I stay fairly bullish the general market. I name what I see and what I noticed in 2022 have been inventory market members that turned extremely bearish. I mentioned at first of 2022 that we wanted a bear market brutal sufficient to ship the lots to the sidelines and by no means desirous to personal one other inventory – ever. Sadly, that is what it takes. And the rationale why we’ll proceed going greater now’s that nobody believes we are able to. Right here was a headline from CNBC final week:

Solely 24% say now is an effective time to put money into shares, the bottom studying within the survey’s 17-year historical past. Good! Sentiment is a contrarian indicator and seeing this survey at an all-time low, even decrease than in the course of the monetary disaster in 2008, tells me that everybody has offered and there is a ton of cash on the sideline to hold the inventory market greater and better.

Sentiment was extremely bullish on the finish of 2021. The equity-only put-call ratios ($CPCE) instructed us that retail merchants have been shopping for calls over places by the fistful. We would have liked sentiment to “reset” and we have seen that on the CPCE. You may see from the headline above that pessimism is now at an excessive degree, which can solely add extra gasoline to the bullish fireplace.

How To Profit From Greater Market Costs

I’ve instructed EarningsBeats.com members because the June 2022 backside that market threat had shifted. It grew to become too dangerous to stay on the quick aspect and that transferring to lengthy positions carried a lot much less threat. I steered that ETFs just like the SPY and QQQ have been wonderful selections to easily profit from market power. Many non-EB members scoffed at such bullishness, sadly, because the S&P 500 and NASDAQ 100 at the moment are greater by 14.64% and 20.01%, respectively. A lot to the chagrin of bears, we’re going quite a bit greater. Struggle it at your personal peril.

Particular person shares have, for my part, been far more troublesome, due to the insane rotation that is been an enormous a part of the market since 2020. There’s all the time been rotation within the inventory market, however it’s been the severity and suddenness that is made it particularly troublesome lately. I’ve chosen largely ETFs to revenue from the inevitable rally, realizing the rotation threat that made particular person inventory buying and selling very troublesome. Even now, I decide my spots for particular person shares.

Discovering Excessive-Reward-To-Low-Threat Setups

Given the speedy rotation, you should be keen to simply accept periodic losses. That is the case in any market, however it’s very true proper now. Buying and selling is not all the time butterflies and cotton sweet. The buying and selling winds appear to alter on a dime, so you will have to be extraordinarily nimble if buying and selling particular person shares. I will depart that call as much as you.

I’m buying and selling by my bull market guidelines, anticipating pullbacks to be purchased, whereas probably taking earnings at key worth resistance. I will offer you three particular person shares that I like proper now, together with one leveraged ETF that is sensible as nicely.

RLI:

I like to commerce earnings gaps. When a inventory gaps up on the opening bell, market makers present liquidity by shorting. That often leads to shares transferring reverse the hole, as soon as we see the opening bell. When shares hole greater and maintain transferring greater, it is a sign to me of very sturdy demand. In these instances, I usually like shopping for on the high of hole help. RLI additionally has its 20-day EMA rising and simply beneath this hole help. Entry from the present worth all the way down to 137-138 makes good buying and selling sense to me. A detailed beneath the 20-day EMA would characterize a possible exit, so maybe 1-2% threat. I might search for a restoration again to latest highs, so there’s potential right here for a 7-8% acquire. That is a minimum of 4 to 1 when it comes to reward to threat, which I discover engaging.

ROK:

ROK was a transparent chief in industrial equipment ($DJUSFE) and the group was performing extraordinarily nicely by way of mid-March. The group noticed its relative power drop at that time and ROK fell right into a bullish wedge after revenue taking ensued. All of this adopted a detrimental divergence (slowing momentum) printed. Throw within the false breakout and reversing bearish engulfing candle, and it was time for a pause within the ROK rally. On Thursday, ROK gapped greater on better-than-expected revenues and EPS when its quarterly outcomes have been introduced. The opening hole cleared resistance in its bullish wedge. I count on ROK to now uptrend and ultimately check its 306 worth resistance degree. To the draw back, ROK’s 20-day EMA is at 278.58. So long as it closes above that rising EMA, I might be okay holding. Subsequently, the upside is roughly 22 bucks and the draw back is roughly 5-6 bucks. This units up with a really good 4 to 1 reward-to-risk ratio.

SOXL:

I like the latest promoting within the Dow Jones U.S. Semiconductor Index ($DJUSSC) to a essential worth help zone. That is the time, for my part, to tackle further threat, within the type of leverage. First, try the chart on the DJUSSC:

The DJUSSC not solely examined trendline help from the October and December bottoms, however it additionally examined a essential space of worth help from 7200-7400. That’s THE PERFECT time to think about leverage, as a result of if we see a breakdown, you possibly can exit shortly, shedding solely a small portion on the leveraged guess. However what if this marks a serious turning level on the chart and semiconductors lead the inventory market a lot greater? Leaping in on a leveraged product will improve your return significantly. It is why I purchased the SOXL and despatched this out as a possible commerce to EarningsBeats.com members on Friday. Leverage should be used correctly. There isn’t any assure that SOXL will make a serious transfer greater, however that is essentially the most essential degree on the DJUSSC chart proper now. It is all about managing threat, not being proper on a regular basis. That is why I take advantage of technical evaluation – to assist me handle threat. Those that do not consider in technical evaluation will merely level out that it does not work on a regular basis and, due to this fact, ignore. Poor souls.

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Glad buying and selling!

Tom