Who are the major holders of U.S. equities?

Two nice looking charts!

Waiting patiently and ready for a turnaround!

Reminder: The information contained herein is for educational purposes only and is not, and should not be construed as an offer to hold, sell or an offer to buy any securities.

Hanging around 200 dma.

It could rally from oversold levels, but waiting for stocks to set up proper low risk buy points is prudent thing to do. Patience.

Look at a new ipo.

 LNKD traded over 120 four weeks ago. This is why it's good to wait, rather than act on the hype, for the proper base to form before taking a position.

What to expect in the week ahead of us.

The week after a triple witching week almost always sucks.  Since the first quarter of 2000, only 13 of 40 weeks after a triple witching week were positive, none of these were after a June triple witching week however.
The June stats are really bad.
The week after a June Triple Witching Week has been negative for the Dow Jones Industrials 19 out of the last 19 years.
June is ranked as only the 10th best month for the S&P 500 historically and the 11th best for the Dow.

Personal optimization.

Trust is the very basis of the human social contract.
It's what keeps human beings working smoothly together.
It's what enables us to open our hearts to each other.

I hope you benefit from the training, and pass that benefit forward.

http://www.robbinsmadanestraining.com/freetraining/webinar/video2.php

S&P-500 Now.

Getting close to March lows and possible support area around 1250 level. Possible turnaround this week. As always, wait for the market to confirm your judgement before you act.

Rolling over into correction mode.

You can tell the weakness of a market by the way it rallies not by the way it declines. 

Staying in cash and out of the market is a strategy.

The one technique that most traders fail to learn and use is that no trade is often the best trade. When it comes to the market, there will always be another opportunity, so a lost opportunity is not nearly as damaging as a loss in capital from overtrading. You don't have to have a trade on all the time.

                       

Change.

It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the ones most responsive to change. 

-Charles Darwin

Charles Darwin

Remember!

          This, too, shall pass.

Remember!

Staying in cash and out of the market IS a strategy. 
You do not have to trade!

Personal Optimization.

Find out what you love to do, what you are good at, and then find ways to get paid for it.


Check this document, Managing Oneself.


http://robbinsmadanestraining.com/Documents/managingoneself-1.pdf  

Awareness.

Awareness. Prerequisite for successful trading.

follow up, ung,

Good volume on break-out, now we need confirmation and continuation of the move.

Thoughts About A Proven Strategy, Long Only Strategy.

While staying out of bear markets is a good strategy, one should still keep their eye on the markets by running screens and keeping a watch list of stocks that may be bucking the downtrend in the general market. I maintain such a list then when the risk model switches back to a buy signal, I have stocks that are issuing buy points which can then be bought. These are often the stocks that well outperform the major averages during the next uptrend

The next bull market's big leaders and hence best investment opportunities show their first positive characteristics during a market correction or outright bear market. As the market goes through its paces, declining as much as 15-20% or more during a bear phase, future leading stocks are often building sound price/volume bases at the same time they are steadily showing improving fundamentals, such as improving and/or accelerating earnings and sales growth, improving profitability, and an increasing institutional following. Pivot buy points, favorable price/volume characteristics, are often early clues of potential future strength in potential leaders.

What is your market personality ?

It's critical for traders to understand that when they take a position in a particular market, they are actually trading the "personality" of that market and not just the market itself. Each market is made up of individual traders and systems that trade in a particular way. This is why some markets are better for momentum trading, while others are better for fading, and while still others are best to avoid at specific times of day due to all the arbitrage.

Before trying to master the market, be sure you are the master of yourself.

No matter what happens to you, you must be completely accountable for your results. That’s the only way you can learn from the markets.

follow up, cgw

Looks like it found support here, notice volume.

follow up, ung

Breaking through the trendline on good volume.

Sell orders are coming in and we are back in the range.

This is very frustrating market, and in periods like this many traders give up on market and than the market makes a big move. In trading many times the best action is no action. Patience and discipline required here.