Steve Rushton, Author at Trading the Line

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re-charge

Maybe time to start a pull-back now as the full force of the double bottom T structure should have expired today – assuming my drawing is correct. Tight stops at 2039/40.

Time to re-charge the bull.
Ideally into the 2015-1985 zone – previous resistance, may well now be support.

Steve Rushton November 19, 2014No Comments

S&P500 daily update

S shaped top

Moving up into a S shaped top. well maybe.
Still under S2, and now in the R2 zone.

With the potential expiration of the T structure tomorrow, a tight stop under today,s low 2041 makes sense.

RSI 14 above 70 suggestive of a top.
Are there any bears left out there.

Steve Rushton November 18, 2014No Comments

S&P500 daily update

Give or Take

Move along, still nothing to see here.

Will we get a push up into the resistance zone, or a rollover into support?

Steve Rushton November 17, 2014No Comments

S&P500 daily update

Follow the yellow brick road…

Feels like waitin for something to happen.
4 dojis in a row.
Buckle up Dorothea, its going to get bumpy.

Steve Rushton November 14, 2014No Comments

S&P500 daily update

Dont chase me now

Another doji day. Market playin catch-up. Maybe the beginning of a mini-megaphone.

Given the track record of the recent upper rising resistance lines R1, R2 it makes good sense that the market will either bump and grind higher (like June and July) or scary sell- off (news related maybe) and find support on S1.

My charts are saying times up on this move, at least short term.

Steve Rushton November 13, 2014No Comments

S&P500 daily update

Consolidation

Still contained by the S2, and another doji day. Indecision.

A pullback to the mean would make sense, especially after a 220 point move, but perhaps we stumble into a high nearer to Thanksgiving.

Steve Rushton November 12, 2014No Comments

S&P500 daily update

Long in the tooth ?

Overbought on the RSI 2 (97) and RSI 14 (68), negative signal on the CCI 20.

Hard up against S2 resistance line, and a doji candle – indecision / decision time.

Within a day or 2 of a 70 day pulse from a major low.

At the end of the projected T structure from September 2 high

A close below 2030 would be suggestive of a reversal so use as a profit protective stop.

Steve Rushton November 11, 2014No Comments

S&P500 daily update

silence of the lambs

Still going strong. Nothing to discuss.

Steve Rushton November 11, 2014No Comments

S&P500 daily update

still on a jolly?

Close to a short term top? Maybe. Maybe this week. My guess is the 12th.
Look out for a close below the low of the high day.

Notice the rising resistance line S2.
If / when we kiss this goodbye, then we should see a pullback to the S1 support line. Perhaps 1975-80

Of course, maybe we get more good news and head up into the 2050-2060 resistance area, and long term rising trend line R1.

Steve Rushton November 9, 2014No Comments

S&P500 daily update

move along now

Certainly moving into a peak here.
Should make it to 2050 now, look no fear, no hands on the wheel.

Looking for a momentum peak mid November, a low early December, and a subsequent rally in Christmas.

Steve Rushton November 6, 2014No Comments

“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”
Leonardo da Vinci

“Imagination is more important than knowledge”
Albert Einstein

“All of our days are numbered. We can not afford to be idle. To act on a bad idea is better than to not act at all because the worth of the idea never becomes apparent until you do it. Sometimes this idea can be the smallest thing in the world; a little flame that you hunch over and cup with your hand and pray will not be extinguished by all the storm that howls about it. If you can hold on to that flame, great things can be constructed around it; things that are massive and powerful and world changing. All held up by the tiniest of ideas.”
Nick Cave, 20,000 days on Earth

2026 Positions

(All numbers refer to SPX)

S/T SELL Signal below 6845 on 03 Mar

COVER Short Signal above 6877 on 02 Mar

S/T SELL Signal below 6850 on 02 Mar

COVER Short Signal above 6857 on 27 Feb

S/T SELL Signal at 6857 on 27 Feb

COVER Signal below 6884 at 6857 on 27 Feb

S/T BUY Signal at 6884 on 23 Feb

COVER Short Signal at 6850 on 23 Feb

S/T SELL Signal at 6837 on 23 Feb

COVER Signal at 6864 on 23 Feb

S/T BUY Signal at 6883 on 18 Feb

COVER Short Signal at 6834 on 17 Feb

S/T SELL Signal at 6888 on 12 Feb

COVER Signal at 6915 on 12 Feb

S/T BUY Signal at 6899 on 06 Feb

COVER Short Signal at 6938 on 06 Feb

S/T SELL Signal at 6901 on 04 Feb

COVER Short Signal at 6915 on 03 Feb

S/T SELL Signal at 6915 on 03 Feb

COVER Signal at 6942 on 03 Feb

S/T BUY Signal at 6968 on 02 Feb

COVER Short Signal at 6938 on 30 Jan

S/T SELL Signal at 6910 on 30 Jan

COVER Signal at 6940 on 30 Jan

S/T BUY Signal at 6934 on 29 Jan

S/T SELL Signal at 6907 on 29 Jan

COVER Signal at 6934 on 29 Jan

S/T BUY Signal above 6905 at 6923 on 22 Jan

COVER Signal at 6849 on 21 Jan

S/T SELL Signal below 6894 at 6843 on 20 Jan

COVER Signal below 6925 at 6843 on 20 Jan

S/T BUY Signal at 6961 on 15 Jan

COVER Signal below 6934 at 6925 on 14 Jan

S/T BUY Signal above 6890 at 6900 on 05 Jan

COVER Short Signal at 6864 on 02 Jan

S/T SELL Signal at 6837 on 02 Jan

Mission

It has been my Mission to create a simple but effective method for investing in the stock market, so that I would always know what to do regardless of the circumstances.

The result is a rigorous system which allows the market to tell you what to do, when to Buy, when to Hold, when to Cover, and when to Sell, and it removes the need for you to have any opinion whatsoever.

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“In the end, I’m not interested in that which I fully understand. The words I have written over the years are just a veneer. There are truths that lie beneath the surface of the words... truths that rise up without warning, like the humps of a sea monster and then disappear. What performance and song is to me is finding a way to tempt the monster to the surface, to create a space, where the creature can break through what is real and what is known to us. This shimmering space where imagination and reality intersect... this is where all love and tears and joy exist. This is the place. This is where we live.”
Nick Cave 20,000 days on Earth

“If you're going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don't even start. This could mean losing girlfriends, wives, relatives and maybe even your mind. It could mean not eating for three or four days. It could mean freezing on a park bench. It could mean jail. It could mean derision. It could mean mockery--isolation. Isolation is the gift. All the others are a test of your endurance, of how much you really want to do it. And, you'll do it, despite rejection and the worst odds. And it will be better than anything else you can imagine. If you're going to try, go all the way. There is no other feeling like that. You will be alone with the gods, and the nights will flame with fire. You will ride life straight to perfect laughter. It's the only good fight there is.”
Charles Bukowski, Factotum, 1975

>“The mind is a glass floor.
The mind is the spirit’s tear.
The mind is our prior and subsequent ghost.
The mind is the Bullion Express and the blood on the tracks.
The mind is a stone door.
The silver on the backs of mirrors.
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It’s what the drunk grave robbers couldn’t stuff in their sacks.
The mind is the sum of all and more.
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The mind is neither either nor or.
The real center of an empty sphere.”
Jim Dodge, Stone Junction, 1990

“The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous. Hierarchical society is only possible on the basis of poverty and ignorance. This new version is the past and no different past can ever have existed. In principle the war effort is always planned to keep society on the brink of starvation. The war is waged by the ruling group against its own subjects and its object is not the victory over either Eurasia or East Asia, but to keep the very structure of society intact.”
George Orwell

“There was a student... just the other day... who said that my problem, if one's nature is a problem, rather than just problematic, is that I see things in terms of victory or death, and not just victory but total victory. And it's true: I always have. It's either victory, or don't bother. The only thing worth doing is the impossible. Everything else is gray. You're born... as a man... with the nerves of a soldier, the apprehension of an angel, to lift a phrase, but there is no use for it. Here? Where's the use for it? You're set up to be a philosopher or a king or Shakespeare, and this is all they give you? This? Twenty- odd years of school which is all instruction in how to be ordinary... or they'll fucking kill you, they fucking will, and then it's a career, which is not the same thing as existence... I want unlimited things. I want everything. A real love. A real house. A real thing to do... every day. I'd rather die if I don't get it.”
The Gambler (2014), Dir. Rupert Wyatt