Recent content by fercabr

That depends on the time-frame you trade. I only trade intraday (1 min / 5 min timeframes) and do not take my positions overnight, but that´s just me. The bullish bias helps me to decide if I should favor long position or short positions and how fast I should take profits from those positions...

Trade Review - EMC - May, 30 Stock Selection Information EMC increases the size of its buyback program to $6B (authorized over three years to December 2015) and says it plans to repurchase $3.5B worth of common stock by the end of FQ2 2014. The company also initiates a quarterly dividend of...

Trade Review - SFD - May, 29 Stock Selection Information 1-) Heard during Smithfield Foods' (SFD) conference call: Execs say the sale to a Chinese company is "good news" for the pork industry as a major U.S.-based food company ties in with an extensive Chinese distribution network. They also...

Trade Review - MRK - May, 28 Stock Selection Information 1-) UPDATE: Jefferies Upgrades Merck to Buy, Raises PT Following SOTP Analysis 2-) Three Big Pharma upgrades: Jefferies takes Merck (MRK) and Bayer (BAYRY.PK) to Buy from Hold and Deutsche Bank lifts GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) to Buy from...

Daily AM Prep - May, 28 SPY (chart) - Market is gaping up and markets around the world are green, but so far, not many trading opportunities were identified. Long Term Bias: Neutral Bullish Short Term Bias: Bullish For more and stock selection, check this link.

Daily PM Prep - May, 24 SPY (chart) - Not much had changed from the morning preparation comment. The most expected scenario so far has happened, with the SPY trading in an inside day. Morning was the best time to trade today. Fewer opportunities in the afternoon. Check out the stock selection

Daily AM Prep - May, 24 SPY (chart) - Yesterday market gap open down, but bounce up. Today another gap down, opening at the potential point of control (POC). This gap down suggest a selling pressure. Markets around the world are not strong, so on a short term bias, we are bearish. A lot of good...

Trade Review - HPQ - May, 23 Stock Selection Information 1-)The broad selloff isn't touching H-P ([[HPQ]] +14.2%) following last night's earnings. Jefferies' Peter Misek weighs in with an upgrade from Sell to Hold. He praises H-P for having the discipline to sacrifice PC market share to retain...

Daily PM Prep - April, 09 Strange market to trade this afternoon. I´ll focus on just a few stocks. SPY (chart) - Market opened on a gap down move, but failed to go lower. The potential point of control at 164.50 held the down movement. The next resistance to the up move is the lower band of...

Daily AM Prep - May, 23 World Markets News: Asian markets finished sharply lower today with shares in Japan leading the region. European markets are sharply lower today with shares in Germany off the most. This is a very relevant move down SPY (chart) - Yesterday market made an unfair high...

Trade Review - BMY - May, 22 Stock Selection Information Benzinga's Top Upgrades Citi upgrades Bristol-Myers Squibb (BMY) to Buy from Neutral and raises its price target to $55 from $33 saying the company's "very broad checkpoint agent [is] positioned to capture a very significant share of an...

May, 22 - Afternoon Preparation SPY (chart) - The short-term range we talked about in the morning preparation was broken up, suggesting the continuation of the up movement. The target for this break was the projection of the range to the upside (reached today). Long Term Bias: Bullish Short...

"Tranding" is a type mistake from someone who´s first language is portuguese. Thanks for the correction, but unfortunatelly the forum does not allow me to re-edit the post. regards

May, 22 - Morning Preparation SPY (chart)- On a long term prospective we are bullish until the channel is broken to the down side. There is a potential point of control at 163.75, that is also a support zone. On a shorter time frame a smaller range was formed. Long Term Bias: Bullish Short...

May, 21 morning and afternoon preparation Morning Prep SPY (click here for the chart) - Will the expected correction come today? World markets are mixed, so there is a greater chance for that to happen today. No big news to be released. So here are the possibilities I see: 1 - Market making a...