a look at the April 24th expiration and the $20 strike price. I’m thinking maybe it would be a good idea to sell the $20 United Airlines UAL put option. So now that I have the strike selected that I would like to sell put options on, let’s take a look at the premium these options have. This will let us know if this trade actually makes sense. Right now, the Bid/Ask is $0.74 over $0.87. So I probably can get $0.80 for selling this option. This is all I need to enter in my spreadsheet, along with the expiration. With the needed inputs entered into my handy dandy put options calculator it tells me, “United Airlines can drop 36% and you’ll still be okay.” It has to drop 36% before we get in trouble. I think that’s pretty good odds in my opinion. The cool thing is that it also says that based on my account size, I should buy 17 options, and I would collect $1,320 in premium. So this means that per day I would get $110 in premium. That’s not bad at all if I can make $100 on just one position. And I like to have 4 to 5 positions in my account at any given time. So based on the number of positions I like to have, this means that you can make $400 to $500 per day collecting premium. I like this a lot because it means annualized I would make 87%! 87% is nothing to sneeze at, right? Short Selling Put Options — American Airlines So now let’s do this same thing with another airline, American Airlines AAL , and see how the numbers look. So like we did with UAL , I’m looking at what strike price in relation to where AAL is trading would it make sense to sell. For American Airlines AAL it looks like probably the $8 strike price would make sense right here. You always want to do it below the previously established low. So let’s take a look at American Airlines AAL . The price right now is $12.26. the options strike price, we said we’d probably have to look at is $8. Here we’re able to collect $0.35 per contract at the $8 strike price. And you see, I could actually, since American Airlines is so cheap, buy 41 options based on my account size. So 41 options and I would collect $1,444 in premium. This means I would get $120. That’s not bad at all. And you see, American Airlines AAL also can drop 35% and we would still be OK. We only get in trouble if American Airlines over the next 15 days drops more than 35%. Possible? Yes. This is why you should always be willing to own the stock. And this is why you want to make sure that you’re not getting in trouble. You need to adjust your position size based on your account. Here obviously, I don’t want to trade two airlines because if airlines are crashing, they probably all do. With that said, let’s take a look at Boeing AAL . Boeing Example I like trading Boeing. I'm looking at a Boeing AAL chart to see where might be a good level here to sell Boeing. Based on where AAL is trading at right now, it looks like $100 would be a good level to take a look at. Let’s first try a strike price of $100, shall we? For $100 we get probably a $1.55 right here, with Boeing AAL trading right now at $150. So if we were to sell the $100 put option on AAL , we are looking to make $1.55/contract. And you see, this means that Boeing AAL could drop 33%, so we’re good here. However, we can only buy three options. Why? Because Boeing AAL is really expensive. So if we would have to buy Boeing at $100, this is when it gets expensive, right? So you see, the strike prices here are much, much, much lower. This is where you see I would only trade three not to overextend myself. And that’s very important when you’re selling puts. You want to make sure that you’re not overextending yourself because otherwise, you’ll get margin calls. Margin calls are ugly. A margin call means that your broker tells you, “I want more money.” You want to avoid that at all costs! Because if you don’t have the money, you would have to sell the stock at a price that you don’t want. Usually, this is how you can wipe out an account. Anyhow, you see this is how we would only make $43 a day. Let me ask you, what would you rather make? $110 to $120 per day? Or $43 per day? I don’t know about you, but for me, these are better. So it’s very easy to quickly compare which options you should be trading when you’re selling puts. One of my favorite trading strategies right now is selling puts. This is what you have seen in the past few examples. My goal is to make $400 to $500 per day by doing so. The best days to sell puts is on a down day. On a down day, the VIX is usually shooting up and options premiums are higher. This is exactly what you’re looking for as a premium seller. For experienced options traders, selling put option premium in an environment like this can be a great way to consistently generate income, even if the stock doesn’t do exactly what you want. I hope this helps!
NASDAQ:UALEducation
by rockwelltrading
1
LET GO INTO THE MIND OF SHORT SELLERS!LET GO INTO THE MIND OF SHORT SELLERS! Short-sellers borrow a security and sell the security into the open market at a high price and expect to buy it back eventually at a lower price and will profit the difference as a capital gain. Short-sellers watch the security and wait for an opportunity to initiate their trade. Short sellers place their bets when the security price is most vulnerable. Short sellers know when to stay out of the market. They stay out of the security when the security's price is going higher. Short selling happens quickly and hard because they have a loan that must be repaid; therefore, they must cover their short position quickly. They short sell when the long-term investors are fearful, restless, when the long-term investors are weak and when unexpected news is announced for example like a bad earning report. Short sellers also enter the market when long traders liquidate their position to take profits. On Dec 9, 2020, I published an article claiming that TSLA Telsa, Inc makes a high that week to $652.32 and stated I think the stock is due for a short-term correction soon because the price is moving too fast. Indeed, TSLA Telsa, Inc. had a quick correction. The short-term correction is visible on the hourly chart of TSLA Telsa, Inc above. The stock opened on Dec 9, 2020, with an all-time high of $653.28. The stock price quickly dropped to a low of around $606.48 as of the market close on Dec 9, 2020. The next day on Dec 10, 2020, the stock hits the low price of $566.34. 11.13% profit for short sellers in one day is not bad. This is a perfect example of short-sellers shorting a stock and long traders profit-taking causing the stock price to drop significantly. On the same day, the stock reversed direction and continued higher and closed the day at $627.07 (as of market close on December 10, 2020). The combined actions of short-sellers covering and long traders looking for a bargain quickly reversed the short-term correction and the price of TSLA Telsa, Inc continued with the current uptrend and closed today at $694.78 (as of market close on December 30, 2020). Thank you for reading! Remember to click "Like" and "Follow!" Happy New Year! Greenfield Disclosure: Chart interpreted by Greenfield. Just a market opinion by Greenfield Analysis LLC for only educational purposes. This is not a recommendation. Greenfield Analysis LLC has no investment in any of the securities mentioned in the article, and no plan to initiate a trade in any of the securities mentioned. Greenfield does not receive any compensation for this writing. Investment involves substantial risk. You should consider carefully before making an investment. Investment at your own risk.
NASDAQ:TSLA
by GreenfieldAnalysis
4
Magic fib selling short opportunityWe hold 0.618 Fib level(yellow circle) 46.80€ from the 53.35€(10 Jul 20) high and 36.20€(04 Sep 20) low also we rejected at 1.618 Fib level (yellow circle) 63.95€ From this point we made currently new lower lows. I expect that we testing 0.618 Fib level (turquoise circle) 49.40€ and if we hold this zone my longterm target would be: 67.75€ 1.618 Fib level. 4H Chart: 1H Chart: Sell Limit(Short): 61.10€ – 61.60€ (supply zone) Take Profit-1: 51.95€ (Risk Reward Ratio: 4.7) Take profit-2: 49.70€ (Risk Reward Ratio: 5.8) (demand zone) Stop Loss: Above 62.85€(63.40€)
XETR:HFGShort
by UnknownUnicorn2089696
GLD is clearly in a correction! GLD is clearly in a correction! Please allow me to elaborate more on an earlier article on "GLD Current Correction" on December 8, 2020. Just some thoughts on GLD SPDR Gold Trust Gold Shares NPV current correction, GLD probed the new high price of $194.20 (as of market close on Aug 3, 2020, per the weekly chart). The weekly chart of GLD SPDR Gold Trust Gold Shares NPV shows the security is currently in a correction. The correction started on Aug 3, 2020, to Friday, December 11, 2020, per the weekly chart. According to The Elliott Wave Principle, the principle tells us that five waves move in the direction of the main trend, and three waves that will follow that is a correction. I have marked the three phases of the current correction for GLD SPDR Gold Trust Gold Shares NPV with A B C. The current bullish trendline is also marked with a green linear line. Previously, I mentioned that if the price plunge below the major bullish trendline around $165.65, then there is a higher probability for a further correction. Why? One of the reason is because of human psychology. If that happens in the future, bears are more likely to feel more confident and will short sell this security more. Please note I just one to mention the subject of human psychology. There are many more reasons. Previously, I also mentioned that the current volume is low. Volume is low according to the weekly chart. I also mentioned that this security may retest the previous price level of $183.69. That is a possibility. Included is the MACD Moving Average Convergence Divergence indicator. To summarize, MACD Moving Average Convergence Divergence is a trend-following momentum indicator. The weekly chart is showing the indicator MACD at a major point. Will MACD reverse the current trend or continue lower? This is a big discussion and I think I will save that for sometime later. To summarize, GLD is clearly in a correction phase! MACD Moving Average Convergence Divergence is at a major stage. Will GLD resume the current uptrend or will the current correction continue further? That is up to the market's final decision and let leave that for another discussion and many further interpretations. Thank you for reading! Please click Like and click Follow to see more. Greenfield Disclosure: Just an educational market opinion by Greenfield Analysis. This is not a recommendation. Greenfield Analysis has no investment in any of the securities mentioned in the article, no plan to initiate a trade in any of the securities mentioned, and does not receive any compensation for this market opinion.
AMEX:GLD
by GreenfieldAnalysis