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The plan a real trading desk makes for the week ahead. Free, in your inbox every Sunday at 6:30 PM ET.

  • If/then, never predictions. Every idea has two branches.
  • Where it's wrong, every time. In the same breath as the idea.
  • A routine you learn. Then run it without us.

Written by Benito Segovia and the TrueTrader desk.

The Fed, Five Big Reports and a Market Buying Defense

Issue 1, for the week of October 26

700750MayJunJulAugSepOct774.44last wk high768.9820d/50d shelf764.36weekly pivot758.68last wk low754.29weekly S1

SPY, daily, six months to Oct 23. Last week's high 774.44, weekly pivot 764.36 (the average of last week's high, low and close), last week's low 758.68.

Hey all. Big week. The Fed decides on Wednesday, the quarter's GDP and the Fed's favorite inflation number land Thursday morning, and between Wednesday and Thursday night Microsoft, Alphabet, Amazon, Intel and Sandisk all report after the bell. That is a lot of air to fly through in three days.

Read this week's issue

Same five steps, every Sunday

The order matters. You look at the calendar before a chart, and at the market before a stock.

  1. 1

    The calendar

    Fed days, data mornings and the earnings that can gap a stock overnight. Where the landmines are, before you take a step.

  2. 2

    The indexes

    Where SPY and QQQ sit against their moving averages, and the few levels where the market changes character.

  3. 3

    The money

    Eleven sectors ranked over the month. What the market is actually rewarding, not what TV is talking about.

  4. 4

    Earnings

    Which reports deserve a plan, which ones to ignore, and how to handle the morning after.

  5. 5

    Four lists

    Strong, oversold, weak, overbought, scanned from about 700 liquid stocks. Two names each, with an if/then and where it's wrong.

What it isn't

It isn't a stock-picking service, and it doesn't tell you what the market will do. Nobody knows that, and we don't need to. Each idea is a plan with two branches: if price does this, here's what we do; if it does that instead, here's where we're wrong and out. You pull up the charts and make your own call.

Past issues

This is where it starts. A new issue every Sunday.

See you Sunday.

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