Jack Carter | October 16, 2025
Hey traders, I just read a piece on what separates high achievers from everyone else. The punchline? It isn’t IQ… It isn’t money. It comes down to two things: passion and perseverance. That tracks with everything I’ve seen in four decades of trading. Passion: You’ve Got to Want the Work Passion isn’t hype. It’s showing […]
Jack Carter | October 15, 2025
Hey traders, Yesterday I did something I almost never do in a bullish market: I shorted a stock. I can’t even remember the last time I put on a straight short — maybe back in 2022, which was a banner year for downside trades. My Normal Rulebook As you know if you’ve been following me […]
Jack Carter | October 14, 2025
Hey traders, Quick market update and how I’m handling it. Lately, the tone’s shifted. The market isn’t as strong as it was a few sessions ago. We tagged support at my short-term 20 day trend point, slipped through it, and found firmer footing closer to the intermediate-term 50 day trend point — that’s a sign […]
Jack Carter | October 9, 2025
Hey traders, Quick market check the way I do it every morning. I pull up a 6-month chart of the big three — SPY, DIA, QQQ — with my three Trend Points (short-, mid-, and long-term trend lines). All three are riding above those lines and have been since the prior crossover. That means the […]
Jack Carter | October 7, 2025
Hey traders, I put on a simple income trade today and I want to walk you through it — the “what,“ the “why,“ and the “what if.“ TSLL is a 2x leveraged Tesla ETF. That just means it tends to move about twice as much as TSLA. If Tesla drops 4%, TSLL will be roughly […]
Jack Carter | October 2, 2025
Hey traders, Quick read on the market today. I pulled up SPY, DIA, and QQQ on my trend points. Price is sitting above the short-term, intermediate, and long-term levels on all three. That’s my definition of bullish. No guesswork, just price action doing what it’s supposed to do. Condition + Strength We’ve talked about condition […]
Jack Carter | September 30, 2025
Hey traders, Markets have been ripping higher, and the flow I’ve seen the past couple days tells me some serious money is being thrown around. Wild Tesla Call Buying Tesla’s always a hot ticket, but right now the call buying is off the charts. I’m talking tens of thousands of contracts traded — not just […]
Jack Carter | September 26, 2025
Hey traders, All week we’ve been building on a theme. First, I showed you how to check the condition of the market: is it bullish, bearish, or just stuck in the middle? Then yesterday, we talked about measuring the strength of the market by looking at new highs vs. new lows. Now let’s get to […]
Jack Carter | September 25, 2025
Hey traders, Let’s talk about something I get asked all the time: “How do you know if the market’s strong or weak?” It’s not just about whether the market is going up or down. There’s a difference between market condition and market strength — and knowing the difference can keep you on the right side […]
Jack Carter | September 23, 2025
Hey traders, There’s been plenty of anxiety about the S&P 500 lately, so let’s look at what the market is actually telling us. SPY, the ETF that tracks the S&P 500 tick-for-tick, has been grinding higher on a six-month view. Each pullback has found support at my short-term moving average — the 20 day — […]