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Featured Trader of the Week: @ivana27

Featured Trader of the Week: @ivana27

Our featured trader of the day keeps it simple with basic but very useful indicators! With that, let’s give a round of applause and congratulate our featured trader of the week @ivana27!

According to Alexander Elder, “The goal of a successful trader is to make the best trades. Money is secondary”. His saying reminds us not to get eaten up by our emotions, but to be consistent with our wins as a trader. To win in the market, one must be able to read and analyze carefully the price action of the market he/she has chosen, which is what @ivana27 has done. 

Just recently, @ivana27 shared his insights on BTC and the possible direction it could go in the following days to come.

It was about 4 days ago that our featured trader showed us his thoughts on $PSEI, the overall market status of the Philippines. With concerning global economic conditions and an increase in interest rates, many traders are still unsure whether to buy or sell. 

During this specific trading period, @ivana27 has plotted only a few technical indicators which would help him predict price actions for his trading plan. As we can see, he has included RSI, a tool which allows traders to identify whether or not a stock is oversold or overpriced, and the MACD History divergence, an indicator which lets us know if moving averages are forming a new trend. We can also observe that a head and shoulders pattern is being plotted out in the chart. This is usually a sign for a downward trend movement. 

TECHNICALS OF THE TRADE

In the past few trading days, the PSEI has experienced downward movements causing its price to stumble from 6,800 to as low as 6,200. The current price of $PSEI makes it no better as all MA’s from 5 to 100 are not in par with its last trading price. This also means that a downward trend is taking place in the market. Moreover, we can see that the PSEI is trading within the 30 RSI levels indicating that it is close to being oversold. As for its MACD, there are still no clear signs of reversal making it seem like we are still stuck in bearish territory in the days to come. A spike of volume was seen last September 16 followed by a consistent amount of trading volume in the following days. 

FUNDAMENTALS OF THE TRADE

Just recently, the BSP has raised interest rates to 4.25% as  the Peso continues to devalue versus the dollar. Following a 50-bp upward adjustment in August, the Monetary Board has decided to increase the policy rate by 50 basis points, or half a percentage point. In the meantime, Philippine inflation last month slightly decreased to 6.3%. As a result, the average inflation rate increased to 4.3%, which is still above the BSP’s target range of 2-4% for 2022. 

WHAT SHOULD BE MY NEXT MOVE

In the daily time frame, PSEI is seen to have broken its support line, which is often a bearish pattern. It is currently trading above around 6,300 levels while barely maintaining the 0.236 fibonacci support level. From here, we can anticipate a short-term bounce up to the 6,370 levels, after which another rejection is possible.

With the PSEI barely holding its support levels and the terrible market conditions going around, we may not be able to see any reversal in the next few days.

There are barely any signs of reversal, and despite the RSI being close to oversold, other indicators such as the MACD are still on its downtrend bias. The fibonacci support level of 0.236 has been recently tested by the PSEI and has barely managed to bounce back up during its closing price. 

Dollar cost averaging would probably be your best choice given the abundance of FUD in the market and the current state of the world economy. A great way to gradually build up your portfolio and benefit from the global economic situation would be to buy the dips with small percentages of your total capital. Make sure to also read news reports updated from the BSP as well as political news which could affect market status. 

When trading, always buy the fear and sell when everybody else is happy. As what @ivana27 said, always do your own research and trade smartly. Once again, KUDOS to @ivana27 for being this week’s featured trader! Enjoy your 14-day InvestaPrime Access and continue to be an inspiration to the trading community.

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Featured Trader of the Week: @markminervini_vcp

Let’s give a round of applause to @markminervini_vcp for being this week’s Featured Trader! 

@markminervini_vcp has been a member of the Investagrams community since April 2016 and has been very active as he posted multiple times, always sharing his thoughts on views on some of his trades.

A few days ago, our featured trader posted his technical analysis in $PRIM, a hot stock in the local market. $PRIM has been on an uptrend almost reaching 52-wk highs at 3.35 ish! 

As the stock is in an uptrend, @markminervini_vcp predicted its support, the weak candle, pullback, and flag breakout on the chart that were bound for the breakout. @markminervini_vcp felt that this was a momentum stock for him to play.

TECHNICALS OF THE TRADE

Technically speaking, $PRIM has proven to be a strong stock in the Philippine Stock market. While others are falling, $PRIM is showing strength as it continues to move upwards strongly. It came from a breakout at the1.6 area before surging to 3 pesos onwards. There was also a surge in the volume traded as $PRIM became more attractive to consumers.

@markminervini_vcp was confident that prices will surge as he predicted. He found a good entry for a momentum play while considering the support and pullback area. 

FUNDAMENTAL CATALYST

Prime Media Holdings, Inc. is a holding company that provides loans, domestic fund transfers, and trust services. Despite the poor financial statements, the company’s stock market price is still surging. Thus, $PRIM has been a speculative bet for traders and investors. It is still unknown whether $PRIM will continue its trend or not. Thus, it is best to observe $PRIM while considering the sentiment of the market.

WHAT SHOULD BE MY NEXT MOVE

As the move has already happened, it would be wiser to observe and wait for what $PRIM might do next before riding-in with the wave of the stock. It is still unsure whether $PRIM will continue to rise, so it’s best to wait for a consolidation or a good entry near its support for a better risk to reward trade.  Further to that, it would be advisable to trade lightly and in tranches in order to be cautious about your trades especially since the overall market is currently unstable. 

Once again, KUDOS to @markminervini_vcp for being this week’s featured trader! Enjoy your 14-day InvestaPrime Access and continue to be an inspiration to the trading community.

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Featured Trader of the Week: @uigie

Let’s give a round of applause to AlMar for being this week’s Featured Trader! 

AlMar has been a member of the Investagrams community since 2020, and he is consistent poster who shares his thoughts and chart studies to the community. Something unique about what he shares versus other members is that he often shares bigger picture views of stocks. While others tend to share daily timeframe charts, he often shares weekly timeframe charts

Months ago, our featured trader posted his trade ideas for PSE:WEB. A widely known gaming company, its stock price has been in a downtrend for quite a while.

PSE:WEB has actually fallen by as much as roughly 96% from its peak a few years ago. With a lot of headwinds and sour earnings, a lot of investors have become pessimistic with the stock. After many months of poor returns, it seems that stock may have gotten some life back. In his post, AlMar mentions that the stock could breakout from its long-term downtrend line. As seen in recent trading sessions, PSE:WEB has just taken its first step should it look to perform a reversal. 

TECHNICAL STANDPOINT

In terms of price action, PSE:WEB came from its lows and formed a pocket near it’s weekly EMA100. Once volatility contracted, a strong breakout was imminent as buyers rushed in on the day of its breakout. The stock’s recent move makes it a prospect for a big picture reversal play. Although high volatility is still present in the markets, strongly breaking out from the EMA100 is a big first step along with breaking out of its long-term downtrend line. 

FUNDAMENTAL STANDPOINT

PSE:WEB is a company that mainly revolves around gaming, with it’s primary business being e-Games Stations, or internet cafes exclusively dedicated to casino games. Through the company’s technology, users gain access to hundreds of casino games and even sports betting. Although they are in a lucrative industry, they haven’t had that much success in recent years as they struggle to become profitable. 

What should be my next step?

As the stock has just recently broken out strongly from key levels, prices need to at least hold above the 3 to 3.2 area in order to retain its momentum. The next major resistances would be the 4.5 and 5 levels, with volume by price indicating that 4.5 could be the heaviest level it would need to break. Breaking out of 4.5 should cause the stock to experience less selling pressure, but we need to keep in mind that we are currently in a bear market, and even though the set-up looks good, most traders and investors might look to sell earlier than usual to lock in gains in a tough market. 

Once again, KUDOS to AlMar for being this week’s Featured Trader! Enjoy your 14-day InvestaPrime Access and continue to be an inspiration to the trading community.

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The Road to Trading Mastery Made More CONVENIENT

Practice doesn’t make perfect – perfect practice makes perfect. As traders, we could be charting, analyzing, and trading day in and day out non-stop. But, we could actually be just going within a loop and not improving even though we keep on doing the repetitions. It’s important to work hard, but being sincere in mastering the craft means more than just showing up – we need to look for the bitter pills and painful lessons that help cure our shortcomings and weaknesses. This is where mindfulness comes into action as we need to be aware of how our trades are playing out in order to find out how we can be better the next time. However, It can be overwhelming to do everything on your own – from building your trading logs to going through and creating the analytics for your trades. This can be troublesome. We know the pain, which is why we came up with the InvestaJournal, a tool to help you work on yourself and even bigger trading returns. More than just being an all-in-one solution for trading notes and tracking your portfolio, the InvestaJournal features a wide variety of advanced analytics that can help you level up your trading game.

Let’s see how convenient and powerful the InvestaJournal is in helping us grow as traders.

  1. Creating a journal account

Once you have access to the InvestaJournal, creating journals is as easy as just clicking a few buttons. You just need to click on the add account button on the right to start making a new trading journal.

You are free to make as many trading journals as you’d like should you need to create multiple for organizational purposes.

  1. Logging deposits and withdrawals

The next step towards building your own trading journal in the InvestaJournal is to input how much capital you’ve put into your trading account. Again, this will be as simple as just clicking a few buttons. Simply go to the portfolio tab, and you’ll find the option to add deposit and withdrawal transactions.

Adding these transactions shouldn’t take long as all you need to do is input how much you withdrew or deposited when you made the transaction, and how much the transaction fees were. 

  1. Setting up strategies

Should you have multiple strategies under your belt, you can list all of them in your journal so that you can tag what strategy was used per trade that you made.

You can even add buy and sell conditions, along with a description of your strategy should you need to review your rules on a later date.

  1. Logging trades

Of course, what’s a trading journal without our trade executions? To start taking note of trades, you can head on over to the Trade Logs section and select the option to Add Trades. 

Here’s the fun part: while adding your trades the InvestaJournal will let you do a lot of neat customizations. Aside from adding the trade details (ex. Price and amount of shares), you can also add notes such as what you could have been thinking while executing the trade. In addition, you will also have the capability to add what strategy you used for the trade as well as a screenshot of the chart to further help you when reviewing. 

You can even take note of what you felt! You can use the emojis in the description to note if you were happy, neutral, or fearful.

BONUS: Should you need to input a big amount of trades from your brokerage account, the InvestaJournal can save you time by simply importing your ledger to the journal! Just choose the import option and simply follow the instructions for the brokerage that you are importing data from.

  1. Analyze, analyze, analyze!

Once all the data is set, you’re good and ready to start analyzing your trades. InvestaJournal still includes basic information such as the current equity value along with realized rofits and losses. However, what sets it apart are the advanced analytics that you can take advantage of in order to find improvements left and right. 

For example, statistics such as Avg. Profit can be used to determine if you really make the most out of your trades. If ever you feel like you take profits off the table too soon and want to explore holding on to a bigger portion of moves, this statistic could help you gauge how you’re improving. The InvestaJournal even shows you how strong your different strategies compare with one another, so you can see what strategy really works best for you!

Although the InvestaJournal is really simple and easy to use, it will surely make an impact on your development as a trader. We guarantee you that you will be able to find a lot of insights through the InvestaJournal that will let you take the next step towards mastery. 

Want to know more about what we offer? Head on over to the InvestaPrime landing page to look at all the features that we provide to our subscribers!

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Featured Trader of the Week: TradingHub

Congratulations to TradingHubPH for being this week’s Featured Trader! 

TradingHubPH has been one of our loyal members in the Investagrams community since 2016, just a year after Investagrams’ debut. Ever since then, he continued to provide insights and value to community members to help create successful trades.

Recently, TradingHubPH spotted breakout plays during this turbulent market in the PSEI and one of them was eyed on PSE:MARC. Marcventures Holdings, Inc. (PSE:MARC), engages in both mining and oil exploration, with both markets currently rising globally. 

TradingHubPH shared his analysis on PSE:MARC when it broke out from its Darvax Box ranging from 1.40 to 1.55 levels, closing at 1.58 with impressive volume. From a technical standpoint, a breakout from its consolidation at its highs followed by large volume is a good indicator for strength. PSE:MARC hit 1.80 a few trading days later which was the set take-profit level for TradingHubPH.

TECHNICAL STANDPOINT

After a strong breakout from its Darvas Box and Trend Resistance (refer to photo above), traders took profits causing the price to retest the resistance area. However, it is clear that the resistance shows strength as it was unable to break below it, creating a strong recovery by 7% the next trading day as it closed at 1.64.

Plan Your Entries – NEVER BUY ON FOMO!

Based on the chart above, PSE:MARC respects the MA20 trendline. To maximize your profit window and minimize downside risk, we recommend traders to wait for a pullback and buy on the area of value–MA20. For traders who prefer buying on strength, wait for the price to break its 52wk high at 1.80 or its 2nd resistance around 1.97 – 2.00 areas with large volume.

To learn more about Risk Management, visit here 

FUNDAMENTAL STANDPOINT

PSE:MARC recorded a net income of Php 956 million for its Q3 earnings in 2021, a 3,628% increase from the previous quarter, with its Q4 earnings yet to be disclosed. On top of that, both oil and nickel prices have been soaring due to supply shortages happening globally as  economies start to pick up. 

Oil Market

Global oil prices have been soaring since the start of 2022, currently priced at its highest it has been since 2014. The tight oil supply is also further heightened by the growing tensions between Russia and Ukraine, with Russia being one of the largest oil producers in the world.

Nickel Market

Nickel inventories have been near its record lows, causing prices to surge since January. The demand for Nickel is also increasing as it is used for stainless steel and batteries for electric vehicles, a fast growing industry.

Once again, KUDOS to TradingHubPH for being this week’s Featured Trader! Enjoy your 14-day InvestaPrime Access and continue to be an inspiration to the trading community.

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Featured Trader of the Week: KaizenPH

A big hand to Keizen Ph for being this week’s Featured Trader! 

Trader Keizen Ph has been a valuable community member and trader on the platform as he not only shares his analysis in stocks, but he also posts daily motivational posts for the Investa community. 

Keizen Ph is fond of using commonly used but very effective technical indicators namely MACD and RSI. Seems too basic to be our featured trader? One of this week’s strong stocks Double Dragon [PSE:DD] was one of Keizen Ph’s spots before it rallied up to +30%. If you were one of the lucky people who saw Keizen Ph analysis on PSE:DD, then you’ve probably got your hands on it!

According to him, PSE:DD’s price is currently sitting at it’s historical support around the PHP 7 area. MACD was slightly above 0 and he highlights that RSI must close above 50 to show a strong reversal. Guess what happens next?

PSE:DD broke out of its consolidation box in the PHP 7 area and spiked 5 trading days straight reaching PHP 9.28 (+32%) from its base, breaking EMA20, EMA50, and EMA100. If PSE:DD breaks the EMA200, this will signal a strong uptrend for the stock on both short-term and long.

Aside from looking at its technical analysis, one of the drivers of PSE:DD’s price rally is its Share Buy-Back program which is also a common fundamental indicator speculating that the company has good plans in the near future. In other words, they must be cookin’ something big for the company to buy back their own shares. Am I right?

PLAN YOUR ENTRIES

If you plan to enter this stock, warning that a pullback would be imminent at this point. I recommend you plan your entries wisely or wait for the stock to form a base for better risk management. Remember to ALWAYS stay away from GREED and FOMO as more opportunities will always come.

Keizen Ph doesn’t just share his stock analysis on the platform, but he also spreads positivity by sharing motivational lessons that community members can apply in trading and in their personal lives. If you often feel overwhelmed, give Keizen Ph a follow to get daily reminders and words of encouragement to keep you on your feet!

Once again, KUDOS to Keizen Ph for being this week’s Featured Trader! We hope you’ll enjoy your 14-day  InvestaPrime Access and continue to be an inspiration to the trading community.

 

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The New Investa App is Now Available on All App Stores!

We, Investa, are officially the newest market player in the mutual funds space as it releases its mobile app on App Store, PlayStore, and App Gallery! Proud to be an all-Pinoy Investment Platform, The New Investa App promises to bring affordable and accessible investments to all Filipino families. 

Starting in 2015, wehad one thing in mind – to create at least 10 Million Filipino investors. Bootstrapped from being a startup, Investagrams then, did a lot of efforts to educate the people about the Stock Market and wise financial management. Eventually, Investagrams became Filipinos’ go-to about anything trading and investing. 

Fast forward to today and with more than a Million users, Investa has branched out from Investagrams and continued its commitment to be Filipinos’ partner in financial growth. 

With the help of the top fund management companies in the country, namely: Sun Life Asset Management Inc., PhilEquity Management Inc., and BPI Investment Management Inc., The New Investa App has become one of the few mutual funds distributors in the Philippines to offer a minimum investment of 50 Pesos.

“We created Investa to eliminate discrimination in investing. Whatever your work is, your educational background, or your status in life, you can finally become a proud investor. No need for high capital to start. Wala nang mayaman o mahirap sa investment. Lahat tayo dito sa Investa, payaman. We really want to see Filipinos soar in wealth, and also our beloved Philippines to rise above that depressing third world country status,” JC Bisnar, Investa CEO, stated. 

Offering the possible lowest starting capital is one of our efforts to introduce investing to the Filipino public. For decades, there has been a stigma that investing is only for the rich and elite. Hopefully, with our initiative to make investing for all, Filipinos can now have the opportunity to start building their dreams whatever their income or class is. 

As of its release on all app stores, we are so honored to have garnered these stellar reviews.

You can now start creating your dream fund for as low as 50 Pesos. Experience affordable investing in The New Investa App. Now available on App Store, PlayStore, and App Gallery. Investa is also accessible via web on www.investa.ph. 

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