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Best Short-Term Trade
February 8th, 2004
This week's “best trade of the week”
is a continuation of the previous week’s best trade,
where we left a QQQQ Call position open.
This trade was closed with
15% of profit.
NOTE: We discuss our “best trades of the week” here mainly for
educational purposes. The trading examples we illustrate are based
principally on our volume indicators and market commentaries. Our main
intent is to show you how you can apply our volume indicators and to explain the
specific correlations that exist between volume spikes and the movement of the
indexes. We do not mean to imply that you should follow our exact trades, but
rather wish to suggest that you may make use of our volume analytics to develop
your own trading style. We also urge you to paper trade before committing your
money to the markets.
For
this week’s “trade of the week”, "Buy QQQQ Call
#2" is opened
in order to close it later with profit if the index moves in our favor.
|
Security |
Return |
| Call #1 (QQQQ March) |
+15.38% |
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Total Profit: |
+$2,000 |

Even though the trades shown above were not entirely without risk, they
resulted in a profit of $2,000
Why were only call options were purchased?
It's very risky to buy put options when general market trend is defined as
an up-trend. This is because the market does not always react to supportive
volume in a timely manner, or sometimes the reaction is not as large as
expected. In the majority of the case, the market will react to supportive
volume during an uptrend, but resistive volume will be somewhat diluted,
unless it is a very large amount of resistive volume.
In the following, we would like to show you the
motivating factors that led us to take above trades. For this purpose, we have
created what we call a 'Table of Trade Motivators':
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Trade |
Volume Motivation |
Market Commentary on Members Home Page during
the trade |
Buy Call #1
01/29/2004
Was left opened
last week |
During the market's descent, it encountered several supportive VMA spikes to
the downside at 10:15, 11:45 and at 13:45. |
We
still expect that the market will continue to move higher in the mid- and
long-term as it continues in its bullish up-trend. |
Sell Call #1
02/02/2004 |
During the market's late morning rally it encountered two large resistive
VMA spikes to the upside at 12:00 and 12:45, the second of which was the
point at which the market began to descend. |
We believe that today's large resistive VMA spikes to the upside will likely
cause the market to continue moving lower in the short-term in order
to generate more supportive volume to the downside. |
Buy Call #2
02/04/2004
Left opened |
During the markets descent, it generated a relatively large supportive VMA
spike to the downside at 14:15. This supportive VMA spike stopped the market
from descending much further throughout the rest of the day, in effect it
set the day's support level. |
We
currently do not seen any need to alter our bullish mid- and long-term
prospectus as we haven't seen the amount of resistive volume one would need
to change the mid- and long-term's current up-trend. |
These are the trades which netted the returns shown above:
Date |
Trade |
Strike |
Expiration |
Contracts |
Contract
Price |
Amount |
Profit |
| 01/29/2004 |
Buy Call #1 |
$37 |
March |
100 |
$1.3 |
-$13000 |
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| 02/02/2004 |
Sell Call #1 |
$37 |
March |
100 |
$1.5 |
+$15000 |
+$2,000 |
| 02/04/2004 |
Buy Call #2 |
$37 |
March |
120 |
$1.05 |
-$12600 |
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Total: |
+$2,000
(+15.4%) |
To see
any of our past best trades, simply select from
the list below.
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Date |
Indicator |
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September 25, 2004 |
QQQQ Options |
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September 18, 2004 |
QQQQ Options |
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September 10, 2004 |
QQQQ Options |
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September 9, 2004 |
QQQQ Options |
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September 7, 2004 |
QQQQ Options |
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September 2, 2004 |
QQQQ Options |
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August 31, 2004 |
QQQQ Options |
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August 19, 2004 |
QQQQ Options |
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August 18, 2004 |
QQQQ Options |
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August 15, 2004 |
QQQQ Options |
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August 5, 2004 |
QQQQ Options |
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August 3, 2004 |
QQQQ Options |
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July 31 2004 |
QQQQ Options |
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July 21, 2004 |
QQQQ Options |
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July 14, 2004 |
QQQQ Options |
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July 13, 2004 |
QQQQ Options |
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July 1, 2004 |
QQQQ Options |
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June 23, 2004 |
QQQQ Options |
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June 20, 2004 |
QQQQ Options |
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June 6, 2004 |
QQQQ Options |
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May 30, 2004 |
QQQQ Options |
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May 25, 2004 |
QQQQ Options |
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May 20, 2004 |
QQQQ Options |
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May 16, 2004 |
QQQQ Options |
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May 12, 2004 |
QQQQ Options |
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May 09, 2004 |
QQQQ Options |
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April 29,
2004 |
QQQQ Options |
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April 22,
2004 |
QQQQ Options |
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April 18,
2004 |
QQQQ Options |
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April 10,
2004 |
QQQQ Options |
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April 6, 2004 |
S&P 500
Options |
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March 28,
2004 |
QQQQ Options |
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March 14,
2004 |
QQQQ Options |
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March 7, 2004 |
QQQQ Options |
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February 29,
2004 |
QQQQ Options |
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February 22,
2004 |
QQQQ Options |
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February 15,
2004 |
QQQQ Options |
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February 8,
2004 |
QQQQ Options |
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February 1,
2004 |
QQQQ Options |
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January 25,
2004 |
QQQQ Options |
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January 18,
2004 |
QQQQ Options |
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January 12,
2004 |
QQQQ Options |
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