Over the past several months, we’ve introduced you to new strategies and kept you informed as to our current thinking in the stock market. If you’ve been reading TradeSmith’s editorials, you know that, given the prevailing economic environment, we prefer small-cap stocks. On Friday, we told you our thoughts about the smaller domestic banking stocks. … Continued

Last week, TradeSmith shared the results of our latest testing on the Stock State Indicators (SSI) as an investment tool and the efficacy of the SSI Entry and SSI Stop signals. The results were incredible. Our test group included about 1,300 tickers (stocks, indices, funds and commodities). Of the more than 9,700 trades that triggered … Continued

Over the past month, we’ve introduced you to two different strategies that we call the “Low Risk Runners”. Both strategies take advantage of stocks moving from the Stock State Indicator (SSI) Yellow Zone back into the SSI Green Zone. The first strategy was introduced here. It continues to use the SSI Stop as its exit … Continued

Over the course of little more than a decade, TradeStops has changed the way individual investors look at risk in stocks and portfolios. In developing TradeStops, we introduced new terms into the investing world. The Volatility Quotient (VQ) and Stock State Indicators (SSI) are the two most-used terms in TradeStops. Sometimes, it can take a … Continued

You’re familiar with the way TradeStops helps you understand and manage risk, both with your individual stocks and your portfolios. Now let’s look at how you can take the ideas you like the most and build portfolios from them. If you’ve attended one of TradeSmith’s webinars or live presentations in the past couple of years, … Continued

We’ve all seen the headlines that dominate the financial news media about the increase in market volatility over the past two months. How does this “information” affect you and your investments? As you already know, the TradeStops Volatility Quotient (VQ) is dynamic. It changes every week. The changes aren’t normally very big, but even small … Continued

The stock market has had two months of upheaval since making new all-time highs in late January. Nobody knows if we’re near the end of the increased volatility or if this is just the start. As individual investors, we might not know where the market is going to go, but it is our responsibility to … Continued

At TradeStops, we want you to become successful investors. Everything we do is to position you to reach and exceed your investment goals. We developed the Volatility Quotient (VQ) and Stock State Indicators (SSI) to help you make intelligent, mathematically-based decisions about your stocks. And every TradeStops member can benefit from understanding their stocks better … Continued

One of the unique things that we do in TradeStops which few, if any, other services do, is to adjust trailing stops for dividends and other corporate actions. We have many TradeStops members who are professionals with different brokerage firms who use TradeStops for just this reason. One of our professional members told us “No … Continued

The headlines the last couple of weeks have focused on stock market volatility. The Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) had two days last week that were down by more than 1000 points. The CBOE Volatility Index (VIX) spiked, causing two volatility-based tickers – XIV and SVXY – to lose more than 95% of their value … Continued