How To Prepare For Bull Volatile Market Regime

It's an end of an era, well a few months of making some pretty big piles of cash at least. 

Why you ask? We are moving from Bull Quiet to a Bull Volatile market regime. 

The main characteristic of a bull quiet regime is that you just want to be long and you want to add as much as you can to the long positions while in this regime.

You want your biggest exposure in this regime, levering up a lot.

You want to own the best performers and leave the weaker performers alone.

And you do not want to get caught up in the game of buying the under performers expecting that they will catch up to the leaders, you might make some money but you will do far better by the leaders even when it seems that they are too expensive. 

This is a trap that middle skilled traders get caught up in.

Low skilled traders and high skilled traders have no problem with taking these types of trades. 

Look at the Futures on $ES and $NQ, where Nasdaq futures were clearly in charge this entire run up and traders who took the S&P were taxed HEAVILY for not buying the leader.

From the absolute lows on March 22, the $ES is up 46% while the $NQ is up 59%, that's a 13% "tax".

But it's more than that, when you have a position moving in your direction your available margin increases with the move and you can use a technique called "using the market's money" to continue to add to your positions. 

Using the market's money is when you continue to add to winning positions with the open profits that your position has generated, rather than the closed profits. 

Yet another technique of a Low Skill or High Skill trader, Middle skill traders don't do this. Lock this away in "how to trade a bull quiet market" and let's move on to bull volatile.

If you didn't know this about buying the strongest in a bull quiet and using the market's money, you might be that Middle Skill trader...but don't worry, you are on the right path. Without mentorship and a community of fellow traders to help you improve it'll take a long time, perhaps forever to become a High Skill trader. 

This is exactly what we are doing in the Trading Lab, join us!  We will be raising prices soon.

Let's look at what we have in front of us. 

A number of big names have moved into Bull Volatile regime, here are few.

https://twitter.com/ChrisDMacro/status/1291030326324523008

Remember the email I sent out about a month ago I broke down some major characteristics of the different market regimes. 

Here's what you need to know about Bull Volatile

Bull Volatile

• This is a requirement for a long term market top (but doesn't indicate a major top). Major market tops don't happen outside a Bull Volatile regime!
• If I've been riding a long term uptrend I look to take profits in this regime or lighten my exposure
• If I'm trading more tactically I'm trading FVBO and lighter position sizes, usually max 1% risk
• Price is highly volatile up here, moves up and down are bigger
• Fear and greed is on full force!

I will be lightening my exposure to Gold and Nasdaq position in my trading account (not the Monthly Macro ETF portfolio). 

There are a number of directions the market can go from here, but they are a lot less obvious than they were in the Bull Quiet Regime. 

Hopefully you made some good money these past few months, if so you might want to take a few months off and enjoy those profits. 

Meanwhile in the lab we are doing decent and getting adjusted to the new regime conditions.