Getting Closer
No Excuses. Here’s Mine.
Market Timing Calls
Well-Timed Software Rotation Call
Turning Points
No Excuses. Here’s Mine.
I’ve been busy - but not on client writing projects of late. When I’m not running my daily live trading room over at LaDucTrading.com, providing custom engagement with EDGE clients there, or delivering a few live interviews a week… I can be seen as busy delivering my market thoughts and research.
But lately, I have been M.I.A. as I focused on finishing a big software (Non-AI) development project that I started six-months ago. It goes live this week, and I have a special preview for members below.
Option-Teller.io matches the actual customer option trades with their bullish, bearish or neutral intent - plus relevance scoring, filters your-way, across a 7-month lookback. You can stop guessing now & trade with conviction.
Market Timing Calls
My last few posts have highlighted my main themes that have been working out extremely well:
On Bonds May 19th: “bond bulls need to be defended right as the “Higher For Longer” bull case for inflation and yields takes hold.”
Literally, that was THE LOW in TLT - the interim high in the US10Y yield, along with Japan’s!!
On Gold May 14th: I highlighter we move lower into $4200 in time.
That is also working.
On Stocks May 7th: “the leaders have done nothing wrong yet… but beware profit taking on the names extremely extended… and expect a rotation from overbought hardware into oversold software.”
Well-Timed Software Rotation Call
SOFTWARE STOCKS JUST HAD THEIR BEST MONTH IN MORE THAN 2 DECADES - CNBC
Software Tech ETF IGV exploded higher 6.25% Friday and closed May up a whopping +21% - the best monthly performance for the ETF since October 2001!
I have worked daily with clients in my live trading room to help them 'basket trade' my highest conviction picks within this multi-week rotation. It is my daily live trading room where you go for a wholistic read from macro-to-micro that matters more than any single trade idea. But I also give great single trade ideas ;0.
The money flow dramatically appeared in oversold, left-for-AI-dead software plays this past month! And my highest conviction sector rotation play IGV was the month’s strongest sector!!
My highest conviction software trade setups in particular - MSFT, ORCL, IBM, NOW among others - were outperformers by a nautical mile.
This wasn’t luck or option flow analysis like so many day traders.
This software rotation theme was highlighted in the same client post - Too Far Too Fast - where I reviewed my DOCN trade up 160%, continued to press long CSCO ahead of earnings up 70%, and remained convinced the semi strength would slow in favor of a “software bottom fishing theme” that would be in play for weeks.
May 7th:
“Nasdaq Composite has finally tagged this weekly trendline I’ve been waiting for since the ceasefire announcement a month ago. We have arrived. Maybe it’s nothing, and we just continue the 1999 run, but for now, I’m more focused on my hardware-into-software rotation for AI-beaten down plays that have investors realizing they aren’t so bad afterall.”
Here is a snippet from my May 8th live trading room with this theme and the cyber software plays that were leading it: PANW, CRWD, HACK.
Gamma Squeeze Turns Hardware Freeze Into Software Please
Fast forward, here are the percentage returns on the following stocks I recommended with high conviction from May 7th to May 29th - which doesn’t even include the option results!!
PANW: +43.33%
CRWD: +44.55%
HACK: +17.28%
IGV: +11.90%
MSFT: +10.02%
IBM: +28.74%
ORCL: +16.03%
SNOW: +66.24%
NOW: +32.89%
And then this week, I sized up AI, GTLB, TEAM setups from our live trading room - plus a review of the above winning trades (so far) as both AI & GTLB report earnings this week ;-) and Trump is recommending we buy more of what he already owns: IBM ;-(.
AI: +12.3%
GTLB: +17.08%
TEAM: +20.82%
Software Rotation Right On Cue
