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I came across Rhodes' Trading Rules when he was a participant in SL, immediately I liked his rules and saw a lot of sense in them. Rhodes has 18 rules, my two favorites Rhodes' Rules are:

2- "Buy that which is showing strength - sell that which is showing weakness. The public continues to buy when prices have fallen. The professional buys because prices have rallied. This difference may not sound logical, but buying strength works. The rule of survival is not to "buy low, sell high", but to "buy higher and sell higher". Furthermore, when comparing various stocks within a group, buy only the strongest and sell the weakest."

16- "Think like a guerrilla warrior. We wish to fight on the side of the market that is winning, not wasting our time and capital on futile efforts to gain fame by buying the lows or selling the highs of some market movement. Our duty is to earn profits by fighting alongside the winning forces. If neither side is winning, then we don't need to fight at all."

I almost agree with SLO champion when he wrote "Reassured that the Fed will step in whenever ill winds blow, the market looks ready to keep moving up", but I am not ready to go long yet because I don't see any group showing strength. On Monday I sold half my all-short funds portfolio, then on Wednesday I sold the other half, technically the bears are still winning but maybe the forces are ready to shift.
I would like to see some ma crossovers before I start fighting on the long side, for now I'm taking my less-than-a-year 18% gain to the bank.

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I'm still on the short side on my personal portfolio but I don't hold any short funds, let's see what happens in the days and weeks to come.

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Dow 11400 ?

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I try to keep things simple, so for me technically the 50 day simple moving average is considered the threshold of a stock or market, meaning that any stock trading below its 50 sma is in a downtrend. Also if the ma is pointing low the trend is confirmed. The end of the downtrend happens when the stock crosses above the 50 day sma and the average starts pointing up. Since I consider myself a trend trader, and adhere to the KISS method, for now I'm 100% short. In my real life portfolio I don't hold any short funds because of their volatility but since we can't short stocks here, they will have to do.

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I'm trying to project an intermediate bottom for the markets using two technical theories, the measured move and the swing rule on the downside. If that bottom is reached I'm liquidating all my shorts and going 100% cash, if my projections prove wrong and the markets break above major resistance and the 50 sma, I'm also liquidating all my shorts and going 100% long.

The Dow broke below the neckline of a well defined head and shoulders reversal pattern when it closed below 12725 in the first week of this year. The pullback move carried the Dow to 12743, almost exactly the break down point. The move from the 14093 head to the 12743 neckline is 1350 points. The downside swing rule projects the Dow at 12743-1350= 11393

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The measured move theory states that the second leg on a downtrend imitates the size of the first leg after a 30 or 50% countertrend swing.

The Dow went form 13450 to 12099 non-stop, forming the first leg of the move. (A - B on the chart). 13450-12099=1351. The countertrend move took the Dow to 12743 ( B - C), that is a 644 point move. (48% pullback).

Next leg of the move is projected to C - 1351= 12743-1351= 11392.

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Uptrend, Interrupted?

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But............

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Charts anyone?

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First I want to congratulate all of us who finished this contest, and specially those three great traders, Vad, stocksshah and gullapali. They managed a strong, start to finish performance, any one of them deserves first place.

To everyone, a happy and prosperous 2008.

And now the charts:

The nasdaq needs to clear the 2730 resistance level to start thinking of a new uptrend. In the following weeks any move over the broken trendline (blue) maybe will signal a new intermediate bull market. Just maybe.
Any break down below the second trendline (red) and the 2540 level, definitively will be a bearish sign.

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Shorts anyone?

Shorting never doubles you money but sometimes you get a quick 30%. If you believe that a bear is coming, this two are good candidates.

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Next week

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Resumen 3 meses

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El lunes 5 coloqué una orden para liquidar el portafolio completo la cual se ejecutó casi en un 100%, las posiciones restantes se terminaron de liquidar el martes 6. Yo hago mi "trading" dentro de lo que llamo tendencias intermedias, que no son mas que ciclos cortos de 1 a 4 meses por lo general, aunque no hay tiempo específico luego que una tendencia se inicia ya sea hacia abajo o hacia arriba.
Los mercados en sentido general están a la alza desde el año 2003, el NYSE Composite que es el índice que sigue mas de 5000 compañías que negocian en el New York Stock Exchange, tenía un valor de 4641.63 en su cierre el 9 de Marzo de 2003, el 7 de Octubre de 2007 el NYSE tenía un valor de 10301.49. Esos dos valores son respectivamente el punto mas bajo y mas alto en los últimos 5 años.
En 55 meses el NYSE ha crecido a razón de 1.46% mensual, un retorno excelente si se compara con el rendimiento de títulos de renta fija como bonos o CD bancarios. Una inversión de US 10,000 en cualquier fondo que asemeje el comportamiento del mercado en general (index fund), se hubiese duplicado en ese periodo y valdría al día de hoy US 22,000. Sin embargo para invertir en compañías individuales hay que ser bastante cuidadoso, si se está en el sector equivocado no importa cuanto crezca el mercado, los resultados pueden ser negativos.
Por ejemplo la stock de Dominion Homes un fabricante y financista de casas tenía un valor de 12.7 el 9 de marzo de 2003, al 10 de Octubre de este año su acción costaba 1.80, en el período de 4+ años la stock de esa compañía ha perdido prácticamente todo su valor.

El invertir en acciones individuales persigue obtener un rendimiento superior al del mercado en general y definitivamente obtener un retorno superior al que ofrecen los bancos y los bonos del tesoro, que se consideran inversiones 100% seguras. Ahora mismo las tasas de CD en dólares tienen un retorno promedio en los EU de 4.57% al año según Bankrate.com, el bono a 30 años rinde 4.65% anual actualmente.

El mercado en general ha retornado 15% aproximado anual en los últimos 5 años. Nuestras inversiones en acciones persiguen superar las tasas en CD y los mercados en general, y nos enfocamos en obtener al menos un 25% de ganancias al año.

Yo utilizo una serie de indicadores técnicos del mercado que tratan de determinar básicamente hablando los niveles de oferta y demanda de acciones. Cuando mis análisis indican que es el momento propicio para comprar, trato entonces de determinar los sectores mas fuertes y luego identifico compañías dentro de esos sectores, haciendo un análisis fundamental de cada compañía, es decir tratando de calcular el valor real de ese negocio mediante retornos de flujo de caja, proyección de las ventas, niveles de deuda, márgenes de beneficio y situación de cada compañía frente a sus competidores entre otros.

Luego que identifico un negocio con fundamentales sólidos hago entonces un análisis técnico de esa "stock". El análisis técnico es el estudio de gráficos y otros datos objetivos para tratar de predecir los futuros movimientos de los mercados. Simplemente hablando está basado en cuatro variables fundamentales que son precio, volumen, tiempo y velocidad la cual es función del cambio del precio entre el tiempo.

Prefiero los indicadores técnicos semanales a los diarios pues de esa manera obtengo mas claridad en tratar de identificar las tendencias, sin embargo de esta manera por lo general se entra mas tarde en los mercados y se sale mas temprano, disminuyendo de alguna manera los posibles retornos pero tratando de cumplir la regla no. 1 de todo aquel que especula en los mercados que es PRESERVAR EL CAPITAL ANTE TODO.

Luego de varios años negociando en las bolsas y después de hacer cientos de transacciones es que se empieza a tener algún entendimiento pues como dicen "el mercado en si es el gran maestro". Hacer dinero especulando en acciones, opciones, futuros y todos los otros instrumentos financieros que se negocian en las bolsas no es fácil, si lo fuera todo el mundo lo hiciera. Todas las cosas que valen la pena en la vida dan trabajo y es mediante el estudio y la práctica que se perfeccionan las habilidades para tener algunas posibilidades a nuestro favor. Sean pacientes, mantengan la mente abierta y corran la carrera larga.

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