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Trading Options For Profits Meeting

1/8/2015

Hi fellow traders and investors. Here's and excellent options club in Silicon Valley that I joined many years ago. If you want to learn about options, this is the place to go. Below are all of the details for our next meeting. Hope to see you there

Trading Options for ProfitS

MEETING ANNOUNCEMENT

Next Meeting:

Saturday, Jan 10, 2015 from 1:00 - 4:00pm

Where:

Elks Lodge
375 North Pastoria Avenue
Sunnyvale, CA 94085

Click Here for a map

Cover Charge $10

Topic:

2014, a year in review,
2015 a year in preview?

"Trades that worked; mostly"

RSVP: [email protected]

The holidays are over: out with the old; in with the new!

My MACD says BUY!

My RSI says SELL!

I've not even looked at price yet.

I'm in indicator hell!!

“It is different this time!” Really? The market is at all-time highs, and the VIX is at historic lows. Interest rates that we may never see again. Oil with a 5 SD move from their highs.

How can we consistently make money in the market with everything that is going on now? Well, some of us are doing just that!

To kick off the 2015 season of Traders Helping Traders while Trading Options for ProfitS, we will review some actionable trades based upon systems used in 2014 by PJ and Kurt -- and anyone else who wants to share what’s working for them.

Methods we will share:

1)     Earnings Season /Earnings Trades: Using Options to determine the move of the stock. How can we leverage the increased IV during earnings’ season to sell premium or to trade directionally?

2)     How can you use Sector Analysis to see where the market is trending?

3)     How can you use the historical data to put on seasonal trades with a VERY high probability of profit and really BIG returns? HOST Trades - Jake Bernstein will be proud of you!

4)     Jake’s Momentum Divergence has been making me consistent profits!

5)     Bread and butter Monthly SPX trades

6)     Bread and butter Monthly Options on Crude Oil Futures

7)     Remember our Market Pulse question of where the SP500 will be 1 year from now? What about one simple 12-month $5 vertical spread on a SPY option trade in 2014 that returned 65%? Could we repeat this in 2015? Let’s see if we can duplicate this return using current option prices and volatility.

8)     And, don’t forget about the year 5 trade!

If anyone wishes to share any of their 2014 trade results or 2015 systems, please feel free to bring in your notes to share. The power of our group is that we can use Crowd sourcing to review your ideas -- in order to help refine them and in order to try and give you the best chance of success.

Our meeting room has Wi-Fi. Don’t be shy with questions. We can analyze ideas in real time with the tools that we all are using.

If you wish to attend this meeting, please RSVP to: [email protected]

Best regards,
PJ

TOPS is a self-funded group of "traders helping traders," and a $10 contribution is required to pay expenses for the meeting.

Disclaimer: Trading is highly speculative and risky. By registering for this event, you agree to receive future updates of educational events from TOPS (Trading Options for ProfitS). If you do not wish to receive meeting notices, please reply to: [email protected] with “remove” as the subject.

TOPS is NOT an investment advisory service, nor a registered investment advisor and does not purport to tell or suggest which securities you should buy or sell. Speakers may present trading ideas that have worked for them; but, the TOPS group does not endorse any specific trades or methodologies. There is a very high degree of risk involved in trading. You may lose some or all of your money. Before using information obtained at our meetings you should carefully consider the risks and suitability for your own trading.

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Novice Trader Produces 5 Videos

1/6/2015

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In September 2014, Cindy Bayne, daughter of Joe Gruender Jr., began her journey to become a successful trader and investor in the financial markets. Under the mentorship of Joe, founder of InvestorsHELP.net, Cindy began her study on subjects that are of interest to new traders and investors, basically those who know little or nothing about the financial markets. When you are new to any career field, you need to build a foundation of knowledge coupled with experience before you can become most successful in your chosen career field. That's the concept we are going to follow here.

Cindy has begun her focus on general, yet important subjects, that she must learn and understand before she progresses to the next level. Our more experienced traders and investors know this, or should know this, but like me, may have forgotten some details through the years. I personally have learned a few new things from Cindy's videos. So, I continue to view her work and look forward to learning more from her videos in 2015.

Early in 2015, our focus will shift to Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs). By using only ETFs for indexes and sectors, it offers a low stress and relatively less complex environment to learn about the financial markets. More about this later since we need to work more on building our foundation.

Now that Cindy has posted several blogs and has produced 5 videos, please feel free to review and learn from her excellent work as she herself learns about the stock market, brokerage accounts, thinkorswim, and more. Check back often as Cindy, and perhaps you, progress on the path to becoming a successful trader and investor.

Learn, profit and enjoy, [MEET NOVICE_TRADER_CINDY]
Trader_Joe

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ThinkorSwim Coming To Silicon Valley

1/6/2015

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Wonderful News For Traders and Investors!

I just received notice that Cindy Faber from thinkorswim will be here with us in Northern CA on Thursday. I met Cindy almost two years ago and can attest that she is one of the most knowledgeable people on using our favorite trading platform. You won't want to miss this meeting....bring your questions for Cindy. When you see me at this meeting, please introduce yourself, I like to meet all of our FREE subscribers who like to use many of the resources available here at InvestorsHELP.net.

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Meetings For Investors and Traders

1/3/2015

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Happy New Year!

For traders and investors, we are already getting off on the right foot, especially if you live in the Bay Area of Northern California. So far this month there are at least 8 meetings scheduled this month on a variety of investing and trading subjects including taxes and options.

I expect to add at least 3 additional meeting notices during the coming week or 10 days. So, please check back often so that you too can take advantage of the information and education being offered during January.

If you know of additional meetings that are scheduled that are not included at our website, please send an email to me at [[email protected]].

Current information, details, times and places for each of these meetings are located here: [JANUARY MEETINGS]. I look forward to seeing and meeting many of our subcribers at these meetings in January. If you see me, please introduce yourself.

Let's make January a very profitable month,
Trader_Joe Gruender

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Looking For Candidates At New Highs?

12/22/2014

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One of the favorite strategies used by traders and investors is to buy stocks that are breaking out to "New Highs" (NH's). This is especially true of those who follow the Investors Business Daily (IBD) CANSLIM method of investing. More details on CANSLIM can be found here: [CANSLIM]

Of the 300+ NH's that will be identified in tomorrow's IBD newspaper, the new high list is always interesting. However, one of the most important lessons to learn about the NH's list is that most of these stocks are extended; they are too LATE to buy.

You must have PATIENCE and wait until they pull back for a better (lower) entry price. This is often hard to do because they are "shooting up to the moon" and we want to get aboard before it is too late! So, you buy the stock and watch it turn down a day or two later.

So, what should you do? I review the stocks on the NH's list and select some to put on my "Active Watchlist" for continued following and review during the coming days and sometimes weeks. Most of these stocks will eventually retrace to between 38% to 62% from their high to an area of support based on "Fibonacci Retracement" levels. At these levels they frequently find support and turn back up for another run higher. This is the time that I want to buy these stocks and climb aboard for a possible run up to a new high. This is my time to buy!

Of the 300+ stocks that are on the current NH's list, here are some of the stock symbols that look most interesting to me: CAVM, CVS, EQIX, GIII, LOW, RCL and STZ.

Please keep in mind that these stocks are all EXTENDED. Consider putting them on your watchlist and buy only after they turn back up at support as described above.

For Novice Option Traders: If you later buy a CALL option "at the money" (ATM) on any of these stocks at the right time, you only need about a 5 point move to clear approximately 20-30-40% gain on your option. This would be worth trying/thinking about. On a 4-6 month option, you may find yourself up a good percentages in just 30-60-90 days.

Please let me know by adding your comment if you would like additional details on this subject and perhaps a video demonstrating the strategy reviewed above. Remember, this is for informational and educational purposes only; please do your own research before putting you money at risk.

Learn, profit and enjoy using the many resources available at InvestorsHELP.net.
Trader_Joe Gruender Jr.

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Best Stock Lists and Analysis 12.19.2014

12/20/2014

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Want a listing of the Top 50 stocks as of 12.19.2014 for your study and analysis? Would you like to know what stocks are in the Top 20 Industrial Groups? I always like to analyze stocks that have earnings per share (EPS) that are in the Top 10% but currently do NOT have market support. These stocks are good candidates for "turn around situations" ready to move up when they come back into favor.

These and several additional reports are now available at Peeks Stock Forum and have been updated as of market close on 12.19.2014. A total of 9 reports have been updated and placed into the InvestorsHELP.net Subscriber's Vault. Access is FREE but you do need to know the password to enter our vault.

Please check out the details for access and sign up at this location: [GIVE ME ACCESS]

Good luck in picking the best for you,
Trader_Joe

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What's Up With Top 50 Stocks?

12/14/2014

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For many years I have been using the Top 50 weekly listing of stocks for picking potential stocks for appreciation during the coming week. There are always "50" stocks on the list. Each week we usually see from 5 to 8 stock symbols removed from the listing of 50 stocks and another 5 to 8 added each week as the "dogs" are removed. Now, these aren't really "dogs," but are stocks that have recently gone out of favor and have moved down in price over the last few weeks.

Do I forget about the "dog" stocks? No, and I don't want you to forget about them either. What happens is that these stocks are only out of favor, perhaps for a few weeks, as they "pull-back" and consolidate before they resume their climb higher in price. So it's important to maintain a listing of "dogs" so that you can "buy" them when they start moving up again.

So, what's different about the Top 50 List for this weekend? I’ve been tracking and studying the Top 50 list going back to mid-2000's. This week's change of stocks on this list is the most at one time that I can remember. Look, 40% of the names on this week's list were replaced. In addition, 6 new stocks came on the list. This is very unusual and begs the questions .. what's going on here?

These symbols have been removed this week from our list: AER, AN, BCC, CALM, CMG, EXPE, HAWK, IPGP, MA, MPWR, NTES, PKG, SBNY, SEIC, SPR, TMH, TSCO, UA, URI, VIPS. Wow! That’s 20 symbols removed.

So, if 20 symbols are removed, we must add 20 new symbols to maintain our list at “50” otherwise we would not call it the “Top 50” list: ABG, ALK, AMGN, AVGO, BWLD, CBG, CDW, CMPR, FL, GNTX, HOLI, MELI, MNST, NOAH, ORLY, PCYC, ROST, ULTA, UTHR, UVE. If you have been following our Top 50 list, you will notice that several of these symbols have been on this list before.

There are only 6 symbols that are making their debut on the Top 50 list. Want to know what they are? Here you go: AMGN, CMPR, MELI, PCYC, ROST, UVE.

The weekly “Top 50” list is an excellent source of stocks that could see price appreciation during the coming week(s). Several times each month when we receive access to this list from [Peeks Stock Forum], we publish this list FREE here at InvestorsHELP.net for your review and analysis. We have 8 additional lists of stocks that are excellent candidates for price appreciation.

Sign up NOW at [Peeks Stock Forum] for FREE access to all 9 weekly lists for your use.

We hope that you learn, profit and enjoy when using InvestorsHELP.net,
Trader_Joe

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My Learning Board -- Key To Knowledge And Success

12/13/2014

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It’s almost 11:00 pm on Friday night, and I should be heading to bed. After a relaxing bath with a mindless book, I decided to go to my office and see how the after-hours market closed. An hour later, I’m sitting at my desk looking at http://www.thinkorswim.com when I decide it’s time to update my LEARNING board. Let me explain…

On the wall to the right of my desk I have a good size dry erase board. I’ve used this board to make notes of things that I need to be reminded of daily… for example, what’s consolidated energy, what’s up with Tuesdays? And then there are of course little notes added by my 10 year old daughter, Elizabeth.

I had just decided it was time to erase my board as I’ve got the information clued inside my brain. And as Elizabeth taught me, every time you learn something new, it creates a wrinkle on your brain. That information taught to me by my 10 year old created a wrinkle on my brain because I didn’t know that. HOW fascinating! I’m glad the wrinkle is on my brain and not my face! SO, the information currently on my board has found its place in a wrinkle on my brain. Time for new information! But before I erased it, I thought I’d share with you what my learning board looks like. Maybe next blog I will take a picture of all the post-it notes all over my computer and monitors. LOL

I share this with you at https://investorshelp.net to say, we all have our own styles of learning. It’s about finding what learning techniques work best for you and using those methods. Learning is the key to knowledge. Knowledge is the key to success.

Happy Returns,

Cindy

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New Video Available -- Spotting Market Tops and Bottoms?

12/5/2014

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It's now available! This new video to help you identify tops and bottoms in the financial markets. We provide all of the information that you need, including background information on the indicator, where to find it and how to use it for your trading and investing activities. We then compare the top and bottom dates identified by the indicator and compare them to the S&P 500 E-mini futures contract to determine how well the indicator performed during the last two years.

Even though this video does NOT apply to SectorSurfer, this video is offered as a "bonus video" within the Video On Demand (VOD) series from the November SectorSurfer Users Group Meeting. This informative video plus 5 additional videos are NOW available here: [Where's The Videos?]

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Spotting Market Tops and Bottoms -- New Indicator

12/4/2014

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Tomorrow we will release a new video entitled: "Best Indicator For Spotting Market Tops and Bottoms?" You are probably not aware of this overbought and oversold indicator, so we will provide all of the details in the video when published. Included in the video will be: where do you find this indicator, how to use this indicator, and the results experienced during the last two years.

Here's a "Sneak Peek" video of what will be available in the final published video: Introduction to Spotting Market Tops and Bottoms Indicator

When the video is published on 5 Dec 2014, access will be here: Final Published Video On Spotting Tops and Bottoms

We hope that you learn, profit and enjoy,
Trader_Joe
InvestorsHELP.net

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