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Copyright 2002 PD,LLC

6/1/2002

Market Types

By Richard Philip Cadway
This Newsletter is not a public release - for members only
There are two types of market conditions that we hear about all the time - the Bull market and the Bear market. These are simple to define and the easiest to trade.
 
The Bull Market is a market that is trending higher.
 
The Bear Market is a market that is trending lower. Trends were explained in a previous newsletter that you can find a link to at the bottom of this page.
 
Of course there are other types of markets that require different types of trading. In a bull market we buy and sell higher. In a bear market we sell short and cover at a lower price. There is also a flat market, a sideways market, and a choppy market. It's important for our trading success to determine how the market is evolving because most stocks follow the direction of the market.
 
In this chart of May 31, 2002 we have a minor down trend, a major down trend, a confirmation of the low, and a possibility of a double bottom. Anyone with knowledge of technical analysis can describe to you what has happened in the past and sound intelligent, but the real skill that leads to a traders success is being able to predict what is going to happen and then entering trades with increased odds and lower risk. Now let's consider the current market condition. We just came out of the highest bull market ever and are experiencing something close to the low of a strong bear market. You hear talk about economic recovery because most investors want a bull market again, but when will it happen? The markets go through bull and bear cycles due to the actions of the federal reserve. If history repeats itself as we expect it to, we should be entering a bull cycle fairly soon (less than 2 years).
 
The average trader is not privy to the resources and information to know when the market will turn, so we use technical analysis to help us determine what the big money is doing. The big money begins accumulating quality stocks while the news is bad and before positive market talk is happening.
 
The markets are not designed so you can make money. They are designed so the big money can get bigger, at least this is my opinion. We don't know where the market low is going to be, but if Pakistan and India go to war it will most likely be below 1100 on the NASDAQ 100. Under normal circumstances I think the market is close to it's low and therefore think that buying a beaten up company that is profitable and not likely to go out of business would be a good buy and hold investment. If you are daytrading, your capital is probably limited and tying up money in long range investments is now a wise idea. As of today, I think the market will break the low and then run up. The double bottom is a good place to enter a trade because it gives you easy entry, exit, and stop points as explained in Princeton's TradeTutor courses.
 
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Investing vs Daytrading

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Determining Market Direction

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 Locating Market Highs And Lows

 9-5-2000

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 12-8-2000

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Chasing The Price

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New Daytrading Rules 

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The Parabolic Indicator 

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HotTrend

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Buy and Hold

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Averaging Down

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Trading IPO's

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 Following Trends

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