I’m just going to say it…
Most of what’s on your chart right now is noise.
RSI, MACD, Bollinger Bands and moving averages stacked six deep don’t create an edge. They create clutter. When you’re first learning to trade, you think more information means better decisions.
Usually, it means paralysis.
Think about walking into the Cheesecake Factory and staring down that enormous menu when all you want is grilled chicken and vegetables. That’s what traders do to their charts.
One indicator says buy, another says sell and a third says wait. By the time they act, they’re reacting to a move that already happened.
The only thing you really need is volume to confirm the trend.
Price can push through a level for all kinds of reasons, but rising volume tells you participation is expanding. A breakout above resistance with strong volume has buyers behind it. A breakdown through support with heavy volume shows sellers taking control.
Without that confirmation, the move is suspect.
Trade Participation, Not Delayed Signals
RSI, MACD and Bollinger Bands are calculated from price, which makes them reactive by design. They can help describe what already happened, but stacking them together doesn’t necessarily tell you whether fresh money is supporting the next move.
Worse, conflicting readings can leave you frozen while the setup passes.
Volume gives you a more direct look at conviction. More buyers create demand and demand can drive prices higher. More sellers create supply and supply can push prices lower.
The point isn’t to buy every high-volume candle. It’s to ask whether participation confirms the direction, level and timing of the trade.
Consider Boeing (BA). In one bullish setup, roughly $270,000 in back-to-back orders appeared on my scanner in less than an hour, and ranked bullish on the News Flow Scanner.
That concentrated activity didn’t guarantee a winning trade, but it provided evidence that meaningful capital was leaning in one direction. Paired with a technical breakout and expanding share volume, that kind of flow can strengthen the case that a move has real participation behind it.
A Cleaner Way to Read Momentum
This is why I created my MI6 dashboard around volume confirmation. Volume studies paired with fast four- and eight-period exponential moving averages provide a multi-time-frame read on momentum and conviction. Those averages respond quickly enough to help frame volatile moves without burying the chart under competing signals.
Today, strip the chart back. Start with price, identify the key level and let volume tell you whether the market agrees. No indicator guarantees an outcome, so risk management matters as much as ever.
But one clean question can eliminate a lot of bad decisions…
Does volume confirm the trend?
If the answer is yes, your signal may be worth a closer look.
Order Flow:
This is for informational and educational purposes only. These are not official alerts issued by Lance, but rather some interesting orders picked by the team at Lance Ippolito Trading.
When you look at these plays, always take the market maker move into consideration.
You can be right on the direction but still lose money if the stock doesn’t move enough. That’s where the market maker move comes in clutch.
With puts, they’re often downside hedges in case a stock tanks, especially around earnings. The further out of the money they are, the more likely they are to be hedges.
Also be sure and check when the company’s earnings date is because many of the plays we post here are centered around earnings!
If a stock is really expensive, consider a spread to lower the cost.
And finally, always remember the golden rule when it comes to buying calls: Buy dips, sell rips — and don’t chase!
If a stock’s moved a ton already today, maybe wait for a pullback.
There is inherent risk in trading. Trade at your own risk.
Note: If no date is listed after the month, it’s the monthly expiration (third Friday).
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*This is for informational and educational purposes only. There is inherent risk in trading, so trade at your own risk.
P.S. Wall Street’s 90% Secret and Graham’s $500 Fix
If someone tells you the only way to build daily cash in the stock market is by buying stocks… do me a favor.
Walk away.
Wall Street loves telling hard-working folks to buy overvalued shares and “hope” they go up over the next 30 years.
Or worse… they push people into buying risky lottery-ticket options that expire worthless almost every single time.
In fact, financial researchers found that up to 90% of option buyers end up losing money.
Ninety percent.
It’s a sucker’s game… and it’s why so many good people feel like the stock market is rigged against them.
But here’s what Wall Street will never tell you…
Options trading is a zero-sum game… Which means every single time an option buyer loses… the seller wins.
So it stands to reason that if buyers lose 90% of the time, guess who wins 90% of the time?
The seller.
It’s like switching sides at a casino, going from the person pulling the slot machine handle to becoming the house collecting the cash.
And that’s the exact secret behind Graham Lindman’s brand-new initiative, America’s Income Project.
With this method, you don’t buy a single share of stock.
You don’t buy an ETF… You don’t buy anything at all.
Instead, you use a simple “2-Click” routine right around 2 p.m. ET each day that helps flip the script on Wall Street.
It takes less than 60 seconds on a smartphone or laptop.
And it’s designed to target right around $500 in cold, hard cash every single day the market is open on a $1K starting stake.
Graham’s reopening early access to 100 people today before he launches this project nationwide.
And because he wants to prove to you just how serious he is about this…
While we cannot make any guarantees in the market…
The first 100 people who step up today can claim a $500 cash allocation to get started.
He’s put together a short video showing you the live screen-share demonstration of how this two-click trade works… line by line.
Be sure to watch the full video breakdown and claim your $500 early-access spot.
