Hey Market Pilots,We finally got the pullback I have been looking for, but this is only the beginning. We had a dip on July 8, but that dip was bought and price did not get rejected by the 15-minute, 50 simple moving average (SMA). This moving average is what I use to initially see where a move is going. While I was looking for it on July 9, it didn’t happen and therefore no short trade. Then we got another break last week on July 15 and this put price … Read more

Have you heard this? “The market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent.” This idea sure seems to be ringing true for anyone trying to short the market lately. I am also in the “how is the market staying up” camp, but I have made it a general rule of mine to not go short. Therefore while I am watching the indexes, primarily the QQQ continue to reach new highs day after day, I am astonished by the movement but not doing anything about it. What makes this … Read more

Hey Market Pilots, The old saying “you can’t see the forest through the trees” means that sometimes you are too close to see the bigger picture. When you are in the middle of the trees, you can only see for a short distance and you don’t know if you are in a massive rain forest or just a small patch of foliage. The same can be said for stocks. If you are down on the five-minute chart trading all day, you may forget the bigger picture of what the stock … Read more

Hey Market Pilots, The weeks leading up to the 4th of July are typically seasonally bullish and this was true for the S&P 500 (SPY) and Invesco QQQ (Nasdaq exchange traded fund), and a handful of stocks. But for the rest of the market, we actually saw a lot of names sink to the downside. It was frustrating to be right on the market sentiment, but tackling the wrong set of names for the week. Now that the holiday has passed, the opportunity to catch meaningful longs has also passed. It … Read more

Hey Market Pilots, Good news, the S&P 500 (SPY) and Invesco QQQ (Nasdaq exchange traded fund) have been hitting new all-time highs. This reinforces the stance I had that the SPY move down in mid-June was just a dip. It was a little intense at the time, but I definitely wasn’t communicating anything bearish to the Moxie IndicatorTM subscribers. It’s always great to hear about the market reaching new highs, but it can make me a bit nervous, too. This is because there is always a pullback lurking somewhere and … Read more

Hey Market Pilots, It has been a long few months since we have seen the small caps set up strong. The Moxie IndicatorTM subscribers had a really great run with small caps from November to February and then they all pulled back. Some small caps really imploded ─ or at least that’s what it looked like on the lower time frames. However, if you step back and zoom out, many of the stocks I follow really just pulled back to support on their monthly and weekly time frames. These are … Read more

Hey Market Pilots, Timing is pretty important in trading. I am sure it is even more important when dealing with options since they have a specific time value associated with them. Either way, you can be right about a trend or the overall performance of a stock, but if you enter or exit at the wrong time your returns can be hampered. This is something I had to deal with last week. I could see the kind of patterns and formations setting up on the weekly time frame for my … Read more

Hey Market Pilots, With the big move down in the markets toward the end of last week, price got stretched and when this happens there is always a bounce at some point. The first bounce is usually pretty easy to spot, but the real question is what happens after this point. In the screenshot below, you can see that there was a gap between price and the daily 8 exponential moving average (EMA). Price doesn’t like to be too far away from moving averages for too long, and the 8 … Read more

Hey Market Pilot, We had the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) release its minutes yesterday, June 16 Market reaction caused the dollar to move up strongly and precious metals were hit with a sell-off. Then we woke up today to find each of those moves continued in extreme fashion overnight. The extent of the moves is surprising, but the fact they are doing what they are doing is not as I had been guiding the Moxie IndicatorTM subscribers about these in detail over the last few weeks. The dollar had … Read more

Hey Market Pilot, A few weeks ago numerous names were starting to shape up exactly as I needed them to take advantage of this market. It was exciting to see them come alive in the Moxie IndicatorTM way and I began telling my subscribers about them. Because I have definable setups and patterns, I could instruct them as to what phase of the setup tickers were and generally what to expect. This way, when the move started to gather some steam, we all knew when to exit with a profit … Read more