A Good Time to Buy
Stockscores Foundation for the week ending May 17, 2021
In this week's issue:
In This Week’s Issue:
- Now Covering the CSE
- Stockscores Market Minutes Video – When is it Dangerous to Buy a Stock?
- Stockscores Trader Training – A Good TIme to Buy
- Stockscores Feature Strategy – Bottom Fishing Canada
Now Covering the CSE
We have improved our datafeed for the Canadian Stock Exchange. To enter a symbol, use the prefix C.symbol. You can also do Market Scans although we have couple of bugs to fix for displaying the indicator values that should be fixed soon.
Stockscores Market Minutes – When is it Dangerous to Buy a Stock
Many investors succumb to their emotions and buy a stock at the worst time. This week, I show a simple technique to avoid this problem, provide my analysis of the stock, crypto and commodity markets, look at the day trade of the week on LFMD and run a market scan in search of position trading opportunities.
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Commentary of the Week – A Good Time to Buy
Simple approaches to any practice usually work the best. Finding the simple solution is not always easy, doing so can take the most experience. This is true in trading too and one simple concept to keep in mind when trading stocks is that there is strength in weakness (and weakness in strength).
What do you do when you are optimistic about a stock? Assuming you invest in stocks at all, you probably buy. When you are pessimistic, there is a good chance you sell.
Suppose there are 100 people who can trade the stock market and approach the market in this rational way.
If 30 of them are optimistic about the market and 70 are pessimistic then there are 30 potential buyers and 70 likely sellers. The sellers are stronger and will likely push the market lower.
What happens when a pessimist sells or an optimist buys? The seller no longer has shares to sell and becomes a person who is more likely to buy in the future. The buyer now has shares and is a more likely seller in the future.
If most people in the market are optimistic, they are also likely owners of the market and less likely to buy in the future. The more optimistic the market, the more likely people will sell in the future.
If most people in the market are pessimistic, they have likely already sold and are therefore likely to be future buyers as prices fall.
Market strength is driven by optimism that is likely to turn to pessimism once prices get high enough. Market weakness is driven by pessimism that will eventually turn to optimism once prices get low enough.
That is why weakness brings strength, and strength brings weakness.
Keep this in mind when analyzing a stock. It is why I don't like to chase stocks that have been going up for a while. I prefer to buy just when stocks start to go up. I also like to sell just when upward trends are broken rather than sell after a stock has been going down for a while.
You can apply this thinking with a very simple chart analysis method. Use trendlines to define who is in control of the market and then look for a change of control. A downward trend means the sellers are in control so watch for a break of the downward trend to indicate the buyers are going to come in off of the sidelines and turn the market around.
There is strength in weakness as long as you get the timing right.
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The Bottom Fishing Canada Market Scan looks for stocks that may have recently broken their downward trends and are now breaking up from a rising bottom. With Gold stocks working on a reversal of their downward trend, I ran the Canadian version of this scan to find some names to consider.
1. V.MTAV.MTA is breaking its pullback after coming back to support at the long term upward trend line. Should resume the upward trend as long as support at $11.40 is not broken.
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2. T.HGUT.HGU is breaking up from a short ascending triangle pattern after recently breaking its downward trend. Support at $18.90.
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