Outer Element

I journal my trades, watchlists, market rotations here for my own accountability. What I share often helps others spot ideas or refine their process (not financial advice. NFA). 📊Swing trading isn't about secret strategies – it's about nuances that fit YOU🫵 For example, think Latte☕️: espresso + steamed milk. 🍃No experience: sloppy mix → warm, flat, forgettable. 😎Skilled barista: precise texture, pour angle, temp, timing → rich, layered perfection. Difference = nuances mastered🏅 Trading = identical. Core stuff (support/resistance, risk:reward, trends, volume, price action) is public knowledge – no secret sauce🥫 1⃣Grind trading basics → if commited, 1 year max to grasp the core concepts. 🔢Finding/refining your personal nuances for consistency? 3-10 years screen time, discipline, brutal self-honesty⚠️ 🍃Newbies: they look for holy grail that does not exist. 😎Experienced: they refine nuances that work for them. ⚖️That's the separator: 👉Quitters hunt next shiny indicator/guru call. 👉Winners obsess over tweaking what clicks for them. What one habit, process, style, or nuance clicked for you and transformed YOUR swing trading? (or are you still searching for one?)👇 #SwingTrading #Trading #TechnicalAnalysis

@RealSimpleAriel The Stock Market Runs On DD... I mean Oil & Gas

You lose Optics $LITE $CIEN $COHR $AAOI $AXTI and if you lose Memory names $MU $SNDK $WDC $STX, what themes are left?

@market_sleuth So I'm guessing you got it free of charge, for promoting? 😉

If you’re paying for an Ai girlfriend then I’d suggest paying for psycho therapy. The therapy sessions will yield better results in the long run. 💯😶‍🌫️

@ConnorJBates_ The White House says. Meanwhile: x.com/LiveSquawk/sta…

TRUMP HAS NO PLANS TO SEND TROOPS INTO IRAN, WHITE HOUSE SAYS

@NickSchmidt @FranVezz Agreed. Specifically, $XLE did most of the masking.

@FranVezz The market this year has continued to teach me new things so staying open minded but yea there’s no panic and especially for the majority of people that sit in the indexes they really have no fear because the indexes have masked most of what is going on under the hood

I’m wrong all the time and this is a loosely held opinion but it doesn’t feel like the real negativity of a longterm bottom yet. Yes the news is filled with uncertainty and doom with the war. Sentiment is very negative and I know markets bottom when everything feels awful. But the official narrative is still optimistic. Goldman is calling for a big rally. Institutions are coming out with big year end price targets. If Goldman genuinely believed a massive rally was about to start why would they tell you? They’d want your shares at a discount. When the market actually bottoms nobody is telling you to buy the dip there’s genuine panic. Could we bottom today? Yeah anything can happen. All that matters is price action anyway. But it’s something I noticed and thought was worth pointing out.

@NickSchmidt I agree with your intuition. To me, it looks clear we're still in a downtrend. How deep, no one knows. $JPM and $GS could just be creating liquidity here. And now we've got troops moving toward the Strait of Hormuz. There's more to come. x.com/LiveSquawk/sta…

$FSLY continues to flirt around the $25.87 line. Why? The answer is on the weekly chart: This is PIVOT LINE established on 2/12/2024. Long term SUPPLY at this level currently prevents $FSLY to move higher. #TechnicalAnalysis

@DeItaone Thank you for all the memories. RIP, bro.

CHUCK NORRIS, ACTION ICON AND ‘WALKER TEXAS RANGER’ STAR, DIES AT 86 - VARIETY

📈Reposting this one from early March because… well, the chart did exactly what it looked like it wanted to do. Just journaling the process. Be safe out there. $SPY $SPX #TechnicalAnalysis #Trading

@Upticken @marketsurge Agreed. I've been saying exactly that for a while. I've looked at the past 25 years. I'd like to see this market push down with momentum, or we're in for 4 to 7 months of chop, like in 2004, 2010, and 2011. See charts. x.com/outer_element/…

I’m intrigued by the current sentiment. Extreme gloom usually means the rubber band is getting stretched to the limit. 🏹 When it snaps back, be ready for a massive move. Bull markets are built on this energy! 🚀📊 RoppelReport.com 2 weeks FREE #IBDPartner @marketsurge get.investors.com/marketsurge/?u…

📊Weekly Watchlist Follow Up: 15 positions. 4th day performance (pending): 6 stop losses 9 wins: 2 wins above +10% / 2 wins above +5% $KRMN +5.42% $UMAC -12.92% (stop loss at -2.5%) $CRDO -8.57% (stop loss at -2.5%) $SMCI -13.87% (stop loss at -2.5%) $XPEV / $NIO -1.67% (stop loss at -2.5%) $SNDK +12.32% $WDC +12.13% $DELL +3.47% $RCAT -1.04% (stop loss at -2.5%) $USFD -5.49% (stop loss at -2.5%) $TWLO +2.08% $AR +6.13% $MU +1.43% $NXT +1.29% $CTRI +2.15% Click❤️if you found it helpful, or repost, so I continue to share #Watchlist #Trading

@MrsMassacre Not welcome. Got it. FUN FACT: I wouldn't want to live there, even with a $1M welcome bonus: Montana, Wyoming, North Dakota: a designated wasteland in case of nuclear war, a prime first strike magnet, hosting multiple underground ICBM silos. Have fun.

Montana and Wyoming are sister states and you're not welcome in either one of them. Why? Because if you weren't raised here, you will never fit into our world. Here's the annual machine gun and cannon shoot. You're not ready for our culture.

I thought that was a really tall hat

📊 Stock Market Analysis Despite a strong reclaim rally in the PM session on the indexes, this could be a "gap close" momentum move that fades as quickly as it appeared. $QQQ closed barely (+0.08%) above its 200 SMA, a glimpse of upward strength amid downward momentum. Despite strong reclaim in PM session, the $NASDAQ ratio adj McClellan Summation Index shows strong downward momentum (see red line on chart). $SPY tested and rejected the 200 SMA, closing below it. Bearish. $DIA closed a full -1% below its 200 SMA. Clearly bearish. Overnight price action in $ES, $NQ, and $CL (oil) will dictate sentiment at tomorrow’s open. We remain in a DOWNTREND until more signals indicate otherwise. #Trading #TechnicalAnalysis

Instant classic 🤣🤣🤣

@RealSimpleAriel so far we're gapping down... $NVDA sell the good news de ja vu?

$PL Q4 Revenue $86.8M Beats Vs $78.5M Est With Adj EPS $0.00 Vs -$0.05 Est, Posts EPS -$0.48 And Net Loss $152.5M On 54% Gross Margin Guides FY Revenue $415M-$440M Vs $379.6M Est. Would be positive for the group $RKLB $ASTS $KTOS $UFO if we could gap up.

@SirSimeonPas @StockMKTNewz Peak irony: it doesn't matter what you think either 🫡

@outer_element @StockMKTNewz It is, it doesn’t matter what you think

Israel's PM says Iran no longer has the capacity to enrich uranium or make ballistic missiles

@SirSimeonPas @StockMKTNewz You know what inevitably happens when there are U.S. boots on the ground? That will NOT be bullish IMO.

@outer_element @StockMKTNewz It’s very bullish if they invade Iran with troops

@_RobbieCu @RealSimpleAriel Exactly @_RobbieCu That''s the part everyone's conveniently ignoring. Market is pricing in "problem solved" way too fast.

@outer_element @RealSimpleAriel I’d like to add, they still have enough U235 to make about 16 nuclear bombs that we cannot find.

Reading through todays comment on X will be like $SPY $QQQ 👇