http://www.crowderoptions.com Patience, Position-Sizing and Proven Long-Term Performance Mon, 01 Feb 2010 00:08:50 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The market ended a disappointing January with a sharp loss as market participants questioned whether the U.S. economy could sustain its large 4th quarter growth rate. Furthermore, poor earnings in the technology sector left the market wary which led to sharp declines in the high beta arena. As a result the ... http://www.crowderoptions.com/market-very-oversold-short-term-bounce-imminent/ Tomorrow should provide a the fuel for a decent move tomorrow given the FOMC. I would guess that the short-term trading range that we have entered over the past few trading days should be breached with ease tomorrow given the technical situation. Trade today: I placed a trade at 9:58 this ... http://www.crowderoptions.com/market-trade-bound/ Based on several indicators I follow I decided to hold off on a trade this morning. The bulls had problems pushing the market higher, but were able to at least hold off a bearish push through what seems to be a decent area of support (QQQQ- $44.00 level). Again, I would ... http://www.crowderoptions.com/market-advances-slightly-remains-in-oversold-state/ As you can see from the overbought/oversold levels below the market has hit a short-term oversold extreme. The Wilder RSI (2) for both the NASDAQ 100 and the S&P 500 have both moved below 5 which means that the probability of a short-term bounce (1-3 days) looks imminent. What does this ... http://www.crowderoptions.com/market-hits-short-term-extreme/ The ETF Extremes had another successful trade today as it locked in a profit of 7.1%. This was the second trade this month and the prior trade saw a profit of 6.6%.So far the strategy is up 12.9% since we moved over to www.collective2.com. The win ratio over the last ... http://www.crowderoptions.com/strategy-reaps-another-gain/ As I stated earlier this past week, we had our first trade for 2010 in the ETF Extremes Options Strategy. The performance can be found at the following link: http://etfextremes.collective2.com. This is certainly a wonderful way to start out the New Year and continue the "patience pays" mentality of trading this ... http://www.crowderoptions.com/dow-overbought-etf-extremes-strategy-up-66-for-2010/ I placed the first trade of 2010 on January 5th on the www.collective2.com website. You can check out the performance so far on the former link. As  you  can see I had a small profit going into Thursday, but my profit target had not been met. As the week came to ... http://www.crowderoptions.com/first-trade-of-2010-in-the-etf-extremes/ I am hoping that 2010 will be a good year for www.crowderoptions.com. After taking a bit of a hiatus for personal reasons I am back with my flagship strategy, the ETF Extremes as well as a few other strategies that I will follow on this blog as well as autotrade ... http://www.crowderoptions.com/2010-new-strategies-old-strategies-and-collective2/ All of the major indices I follow have now moved into a short-term overbought state. Typically, this type of short-term state signals that a reprieve is highly probable sometime during the next 1-3 days. One thing that should be pointed out is that during the week of options expiration the market ... http://www.crowderoptions.com/short-term-reprieve-could-be-close/ The major benchmarks are sitting well within neutral territory, but I expect that to change as the week progresses. Friday will be the BIG DAY as the Nonfarm Payroll Report will be released and the market will certainly respond as it typically does after the release, with a sharp directional ... http://www.crowderoptions.com/trade-in-the-making/