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.
Macro-to-Micro Power Hour: Where Flows Are Flowing
Jonathan and I talked a lot about market views, option flows, $FXI $VIX $DXY in my Guest Captain Interview series Tuesday. We ran out of time to talk *all things China* but he has a 25 min PPT on that for next Tuesday 4ET. Remember: Each Tuesday for LaDucTrading's...
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Macro-to-Micro Power Hour: Special Election Edition!
Last Tuesday for LaDucTrading's inaugural kick-off of our new Guest Captain Interview series, Samantha interviewed Jonathan Gibbons of vigtec.io, a prop trader and fintech entrepreneur. Together they discussed their expectations for a volatility spike. VIX exploded...
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ANNOUNCING: Guest Captain Interviews – Today With Founding Partner Of vigtec.io, Jonathan Gibbons
Guest Captain Interviews Each Tuesday and Thursday after market close, Samantha will host an interview starting at 4:00 PM ET of someone you probably know or want to! Make sure to register for these scheduled expert Guest Captain Interviews conducted live, as well as...
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Profiting from Volatility and Market-Moving News
Want to know what tools and techniques Samantha uses to incorporate Volatility action and news headlines into her trading analysis and market-timing calls? Here is her Synergy Traders Event Presentation from Thursday hosted by @TradeOutLoud and @TimingResearch. From...
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What’s Working Short: NFLX JKS PTON ZM OSTK TLT
In follow up to yesterday's video on mostly longs, here were some recent short calls Samantha made in her live trading room - using time-frame congruence/pattern recognition and technical analysis. NFLX JKS PTON ZM OSTK TLT My VIX Webinar is tomorrow: SIGN UP HERE!...
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Market Timing Calls Using Time-frame Congruence
Samantha makes market timing calls every day for clients in her live trading room – ones she recommends as well as client requests for custom analysis. One tool she uses to better time momentum moves and reversals is time-frame congruence
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Catch Up With Samantha’s Live Trading Room Action & Great Stock Picks
If you are not signed up on Samantha's YouTube Channel, SUBSCRIBE HERE! She has posted a few public videos lately so folks can check out her live trading room analysis. Here are her latest client-focused trade set ups UNLOCKED! Highlights from Monday + Tuesday's Live...
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Update to 2nd Half Fave Trend Set-Ups – 3rd Qtr 2020 Review
Back on July 3rd, I posted for clients my: Second Half Market Thoughts - Fave Trend Set-Ups. Here is an update on how all those stock picks did in Q3 2020. Second Half Market Thoughts By my estimation, and as I’ve warned in my live trading room past month+, Summer...
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UNLOCKED Fishing Video: Lots of Micro and Key Macro
Had a bit of an analyst's hot streak this week - from lots of individual stocks (micro) to impending bond drop/rate spike (macro). THIS is an example of what I do every trading day in my Live Trading Room. https://youtu.be/eJEPtf6W2vQ DKNG, SBUX, GPS, NIO, BABA,...
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My Lindzanity Podcast #2!
This Howard guy is a lot of fun. Great host. Oh, and by the way, Howard Lindzon is the founder of StockTwits, and investor in possibly every fintech company you've heard of (Robinhood, eToro, RealVision) and many you haven't, so let's just say his nose is good for...
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Episode of Limit Up! Macro-to-Micro Trading with Samantha LaDuc
Trading Macro to Micro with Samantha LaDuc Samantha shared how she got into trading and offers advice for new traders cutting their teeth in our current volatile market. She also discussed her mantra: There’s no meritocracy in finance without the voice of women....
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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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Tues 5-5 Premarket Review –
Premarket Tuesday I reviewed recent news, intermarket themes from my recent client post and market thoughts. Recommended Trade Ideas Highlighed: UGA, UNG, VLO, MPC, XOM... X, ROKU, TSLA, GBTC, TLT, UUP. For intraday trading: above SPX $2898 resistance is bullish,...
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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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May Day Market Review
UNLOCKED Client Video: As warned Thursday April 30th in my live trading room and month-end client post, markets had hit key resistance levels Thursday and would likely digest/pull back post FOMC and FAAMG earnings. Friday morning I warned at the open: "I think we're...
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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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Spying a Very Strong Countertrend Bear Market Rally April 8 with Update April 13
APRIL 8TH: SAMANTH'A MARKET TIMING CALL FOR CLIENTS: "BULLISH INTO EARNINGS". HERE'S ONE INTRADAY INDICATOR THAT HELPED HER HELP CLIENTS STAY LONG: TC 2000 - T2104 VOLUME INDICATOR. AFTER SAMANTHA SAID 'MARKET IS BULLISH DESPITE -4% SPX BULLISH INTRADAY REVERSAL' ON...
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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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GILD Pops Returning 250 TIMES Investment
I've recommended $GILD to clients since Fri 1/31 as a "hold your nose" trend trade. Today I spied large Unusual Option Activity and told my clients LIVE in my Trading Room that I was convicted it would move higher. My room moderator sized up a "double bullish" option...
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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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Watch Samantha catch Oil’s Biggest 1 Day Gain – LIVE
Thursday April 2nd, Crude had it's biggest one day gain in history +35%. See how Samantha spied the set up Monday for clients in her live trading room - she went on to write about it for clients Tues and Wed - and then caught it real-time Thursday morning. Rec'd long...
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FACE Interview 13 03 2020 $SPX Samantha said this is worse than 2008 #COVID19 #FinancialCrisis
I said in this ForexAnalytix interview on Friday morning March 13th that this market correction was worse than 2008 AND last week we had the biggest market drop since.... 2008!
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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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Market Update: Correction or Crisis
Markets are full of risks - from CoronaVirus contagion disrupting economic stability to Repo liquidity disrupting money markets and both that fuel Credit markets instability. I review key Macro-to-Micro concerns, charts and price levels.
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Massive Distribution – Is It Safe?
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. Well, we are crashing 1987-style UNDER...
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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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Big Returns Come When You Allocate Resources Well
For a look back on how I time tops in general and the most recent 15% correction from peak to trough in one week, here is my presentation to the 2020 Women in Trading and Investing Conference. I go over the macro, intermarket, and technical work that I use to make my...
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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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Macro-to-Micro: Trading The CoronaVirus Rally
UNLOCKED Member content so you can see how I approach each trading day with setups we are trading NOW: SPX levels bullish + bearish, Macro trades, sector rotation, chases, swings and how CoronaVirus impacted my trading setups for clients. $SPX $DXY $USDCNH $TLT $TNX...
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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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IPO Rotation Looks Tired
Three months as a Swing Long trading theme and I'm down to a few runners with several IPO names that have been taken off the list. Find out what I like and what I dropped. #IPO #SwingTrading #MomentumStocks
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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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IPO Trades Rocketed Higher
January Effect Kicked In! IPO Trade Review from Monday Jan 13th Video
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From Vietnam to Long Beach, CA …
INFLATION WILL REMAIN STICKY
In a nutshell:
“We don’t see the raw material or the inflation environment slowing down in any way.” -- 3M Co. CFO
🇺🇸 U.S. Posts Weakest Growth of Pandemic Recovery on Supply Woes - Bloomberg
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-10-28/u-s-posts-weakest-growth-of-pandemic-recovery-on-supply-woes?sref=ZVajCYcV
"Until Stimulus Passes" ...
@RaisingTheBAR47 By Xmas you’ll have every cyclical trading at 5x pe and tech at 50x sales. All old economy names held hostage regardless of organic strength until stimulus passes. @rubecube12 @SamanthaLaDuc