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Save Your Portfolio; Markets Rally to Close on Highs of the Day


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Monday morning we saw stocks begin to follow-through on the selling that occurred all day, accelerate into the close Friday.  The day began looking like selling was about to gain further momentum.  However, stocks caught a wave a buying.  Volume was running lower from Friday’s Option Expiration levels, but price gains were significant.  Support coming off session lows are bullish in nature, but it is what we do with our portfolios at the moment that will Save Your Portfolio.

For those who have read this blog know that I advocate cutting your losses and laggards.  The #1 way you control losses, effectively saving your portfolio is removing laggards and losses from it.  A close 8% below your purchase price, no questions asked you must cut your losses.  All the greatest traders of all time knew how to cut their losses and knew how important it was to remove losers from their portfolio.  Cutting laggards is more of a tricky rule for many traders.  “HOPE” that the stock will move higher gets in the way of people cutting their laggards.  A laggard stocks is one that has not moved higher in a month or two.  One sign to dump laggards is when the market has had an incredible run over a few weeks.  If you have a stock that has not followed the market after a few weeks time, cut it out of your portoflio.   Save your portfolio, cut losses and laggards.

Continue to look for stocks with great earnings and sales growth figures and not too mention CHNR CPSL to a lessor extent now JRJC breaking out of nice sound chart patterns.  When stocks breakout of nice chart patterns that is the time to buy.

It would be nice to see the markets continue with the bullish action we saw on Monday, again we are 5 years into a bull market at some point this will end.  At this point, no one knows when this will end but at the moment the market seems a bit uneasy.  With that said, it isn’t the time to short and it isn’t the time to go all-in on the long side.  Limp into new longs and cut your losses and laggards.

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