Wow! I watched this all morning. There was no pump at all, or anything great to speak of.
It just went down hill, for everyone to hold the bag
It just went down hill, for everyone to hold the bag
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This was what, a 25 bagger at today's high point. Pump and Dump or not, no stocks can hold those kinds of gains in that short amount of time. Just to be honest, not chasing stocks like this is just one of those lessons that every trader needs to learn.
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Sorry, my bad. Still learning. Does a short squeeze rise the price of a stock because the shorts are trying to cover?
I was just a little frustrated earlier.. |
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Yes, that's exactly what it is. If shorts get caught off guard for one reason or the other, then they'll start to cover, which would lead to the price rising higher causing more shorts to cover, etc. It's a snowball effect and it results in the price running hard. For all we know this run the past month could have been at least partially from a short squeeze, but at this point any talk of one is just hype. Shorts have covered and if anything are probably repositioning themselves and shorting into the rally.
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A month ago the stock was trading around .002 or even lower, and so that .05 would be a 2,500% return. Not everyone is up that much, but there are tons of people who are up a butt load and are selling into the recent strength. This is why a chart is so valuable, it can give you great perspective and insight. Like I said, pump and dump or not, this stock was due to correct. The play here is done, there will be bounces along the way, but the real money that was to be made has been made. Studying this chart and all the details from it, then try to apply it to other charts and then actually try to catch one of these runners before they take off. It won't happen right away, but if you work hard enough at it, you'll start to get proficient at spotting the setups.
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Thank you , Simon. I can read some basics of charts, but don't know how to spot the trends, trendlines, MA's etc. I'm sure there is too much to list here, but is there a thread on how to learn this and how to try to spot runners before they take off??
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Gents:
ZA (a promo group) has been pushing this for 2 weeks.....they got 20,000,000 shares for it. The news announcement made by the company about their new "IL-78 Agreement" with Air Support Systems, LLC is much ado about.........well.....Air Support Systems LLC is apparently owned by Gary Fears, an undisclosed insider of the company and the gent whom I believe has sold massive amount of stock into this promotional push. Shorts or no shorts, this has lived its life, and the regulators can take it from here. |
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Imo, charts don't really start to become useful until you've put in thousands of hours of screentime and it starts to become second nature. I may have read 10 or books on TA and have taken a course or two as well, but in the end it's all the screentime that really had everything sink in. Follow charts during the day, then at night review as many as you can. With that being said, here are some things I wrote up that try to simplify some of the main things to look for in charts, though remember that nothing you read will improve your chart skills overnight.
http://www.hotstockmarket.com/forums...ghlight=charts |



