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.
My Latest at SeeItMarket – Have We Reached Cruising Altitude Yet?
The following article was published by SeeItMarket which was an unlocked newsletter I provide to fishing club members when I spy macro inflection points with actionable micro trade set-ups. Stock Market Update: Have We Reached Cruising Altitude Yet?...
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Going LIVE with Automated Trade Alerts TODAY
Your Captain Got a Much Faster Boat! Today is an important day for me as I see the realization of a vision I imagined and started working on over a year ago - a Live Portfolio of my trades (and future co-captains) across multiple time-frames, asset classes and...
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Announcing: LaDucTrading’s New and Improved Trade Alerts – With Live Market Data!
New Year. New Trade Alert Features. My New and Improved Trade Alerts Will Support the Following Goals: Integrate live market data, not delayed For both stocks and options, (futures and forex to be added soon) That will allow for long and short positions, using...
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UNLOCKED Member Content: Santa Rally and Then Some
Santa Really Came Through We were up about 12% in 12 days after a 20% drop (Friday) in the S&P. I have been an unabashed Bull since Christmas and if you are a client you had my written analysis and live trading room commentary to support and navigate. Hope it helped...
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Fishing Idea: Liquidity Matters (But Only If You Care About Making Money)
Back on August 1st, 2018 I sent this tweet: https://twitter.com/SamanthaLaDuc/status/1024699548227264513 Then on September 23, 2018 (Sunday following the Friday SPX high of $2940.91), I tweeted my concern with FAANG ETF liquidity (they represented a large weighting in...
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King AAPL Dethroned
AAPL stock is poised to open down over 8% this morning - a decline that will wipe out over $55 billion off its market value due to a downturn in iPhone sales in China. This represents 15% of its sales and near 20% of Apple's revenue. AAPL is now down over 38% from its...
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Really Simple: Here are my levels to short against
Something has occurred that I have never seen before in the indices - and it could be the Bullish technical action I need to declare "All Clear" for Santa's Rally (when/if today's downdraft is completed/reversed)... OR ...it is The Tell we are on our next leg down -...
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@MashReez I humbly submit I may make money from the markets professionally but I have no idea why it does what it does.
My intuition + skills only get me so far. I study it so I can surf the waves it makes. I fall off the board A LOT but I always want to get back on + try to stay on.
🌊🏄🏻♀️
I’m betting on it actually 😉
$VIX
So don’t be on of those caught napping with an inverted board Wednesday if the market keeps dropping.
About that surprise GDP print for Japan...
The only segment increasing was net export contribution. EVERYTHING that matters was down.
Since we're on this rant, let's take some time to look at that curious case of 📈GDP for Japan, yes it rose 2.1% qoq saar:
Domestic demand 📉(private demand 📉; consumption 📉; investment 📉; capital investment 📉; public demand 📉; overall investment📉; exports 📉& imports📉🙄 2
Thread Summary:
Korea needs China/Inports.
China Semi contraction severe.
US Chip companies to suffer.
$SMH $QCOM $MU $QRVO
Good morning🦋 Korea 1st 20-day of exports FALL -11.7% YoY Y semiconductor exports CONTRACTED -33%.
That said, there is some silver lining - car exports rose +12.6%.
No V-shaped recovery here. Contraction deepening & it's not just Korea - Taiwan warned us that May'll be worse🤢