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Daily stock market analysis, trade alerts, and trading education from Ross Givens and the Traders Agency team.

Exploit the Small-Cap Breakout
Hey, Ross here: We’re at the end of another trading week. And things are looking good. Chart of the Day That’s the chart of the Russell 2000 index, which essentially tracks the performance of US small-cap stocks. As you can see from the chart, it’s firmly broken out past its resistance level as it races […]


Can You Sell When This Happens?
Hey friend, Let’s see how the markets have been moving. The Daily Direction Note: A perfectly normal pullback in most indexes yesterday as they digested the rally. However, the Russell 2000 actually closed significantly higher yesterday, showing that the smaller names are all jumping onboard. All directions remain firmly in the green. The Daily Nugget […]

Flushing Out the Bears
Hey, Ross here: And let’s start the day with another high potential trade idea. Chart of the Day Kingsoft Cloud Holdings (KC) provides services such as cloud storage and cloud computation services. It is the web cloud service of China, so to speak. The company has recently had a nice run in price where it […]


The Most Important Lesson of History
Hey friend, Let’s see how the markets have been moving. The Daily Direction Note: Stocks resumed their advance yesterday, and all index directions are now in the green. Importantly, the Russell 2000 index is also firmly trending upward, showing that smaller names are also a part of this rally. The Daily Nugget History doesn’t repeat, […]

Overcorrection Opportunities (Plus a Profitable Trade Idea)
Hey, Ross here: And let’s begin the day with a trade idea that’s already profitable with strong legs remaining. Chart of the Day Aaron’s Holding Company (AAN) saw a tightening in a wedge formation after making a higher low and holding above our long term 200-day moving average. This is a sign of sellers and […]


Can You Pass This “Trust Test”?
Hey friend, Let’s see how the markets have been moving. The Daily Direction Note: Stocks pulled back yesterday after Friday’s big upward close – a perfectly natural move. No change in any index directions except for the Russell 2000’s long-term direction flipping back downward. The Daily Nugget A good trader won’t hesitate in buying the […]

Powering Forward (Market Update from Charles Green)
Charles Green here, Senior Market Analyst here at Traders Agency. Here’s today Market Pulse 360. Market Pulse 360 for June 6, 2023 The market continues to power forward, and the bears are slowly going into hibernation. With all of the noise that obscured the real driving forces, many traders and investors missed the best first […]

This is Why I’m Excited…
Hey, Ross here: And here’s a chart that shows just why the current market rally is so exciting. Chart of the Day The chart above is for the Equal Weight S&P 500 ETF, which is an ETF that tracks the S&P 500 IF every company on there had equal weight – instead of being weighted […]


Too Slow…
Hey friend, Time to see how markets have been moving as we start a new, bright trading week. The Daily Direction Note: What a strong close last week – as you can see, all indexes are now firmly in the uptrend. We can thank the debt deal and a comforting jobs report for that. The […]

Breakouts… Breakouts Everywhere
Hey, Ross here: A new trading week is upon us – and I can feel it’s going to be a good one. I explain why below. Chart of the Day The market has finally broken above the level that we can see it has reacted off of multiple times in the past year. Everytime we […]


This Opens Up So Many Opportunities
Hey friend, Time to see how markets have been moving as we end the week. The Daily Direction Note: As expected, markets closed higher yesterday thanks to the debt deal easily passing Congress. Hopefully we can stop talking about all this debt drama by early next week. The Daily Nugget Switching time horizons can show […]

The Market’s “Profit Formula” is Now Clear
Hey, Ross here: It’s not just the trading week that’s behind us, but the month of May and the second quarter of 2023 to boot. With that in mind, let’s look at some evidence to counter the still-pervasive bear market narrative. Chart of the Day The above is a simple line chart of the S&P […]

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