Coulda Woulda Shoulda: When Life Makes You Miss Multi-Day Breakouts & Some Other Stocks To Watch

Fess Up Time: Don’t ya hate when you put a stock on your watchlist, tell yourself you’ll trade it if it acts a certain way, but when that special price action occurs, for some reason, you’re not watching it? I’m sure there are those out there who don’t make such bush league mistakes, but I’m not one of them.

Thanks to the popularity of my latest AOL article—about how Amazon has tried blackmailing small publishers like me–I’ve been talking to a couple of reporters—surprise—and much of that talk happens during the trading day, causing me to miss more than a few potential trades. Oh yeah and incessant blogging doesn’t help.

Now, I hate buying breakouts—they move too slowly, happen to stocks that are too expensive or retrace/fakeout too often, so out of all the stocks below I really only regret missing out on NCEN, because that my friends is the f&^$en Mona Lisa of technical breakouts

NCEN–probly going to $3+, easy easy easy easy easy easy easy easy easy 30-50 cents/share, or 10-20%, buy on the intraday break of $2.50, predictable predictable predictable predictable predictable gain. An infinitely better trader than me, Fous, nailed it again. (I’m not only an affiliate, I’m even considering signing up for his stock picking service!) As did some of my DVD students…those who can’t do, teach!

SOLF—nice multi-day breakout, but where to now? Solid resistance in the high $15s

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Check Out My Recent AOL Articles

Been so ridiculously busy, forgot to link some of my recent articles…good news is I try to generalize the lessons so they don’t get old:

What the charts of these 7 tech stocks tell us (okay, this one will be dated soon but it’s from today)

Don’t invest in what you know, a dozen disaster blue chips

My take on VISA (V)

A $30k per month blogger shares his secrets

Why any financial collapse changes nothing for this trader

The trend is your friend, 20 stocks to watch

Spitzer is our latest letdown, but it’s actually good!

Why big-time CEOs deserve more, much more!

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Sykes’ Saturday Seventeen: March 8th, 2008 Edition

Why some bloggers, especially those who are billionaires, hold back

I now have a fan club, join so you can stay on top of all the upcoming goodness!

Even though I despise market guessing games, since I nailed this market back on January 4th, I gotta show it off

Finance bloggers/website operators, sign up to TIMlinks, it’s free!

Wanna bid $40k to meet I-need-a-script-and-a-director-or-else-you’ll-discover-how-awkward-I-am-on-camera Scarlett Johnansson (watch the video on the link to see what I mean)

No idea how I found him, but this guy is pretty funny:  

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Sykes’ Saturday Seventeen: March 1st, 2008 Edition

UBS now sees financial industry losses at $600 billion, now we’re talkin’, c’mon $800 billion, do I have a bid at $800 billion, okay, you sir with the Arab head-dress, $800 billion it is, do I hear $1 trillion, can I hear $1 trillion, anybody, anybody, anybody?

One of my now 2,500+ Facebook friends painted a portrait of Gordon Gekko, check it out!

One of the many advertising options on this new site, a link in that little “Are You In My Top Spots?” box can be yours for $20, only a couple left, get ‘em while they’re hot

Too bad Motley Fool doesn’t allow their readers to rate companies with marketcaps of under $100 million, besides the majority of their “writers”, there’s a whole bunch of idiot investors there, wish they’d come down to our neck of the woods so we could take their money!

Hey, check this out, finally got a video clip of my DVD I keep blabbing about up on Youtube, do I hear a $297, anybody, anybody, anybody, you sir in the Arab head-dress?  

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Sykes’ Saturday Seven: March 22nd, 2008 Edition

Great free tool for technical screens, I use it every day, graphs in bulk baby, graphs in beautiful bulk

A phenomenal new finance book, I give it two thumbs up

Solid post debating investing vs. trading

My latest AOL article, me hating on CROX

Gotta love the prizes at Wall Street Survivor  

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7 Lessons Super Bowl XLII Teaches Investors

1. Expect the unexpected: Neither the Giants winning or the low 17-14 final score was expected in the least (Bull markets can’t last forever, stocks DO NOT always trend higher over time)

2. Never trust “experts:” Ex-Giant and “football expert” Tiki Barber was dead wrong when he retired one season too soon while trashing his former teammates and coaches in order to get attention (Don’t listen to “market experts” when they make predictions like Apple (AAPL) $300 and Google (GOOG) $1,000 to get attention)

3. The acknowledged best are not always the best performers: Patriots quarterback Tom Brady, the league MVP, got outplayed by oft-criticized Eli Manning (just because hugely successful companies like Microsoft (MSFT), General Electric (GE) and Goldman Sachs (GS) are leaders in their fields does not mean their stocks will outperform lesser quality rivals)

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Why Thinkorswim Is The Best Broker & Tonight I’m Gonna Celebrate Today’s Trading Gains In Style

TIM $13,928, Up $20, Gonna Splurge Tonight, Maybe Olive Garden!

Daily comedic relief

Potential Supernovas: None, unfortunately

See which stocks I think you should buy ahead of earnings!

FRPT another Lionmaster pick, spiked mid-afternoon on TradeTheNews.com big contract rumor, rumors are usually wrong, too tough to chase, continuation of this move possible, but not overly likely, avoid until after the fact because if true, this can really go up big and that is predictable.

APWR, Superman on TheLion.com’s call of the day, called it around $15ish after contract news (unfortunately not signed, just LOIs, could be fluff, but it’s hypeable fluff!), great, great, great chart breakout of 3 month base between $12 and $14. Now that is a breakout, none of that possible breakout crap, click this chart:

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Still No Panic, Crushing The Risk-Reward Of Buying Anything Here

Apple lovers, stop emailing me, here’s my latest take on popularity contest, uh, I mean stock.

Awoke today rooting for some panic, but just seeing buyers everywhere. Pass. Yes, I’m basically a scalper, but since I take huge positions relative to my capital, I want to scalp only when prices are at an extreme. The problem with buying into today’s market is that there’s no panic. Sure, we had decent sized down days both yesterday and today—if you think Dow -130 is big—(I don’t), but, no matter the grim economic/housing/evil empire destined to fall apart due to its own sins reality (not that I’m biased or anything), there’s always been dip buyers who think that buying into a 20% down market is a value (no matter that despite all the buying, we remain under the key 12k support on the Dow). Maybe I’m overly cynical, but maybe not—after all, I just want panic so I can buy stuff like CNQR and LULU at $20, MELI at $35, MOS at $60—those would be panic prices I’d feel extremely comfortable buying into (it takes a lot to make me ever want to buy).  

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Another Sweet Trade By TIM, This Time On Video

TIM $14,835, Up $219 on the Day, TIM’s First Video

Woke up early Mountain time to cover my 1,000 COINZ right near the open at $2.97—even though COIN opened up big, somebody put in a panic sell order of 6,000 shares with a $3 limit on COINZ, so I took advantage of it.

Also got the trade on camera, check this out bitches:

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