About a week before stocks started selling off and volatility was getting higher... bonds had pulled back and were set to rally as a 'flight to safety'. We bought calls on TLT (the long bond) as as stocks sold off, bonds really rallied. We used the lower top to get out at the same time stocks were starting to make a comeback and rally from cloud support (I teach the cloud in the member section). We also got +7.50 % on TMF the leveraged bond ETF and used a fairly large portfolio allocation on it.
Here is where we got out of stocks before the Dow dropped -1000 points. I gave a detailed explanation to private clients and kept them all out of the big selloff. During the same time, bonds rallied, so we got into a triple leveraged bond ETF (see below)
October 2018: This is a trade on the triple inverse long bond ETF. Bonds go down and this goes up. Now that interest rates are going higher bonds are falling off. Bonds trade just like stocks so even if you get interest, the asset value is constantly going up and down. In this case, our ETF is soaring.
August 2018: This is a trade of the 3x Inverse Small Cap Gold Miners ETF we exited on August 15, 2018. We got in a few weeks before as gold was starting to break down on its chart. However, gold stocks had not broken down yet. Then, as gold started moving below $1190, down to $1160, junior gold miners plummeted, leaving us with a +41% gain on this trade. Because we have a close stop, we had 15% of our portfolio in this trade, netting us a +5.6% gain on our entire portfolio from this trade.
August 2018: At the same time as JDST we also made +100% on GLD (Gold) Puts as gold was in a negative trend below the Cloud. The Cloud works as support and resistance. We used the hammer candle to get out as the hammer is well knows to show a potential bottom on a chart. At least temporarily.
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This is a trade we made in July 2018 on a medical device company. This is one of the hottest sectors and should remain very hot for the next 2 decades. We time precision entries of course, and this stock's strength to the market is very strong, it made a breakout, and has a great positive trend. The cloud you see is used for support.
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This is a trade we made on SOXL, the semiconductor triple leveraged ETF. It broke the 50 day moving average, was moving through the cloud and I got us in and we were up 17% three days later.
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This is a trade we made on Apache Oil (APA). The chart made a triple top and was moving into the cloud (bullish) and looking to move through the cloud (bullish). We made 180% on these call options in only 3 days.