from the watch list ZNGA

follow up on RENN

weekly view

http://finviz.com/quote.ashx?t=RENN&ty=l&ta=0&p=d

the Swiss two-year went negative earlier today

follow up on RENN

http://finviz.com/quote.ashx?t=RENN&ty=l&ta=0&p=d

trading range is broken_

_further follow through price action confirmation below yesterday's low will put a bearish range break setup in motion

Happy Easter

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elite traders

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bears are coming out

Bears are suggesting that the top is in and we are set for an April crush, but we'll focus on price action itself which still remains within the range (see blog below regarding the trading range).  If this rally is done, the range must be broken first.
Next week earnings season begins and together with this correction will set the stage for some new trading opportunities.

FOCUS ON S&P cash 1400 AREA

S&Ps 1400 HAS BEEN A PSYCHOLOGICAL SUPPORT ON RECENT BREAKS

some interesting chart patterns

flags b/o

                                stair stepping trend then channel

                     

mr. HG breaking TL

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Looking for a break of this tight trading range_

_ and any subsequent follow through. The biggest opportunities will occur when we begin to trade out of the range and ether succeed and begin to accelerate or_we trade outside the range, fail, and trade toward the opposite side.

incongruous

"Man, because he sacrifices his health in order to make money. Then he sacrifices money to recuperate his health. Then he is so anxious about the future that he does not enjoy the present; the result being that he does not live in the present or the future; he lives as if he is never going to die, and then he dies having never really lived."

-Dalai Lama

Fed stimulus games

Traders can learn from Edison.

The average person would have quit at the first failure. That’s why there have been many average men and only one Edison.

"Thomas Edison once observed that the reason most folks don’t recognize opportunity when it comes knocking is that it is often dressed in coveralls and looks like work. Edison knew that anything worthwhile never comes easily; if it were easy, anyone could do it. Because he persisted far beyond the point the average person would consider reasonable and rational, he produced inventions that even the most learned people of the day considered impossible. Great advances in knowledge are often achieved by people with an almost fanatical devotion to finding the solution to a problem. Flashes of inspiration alone are not enough to ensure success; they must be followed by determined, persistent action." -Napoleon Hill

_highly recommended book_ "Think And Grow Rich"_ it could change your life

watch S&Ps cash 1400 area_it is an important psychological level

@_ Be aware of window dressing over the next three days as fund managers reconfigure their portfolios for the end of first quarter.

There are two kind of trades_

_there are winning trades and there are learning trades.


Maturing as a trader involves deep desire to be one, discipline, focus and the ability to make decisions. How do you get to this point? Make decisions and learn from them! I openly admit that I have made lots of mistakes in the market, and I still make mistakes. Thankfully, I’ve learned from them and now try my best to minimize those mistakes. The key is to make a decision without worrying that you might be wrong. As long as you learn from it, you can correct it the next time. Again, just make the decision, and make the money or learn from it. Wash, rinse and repeat.

Common sense isn't common. The crowd is invariably wrong at the extremes.

The plan remains the same

RE_READ YESTERDAY'S POST

markets now

The short-lived pullback and subsequent reversal didn’t do much other than perhaps work off some of the overbought condition on Monday. As of this morning, we don’t have any new patterns to work with other than the overall trend, and while yesterday’s pullback failed to do much damage, it still invalidated Monday's breakout for Russell which is still important. While this divergence does not take priority over the continued strong price action, the bulls still needs to see that breakout occur as it will provide confirmation and increase overall probability that we will see the S&Ps rally extend itself back to the 2007 / 2008 highs.

While the market held firm again in yesterday’s weak pullback attempt, the intraday price action has become too difficult to navigate profitably as pattern failures are becoming more common in the whippy, low-volume, program-controlled action. This provides us a small tell that we could be starting to transition into a different environment than what we’ve seen, so must have patience here and use selective positioning until we have some better patterns to work with beyond just the intraday setups that come our way.