FISH STORIES / BLOG
Occasionally I blog about fishing, the fishing industry and behind the scenes in the life of this humble fisher. These can be rigorously thought-out or pure fluff pieces. You get what you get. Kinda like fishing.
Summer School is in session: Financed Call Spreads as a Set-It-And-Forget-It Trend Trade
Timing Research Presentation Thursday I was invited to be part of Synergy Traders #14 -- Advanced Options Strategies Here was the line-up: - 9AM: A.J. Brown of TradingTrainer.com - 10AM: Dan Passarelli of MarketTakerMentoring.com - 11AM: The Option Professor of...
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Announcing STOCKFit Exercise Break – Jump In!
Traders are already movers and shakers. Now put that to work another profitable way... Samantha is offering a trading day EXERCISE break for all LaDucTrading clients FOR FREE and everyone else for a small charge! Announcing Cienna Jade Harris - not only an awesome,...
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ForexAnalytix Interview: The Case For Value Over Momentum
Did you know, Small Caps have actually outperformed Large Caps this month? Coming out of recessions, small caps have beaten large nine out of the last 10 times and also tend to beat coming out of bear markets... Bloomberg That's why oversold 'value' plays has been...
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Memorial Day Honor: Investing and Grandpa
We don’t know them all, but we owe them all. In honor of Memorial Day, here is an article I penned Sept ’17 that is a mix of nostalgia, politics, a prescient call on populism (Warren/Sanders) + macro musings – not one word of which I would change today. ...
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Fishing Video: Just Breaking Down For A Trade
Chasing Market Short with clients in Samantha's live trading room Wednesday, May 13th - "Just breaking down for a trade": VIX $31 - 37 MSFT $184-177 ROKU $128 - 114 SPX $2874 - 2794 https://youtu.be/2kW2u1LwkKw Samantha's Technical Analysis of price action from...
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UNLOCKED Fishing Plan for Week of May 4th: Premarket Client Review
Premarket Client Review: See what I said Tuesday May 5th as I reviewed recent news, my unique INTERMARKET themes from my member-only weekend post to clients as well as review of Monday trades and market thoughts. Recommended Trade Ideas Highlighted: Macro bullish USD,...
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UNLOCKED Fishing Plan for Week Ending May 1: May Day Review
Here's an UNLOCKED Member Video As warned Thursday April 30th in my live trading room, and in my "Nobody Left To Squeeze" monthly review for clients, markets had hit key resistance levels Thursday and would likely digest/pull back post FOMC and FAAMG earnings. Friday...
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UNLOCKED Client Posts and StockChartsTV
Free Stuff: Recently non-members were invited via email to access the following UNLOCKED Client posts: Fishing Plan for Week of April 13 – 17: Freaks of Nature April 15: Samantha Receommended Longs Into Earnings. Oil Under Pressure: Overshoots, Implodes, Catches Fire...
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Timing A ‘Very Strong Counter-Trend Bear Market Rally’
Back on April 15th, Samantha made available to non-members signed up via our FREE BAIT email list the following series of UNLOCKED Client posts from beginning of April: Gone Fishing Newsletter & Intermarket Chart Attack: Gluttony Fishing Idea: Timing The Next Oil...
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NEW: Trade Management Support
NEW: Trade Management Support With Archna: Daily From 1:30 ET We are now offering personal trade management support and option education classes, from basic to advanced, for members every day after Samantha's live trading room - SIGN UP HERE Announcement Wonderful...
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My Lindzanity Podcast!
Panic with friends (47) - with Samantha LaDuc of LaDucTrading This podcast was important to me. Practically everyone in trader education and FinTech knows Howard Lindzon - the founder of StockTwits and early investor in everything, and I mean everything, in the...
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My SeeItMarket Article – Crude Oil Forecast: Timing the Next Big Trade
Clients got my oil short thesis last Friday despite OPEC's historic meeting to cut production which many believed to be bullish. I followed up with my detailed analysis last Saturday for clients which was reprinted below by SeeItMarket on Wednesday. Today, crude hit...
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$GILD Pops Returning 250 TIMES Investment
This is not a typo. Not kidding: Gilead popped after market hours today on Remdesivir news on a treatment for COVID19. We caught it LIVE in my trading room. Assuming it sticks for the overnight, and it stays at/above $85 it will return 25,000%. I have been bullish...
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Watch Samantha Catch Oil’s Biggest 1 Day Gain
Often I find market moving news to trade on and announce it to my clients in my live trading room. This Oil trade was a bit different in that I was waiting for it. From Monday before - when I noticed STRONG option flow in USO, both in my live trading room and in USO...
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UNLOCKED Client Video from March 10th: Correction or Crisis?
February 27th Client post: I've never seen distribution selling under the price action like this in the entirety of my trading career. I smelled/warned/wrote about but had no vision for a flash crash or waterfall just stair-stepping those $SPY gap fills. We are...
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My Interview with ForexAnalytix: Financial Crisis not Correction
My interview this morning: "Financial Crisis not Correction" How did I come to call this top? When did I turn to Really Bearish and why. Why I think it's not over (big picture)... I mention in the interview that I suspected by Sunday we would have an announced Global...
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Going LIVE with ForexAnalytics Friday 9AM
Register and Tune in to hear what is on my mind with these historic markets, why we are down 28% in under 3 weeks and what Big Risks lie ahead!...
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Posted Webinar: Using Option Flow To Support Your Chart Read
Tuesday I invited you to attend an online Women in Trading event that gave you a look back on how I time tops in general and the most recent 15% correction from peak to trough in one week. I went over the macro, intermarket, and technical work I do to support my...
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Free Webinar Thursday: Live Market Trading – Using Option Flow To Support Your Chart Read
Tuesday I invited you to attend an online Women in Trading event. It was a look back on how I time tops in general and the most recent 15% correction from peak to trough in one week. I go over the macro, intermarket, and technical work I do to support my market timing...
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Free Webinar Tuesday: Big Returns Come When You Allocate Resources Well
Tuesday March 3rd, I will be presenting at an online Women in Trading event. I'm up: Tuesday March 3rd 2:00 pm ET My talk: Big Returns Come When You Allocate Resources Well ...
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Vulnerability in Trading – A Message of Hope for Women
I don't "do" Trader Psychology. I find trading to be a personal experience, but I was recently asked to speak at an upcoming conference in March that focuses on women who trade or want to. With that, here is my message of hope: Make magic for yourself. Let me know...
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My Latest Article from SeeItMarket: The Mighty U.S. Dollar – Connecting the Financial Market Dots
My Latest Article from SeeItMarket was just published. It is a reprint from a LaDucTrading client post February 16th, an update on a long US Dollar recommendation from January 10th. Since then, the US Dollar has risen strongly against the Euro then Yen and next Yuan....
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Public Fishing Video: IPO Rotation Looks Tired
This is the third or fourth video (and maybe final) in my recent IPO swing trading series that started November 16th with a note to clients that I planned to do some fishing in this space. Most recent public videos can be found here or on my YouTube channel: New...
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UNLOCKED: Client Fishing Plans
Curious how I have been seeing the market and the trading vehicles I've recommended to clients? Each trading day, after I close my Live Trading Room, I write up a review of what I find to be most market relevant and market moving. Of course it includes my style of...
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My Latest Article from SeeItMarket: Commodities Are Dead… Long Live Commodities!
My Latest Article from SeeItMarket was just published. It is a reprint from a LaDucTrading client post February 1st. Since then, yields have indeed bounced with many commodities! Now the test is to see if there is follow through in the weeks and months ahead. Join me...
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UNLOCKED Member Content: Macro-to-Micro Trading The CoronaVirus Rally
UNLOCKED Member Content: Macro-to-Micro Trading The CoronaVirus Rally Here's a summary of today's Live Trading Room action: SPX levels bullish + bearish, Macro trades, sector rotation, chases and swings, plus how CoronaVirus impacted my trading setups for clients....
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New Year, New Product, New Price
LaDucTrading Announces New Premium Membership for 2020 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 24 January 2020 Samantha LaDuc, founder of LaDucTrading, announced a major change to the subscriptions and memberships offered at premium trader education platform LaDucTrading.com All...
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New Public Video: My Recommended IPO Trades Rocketed Higher
The “January Effect” kicked in! My suggested IPO Trades Rocketed Higher as the January Effect Kicked In! Below is an updated video that ties in directly with my IPO Trade Review from Monday Jan 13th Video on my new YouTube Channel. The more subscribers I get to my new...
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IPO Sector Rotation Theme Really Rocked Us Into The New Year
Happy New Year! Back on November 16th I posted for clients a Sector Rotation theme long in oversold IPOs as 'Value Plays'. After one week, I shared the impressive results: Sector Rotation Plays From My Live Trading Room Here is how my IPO Sector Rotation theme from...
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UNLOCKED: Sector Rotation Plays From My Live Trading Room
>>Market Thoughts: IPOs As Value Plays$8.30 : 8.47 - 8.69 AVTR >$15.06 : 16.20 - 17.16 AYX >$102.42 : 97.42 - 105.36 (108.75 H) FSLY >$21.50 : 20.65 - 23.30 MDB >$140.32 : 134.77 - 147.92 (152.33 H) MRNA >$18.46 :19.37 - 20.69 NVTA >$19.19 : 18.72 - 19.57 OKTA...
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My Article at RIA Pro: Bonds Are Stocks Without A Circuit Breaker
I was recently asked to write for RIA Pro - a top Financial Advisory - given my analysis of an impending correction starting in Q4. The following was published November 6th: Bonds Are Stocks Without A Circuit Breaker Don’t Overthink The Market. It’s Not That Smart....
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Latest SeeItMarket Article: Top 15 Risks to the Stock Market Right Now
Below is my latest SeeItMarket article: The Top 15 Risks to the Stock Market Right Now The S&P 500 Index has broken above all-time-highs. Time to look at the risks to the stock market as I see them right now. Many investors see blue skies. Since late-to-the-party bulls are typically the easiest to shake out, […]
Despite the Fed’s support, this stock market is headed lower
My thesis: higher yields, lower stocks are coming despite the stock market pushing through all-time-highs. I wrote this last week for @MarketWatch .- before bonds and gold rolled over and rates spiked. The stock market has a 100% success rate of getting what it...
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UNLOCKED: My Weekly Fishing Plan October 21 – 25
I recently launched my Daily Market Catch email blog - The One Big Thing, Top Charts, Top Tweets, Top Trades, Great Reads/Videos Today I am rewarding those who signed up with a Client Exclusive. Here is one of my client deliverables for my active traders UNLOCKED....
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Daily FX Podcast: Trading Global Markets Decoded
Macro-to-Micro, Options and Women in Trading | Samantha LaDuc | Article and Podcast September 28th I was invited back to DailyFx for an interview where we Martin Essex and I discussed a wide-array of topics: from trading psychology to fading oil pops on supply...
read moreMacro-To-Micro Power Hour Webinar Recording – Pearls!
Wednesday I was interviewed by the the one-and-only Jerremy Newsome (two “R”s), who definitely knows how to make his guests feel really comfortable and supported! Being more relaxed definitely allowed me to offer up a lot of ‘pearls’ on how I approach my market analysis. Stuff I bet you didn’t know!! I invite you […]
Market Thoughts: Can Fed Cuts Save US From Economic Recession?
I couldn't make my Market Timing Calls for Clients without the Intermarket Analysis work that I do - which is beyond the Macro, Fundamental, Sentiment and Technical Analysis I provide. Here's a cute-ish play-by-play on why and how I use Intermarket Analysis to time...
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Market Thoughts: Inside Jokes & The Week Ahead
Funny Ha-Ha or Funny Strange I am going to share an inside joke with you, and then talk about how this market is one giant Inside Joke. For clients in my Live Trading Room and readers of my Gone Fishing Newsletter, you know how I have been studying and trying hard to...
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Market Thoughts: “It could happen sooner than you think”
Turnaround Tuesday Was Late Markets were weak at the open with Unicorns - IGV and FFTY companies - flying down as the overbought momentum tech plays continued to have profit taking. Some of the selling is the continued Rotation from Momentum into Value but it is also...
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Register for Webinar: Macro-to-Micro Power Hour
Live Webinar • Wednesday, October 2nd • 6pm CDT Join Samantha and Jerremy Newsome of RealLifeTrading.com as they cover how they trade market-moving news and momentum!...
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Guest Captain Posts: Repo Madness and a P.S.A.
Consider this a Public Service Announcement Read everything Jess of Monday Morning Macro has written if you are serious about protecting your money. She is "In The Zone" with this whole Repo Madness: ♥ Far Too Little, Far Too Late ♣ Wait, what? You haven't heard...
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Market Thoughts: Historic Market Timing Calls
My job is to identify Inflection Points, and then to 'operationalize' them so as to call out actionable trades for clients. Last week was an exceptional week of Market Timing Calls - from my Bond Short Call the day before a 3-sigma standard deviation move in...
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Market Thoughts: What If There Is A Trade Deal?
It was a dramatic day in that my recent posts to sell Bonds and Gold/Miners happened much faster than I expected, but also in that I potentially discovered a reason - outside of my published analysis - as to why stocks, bonds, gold moved so strongly today. Quick...
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Market Thoughts: I Sold My Gold & Miners Today
Gold and Miners have done nothing wrong to warrant me selling them today. In fact, they have performed beyond expectations since I called for a Gold rally in my June 6 podcast for DailyFX and again updated Gold thesis for SeeItMarket this August. Samantha LaDuc, July...
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Market Thoughts: Spying a Bond Pullback
Welcome to September... Despite a strong week last week - after four weeks of sideways chop - markets opened down to start the new month with Russell the weakest. The stock and major macro moves today were pretty much over within the 1st 15 minutes: USD continues...
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Fishing Idea: CVNA – Candy For Millennials
On Friday I was asked for my analysis on Carvana - ticker CVNA - for publication at CCN, an online markets and crypto publication out of Norway. Below is the exact analysis I sent, and here is the article they wrote from it - featuring a few quotes of mine that...
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Market Thoughts: Shaken But Not Stirred
Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day whispering, 'I will try again tomorrow.' Mary Anne Radmacher This was my sentiment on the last day of the month of August after a week of chop - both in the indices as well as in...
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Market Thoughts: Out Of The Pool
Why Was I Short? What Did I See? The following is a recap of my Intraday Trading off Headline-Risks Friday, along with some of my Intermarket Analysis leading up into the big sell-off that clients had in advance, plus an overview of my Macro Views that support more...
read moreMy RealLife Interview: Day Trading Macro News
Back in June at the Benzinga Trading Summit conference in NYC where I presented, I met Jerremy Newsome, founder of RealLife Trading. He invited me to speak with his students about how I use Macro news and...
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My Lastest SeeItMarket Articles – on Trade Wars and Gold
It’s been over a year now since the ‘official’ start of the US-China Trade War, if picking Day 1: July 6, 2018 – US implements first China-specific tariffs. I wrote about this disconnect between market price action and valuations in my SeeItMarket article, Livin’ On A...
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I hereby declare 2020 the Year of Irony. LOL.
Mexico closes US border in Arizona to stop July 4th visitors, citing COVID-19 fears https://t.co/ReHduvsLF7
Been saying this for months:
“Need to learn to live with it”
😩
Hope was not a strategy. 🚁
And basing reopening on a vaccine naive 🙄
Small businesses (+ personal incomes/spending) wrecked from closings, so does this new admission mean EVERYTHING will open again AND stay open?
NEW: 'We need to live with it': White House readies new message for the nation on coronavirus https://t.co/KsVb76v1cd
NEW: The US is sending two aircraft carriers and four other warships to conduct exercises in the South China Sea, where China is also holding drills. Intended as an “unambiguous signal” of US commitment to security in the region, via @AlastairGale
https://t.co/0xbcGInO8h