#tradingtips Here’s my simple way of picking which stock to trade
This will help get you out of the “chop” and on the winning side of the move!
Let’s take a look at todays price action and show you how we nailed this amazing trade to start the week👇
$spy $qqq $iwm $nvda $amd
I start with 4-8 familiar names.
Stay patient! watch for a decent trend to present itself. Without a trend there is no pullback/dip buy, so relax and wait for it. There’s no rush
Entering before a trend has formed means you are predicting price action rather than playing off it
Look at the first 30 minutes of todays price action. Note the emas. $spy $qqq $nvda $amd all flat/choppy! There are no dip buys on flat price action.
Now look at $iwm, the 13ema is drifting smoothly away from the 48. This is what the start of a nice trend looks like
Now you have a stock with a decent trend to focus on, time to start focusing on your entry point. A pullback to the 13ema is that spot for me. Get in and ride the trend by trailing your stop
Watch a few of your favorite stocks✅
Focus on the one that has a decent trend✅
Buy the pullback✅
First trade on Monday morning and the team is already banking! That’s how you start the week 🔥
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Finding #stocks that have relative strength or weakness early is a huge help in trading!
Let’s take a look at these $meta trades from today as an example of how to find one to trade 👍
$spy $qqq $amd $nvda $iwm
I find weakness and strength on individual names by comparing them to the overall market or $spy, take a look at $meta off open. The first 10 minutes of trading it’s going straight down, slamming right through pm low, while spy is going sideways. This is a huge sign of weakness!
Next we see $spy start to rally, this brings $meta up through the 13ema to the first level of resistance I am watching which is yesterdays low of day. Any sign of weakness in the market at this point and meta is toast! This is where I start to look for an entry into puts
The first step to keep yourself from going against the trend is knowing the difference between a healthy pullback and a reversal
I use the 2 minute ema strategy from my page to gauge this
The circled areas here are pullbacks for you to enter and join the trend, not reversals!
Seeing a massive sell off like this on $amd most traders think the best play would be chasing the first green candle for reversal. Perfect example of fighting the trend
But If you use the ema strategy your first thought is look for the 13ema pullback to buy and join the trend
Finding trends like this one on $amd today are my main focus when trading. Here’s how I play them for maximum gains and minimal risk! Check it out 👇
My first entry was off the 200ema resistance (red line)
The 200 was nice support in premarket so now it was serving as nice resistance once it broke. My first target was the premarket low level ✅
My second entrance came after the pm low bounce. Seeing it hold the 13ema here is a great sign of a trend about to form. My next target was a big move to a new low of day ✅
Let’s start with flags again. There my favorite, easy to see and play plus we see a lot of them.
They are giving the stock a chance to breath and reset after a strong move up or down. Wait for them to break then buy the retest at the key ema to catch the next move!
Head and shoulders. I don’t really play these much as they are a form of chop on an intraday level.
Occasionally they line up with the emas for a nice play, but other than that I usually stay away. I prefer to trade a trend
A good trading strategy should allow you to be a profitable trader with a win rate of 50% minimum!
If you take 2 trades (1 winner and 1 loser) you should end the day green. Here’s an example from today, and why keeping loses small is so important!
$spy $qqq $fb $amd
This first play is $qqq
It checked all the boxes for my strategy.
We get an ema cross down ✅
Below the 200ema ✅
Retest the 13ema for safe entry✅
I entered the trade and let it work by raising my stop loss. Secured an average gain of 50%
Then we get a similar setup with $fb
The emas were not in alignment for me to consider it A+ but still felt it was worth the R/R. So I entered on the 13ema pullback just as before, went green for a minute then rallied up. Cut the trade for a -15% loss
Let’s take a look at what some of these common chart patterns look like on a real chart, and how we can fit them into our own trading strategies to add confidence to our trades 🤙
$spy $qqq $tsla $amd $fb $nvda
Bull and Bear flags are a favorite of mine. It’s no coincidence they usually break right at our key ema resistance/support levels. Seeing this gives me a lot of confidence that the trend is strong and buying the dip/pullback is safe
These triangle patterns can be used the same way as flags. They add confirmation to a dip/pullback buy.
They are essentially telling you that we are getting higher lows into ema support on uptrend, or lower highs into ema resistance on downtrend.