The StockTwits Edge

Profitable trade set-ups from StockTwits leading traders One of the biggest secrets on Wall Street is that to become consistently profitable, you need to specialize in a distinct setup. That is, you need to know how to read the signals that can help you identify an opportunity to buy or sell. In The StockTwits Edge: 40 Actionable Trade Setups from Real Market Pros, both well-known professional masters of the market and lesser-known individual traders describe their highest probability setups to teach you about an assortment of time frame and asset class-related market methods along the way. Drawing on the wisdom of some of the top minds at StockTwits, the leading stock market social networking site, this book has something for everyone, giving you exactly what you need to come up with profitable ideas and avoid financial risk, every day. Includes key trading insights from the experts at StockTwits Explains which factors of a setup are important, and why While there are many factors involved in successful trading and investing, the ability to identify profitable situations is paramount, and The StockTwits Edge gives you everything you need to achieve that goal.

Introduction xi PART I TREND FOLLOWING CHAPTER 1 Find Trends, Ride Them, and Get Off 3 Howard Lindzon CHAPTER 2 Trade, Trend, Tail 13 Keith McCullough CHAPTER 3 Don’t Quit 17 Michael K. Dawson CHAPTER 4 Know Thyself 25 Chris Peruna CHAPTER 5 Insider Information Is Reflected in the Charts 31 Keith Kern PART II VALUE INVESTING CHAPTER 6 Margin of Safety 37 Todd Sullivan CHAPTER 7 The BeanScreen 43 Daniel Miller and Jason Robinson CHAPTER 8 Fallen Angels 53 Michael Bigger CHAPTER 9 Dividends Don’t Lie 59 Eddy Elfenbein PART III DAY TRADING CHAPTER 10 Only Price Pays 67 Brian Shannon CHAPTER 11 Intraday Earnings Momentum Gap Trade 73 John Lee CHAPTER 12 Trading the News 83 Mike Bellafiore CHAPTER 13 Intraday Momentum 93 Steven Spencer CHAPTER 14 The Underlying Psychology of Large Players 99 Gilbert Mendez PART IV SWING TRADING CHAPTER 15 Flags and Wedges 107 Joe Donohue CHAPTER 16 Breakout from a Tight Base 113 chessNwine CHAPTER 17 The Base Is Everything 119 HCPG CHAPTER 18 Trading People, Not Stocks 127 Joey Fundora CHAPTER 19 The Top-Down Technician 135 Greg Harmon CHAPTER 20 Identifying Trend Shifts 141 Derek Hernquist CHAPTER 21 A Chart Will Never Lie to You 149 Sunrise Trader CHAPTER 22 The Short Squeeze Trade 159 Frank Zorrila CHAPTER 23 The Price Tells the Story 165 Derald Muniz CHAPTER 24 Force Confirmations, Not Trades 175 Nick Fenton CHAPTER 25 The Birth of a New Trend 181 Ivaylo Ivanhoff CHAPTER 26 The Trend Intensity Breakout Setup 187 Pradeep Bonde PART V OPTIONS TRADING CHAPTER 27 Unusual Options Activity 197 Joe Kunkle CHAPTER 28 Put Ratio Spread 203 Jared Woodard CHAPTER 29 Know What You Don’t Know 213 Adam Warner CHAPTER 30 There Is Always an Option 217 Steven Place CHAPTER 31 Selling Premium 225 Darren Miller CHAPTER 32 The New High Dip 233 Chris Stauder PART VI FOREX TRADING CHAPTER 33 They Call Me Mrs. Cable 241 Lydia Idem CHAPTER 34 The Mind of a Chartist 253 Raghee Horner PART VII THE ART OF TRADING CHAPTER 35 Trading Is an Art 263 The Fly CHAPTER 36 Embrace the Tape 267 Quint Tatro CHAPTER 37 Macro Setups at the Crest of Structural Change 275 Gregor Macdonald CHAPTER 38 Broken Butterfly Formation 279 Anne-Marie Baiynd CHAPTER 39 Always Happy, Never Satisfied 285 Joshua Brown CHAPTER 40 One Step Ahead of the Herd 289 John Benedict CHAPTER 41 Change Is the Only Constant 297 Steve Gomez and Andy Lindloff CHAPTER 42 The Kirk Report 303 Charles E. Kirk CHAPTER 43 Stick with Names You Know 311 Ronald Roll CHAPTER 44 Massive Trends and the Trajectory of Noise 315 Phil Pearlman CHAPTER 45 We Have Met the Enemy, and It Is Us 321 Abdel Ibrahim CHAPTER 46 A Contrarian at Heart 329 John Welsh Index 333