Author: Scott Welsh

Red Light, Green Light

And this is why the market’s been in such a constrictive channel. With the SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust (SPY) as a proxy, if the market gets bullish, it stops and turns around at $416 level. There just isn’t enough good news to push it through.

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How to Handle Winners

Some traders are great at buying no-name stocks way down in price and love holding them until they’re profitable. They have no problem waiting years.

But dealing with a stock that’s a rocket ship from the get-go can drive those traders mad. They have no idea what to do with a big winner. Sell now? Buy more on a pull-back? It can keep them up at night.

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