I always start with our options market dashboard to look at the statistics table. I sort it by delta premiums which gives me the most bullish and bearish flow for the day. This is my set!
$SNAP $CVS $AAPL $VIAC $NIO
I pick the top 10 most bullish and bearish stocks in the list and search them on Scany.
For the purpose of this thread, let's just pick $AMAT and $CVS since I just went over them.
Searching them on Scany gives us some more important information about the stocks.
Looking at $CVS, I can see we had a daily breakout here. Looking at the chart, the breakout was there but it failed by the day end. However, it's easy to see that the price is at an all time high and has been trying to break the resistance level. That is good.
Continuing with $CVS here. I usually spend some time looking at other confluence factors to make me more confident. Looking at daily block trades, we can see that $CVS had a surge in the last few days.
Some might be buying a lot of shares here.
That's all the confluence I need. I am happy with the setup here since plenty of things are supporting it.
- Flow is bullish
- Price is trying to break resistance.
- Large block trades
- About to be at all time highs.
Setup found! Just gotta wait now till we break resistance.
Let's do $AMAT now.
The stock went down for about 2-3 weeks but finally recovered and went above the 20 moving average. Stocks above their moving averages are always good.
Plus, this is in a strong uptrend as we can see from Scany. That's good too.
$AMAT also has great financials so this can be a long term hold for me. But I like the setup.
That's it for the beginners. This is a straightforward way you can use to find really good stocks for swing trading. In some other tutorial, I'll discuss intraday trading.
Let me know if you like these types of threads.
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I promised some charts today so here we go. All charts are found using our Scany tool and many of these tickers might not have a lot of hype but the price action is good and that's what you need these days.
$EOG broke long term downtrend on weekly chart. Noted added.
$IQ just broke out from a long term resistance here. We had an engulfing candle today (that's the scanner I used here) with increasing volume. All of these signs are very good. Might start a position here.
$BOX we had a beautiful breakout on weekly chart here and there was plenty of strength today as the price did not move down much. Good one.
Important thread on what I'm trying to do these days to reduce my risk.
FYI, Although down the last 2 weeks, I'm fortunately still up about 25% in my overall portfolio so if that helps take some of this advice seriously. Finally, it's just one man's opinion, I could be wrong.
1. Stop buying naked calls or puts. With how the market is hurting people, it's hard to time everything and buying naked calls and puts will incur you a lot more losses than doing something more risk-averse strategies.
2. I sold all my naked calls today for about 20-30% losses on every one of them. I'm putting all that money into cash secured puts for my favorite stocks. Right now, I've two for $SOS and $MARA. Why do I do that?
How to find potential plays using our Options Market Dashboard. A small & important thread.
1. First, take a look at the most bullish and bearish net premiums and find the top 3-5 candidates. $SQ $RKT $TSLA $AAPL are a few here. Keep an eye on those and look at live options flow
2. Next, go down and take a look at the cheaplies and leaps widgets. These are some of the most useful widgets you'll find on any website, period. $GM is doing well today, see if you can find it here.
Others are $RIO $NLS $XOM.
3. Next, go to the Most OTM widget - these are slightly risky candidates but their reward is also extremely high since these are far out of the money contracts with high volume. High volume is there to see if there's interest in it. Another extremely useful widget.
I've always wanted to build Tradytics into something that people can just use themselves and be profitable. I personally do not like explicit alerts but many new traders want them so we built tools.
However, I wish everyone starts learning to analyze options flow. 🙏
2/n Eventually, every trader realizes that they need to build their own strategy. They cannot just rely on alerts from others because even if those alerts are good, traders mostly suffer losses just because it's not their own thing.
3/n Services should always be used to couple your trading strategy. You can find "potential" plays by looking at other services but following them blindly doesn't lead to anything in my opinion.
How to find bottoms? When you see puts being sold for large premiums and short-term out-of-the-money calls, that is a strong indication that people think we have bottomed. Here's an example of $TSLA. See how there are tons of sold puts and bought calls >= 650.
How do we know whether puts and calls were bought or sold, that's what the side column tells you. Green means puts were sold and calls were bought and red means puts were bought and calls were sold.
Now you do see some 600 puts bought which might actually pan out eventually but their expiration is slightly farther away from the 650 puts sold and 700 calls bought.
Let's make a pact today and save each other from huge losses like $CCIV. No matter how much we like a company/stock, we will never buy when it's overextended from the 20 EMA? Who's in?
I've personally never done it already but I think new traders need to make this a rule. 🤝🤝
Look at the current price of $CCIV and see where it actually fell, right almost on the 20 EMA. This is why you never go in on extended stocks, because sooner or later, most of them fall back on moving averages. This single principle will save you from a lot of your big losses.
Both 20 and 50 moving averages becomes dynamic support levels that many stocks hold quite well especially the stocks in a good uptrend. Please please take care of your money and stop chasing. It will only bring you losses in the long run!