It's the most wonderful time of the year - and I don't mean the holidays. I'm talking earnings season.
This one is going to be a biggie, one of the most important in decades. I won't get into what's at stake, and why - I don't want to depress you this early on a Sunday, and besides, that's all over the news you can get anywhere.
What I do want to do is surprise and delight you - and line your pockets with cash starting tomorrow morning. And to do that, I'm going to share a list of stocks I'm watching for big moves right now.
But what you can't get elsewhere is the best way to make money at a time like this. It's dead simple, and if you do it right, you can bank a day's pay in minutes.
Even better, you can trade like this throughout the year - you don't have to wait for earnings season, but it's that much more powerful if you trade this signal now...
This Is the Best Time to Trade
This is something I like to call "the Fade."
The "Fade" usually happens shortly after we see a big pop in premarket action on a stock on the morning or day after it reported quarterly numbers. This is because during premarket trading, institutions and smart-money investors bid up shares.
Again, this isn't only an earnings-season phenomenon; it goes down year 'round. But the effect is really powerful around earnings.
Retail investors can see this, and, right when the market opens, they rush in to buy the stock on all that good news.
But all too often, we see something incredible happen not long after the retail investors rush in. The stock suddenly reverses course and starts to fall - percentage points in a matter of hours, sometimes even minutes.
What's happening there? No mystery: The funds are taking profits, and those late retail investors are left holding the bag or, more to the point, holding rapidly depreciating stocks.
Now, naturally, the best time to move is just when this pivot happens.
And I can pinpoint exactly when this "event" occurs.
I use something called volume-weighted average price - VWAP. To most folks, it's just a line on a chart, but when stocks get too far above or below that line... there's cash to be made.
And by the way, it should come as absolutely no surprise whatsoever that hedge funds and institutions have been using VWAP to play regular investors - all regular investors - for chumps. Now's our chance to fade them for a change.
These Stocks Have Serious VWAP Potential
With that said, here are a few of the tickers I'm expecting big moves on - something I call my rolling watchlist. I'm looking at these long term.
Orphazyme AS (NASDAQ: ORPH)... SoFi Technologies Inc. (NASDAQ: SOFI)... Eargo Inc. (NASDAQ: EAR)... Corvus Pharmaceuticals Inc. (NASDAQ: CRVS)... Medirom Healthcare Technologies Inc ADR (NASDAQ: MRM)... Nurometrix Inc. (NASDAQ: NURO)... Aterian Inc. (NASDAQ: ATER)... Aehr Test Systems (NASDAQ: AEHR)... THM The Metals Company Inc. (NASDAQ: TMC).
I have a list of stocks that changes just about every day, but these tickers stay on my radar for weeks on end. And remember, I'm not looking for fundamentals. I'm not looking to fall in love with the executive team or looking for anything like commitment - I'm just watching these stocks for the right moves, then we're in and out.
It doesn't matter if you're a buy-and-hold investor with stocks reporting earnings this quarter, or you're a fast-paced trader looking to bag 50% on a handful of stocks every day, you can use VWAP to make the kind of money previously reserved for hedge funds. Keep on the right side of VWAP and keep on the right side of life.
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