Archive for July, 2010

  • Coming Off Overbought Levels
    Posted by Leigh Drogen on July 16th, 2010 at 9:55 am, Comments: 0

    The market is pulling back off very overbought levels today as expected.  The bulls need to hold the line above SPY 107 for the next week or so to get me interested on the long side.  If….if…..if that happens and we see a high volume move to the upside, I will add heavily to the [...]

  • Now We See What This Market Is Made Of
    Posted by Leigh Drogen on July 15th, 2010 at 9:51 am, Comments: 0

    The market has run into some important resistance levels the past few days and after more disturbing economic reports this morning has rolled over pretty hard.  We are down to test the rising 5 day moving average, an important level.  This level also corresponds to a gap fill from the open on the 13th.  The [...]

  • Momentum Book Update
    Posted by Leigh Drogen on July 11th, 2010 at 9:48 am, Comments: 0

    Rough market.  Staying small and extremely agile continues to be of utmost importance.  It’s been almost three full months since more than 25% of my capital was allocated on either side of this market.  In that time I’ve lost about 1% of absolute return.  For a market down more than 15% from the top, I’ll [...]

  • Building Shorts…Slowly
    Posted by Leigh Drogen on July 9th, 2010 at 11:34 am, Comments: 0

    I continue to build short positions today, slowly, as this market continues to see an underlying bid and drift to the upside.  I believe the drift will end soon as the dollar is poised to rally.  Europe has rallied hard the past few weeks as the bank stress test news has gotten under way.  I [...]

  • Focus On Your Setups
    Posted by Leigh Drogen on July 6th, 2010 at 3:07 pm, Comments: 0

    A quick piece of advice, but one that is extremely important to my trading.  With all the real time information we have at our fingertips today it’s hard not to get caught up in the minute to minute action of the market as a swing trader.  Yes, we must use the shorter time frames to [...]

  • Falling Dollar, Falling Crude, Falling Gold, Falling Equities?
    Posted by Leigh Drogen on July 1st, 2010 at 12:56 pm, Comments: 0

    Correlations got crushed this morning, which I believe is why we saw the sell off in equities.  Gold is getting smacked back down below the 50 day moving average along with the US Dollar index.  Crude is getting eviscerated for more than 4% breaking down out of its big bear flag. The economic numbers this morning were [...]