Author Daniel Bustamante  Q1 2019 Market Outlook & Investment Ideas December was brutal. The very best hedge fund managers whom I look to and who have help build my market philosophy were down as well. Now, I don't think anyone was shocked at the sell-off since we've had such a tremendous run in the markets but it did get a bit carried away. The Christmas lows were met with strong buying across the board which made for some great entries to select names across the board.  From 2009-2018 what we saw were market ..read more

The housing industry has been a drag on the overall economy in five of the last six quarters. That doesn't seem likely to change much. Builder sentiment fell sharply this month amid worries about affordability. Prices have been climbing faster than incomes for years, in part because there aren't enough homes on the market to meet demand. Now with a new tax law that that reduces incentives for homeownership and the Federal Reserve raising interest rates, ownership is even more of a stretch. ​ Housing starts rose this morning but only slightly. While I don't think ..read more

Author Daniel Bustamante | Coach Blind risk is what we do when we don't realize the risk at hand.  Sort of like your 401K or retirement accounts. The ones that you hand over, check maybe once a year and then hope that there's enough there when you retire. That's blind risk.  It feels safe because you don't have to see it or think about it on a daily basis. It's the reason most people never take their own money management into their own hands. Seeing a loss here and there bothers them. Two years ago I had a student angrily email me because they lost $1,000 trading futures.  $1,000 gon ..read more

Author Bryan Agosto | CORE Coach SUMMARY: ​ VXX in a range, depending on the broader market direction we could go up to 36 or down to 29.  Understand the flow of the market, and find the range where price reacts, and you can make money.   First off Happy Veterans Day, and thank you for your service to any service men & women out there!    I can remember when I started to get interested in trading and tried to go all in one a few trades and failed, having the market go against my trade time and time again was very frustrating.  I tried some different methods wat ..read more

Author Daniel Bustamante | Coach I think too many times we get caught up in discussing the best stocks to buy, what indicators to use and other items that we forget possibly the most important one; routine.  Routine is arguable the most important part for any investor or success entrepreneur. Take for example today. It's Sunday which usually means for me that I'll review the markets from last week and try to look for 2-3 ideas to use this week to trade and make money from.  I like doing it this way because I don't day trade and I don't believe in being at the computer all day long in ..read more

Author Daniel Bustamante | Coach So here we are two weeks after we had not one, but two CNBC Markets in Turmoil Specials. You have to love the financial media - they love to put on a show.  The question you should be asking yourself is what did you end up buying during the sell off? If you're like most investors the answer is probably nothing. You'll wait for a few more days of stocks rallying then think "hey this is green maybe it's a good time to buy it" - Wrong. Sure your 401K and retirement accounts look better today than they did 10 days ago but did you really learn anything fr ..read more

Author Daniel Bustamante | Coach I figured after this morning most people looking at their 401K's and accounts feel like Patrick Bateman. Though yesterday, last week and pretty much the entire month of October probably felt like his other side.  So we got a nice rally today across the board and the long positions I took I've all but sold. The way the markets are trading right now it makes it difficult to get into longer term trades and to be honest, why would you want to? Netflix alone was up +6% this morning and NVDA was up something like 8% or 9% the past two days.  The same C ..read more

Author Bryan Agosto | Coach  Last week as I was consulting for a large healthcare company, I was asked about what I did with my spare time.  I explained to the crowd how I loved to trade and read price charts with the purpose of profiting from that knowledge.  We discussed how trading parallels many aspects of life; one aspect specifically was food.  Over the past three week's I have had so many people ask me when do I get out or when do I get back into the market.  Throughout all of these question, I get one question consistently how much do I need to start trading? My response is how ..read more

I realized this morning that it's almost November. The year is over and it went like that.  Looking back my favorite ideas for the year were Square and Twitter. I actually owned shares of both. Snap, another idea, not so great but allegedly, you can't win them all so I'll stick with that as my reasoning as to why Snap just couldn't get right.  November is usually the last month of the year where there is movement and for me that's when I stop trading. December I take time to prepare for the next year, relax, get things in order and just sit back.  I'll be headed to Austin end of the ..read more

Author Daniel Bustamante | Coach I'm sitting here this morning making sense of the markets last week and procrastinating my road-ride. The one thing you don't want to procrastinate on is your retirement and the plan for these markets. They're nasty right now and the question I'm trying to determine myself is whether or not we're close to some buying opportunities.  Also I got caught up watching this again.  A favorite of mine from years ago. So let's look at the Nasdaq, which for me, is my leading indicator (sorry to offend those of you with those fancy 'back tested' indicators you ..read more