The New & Expanded Position Swing Trading Program! Comming August 19th.

Our Position Swing Trading Program is a 3 pronged approach to design for you to master swing trading in bull and bear markets:

	A 4-hour live online course that will teach you the entire swing trading system. * * Risk-Free! * *
	Follow up training & coaching class(es) to answer questions after you’ve traded and give you our experience in varying market conditions.
	Stock and ETF selection for you with the Nugget List to ensure you are focusing on the right stocks and ETFs without requiring hours of research every day.

This program is designed to give you the ability to trade stocks, options, or ETFs full or part-time with the potential to earn a full-time traders income…

...	because you will have a complete swing trading system for BULL & BEAR markets.
...	because you will know how to profit from diverse global and industry trends by applying your swing trading skills to the right ETFs and stocks.
...	because you will know how to identify stocks, ETFs or indexes poised to go parabolic – up huge, quickly – based on very specific criteria.
...	because you will be confident in you specific entry and exit rules so you are in control of your trading.

And, just to make sure you don’t miss this unique opportunity for fear that it may not be what you need, we are offering a 100% money back guarantee for attendees of the live course on the evening of August 19th.

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• Rule #1
• Rule #2
• Rule #3

Rule #3: Use Quality Entries & Exits (TIMING)

We call this principle “The rule of being in the right place at the right time - timing is everything.”

This rule covers the area of trading that most traders spend all their efforts on – entries and exits. An entry or an exit is a set of criteria that when met, constitute your reason to buy or sell a stock.

Despite the huge focus on this area by traders, huge mistakes are made.

This document is not the place for me to attempt to give you specific entry and exit criteria because it’s more important that I give you the foundation for creating good quality entry and exits, and specific entry and exit rules are covered in the Position Swing Trading course.

Your Holy Grail Indicator
If you are going to develop a good trading system, the first step is to STOP LOOKING for “the perfect entry indicator.” It does not exist. Even good stocks fail, and you don’t need a perfect indicator to be a successful trader. You need a simple, repeatable, systematic approach to trading the market.

What is a “Good Quality” Entry or Exit?
Most traders look at chart after chart searching for the indicator that, hypothetically, got them in right before a stock started to move and out at the maximum profit potential. If this sounds familiar, refer to the “Your Holy Grail Indicator” section above – I’m talking to you!

Don’t focus on perfecting individual trades. Focus on building entry and exits that delivers consistent results over a large number of trades – this is your system.

Good quality entry and exits take into consideration the this bigger goal – the system. Here are some guidelines to follow when you define your entries and exits

Characteristics of Good Entries and Exits:

1. Easy to identify and execute: Your entry criteria should be as simple as possible. If your entry and exit rules are too difficult to identify or act upon, then you won’t use them consistently, and that makes your entry and exit rules ineffective.
2. Easy to repeat consistently: Success in trading comes when you have an approach, or system that you can execute with consistency. If your criteria are subject to a lot of interpretation you will not be able to identify the same market condition that constitutes a consistent entry. This reinforces the importance of simplicity.
3. Complementary with the trading personality of your market: The trading personality of your market is the way in which a stock trades. The best way for me to illustrate this point is with this example. If a stock generally experiences a daily trading range of $10 and has a typical bid-ask spread of $.50 to $.75 (i.e. GOOG when it was hot) your entry and exit rules must take that volatility and large spread into account. This not a trading personality that is contusive to a stop loss criteria of 0.25 below your entry price. Instead you should have a stop-loss criteria that enable the stock to trade with its normal level of volatility immediately after your entry without getting stopped out.
4. Complementary with the premise of your trade: When you enter a trade you should have a plan. You should also have an expectation of what the trade could do if it works, and what it might do if it doesn’t work. Good exit criteria will enable you to stay in the trade until the conditions of the trade “not working” are met.

For example, assume that the premise of my trade is that a stock has retraced to a moving average in an uptrend, and I want to buy the bounce off the moving average and catch the resumption of the uptrend. Also assume that if the stock closes below the moving average the stock has then not bounces, the premise of my trade has failed and I should exit. Now, given this a the premise of my trade, if I enter the stock and then set my stop at a point that is above the moving average I have just created an exit rule that will stop me out of a trade even when the premise of the trade is still in tact!

The same concept also applies to entries. The point at which you enter should be consistent with your definition of when your trade’s conditions are in place. This may sound obvious but how many times have you entered a trade before your rules say you should because you thought you’d just get in a little earlier!

Common Mistakes Made In Creating Entries and Exits:

1. Not enough emphasis on exits: The most common mistake traders make is to be too focused on entries while ignoring exits. Successful traders know that exits are the most important half of your trading decisions! Exits lock in profits and minimize losses - don't ignore them.
2. Entries don’t = exits: Don’t assume that the same indicator or criteria that you are using for your entries should be used to define your exits. In fact, it is likely that your best rules for exits will be different than those used for entries.
3. More is not better: Using multiple conditions to define an entry or exit is generally a good idea, but every time you add criteria you are not necessarily improving your system. You may even be making it a lot worse. You are undoubtedly making it less simple – remember the first rule of good quality entry and exits above! Do not add criteria to your system lightly!

These Principles Will Result in Good Timing
If you follow these guidelines when you define your entry and exit criteria you will be forced to create a trading system that is in sync with the market conditions that you like to trade. When you are in sync with the market good timing just happens.

Furthermore, when a good system is not in sync with the market (and this will happen), you will know quickly and be able to avoid taking big losses wait for the right conditions for your system which is when your get your big profits.

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Rule #2 – Catch Multi-Dimensional MOMENTUM

We call this principle “The Rule that hits home runs.”

Following Rule #2 puts you in position to catch the market’s biggest moves.

By multi-dimensional momentum I mean finding stocks, indexes, or ETF’s that have more than just daily price & volume momentum. In some cases this may mean intra-day or weekly price momentum. In the most powerful scenarios it means earnings, sales, news, market, industry group, and geo-political momentum!

Why trade just any good-looking chart when you can just as easily trade a trend that has more than just the chart as the “reason” for its move to continue? The big money is made - home runs are hit, when you catch the trends that are driven by momentum other than just price.

Once you experience the benefits of trading with multi-dimensional momentum, you will (and should) eagerly expand your trading research to include ways to identify momentum in the obvious sources such as earnings, sales, news, industry groups, geo-political conditions, economies, and more.

It Takes Skill, Homework, and a Little Luck
to Hit Home Runs . . .
Right now you should be asking yourself, “How do I find stocks, indexes and or/ETFs with multi-dimensional momentum?” First you need to know what to look for. This will come from experience and/or education.

Just like the technical analysis of charts, analyzing the data that measures other areas of momentum is an art as well as science, and requires homework and research. Here are a few concepts that are effective short cuts for getting started in honing your multi-dimensional momentum analysis skills.

1. If you are trading stocks, one basic, time-proven, method is to look for companies with strong earnings and sales trends. It is important to look at past performance as well as expectations for the future.
2. The price action, earnings, and sales trends of a stock’s industry group and peers can provide you with evidence that your stock is in a business that has underlying fundamental strength.
3. Inter-market analysis. If you learn which industry groups and indices are highly correlated, you will be able to see cause and affect relationships in the markets. Knowing these relationships enable you to identify when your trade is part of larger and more significant trends than just that of the individual stocks price movement!

How To Make Your Own Luck

Expect that the markets will be full of surprises – good and bad.

But also know that “surprises” trend! This means that stocks and markets tend to experience cycles of good news and cycles of bad news. Good tends to lead to more good news leads and vice versa with bad news.

Furthermore the interpretation of news trends in the same way. When the sentiment of a stock is very bullish, almost any news story gets interpreted as bullish, and the price trend continues up.

Good traders find trading opportunities where there is momentum in these multi-dimensional areas because it puts them in a position to “get lucky” – to be in a stock that before the good news hits! You can do this too.

An Example of a Multi-Dimensional Trend You’ve Experienced
I’ll bet you know what multi-dimensional momentum feels like. During the recent rise in crude oil you experienced it every day you associated the news with the rising price of gas at the pump. Any news suggesting higher demand for oil or political unrest in the Middle East would push crude higher. Any news suggesting consumers would buy less gas, or demand less crude, did little to slow the bullish trend.

So what does a multi-dimensional trend look like? The bullish phase in the crude oil ETF (“USO”) shown below is an example of a market driven by bullish news, geo-political conditions, and price momentum – strong with short orderly corrections which quickly end in a resumption of the primary up-trend.

Chart of Crude Oil (as represented by the “USO” ETF)

Don’t forget that this huge opportunity occurred as the US stock indexes were in bearish or recovery phases!

We Will Do Your Homework for You! (How painless is that?)

There are always companies doing well – growing with strong in earnings and sales even in turbulent conditions. Unfortunately, in bear markets (like the one we’re currently experiencing), even good companies may not be good stocks. For this reason, the market phase calculation explained in Rule #1 is critical in for keeping you on the right side of the market, and out of harm’s way.

However, when the bear market rests, or even starts to “recover,” stocks with multi-dimensional momentum provide very nice trading opportunities. When the market enters an “accumulation” --or better yet - a “bullish” phase, these stocks can go parabolic! That means up HUGE, quickly.

The Nuggets List by MarketGauge is a list of stocks with strong earnings and sales with the multi-dimensional momentum that leads to big rallies.

Here is just a short list of some of the nice long side opportunities from the Nuggets List that demonstrates the power of multi-dimensional momentum even during these very difficult current bear market conditions:

Examples of Real Trades
	CSIQ	long 5/8 to 5/13	+ 41%
	SOLF	long 5/16 to 5/19	+ 34%
	ANR	long 5/9 to 5/22	+ 23%
	MOS	long 6/5 to 6/18	+ 19%
	ENER	long 6/11 to 6/25	+ 16%
	SINA	long 5/6 to 5/16	+ 15%
	SDS	long 6/12 to 7/11	+ 12%

In addition to tracking stocks with multi-dimensional momentum . . . Starting August 19th , the Nuggets List will track close to 100 actively traded ETFs in order to give you the market phase rating for each one! So, you will have most of your homework done for you. YOU WILL be on top of the best US stocks as well as domestic and global trends via ETFs you can trade like stocks.

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You’ll get access to the current Nugget List immediately after you register.

Rule #1 – Trade the Current Market Phase

This rule keeps the wind at your back. Stocks and markets obviously don’t go straight up or straight down continuously. They cycle up and down in what we call “Market Phases.”

The most obvious application of this concept is that traders want to be long during the up phases and short during the down phases. When a strong up or down phase can be reliably identified you have a real edge in the market. It’s not that easy, however. There are more that just 2 phases (up & down).

Rule #1 is to trade in the direction of the market phase. This gives you an edge. As you become a more sophisticated trader, you will develop specific trading strategies that do best in specific market phases.

In developing my own trading strategies, I’ve done a lot of research and back testing to figure out a simple and effective method of knowing whether the market is in an up phase, down phase, or a transitional phase.

Start Simple - Assume There are Only 2 Market Phases
Below is a daily chart of the S&P 500 (as represented by the “SPY” ETF). I have colored the daily bars so that the days of the Bullish Market Phase are green and Bearish Market Phase days are red. White daily bars are transitional market conditions where your market bias would be neutral. I’ll explain transitions later.

Daily Chart of the S&P 500 (as represented by the “SPY” ETF) with 2 Phases:

The Obvious Benefit of Knowing and Using Phases…
That Too Many Traders Ignore!
Trading from the long side is MUCH EASIER when the market is in a bullish phase! Shorting is easier when the market is in a bearish phase. Doing the opposite (i.e. going long in a bearish phase) is extremely risky, but many traders make this costly mistake constantly!

Successful traders know what the current market phase is, and they use a strategy that takes advantage of the characteristics of that market phase.

You do not need a strategy for every phase. Instead you need a market in the phase you good at trading. If you only like to go long, there are now plenty of opportunities to find market trends that are bullish. Some of these opportunities are ETF’s that go up because the market is going down.

If you don’t have a simple, systematic method to determine the current market phase, stop trading until you get one. This applies to market indexes, ETF’s, and stocks.

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How Many Market Phases Are There? Two, Four, Six?
I’ve already shown how you can make your life easier by focusing on just two market phases, and only trading when the phase is clear and one that you like to trade.

I’ve also said that there are more than 2 market phases. It is common to think of the markets as having 4 market phases: accumulation (bottoming), bullish, distribution (topping), and bearish.

Our Position Swing Trading model identifies 6 different market phases as illustrated below:

Six Market Phases of Stocks, Indexes, and ETFs

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The Most Powerful Time to Catch a Market Phase
I look at market activity as having six different market phases because one of the most powerful times to focus on a stock, index or ETF is when it is experiencing a phase change! I don’t try to pick absolute tops and bottoms, but I do know when the market phase is shifting. This is when trends begin and/or accelerate!

To see the power of seeing the market with 6 phases, look at the chart below. This is the same daily chart of the S&P 500 (as represented by the “SPY” ETF) that I showed above, but this time the days that were previously white and “transitional” are now further defined as warning (yellow), distribution (magenta), recovery (light blue), accumulation (dark blue).

Daily Chart of the S&P 500 (as represented by the “SPY” ETF) with 6 Phases:

Look At How Powerful It Is to Know The Market Phase Is Changing

	Look at how turning to green (“bullish”) means the bulls are in control, and the bears take over when its red, and how clearly you can see transitions coming.
	Notice how the yellow (“warning”) days gave you a heads up of volatile down magenta (“distribution”) days to come.
	Look at how much lead time you had to be forewarned of trouble before the brutal red (“bearish”) days set in.
	Notice the result of a light blue (“recovery”) phase turned red (“bearish”). Here’s one nuance of phases - the fact that the recovery phase of April and May 08 never progressed into an accumulation phase made its deterioration into a bearish phase an extremely dangerous bearish phase.

These colored bars representing the phases are not subjectively drawn. They are based on simple rules and formulas that the Position Swing Trading Course gives you. You don’t need special software to know the market phase.

These market phases are not limited to market indexes – they hold true for stocks and ETFs too.

Training Starts Tuesday, Aug 19^th!

The New & Expanded Position Swing Trading Course
On August 19th MarketGauge.com will release the new and expanded version of the Position Swing Trading Course. It’s been a year since we offered you this amazing opportunity to attend this course live online.

Last year this was a huge success for traders who attended, because this course provides you with a total swing trading program. This year’s offering is even better, because it includes a special section on catching diverse domestic and global trends using our pre-filtered list of close to 100 ETFs.

It’s not just the content that is new and unique. For the first time ever, this Position Swing Course will offer follow up training sessions to make sure you have our live support and experience to guide you through months of market conditions.

And just to make sure you don’t miss this unique opportunity for fear that it may not be what you need, we are offering a 100% money back guarantee for attendees of the live course on the evening of August 19th.

Let the New & Expanded Nuggets List
Find Your Next Trade For You!
On August 19th you can be the first to see the new release an amazing upgrade to the Nuggets List.

The Nuggets List is already the best list of systematically produced stock ideas available anywhere for swing traders because it factors in the stock’s fundamentals, technicals, supply and demand and trading characteristics. It zeros in on stocks with the conditions and criteria that cause stocks to experience parabolic moves (huge rapid moves upward).

On Aug. 19th the Nuggets List gets even better:
#1. It will also track the ETFs that enable you to find huge opportunities in bull and bear markets.
#2. The current stock portion of the list will have many new features that make it even easier to spot the stocks ready to move now.

The following was posted on our public message board - " For Swing/position trading, the Nuggets ar probably the best list to buy, bar none. " - Kent

Registration ends August 19^th!

When You Attend, Here’s What Will Happen

Your trading will rise to a new level of profitability and confidence because...

	You will know a complete swing trading system you can apply trading stocks, ETFs and/or options.	Dear Geoff [MarketGauge], " As you know, I am a graduate of the D.A.T.E.,Mini-Swings, and Postion Trading Courses. I am also a long time subscriber to HotScans, MarketGauge and now the Nuggets List. I must tell you that my trading has improved 10X after being introduced to the Nuggets in the Position Swing Trading course. " - Derrick
	You will know the techniques professional traders use to build their swing trading systems.
	You will have the rules and formulas to identify all 6 market phases, and how to trade during each one.
	You will have specific entry and exit rules for your trading.
	You will know how to systematically manage your risk to keep your losses small.
	You will know how to manage your trade through its three phases to capture big trends without taking big risks.
	You will have 5 key charting reference points used by professionals for determining your entry and exit points.
	You will have the easy to apply formulas for finding stocks poised to go parabolic.
	We’re going to teach you then follow up after 3 weeks of market activity.

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Your Timing Is Perfect - Look At What's Happening!

How Can All These Problems Be Good?

	For the first time in over 5 years the US market indexes have experienced a decline of 20% or more.
	Crude oil is not only near record highs, but has also risen on a percentage basis at an historic rate.
	The US financial system is in the midst of a financial crisis the likes of which we have not seen since the collapse of thousands of savings & loans banks almost 20 years ago.
	Gold and other metals hit 20 year highs.
	Commodity prices are soaring (and crashing).
	The US Dollar Index is bouncing off historic lows.

I could go on for pages with this list of historic financial events that have taken place in the just the last year.

How can this be good you ask? Well, historic conditions create historic opportunities if you know how to trade them.

All of the conditions I listed above have created trends so massive that even just retracements of the primary trend create great trading opportunities. Furthermore, when these trends reverse (and you’ll see them reverse when you know how to read Market Phases), there will be more great trends to swing trade.

ALL THIS IS HAPPENING NOW. This is why we decided that this new Position Swing Trading Course, and the new Nuggets list must include enable you to profit from these market conditions.