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Stephen W. Bigalow possesses over thirty years of investment experience, including eight years as a stockbroker with major Wall Street firms: Kidder Peabody & Company, Cowen & Company and Oppenheimer & Company.

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Steve has published Profitable Candlestick Trading: Pinpointing Market Opportunities to Maximize Profits and High Profit Candlestick Patterns: Turning Investor Sentiment into High Profits. His implementation of statistical analysis with the Japanese Candlestick methodology has produced some unique successful trading programs.

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by Stephen Bigalow

The following is an excerpt from Steve Bigalow's How to Apply Candlesticks for Profit

A lot has been written through the years regarding Candlestick patterns, especially the Doji pattern. Of all the Candlestick patterns, the Doji pattern appears the most often. The Doji represents ‘indecision’ on the part of traders and it occurs when the ‘open’ (or the first trade of the day) and the ‘close’ (or the last trade of the day) are almost the same price.

The word almost must be emphasized because the open and the close don’t have to be exact.  In fact, it’s rare that the prices are exactly the same.

When a stock or an index has been declining and reaches an oversold condition, it’s quite common for these declines to come to an end with the appearance of a Doji. At a market bottom, because a Doji pattern indicates ‘indecision’, it must be confirmed on the following bar by positive price action. If this positive price action results in an open above the high of the Doji bar, it creates a price ‘gap’. We refer to this formation as the Green Flag Doji Gap pattern.

My Green Flag signal is a very simple 2-step process. It starts with the appearance of a Doji pattern when a stock is in an oversold condition. If the open the next day is above the high of the Doji bar, step 2 is complete and my Green Flag is confirmed.

Looking at the chart below, in mid-October 2014, the stock of United Health Group (symbol UNH) suffered a loss of around 10% from the September high. On October 15th, UNH ended the day with what we refer to as a ‘long-legged’ Doji. That morning, aggressive selling on the part of traders caused the stock to open lower and trade much lower than the previous day. As the price traded below 81.00, cautious buyers stepped in and began to buy. As the buying continued, UNH was able to trade from below 81.00 all the way back up to the previous day’s close.

Your One True Signal

by Lee Gettess

Lee Gettess is a top trader who is excited to bring you his video newsletter. Each week, Lee will share his predictions on what he anticipates from the bond and S&P markets.

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by Rob Roy

The following is an excerpt from Rob Roy's Options Axiom Rules

A stock may consolidate into a wedge pattern as it gets closer to an earnings announcement. Traders may be holding back making trades while they wait for the earnings information to be released. The earnings announcement date is known well ahead of time in most cases. Even if an exact date is not known, companies must report their earnings information quarterly (about every three months). It is well known that earnings can be a big movement event for a stock. Floor traders know this well. In the weeks approaching earnings the implied volatility increases in anticipation of this event. If the earning information is good, then a stock should go up. If the earnings information is bad, stock should go down. It’s just not that simple. A company can have stellar earnings and the stock can drop significantly when this news comes out (or vice versa, the stock increases significantly on bad earnings).

There are other factors that come into play such as guidance, expectation, quarter-to-quarter comparison, year-over-year comparison, and trumping all of these is the public expectation and view points. Regardless of any of the fundamental information, the general public’s view (in this case trader’s) of the stock rules all. Typically, if the general public is bearish, down the stock goes, if the general public is bullish, up goes the stock. This is an oversimplification, yet the point still remains.

Let’s get back to the floor traders: If a stock typically moves big around earnings the floor trader raises the implied volatility. The direction that the stock will actually move may not be known, but a rough idea of how much it will move can be created. The implied volatility is up due to the “unknown” of the event. Once the earnings announcement is made, the “unknown” of the event is removed and the implied volatility is taken out quickly. An example of this is shown below.

This chart shows a stock that typically moves on its earnings announcement. Below the stock chart shows the average implied volatility for that stock. The lighter colored arrows (which are green on the computer screen) show implied volatility increasing just before the earnings event. The rise in implied volatility is making the options more expensive. This is called a volatility rush.

Wedge Patterns & Earnings Announcements

by Chuck Hughes

The following is an excerpt from Chuck Hughes' Optioneering Newsletter

Every week Chuck publishes his “Optioneering Newsletter”. The following is a trade opportunity taken from his most recent issue.

The first profit opportunity we will consider is in PLCE, or The Children’s Place, Inc. The Children's Place is an American specialty retailer of children’s apparel and accessories. As of 2015, The Children’s Place operated 1,085 stores in the United States, Canada and Puerto Rico, an online store at www.childrensplace.com, and had 90 international stores open and operated by its franchise partners in 12 countries.

The monthly chart shows that PLCE went sideways for five years before it broke out last year. This is a good example of how strong a trading range breakout can be. The daily chart shows that the overall trend has been up since late 2015. The current pullback gives us a buying opportunity.

We are going to review a Call Debit Spread for PLCE. Traders who want to employ a more leveraged approach can buy PLCE calls. PLCE has options expiring in March, April, June, and September. Click Here to follow this trade.

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