Robert McTaggart

Trader focused on execution, process, and leadership stocks
Studying past winners. Applying in real time. 📈

[Robert McTaggart @p0stchild]

The best stocks are the ones that refuse to break.

$CHEF is showing relative strength while many stocks show weakness.

A clean ascending base with contracting volatility, backed by 60% YoY earnings growth last quarter.

Worth watching for a decisive breakout

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Wide and loose price action is where traders give money back.

We’ve seen it across a lot of stocks lately like this example on $STRL .

You don’t have to trade because it’s moving.

Be patient. Wait for price to tighten and the right setup to come to you.

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@TedHZhang Really nice tightness on $FTNT . Been holding up well while a lot of stocks are selling off.

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The best stocks show strength when the market shows weakness.

$FTNT did exactly that, tightening this high tight flag while the market was pulling back, before finally breaking out.

Holding a position on this. Waiting to see if we can follow through and get more setups. $SPY

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Chart review and pattern recognition are two habits shared by many of the top traders featured in The New Market Wizards.

If you want to execute like they do:

• Save screenshots of your best setups.
• Study them until the patterns become second nature.
• Make it a habit

[Robert McTaggart @p0stchild]

Sentiment is at a 6-month high and things are frothy.

Volatility is picking up in individual names, bigger whips both ways as indexes pull back.

If this continues, moves could accelerate. Be careful with size.

We may be setting up for a blow-off move.

$SPY

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In stocks, a “mental health buy” is when FOMO or boredom makes you take a position simply because sitting out is making you antsy.

These trades often lead to giving back profits, mental capital, and leaving you unableto get aggressive when the real opportunity shows up.

$SPY

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$FTNT showing notable strength and tightness while much of the market is gapping down or fading today.

Keep an eye on this High Tight Flag setup.

Cybersecurity leader with EPS growth accelerating to +41% last quarter.

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Stocks reversing today.

Not seeing a lot of great setups right now.

Most bases look wide and loose.

Leaders extended.

$SPY

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Market pulling back.

Exploring the Catskills this weekend ⛰️

Life hits different when you’re doing exactly what you want to do

[Robert McTaggart @p0stchild]

I’d been talking about $MRVL since early April because it looked stronger than most stocks I was watching.

Bought in on 04/17.

Now it’s up 130% from my first buy.

[Robert McTaggart @p0stchild]

$MRVL $INTC $AEHR $SNDK are the leaders in this rally. If this rally holds and we form new bases, these are the stocks to watch!

networking / optics bottleneck & theme

[Robert McTaggart @p0stchild]

Guard your profit like a mother protects her child

$SANM $STRL $FLEX $ASML $CSCO $DOCN

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Added some new positions today/yesterday:

VCP on $ASML
High tight flag entry on $STRL
High tight flag on $DOCN

Sentiment is getting more negative but my new positions are still following through, so let's go!

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Large 3 month VCP pattern forming on $ASML

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I was tracking $MU closely back in Feb. long before the parabolic run made it obvious.

It was showing strength while many other stocks were weak. One of the few companies making advanced HBM for AI.

It gave me that $NVDA 2024 energy early.

$MU is now up+125% from that period

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$MU $SNDK Memory showing strength. Moving up as almost everything else sells off

Also $AXTI

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@CFlanders7 Great post, really appreciate the insight

Hard risk limits are also so key and overlooked

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@CFlanders7 I’ve struggled with that first part a lot

The fix is you need to be willing to get aggressive early in the rally when things are still uncertain.

I often stay on the gas too long and start chipping away at profit.

As your positions follow through, one must get more cautious

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@TedHZhang @markminervini “Let smaller profits finance increased risk” @markminervini

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The key is to be quickly transitioning to cash when the second one starts

$SPY $QQQ $MU $INTC

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Men only have two moods:

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@markminervini @IBDinvestors

[Robert McTaggart @p0stchild]

Although I trusted the books as a new trader, I was skeptical whether the patterns and content were overblown.

After experiencing a couple bear and bull markets I can confidently say this stuff works. Double bottoms, cup and handles, cheats. It all repeats over and over again