The Secret of My Success

Sample report [Get in today] We enjoyed Jeff Cooper's Morning Report so much that we thought we'd send it to you as a courtesy. It really does a great job of illustrating what sets Jeff apart. And if you'd like to join Hit and Run trading, there's a link all the way at the bottom of this email. (and it is a long email, so it may take a few minutes for you to get there) Hit and Run Trading Morning Report - July 2, 2020 The Secret of My Success By Jeff Cooper Whether we like it or not, as traders, we are all in the pattern recognition business. We are in the business of determining patterns of accumulation and distribution. Aided and abetted by technology, our modern pop culture is driven by images, starting with television and film and magnified by the internet and smartphones. So now, behavior patterns in markets repeat with more volatility than in the past. All of my strategies are based on pattern recognition. They are not based on some kind of "canned heat indicator." As I gained experience trading, when I’d have a big winner, I’d look back to see if there was any tell-tale sign that would tip me off in the future. I began to see that similar patterns and fractals of those patterns would show up. This what happens with your own trading once you put the time in. There is just no substitute for the experience that time brings -- except for one thing -- great traders need coaches. What separated greats like Michael Jordan, Tiger Woods, Rafael Nadal, Roger Federer and Mohamed Ali from the rest of the pack? They all had great coaches. I have made a lot of trades. I have made a lot of traders. Scientific studies show that mood follows patterns, which indicates repetition, and therefore a degree of predictability and probability. And, therefore potential profitability. In my experience in making big gains in the market, I have found that it is not as complicated as you might think. At the end of the day it is about putting yourself in the position of being in the right place at the right time -- that is, finding a leading stock before it starts to run big again. Patterns can help us identify these opportunities. To see these patterns, you must have a watch list and stalk a core list of names. This is the most important factor in my success. You must limit your field of vision, the number of stocks you are following. In my experience trading, the more you try to see, the less you see. The beauty of using pattern recognition is that stocks rally then consolidate in repeatable patterns. The natural underlying price behavior of stocks is that they inhale and exhale. They do so directionally -- they rally strongly and then pullback. As well, their price bars expand and contract at regular intervals. In a word, stocks breathe. Stocks are driven by us and mimic our behavior. Sometimes a stock will breathe slowly as if asleep. A stock will breathe faster as we do when we walk. A stock will pant as we do when we run. A stock will hyperventilate as we do when we race. Stocks crawl before they walk, walk before they run and run before they sprint. Let’s take a look at two names, TSLA and SHOP, that just joined the $1000 club and see how a pattern put you in the right place at the right time to profit on a explosive move before it occurred. The following daily TSLA for this year shows a Climax Run into February 4. This is well before the market crash started on February 24. TSLA’s behavior was a harbinger of what was around the corner. [image] One of the benefits of following leading stocks is that their behavior taken together will telegraph trouble ahead of time. Notice how TSLA’s daily bars are relatively small as it started to walk higher. There are several up gaps as it starts to run . On February 3, TSLA exploded with the largest range of the year. The next day TSLA gapped open and ran up big before settling right where it opened. That 'Spinning Top' was followed by bearish Train Tracks and then a test failure of the high. This test failure was validated by a breakaway gap below the 20 day moving average. Notice the size of the bars at the top compared to the expansion of range in the bars at the March low. Just as TSLA caved in when it gapped below its 20 day line, likewise, it started a new uptrend when it gapped and reclaimed its 20 day m.a. on April 6. Do you see how TSLA rode its 20 day moving average up, recaptured it and then rode it up again throughout the second quarter? Importantly, TSLA broke out of a Stein & Handle pattern on June 1. This is a pattern I created as a cousin to the Cup & Handle pattern. It accounts for V ‘bases’ which often occur in well-loved names glamours such as TSLA. What is important to notice is the signal reversal bar April 30 that mirrors the large range signal reversal bar at the February 4 high.The following session, May 1, echoed the drop on February 5th. But there is no further follow-through. Instead, TSLA walks off its gains from the March low by going sideways rather than pulling back. TSLA was inhaling. Notice that the June 1st breakout cleared the April 30 reversal. This left a Reversal of a Reversal buy signal or what I call a Keyser Soze. Finally, notice that prior to this weeks push to new all-time highs, TSLA carved out a micro Stein & Handle, a fractal of the big picture Stein & Handle from February through May. You see how patterns are a canary to capitalizing on a stock inhaling and exhaling. One of the easiest ways to lock in gains on a big winner and sell into strength. is to learn to recognize a Climax Top or Buying Climax. In my experience it is often best to sell a big winner while it is still sprinting and looks strong. Institutions by necessity out of the size of their positions must sell into strength. It is a good idea for us to mirror their behavior. That said we have an advantage -- we can stick around and ride the move longer because we have less size and can get out easily. The most common complaint I hear about selling into strength is that it is contrary to being a trend-follower and that “I could be leaving money on the table… what if it goes much higher without me?” That will happen. It’s part of the game. But it is also part of the game to get back in when a stock reasserts itself and signals higher. George Soros says, “The usual bull market successfully weathers a number of tests until it is considered invulnerable, whereupon it is right for a bust.” This underscores why, although seemingly counterintuitive, it is important to sell partials into strength. This is in keeping with our Hit & Run/Trim & Trail method. We’ll trade around a core position and after trimming into exhaustion, we’ll often keep a ‘stub’. Selling is trickier than buying. It is more of an art. While we want to buy once a stock shows it is moving up.We want to sell into strength. This is what Hit & Run subscribers did in two big winners this week, OPK and BNTX as they spiked. We made 39% in OPK and 22% in BNTX! A Climax Top often occurs in big winners when a stock has been rallying persistently for a number of months. Suddenly it takes off and off and runs faster. These Runaway’s usually don’t see pullbacks for more than 1 to 3 days. This is how I created my concept of the 1 2 3 Pullback. Runaway moves into euphoric Buying Climaxes are created by investors who become willing to pay increasingly higher prices for a stock because they ‘have’ to have it in their portfolio. This causes Unsustainable Price Action (UPA). When investors realize their emotion mistake, the stock can come down hard and fast. This same pattern occurs on multiple time frames---even on an intraday 10 minute bar. The following daily SHOP shows how it repeated a Rule of 4 Breakout pattern twice this year. [image] A Rule of 4 Breakout is a breakout over a 3 point trendline. Each instance identified a Golf Swing. Allow me to explain, each Rule of 4 buy signal was a time to walk away from the screen figuratively speaking and go to the golf course for solid swing trade. Notice that following its April Rule of 4 Breakout, SHOP walked off the exhale in price by consolidating or inhaling. That late April ‘inhale’ was a “high Handle” to a Stein & Handle pattern. Importantly, the late April consolidation played out after SHOP cleared its February 12th signal reversal bar, a Gilligan.A Gilligan is a strategy I created that does a good job of identifying exhaustion. It is a gap up to a new 60 day high with a close at/near session lows. The larger the bar, often, the bigger the Buying Climax. Notice that SHOP left another Gilligan sell signal on May 26. No downside follow-through. When SHOP cleared the May 26th Gilligan, the Keyser came to town and SHOP exploded from 844 to 1017 yesterday in 10 days. Summary. Rule of 4 Breakouts and Reversals of Reversals do a good job of identifying Golf plays. The trick of the trade with these Golf Swings is to recognize a climax top so you can sell while the demand is still hot, rather than waiting until everyone is trying to get out of the exit at the same time. Want Reports Like This 5 Days a Week, Plus Real-Time Ideas and a Video Training Course? Hit and Run's been having a great run. Here's a couple messages from happy subscribers: [image] [image] Join [Hit and Run Trading](. for just $19.95. 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