The Art of Morphing

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Every position is the right position when things go exactly as planned. Unfortunately, things do not often go exactly as planned in the market. When all goes right, it is easy to make money but when things go wrong losses follow.

So, when things start to go wrong, what can you do? How can you get out of your bad position that is losing money and into the right position quickly and efficiently and get back to making money?

The answer is morphing! Morphing is the process in which the wrong position is quickly and efficiently changed to the right position by simply adding to or subtracting from the current position based on an understanding of synthetic positions. Morphing is how the professional floor traders manage their positions to adjust to movements in stock price, time, and volatility.

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The 2 Most Important Keys to Successful Trading

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Examples from Whole Foods Market (WFM) and Reynolds American, Inc (RAI) show you what to do (or not) to trade successfully with Elliott.

By Elliott Wave International

After 20 years of experience applying Elliott wave analysis in real markets, our Senior Analyst Jeffrey Kennedy says that it remains the only tool that will tell him -- down to the tick, to the pip, even to the penny – when his forecast is no longer viable.

That, according to Kennedy, are two most important keys to successful trading:

  1. "Know where you are wrong," and
  2. "Don't pick tops and bottoms"

See the logic behind Kennedy's wisdom by reviewing these two timeless lessons from his Trader's Classroom service: Whole Foods Market, Inc. (WFM) and Reynolds American, Inc. (RAI). Then, see how you can get more free lessons during Kennedy's popular Trader Education Week, going on now!

WFM's forecast was right and RAI's was wrong. While price evidence was compelling for both issues, the forecast in WFM was in the direction of the trend and RAI's incorporated top picking. Here's what happened: Continue reading "The 2 Most Important Keys to Successful Trading" →

Weekly Futures Recap With Mike Seery

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We've asked Michael Seery of SEERYFUTURES.COM to give our INO readers a weekly recap of the Futures market. He has been Senior Analyst for close to 15 years and has extensive knowledge of all of the commodity and option markets.

Michael frequently appears on multiple business networks including Bloomberg news, Fox Business, CNBC Worldwide, CNN Business, and Bloomberg TV. He is also a guest on First Business, which is a national and internationally syndicated business show.

Gold Futures

Gold futures in the December contract settled last Friday in New York at 1,156 an ounce while currently trading at 1,178 up over $20 for the trading week continuing its bullish momentum hitting a 3 ½ month high as I’ve been sitting on the sidelines as the 10 day low stands at 1,130 which is too far away with too much risk at the current time as I will wait for a better chart structure to occur. Gold prices are trading above their 20 and 100 day moving average for the first time in months telling you that this rally could be for real but wait for a better chart structure to tighten up therefore lowering monetary risk which could take another 5 days as a weak U.S dollar has spurred prices to the upside in recent weeks. Continue reading "Weekly Futures Recap With Mike Seery" →

Double Digit Returns In Q3 For The World Cup Portfolio

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The World Cup Portfolio once again showed its resilience and produced a solid return of just over 16% in Q3. For many traders, Q3 was a difficult quarter and there were certainly parts of the World Cup Portfolio that did not fare well either during this quarter. However, those losses were offset with profits from other parts of the portfolio. That is one of the principal reasons why the portfolio trades six different markets that have a low correlation rate.

In case you are not familiar with MarketClub's World Cup Portfolio, here are the six markets: corn, wheat, soybeans, crude oil, gold and the dollar index. Out of those six markets, the portfolio made money in five of them, the only disappointment was the dollar index which has proven to be a frustrating, trend-less market over the last couple of quarters.

Here are the individual results for each market trading one contract. Continue reading "Double Digit Returns In Q3 For The World Cup Portfolio" →

6 Ways To Play The Biotech Industry Moving Forward

Posted on by Matt Thalman

Matt Thalman - INO.com Contributor - ETFs


In September Biotech stocks got hammered. Most market participants blamed the massive decline on Democratic Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton. On September 21, Clinton tweeted "Price gouging like this in the specialty drug market is outrageous. Tomorrow I'll lay out a plan to take it on." Clinton was referring to a drug called Daraprim, a 65-year-old drug, which recently saw its price increase from $13.50 per pill to $750.

While there are arguments for and against why Daraprim and other drugs increase in price, an industry-wide reform on how prices are set would likely hurt nearly every company in the biotech space. And that was what Clinton essentially proposed last month. With uncertainty surrounding the industry, the NASDAQ Biotechnology Index (NBI) fell by more than 15% just in September compared to a decline of just 4.4% for the S&P 500 during the month. Continue reading "6 Ways To Play The Biotech Industry Moving Forward" →