How can you tell a stock is running out of steam or just gaining momentum? IBD chief content officer Chris Gessel explains how he uses this common yet game-changing technical indicator to spot buying and selling points in his trading routine.
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Great info. Definitely going to try that out with the macd on the weekly
How far out was the expiration on his Teradyne PUT hedge? The volatility crush of near dated options post-earnings would in theory work against you even if it gains from delta.
It was a weekly put. The plunge in the stock more than offset the volatility crush.
I only hedge when MU is falling back to the 50-day.
Thanks i learning English😊
Nice one.
I did a mod on MACD. Traditional macd is a bit useless when one wants to compare to the past – it shows only “dollar momentum change”. I have modified it to show all same signals but divided by MA200 as a reference price – so it becomes macd not in dollars, but in percents of change relative to a year moves. Then one could relate to the past rising/falling legs and compare them by the height. For example if it was 2 legs and current one is a third – how strong it was in comparison with previous ? Or to easily see whether this rise is stronger than a year or five years ago. Traditional macd will not show it, but modified one – will.
And we all know that every stock has his own character and often repeats the past moves. Blown off top also is “spottable”.
One can change ma200 to MA50 for quick monster movers like current or for swing traders vs position traders or investors.
It sure would be nice if you wouldn’t show charts zoomed out to 600 years of data.
I am a long-term sub scriber to the IBD newspaper. Its great. This is for Chris. I noticed on the weekly addition of the paper they list the best performing mutual funds, and the top performing ETFs. Unfortunately, most of the winners are the leveraged versions. not since most investors should probably not be using is leverage funds, I was wondering if you guys might think about excluding the funds with leverage or separate them like you do and the more comprehensive list that you publish a few pages later, I think it would save people a lot of time, rather than going through those huge lists and having the condensed list separated, would be helpful. In my opinion. Keep up the good work guys.
nobody wants a massive power-hungry server farm ruining their neighborhood