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Strategy for a New Leg Down

TECHNICAL VIEW . Written Tuesday, September 16th, 2008 A New Bear Mark et Leg Down Likely Starting! Schwartz Strategy. Right at the close yesterday, the Dow Industrials dropped sharply going from -400 points down to -500 points down, closing at 10,917...

Published Tue, Sep 09 2008 9:18 AM by Richard Schwartz

Filed under: Principles of the Stock Market, Richard Schwartz, ETFs, Trading, Shorting, Technical View, Charting, Keys to the Market, The Principle of Primary Trend, Day to Day Action, Perspective, Extended Bear Markets, Market Corrections, Papa Bears, The Principle of Technical Analysis, Trading Rules, The Principle of Proper Money Management, Bear Market Legs, Stock Market, S&P 500, Dow Industrials, S&P Midcap, Stock Market Media, Bear Markets, Charts, Nasdaq Composite, ProFunds, Inverse Funds, Rydex, Short ETFs, Short Selling, Real Economy
Potential Rally Remains on Tightrope

TECHNICAL VIEW . Written Friday, August 1st, 2008: 6:30 a.m. EST With the S&P 500 closing just above it’s week ago Wednesday’s close this past Wednesday and the Nasdaq Composite following suit, we have a series of higher lows and higher...

Published Fri, Aug 08 2008 8:49 AM by Richard Schwartz

Filed under: Principles of the Stock Market, Richard Schwartz, Trading, Shorting, Technical View, Charting, Bullish Signs, Day to Day Action, Portfolio Strategy, Market Corrections, Mama Bears, Papa Bears, Trades, The Principle of Technical Analysis, Rallies, Trading Rules, Trends, The Principle of Proper Money Management, Trend Reversals, Trading Volume, Distribution Days, Bear Market Rally, Shake Outs, Intermediate Corrections, Bear Market Rallies, Stock Market, Big Picture, Trendlines, Bear Markets, Chart Patterns, Charts, Trade, Big Picture View, Shorts, Follow-Through Day, Short Selling
IBD 100 Weekly: Two Ways to Profit

IBD 100 VIEW . Usually I report to you the ‘new names’ in the weekly IBD 100 list of leading companies, those companies outperforming most other stocks in price and with good fundamentals and earnings and revenues. With the idea that there...

Published Tue, Jul 07 2008 8:22 AM by Richard Schwartz

Filed under: Principles of the Stock Market, Richard Schwartz, Trading, Technical View, Investing Strategies, Charting, Bullish Signs, Keys to the Market, IBD 100 'New Names', Portfolio Strategy, Historical Perspectve, Trades, The Principle of Relative Strength, The Principle of Technical Analysis, Investment Themes, Stock Market Lessons, Investor's Business Daily, Bear Market Legs, Cramer, Stock Market, Credit Crisis, Financial Media, Charts, Bullish on America, Lifestyle, Model Portfolios, Profit, Industry Ranking, MAD MONEY, First Mover Advantage, IBD 100
Respect The Bear But Nibble On Energy Savers

MORE RECOMMENDATIONS ON MY NEW ENERGY SAVERS THEME On Friday, June 13 th , I began a new investment theme, what I called the Energy Savings (Savers) Theme . Essentially a new theme is when some macro force is seen as boosting a whole group of companies...

Published Tue, Jul 07 2008 8:52 AM by Richard Schwartz

Filed under: Principles of the Stock Market, Richard Schwartz, Clean Energy, Trading, Green Energy, Green Investing, Alternative Energy, US Economy, Charting, The Principle of Primary Trend, Portfolio Strategy, Perspective, Oil, Extended Bear Markets, The Big Picture, Investment Themes, Stock Market Lessons, The Principle of Proper Money Management, The Principle of Understanding Value, Energy Conservation, Battery Technology, Economic Common Sense, Stock Market, Energy, CPST, CHP, BCON, Power Conversion, WGOV, Energy Savings, Energy Controls, MXWL, COMV, Alternative Clean Green, ITRI, ENOC, BMI, Economic Trends, Chart Patterns, Charts, Bullish on America, Natural Gas, Foreign Oil Dependency, Lifestyle, AMSC, ALTI
Technicals Suggest, Not Guarantee, Rally Is Over.

UPDATE ON THE STOCK MARKET . Written Friday, May 23rd, 2008: 6:30 a.m. Stocks normally bounce after two or three days of sharp declines. And the size and cope of a bounce is telling. So yesterday’s “bounce” proved disappointing. For...

Published Fri, May 05 2008 9:36 AM by Richard Schwartz

Filed under: Principles of the Stock Market, Richard Schwartz, Trading, Technical View, Charting, Keys to the Market, Day to Day Action, Update On The Stock Market, Daily Update, 4-Day Rule, Extended Bear Markets, Market Corrections, Tops, Trades, The Principle of Technical Analysis, Rallies, Trading Rules, The Principle of Proper Money Management, 4-Day Corollary Rule, Trader Vic, Vic Sperandeo, Sequences, Moving Averages, Stock Trader's Almanac, Breadth, Trading Volume, Distribution Days, Investor's Business Daily
4, 5, 6, 7 Straight Days! Sequences Can Turn Trends

UPDATE ON THE STOCK MARKET . Written, Tuesday, May 20th, 2008: 6:30 a.m. Another one of those turnaround stock market days yesterday. At 2 p.m. things looked great but then stocks reversed downward and by the close there were more stocks down than up...

Published Tue, May 05 2008 1:28 PM by Richard Schwartz

Filed under: Principles of the Stock Market, Richard Schwartz, Trading, Technical View, Charting, Keys to the Market, Dow Transports, Day to Day Action, Update On The Stock Market, 4-Day Rule, Commodity Bull Market, Portfolio Strategy, Tops, Trades, The Principle of Technical Analysis, Rallies, Rising Wedge, Trading Rules, Trends, Trend Reversals
Uptrend Channels Remain In Charge; Rising Wedges Psychology Wrong

TECHNICAL VIEW . Written Wednesday, May 14, 2008: I may have been seeing clouds in the sky when there weren’t any. The near term bearish Rising Wedges in a bunch of market indices I wrote about last Thursday don’t seem to have really followed...

Published Thu, May 05 2008 9:47 AM by Richard Schwartz

Filed under: Principles of the Stock Market, Richard Schwartz, Trading, Technical View, Charting, Keys to the Market, Day to Day Action, Higher Higher & Higher Lows, Daily Update, Portfolio Strategy, The Principle of Technical Analysis, Rising Wedge, UPtrend Channels
A "Line" Tells the Tale

UPDATE ON THE STOCK MARKET . Wednesday, April 9th, 2008 Another day of compacted volatility (is that an oxymoron?) yesterday. This time on the lowest daily trading volume in 2008. Thus the stock market continues to draw, in Wall Street jargon, a “line...

Published Wed, Apr 04 2008 9:25 AM by Richard Schwartz

Filed under: Principles of the Stock Market, Richard Schwartz, Trading, Technical View, Charting, Keys to the Market, Day to Day Action, Update On The Stock Market, Daily Update, Perspective, A Line
A "Line" Begins to Form

UPDATE ON THE STOCK MARKET . Tuesday, April 8 th , 2008 : Yesterday was the 4 th day in a row the stock market traded essentially flat. I believe we’re now building what the old timers called “a line.” Just means compacted trading action on lower trading...

Published Tue, Apr 04 2008 8:57 AM by Richard Schwartz

Filed under: Principles of the Stock Market, Richard Schwartz, Trading, Technical View, Charting, Keys to the Market, Day to Day Action, Update On The Stock Market, Daily Update, Historical Perspectve, Perspective, A Line
Time Frame Strategies

PORTFOLIO STRATEGY: Monday, March10th, 2008 One Schwartz Rule that I’ve developed from my INVALUABLE day-trading experience of a couple years back is to SELL EARLY! , which led to the corollary rule to BUY EARLY! which has now morphed into the all purpose...

Published Wed, Mar 03 2008 1:29 PM by Richard Schwartz

Filed under: Principles of the Stock Market, Richard Schwartz, ETFs, Trading, Shorting, Green Investing, Soft Commodities, Charting, The Principle of Primary Trend, Day to Day Action, Portfolio Strategy, Schwartz Rules
Update: Wednesday, March 5th, 2008

UPDATE ON THE STOCK MARKET . The bulls are now on CNBC saying it’s too late to sell. I beg to differ since I can’t figure out why it’s too late to sell. Maybe because some portfolios are already down big, -15% or more. But that still doesn’t mean they...

Published Thu, Mar 03 2008 9:52 AM by Richard Schwartz

Filed under: Principles of the Stock Market, Richard Schwartz, Trading, Technical View, Charting, Keys to the Market, Market Bottoms, Day to Day Action, Distribution, Update On The Stock Market
Tradable Rally?

TECHNICAL VIEW . Investor’s Business Daily (IBD) has put the bull back in the box, yesterday the S&P Mid Cap index became the first index to post a higher high, after posting a higher low, and stocks stopped going down five weeks ago. Plus, as I wrote...

Published Wed, Feb 02 2008 9:07 AM by Richard Schwartz

Filed under: Principles of the Stock Market, Richard Schwartz, Trading, Charting, Bullish Signs, Keys to the Market, Market Bottoms, Day to Day Action, Higher Higher & Higher Lows, Daily Update, 4-Day Rule
4-Day Rule Kicking In?

UPDATE ON THE STOCK MARKET . Wednesday, February 27th, 2008 We’re back to three days up in row , hoping today proves to be another up day, the fourth in a sequence, triggering Trader Vic’s bullish 4-Day Rule . In spite of more bad economic data yesterday...

Published Wed, Feb 02 2008 9:03 AM by Richard Schwartz

Filed under: Principles of the Stock Market, Richard Schwartz, Trading, Technical View, Seasonal View, Investing Strategies, Charting, Keys to the Market, Market Bottoms, Day to Day Action, Update On The Stock Market, Daily Update, 4-Day Rule
Daily Update

UPDATE ON THE STOCK MARKET . Tuesday, February 26th, 2008: Yesterday stocks were buoyed by further hopeful news about saving the vital AAA rating of the two big bond insurers, MBIA and Ambac . A report indicating such late Friday afternoon first helped...

Published Wed, Feb 02 2008 8:38 AM by Richard Schwartz

Filed under: Principles of the Stock Market, Richard Schwartz, Trading, Technical View, Investing Strategies, Charting, Market Bottoms, Day to Day Action, Update On The Stock Market, Daily Update
Symmetrical Triangles

Thursday, February 21st, 2008: There are now sideways or Symmetrical Triangle chart formations in place in the Dow, the S&P, the Nasdaq, the S&P Mid and Small Cap indices. These patterns occur when uncertainty prevails and just show sideways action...

Published Thu, Feb 02 2008 9:11 AM by Richard Schwartz

Filed under: Principles of the Stock Market, Richard Schwartz, Trading, Technical View, Charting, Keys to the Market, Day to Day Action

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