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How To Approach This Market Dip

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Written by Timothy Sykes
Updated 7/17/2024 5 min read

The market took a HUGE dip yesterday.

The S&P 500 ETF Trust (NYSE: SPY) fell 1% and NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ: NVDA) fell 7%.

There’s a lot of speculation right now around the events that caused the selloff …

I’ve got all the details. And I have a plan to trade amid this bearish price swing.

First, take a look at the SPY and NVDA charts below, every candle represents one trading day:

SPY chart multi-month, 1-day candles Source: StocksToTrade
NVDA chart multi-month, 1-day candles Source: StocksToTrade

This is one of the reasons why I love trading:

I’m not exposed to market swings because I don’t hold long-term positions.

This price dip will slightly affect my trading, but I’m not worried about it. Like a regular investor might be.

In some ways … My trade opportunities are MORE obvious now that the market dipped.

Why Are Stocks Pulling Back?

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On Tuesday we learned that President Biden might ramp up tech-export sanctions – specifically for microchip technology.

It could be the latest effort to shield American businesses from Chinese competitors. But it also has the potential to hurt revenue for key U.S. tech companies. The sanctions effectively shrink demand from overseas.

That’s why we saw tech stocks like NVDA and ASML Holding N.V. (NASDAQ: ASML) dive yesterday.

Additionally, comments from former President Trump regarding Taiwan’s safety added to the market instability.

Understand, three out of four stocks follow the market.

When the market is bearish like this, it CAN impact the plays in our sector.

The last few weeks, the stock market was red hot! As a result, we saw a lot of big profit opportunities.

The manic bullish sentiment is most obvious when we see stocks spiking +100%* without any news … Like Locafy Limited (NASDAQ: LCFY), it spiked 380%* on July 11.

There are still profit opportunities when the market dips. We just have to trade more judiciously.

Top Trade Setups Right Now

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Now more than ever, it’s important to focus on stocks with real news.

The rocket needs fuel if we’re going to the moon … Do you know what I mean?

Trading no-news runners is a strategy for when the market is hot. Right now we have to dial it back a bit.

Luckily … We’re in the middle of earnings season. As a result, we can expect verified financial data to act as volatile catalysts.

Already, we’ve seen impressive movements from stocks that announced earnings recently.

For example, Yoshitsu Co. Ltd. (NASDAQ: TKLF) spiked 160%* on July 16 after the company announced EPS of $0.20 and a revenue of $195.7M (a 15.3% gain year over year).

Attention: This stock is still consolidating and could surge higher! It found support above the highs from a past spike on May 24.

See the chart below, every candle represents one trading day:

TKLF chart multi-day, 1-day candles Source: StocksToTrade

I traded this stock on day one. And I’m still watching it for follow-up moves.

See my trades notes below:

Source: Profit.ly

Use this interactive AI bot to follow my trading process and build smart positions.

TKLF isn’t the only stock trading higher with positive earnings right now …

  • NiSun Enterprise Development Group Co. Ltd. (NASDAQ: NISN) spiked 90% on July 12.
  • Methode Electronics Inc. (NYSE: MEI) spiked 50% between July 11 and 12.

Make sure you’re watching stocks that have a reason to push higher!

That’s one of the best ways to protect our positions in this market.

And if there aren’t any obvious plays, sit on your hands. There’s no need to give away money, lol.

Tune in for one of my live webinars and you’ll see that most of the trading day, I’m waiting for plays.

Take a look at the post on X below from one of my students, this is the right mindset!

Source

Only focus on the best plays right now!

Cheers.

 

 

*Past performance does not indicate future results

 


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* Results are not typical and will vary from person to person. Making money trading stocks takes time, dedication, and hard work. There are inherent risks involved with investing in the stock market, including the loss of your investment. Past performance in the market is not indicative of future results. Any investment is at your own risk. See Terms of Service here

The available research on day trading suggests that most active traders lose money. Fees and overtrading are major contributors to these losses.

A 2000 study called “Trading is Hazardous to Your Wealth: The Common Stock Investment Performance of Individual Investors” evaluated 66,465 U.S. households that held stocks from 1991 to 1996. The households that traded most averaged an 11.4% annual return during a period where the overall market gained 17.9%. These lower returns were attributed to overconfidence.

A 2014 paper (revised 2019) titled “Learning Fast or Slow?” analyzed the complete transaction history of the Taiwan Stock Exchange between 1992 and 2006. It looked at the ongoing performance of day traders in this sample, and found that 97% of day traders can expect to lose money from trading, and more than 90% of all day trading volume can be traced to investors who predictably lose money. Additionally, it tied the behavior of gamblers and drivers who get more speeding tickets to overtrading, and cited studies showing that legalized gambling has an inverse effect on trading volume.

A 2019 research study (revised 2020) called “Day Trading for a Living?” observed 19,646 Brazilian futures contract traders who started day trading from 2013 to 2015, and recorded two years of their trading activity. The study authors found that 97% of traders with more than 300 days actively trading lost money, and only 1.1% earned more than the Brazilian minimum wage ($16 USD per day). They hypothesized that the greater returns shown in previous studies did not differentiate between frequent day traders and those who traded rarely, and that more frequent trading activity decreases the chance of profitability.

These studies show the wide variance of the available data on day trading profitability. One thing that seems clear from the research is that most day traders lose money .

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Citations for Disclaimer

Barber, Brad M. and Odean, Terrance, Trading is Hazardous to Your Wealth: The Common Stock Investment Performance of Individual Investors. Available at SSRN: “Day Trading for a Living?”

Barber, Brad M. and Lee, Yi-Tsung and Liu, Yu-Jane and Odean, Terrance and Zhang, Ke, Learning Fast or Slow? (May 28, 2019). Forthcoming: Review of Asset Pricing Studies, Available at SSRN: “https://ssrn.com/abstract=2535636”

Chague, Fernando and De-Losso, Rodrigo and Giovannetti, Bruno, Day Trading for a Living? (June 11, 2020). Available at SSRN: “https://ssrn.com/abstract=3423101”