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See how Whales Move Using the Investa Stock Jockey

If you have even just a little bit of experience trading any market, you would know that the bigger funds or individuals with a big portfolio are the ones that tend to cause major movements. Often called whales, they are able to push markets higher if they aggressively buy a stock and can cause selloffs if they dump their shares. We don’t need to be whales to be successful traders, but it pays to know what the big money is doing in the market.

With the Investa Stock Jockey, you can precisely track who is pushing the stock up, what their average price is, and you can also see when they start selling!

Let’s take a look at one of the strong moves in the Philippine stock market back in 2019 – ABA.

As you can see from the chart, ABA made a double bottom before going on a strong rally. Just by using technical analysis, we know where we should’ve bought and would most likely have plans to sell. However, using the Investa Stock Jockey, we can gain more insights that could help us be prepared for even more situations. Here’s one of the ways you can use it:

  1. Pick the stock and select the date

Once you launch the Investa Stock Jockey tool, you would just need to input the stock and set the filter to custom.

Set the dates to the trading days that you want to check for broker activities, and apply the filter. It should show who bought the most and what their average price was. 

  1. Use the filters to get a better view of what’s happening in the stock

You can use the different filters within Investa Stock Jockey should you want to organize your data if there is specific information that you want to get.

For example, you can use the net value filter to see who the biggest shareholder is. Also, you can filter by broker just to see what a specific broker has been doing for the specified dates. There are many ways you can tinker with the filters, you just need to be creative should you want to get a better view of the stock’s transactions.

  1. Deduce what happened and make your plans

Since you would see the big transactions that came in, you can easily figure out what happened during that time span.

For ABA back in 2019, it is noticeable that JP Morgan was the main shareholder that pushed prices upward. Hence, it would make sense that you would be warry with what they do. For example, if they started selling their shares, it might be safer to switch to a tighter stop since JP Morgan was the one that bought up the majority of the shares that caused ABA to rally.

Although JP Morgan wasn’t the main seller during the selldown for ABA back then, you would see that there was a significant drop in volume. When JP Morgan stopped aggressively buying, there wasn’t enough demand from other buyers to even just sustain share prices. The takeaway here could possibly be that for short-term trading, aside from big shareholders dumping their shares, you also need volume to come in and participants to hold net positive amounts of shares in order to sustain rallies. 

There are a lot of things you can learn by just learning how to read broker transactions. When paired with technical analysis, you can gain helpful insights into what others are thinking about the stock. You just need to take the time to gain experience and to know how different situations can play out.

Aside from having access to the Investa Stock Jockey, having an InvestaPrime subscription lets you gain access to a lot of other powerful tools and educational material that can help you progress no matter your current skill level. 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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How to Earn InvestaGems and win PRIZES

It’s finally here! As our newest innovation, InvestaGems is our in-app currency that will reward active Investagrams users. Basically with InvestaGems will be our virtual currency that you can use to purchase items from our store. For those who are curious, InvestaGems will replace InvestaPoints. For those who have previously accumulated InvestaPoints, refer to this post to find out where your points went.

Accumulating InvestaGems will let you claim prizes like our popular Investa Shirt and our newly released Investa Cap for FREE! For those who’d rather have access to some of our premium content, you can spend your InvestaGems instead on Prime Elite trials or VODs of past events. Some lucky winners can even win prizes like a smartphone and wireless earbuds!

So, how do you earn? It’s super simple – all you need is to be consistent. 

Just login everyday to Investagrams and claim your gems either on the pop-up screen or on the InvestaGems tab below your profile on the left – that easy! The more consistent you are, the faster you’ll be able to earn gems. You’ll only get 5 gems per day, but for every 7th and 30th day, you’ll receive 45 and 155 respectively. 

Of course, you have to be consistent as the counter will reset if you miss a day.

Once you have accumulated your gems, you can head on over to InvestaGems Rewards to see what prizes you can claim, or how much more you would need to be able to claim something you like. 

Gotta keep grinding for that Investa Cap!

Feeling lucky? Every day, you’ll also get 1 chance to spin the InvestaGems Daily Roulette. Here, you can win rewards like the smartphone and wireless earbuds mentioned, extra gems, and other cool prizes.

We only got 10 InvestaGems today, but maybe you’ll be luckier than us. 😅 Of course, expect more rewards in the future as well. Wen lambo sir.

This is only the start of InvestaGems. Our goal here is to reward loyal members who are very active in the community and serve as role models for others to follow. We’ll make sure to keep you on your toes as we make the Investagrams platform a better place for everyone to reach financial freedom. 


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Featured Trader of the Week: buMalo

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

buMalo is an active trader who has been with the Investagrams community since 2018. He is very active in the community and frequently shares his trades.

A few days ago, our featured trader posted his re-entry trade in ABA. A hot stock in the local market recently, ABA has been providing investors handsome returns as it has been making new 52-week highs. 

As the stock was going up, buMalo looked for a place to re-enter his position and found a small pocket as a chance to make a momentum play. He re-entered on the break of 1.42 as he felt that momentum was still strong for the stock. With RSI still being above 70, this is a good sign for momentum plays as it means there is still strong demand for the stock. 

TECHNICALS OF THE TRADE

Technically speaking, ABA has proven to be a strong outlier in the Philippine Stock market. While others are falling, it has shown strength as it continues to move upwards strongly. It came from its bottom near the 0.85 area and went into a frenzy once the long-term downtrend line was broken. Most of the consolidations were short-lived and rarely experienced strong downward volatility. The stock is currently looking to break the 1.56 and 1.88 levels, the next major resistances it has to take out in order to reach new all-time highs. 

buMalo is confident that prices will continue to rise as different momentum indicators are still pointing upwards, in addition to Net Foreign Buying still going strong.

FUNDAMENTAL CATALYSTS

AbaCore is a holdings company that owns subsidiaries involved in Finance, Real Estate, Gold mining operations, and Coal mining operations. Despite earnings still not yet near pre-pandemic levels, investors are eager that the company is going to turn its situation around as the company itself has announced that it will be distributing dividends again, and will even add in shares from one of its subsidiaries – PRIDE. The market has taken this as a good sign, and demand has picked up for the stock pushing it to higher prices. 

WHAT SHOULD BE MY NEXT MOVE?

As the move has already happened, it would be wiser to wait for what ABA might do next before buying into the stock. It is still unknown whether the stock will continue to rise to higher levels or not, so it’s best to wait for a consolidation in order to look for a better risk to reward trade. As the local equities market is still facing the same major problems, it would be advisable to trade lightly should you ever want to participate in ABA, especially if you haven’t established a base at lower levels. 

Once again, KUDOS to Bibam 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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InvestaU and Chill

No matter the field that we’re in, everyone needs some time off to relax and unwind. The weekends are the perfect time to do so since we don’t have to worry about work. It is fine and recommended to just enjoy ourselves. However, it doesn’t hurt to be a little bit productive for the weekend as well. So, why not do both – a relaxing activity that still lets us be productive. 

Just head on over to Investa University to go over our selection! We offer free videos, but subscribing to InvestaPrime lets you have access to a wider range of content. You’ll be able to browse through all of our premium learning videos and will have access to all of them once you’re subscribed. 

Watching webinars and masterclasses might not be the first thing you think about when you want to have fun. But, they can still be relaxing if you’re open to the idea!

  1. How to look for content that’s right for you

Once you’re at Investa University, you can browse through different catalogs to find the topics you’re interested in.

But, if you don’t have a specific topic in mind yet, you can scroll down over and view some of the featured lessons! You’ll see featured videos that were the most popular, the most recently uploaded, and other differentiations that help you find something to watch.

  1. Friday date nights

Technically not a weekend, people still consider Friday nights part of “the weekend” as it’s the start of our weekly mini-vacation from work. Those who are lucky to have a significant other often treat the end of Fridays as a special time they can spend on dates. If ever you’re sick of drinking out, spending a lot of money at restaurants, or just want to stay home and do something together, watching Investa University Premium content together can be something you can put on your list of date ideas!

You both don’t need to be traders to enjoy these videos. There is a wide variety of topics, from trading and investing to businesses! The speakers are really fun to watch and listen to, really making it a fun activity to do. 

  1. Weekend reading substitute

People who want to become better versions of themselves often like to read books. Although it should be a daily habit, the majority tend to do most of their reading on the weekends as it lets them have more time to do so. If you’re not in the mood to read, but still want to learn, you can head on over to our learning platform!

From trading lessons

Personal Finance

Even business lessons and more!

We still recommend everyone to get into the habit of reading, but we also made the Investa University Premium content as learning supplements for everyone who would also like to consume educational content in video format. 

  1. Access to exclusive webinars

Aside from recordings, having access to Investa University Premium content through an InvestaPrime subscription will also let you join in our exclusive live webinars with well-renowned traders from around the world!

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More than just watching their presentations, you can join in as well and ask them your questions during the live event!

Again, we offer free videos that everyone can access. However, subscribing to InvestaPrime will let you gain access to premium learnings from Investa University along with future live events. If you’re looking for a platform to learn more about trading, finance, business, and even personal development, check ​​Investa University out!

Aside from premium Investa University content, having an InvestaPrime subscription lets you gain access to a lot of other powerful tools and educational material that can help you progress no matter your current skill level. 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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How to Manage Risks and Take Profits Like a PRO

What is the hallmark of great traders? Professionals and legendary traders alike don’t win all the time, and neither are they immune to losses. What sets the good traders from the rest are the abilities to know the probabilities of a trade and to skillfully manage risks and rewards. 

Being able to take in the information the market gives and know what scenarios are more likely to happen is a skill that can only be obtained through hard work and experience. You need to put in the productive hours to be able to gauge the markets at a higher level. The same goes for risk management, as you work towards becoming a better trader, you start to learn how to more effectively minimize your losses and maximize your gains. 

We understand that different skill levels have different tools needed when it comes to risk management, which is why we came up with the InvestaCalculator to help traders of all levels. With this tool, you can calculate and manage your risks no matter your current skill level as a trader!

Let’s take a look at how the InvestaCalculator can be used.

  1. The Smart calculator that helps those starting out

As was mentioned, risk management and knowing the probabilities of a trade are skills that are obtained and honed through experience. However, to help newer traders, the InvestaCalculator offers a tool called the Investa Smart Calculator so that newbie traders can have a guide on where they can set their cutloss and target prices. 

For example, if you wanted to trade SCC as a new trader, you would just need to input the stock and the price you want to enter at. The Investa Smart Calculator will determine some cutloss and take profit targets based on the stock’s current trend, volatility, and sentiment. Keep in mind, however, that this should not be taken as financial advice as the values calculated are only based on an algorithm that provides estimates. Furthermore, you would still need to know if it is a good trade to take and if you are entering at a good price. Make sure to only use it as a crutch if you are new to trading and you are still learning how to set exit prices.

  1. Seamlessly manage your risk while charting

For new and veteran traders alike, the InvestaCalculator’s Risk Management Calculator will surely come in handy. Accessible even while you chart, you can use some of our pre-made risk tolerance settings or input your custom amounts to calculate how many shares you need to buy to adhere to your risk management rules. 

On top of being accessible even with your charts up, it’s really easy to use. If you’re newer to trading and have yet to determine your own risk management rules, you can use some of the pre-made risk tolerance settings. If you’re a more seasoned trader, this tool still comes in handy as you can customize the setup and input your risk management protocols. Once everything is set up, just input your portfolio amount and the different prices you want to buy, cutloss, and take profits at to know how many shares you should buy. 

  1. Bottomline calculations

Should you want to know what the end results will be for your transactions, you can also use the InvestaCalculator’s Buy & Sell Calculator to know certain information such as what your break even price will be and how much you will earn or lose should you buy or sell at a different amount from your pre-determined targets. 

If you used the RIsk Management Calculator, this will be easy as you would just click

the “Copy to Buy & Sell Calculator” and you won’t need to input any other information. You can also change the values should you want to know the different results if you were to execute buys and sells at different prices. 

As you can see, using the InvestaCalculator will let you have a more seamless trading experience as you can make the calculations needed to manage your risks on the same page as your charts. With the different tools available, you’ll surely find this useful whether you just started trading or if you’re already a professional!

Aside from the InvestaCalculator, having an InvestaPrime subscription lets you gain access to a lot of other powerful tools and educational material that can help you progress no matter your current skill level. 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: HULYO

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

HULYO has been a member of the Investagrams community since 2020 and has been an active member of our community. Along with being an IT automation engineer, HULYO also actively trades and is very interactive with other traders.

A few days ago, our featured trader posted his thoughts for PSE:SCC. One of the stronger stocks in the local markets recently, SCC mainly operates through the production and sale of coal. 

Amidst the poor market conditions, HULYO still looks for opportunities, and one of the opportunities spotted was PSE:SCC. As PSE:SCC rose from its bottom, it wasn’t safe from market drawdowns as shareholders experienced sell-offs. However, it is still noticeable that the uptrend is still intact, and the stock appears to have formed a continuation pattern. 

TECHNICAL STANDPOINT

In terms of price action, PSE:SCC is in a clear uptrend despite the rough market conditions. Without making anything too complex, higher highs and higher lows are continually being established. It isn’t in the strongest of uptrends as drawdowns from the tops are wide, but the fact that it still is in an upward general direction while others are falling isn’t something to take lightly. As with what HULYO mentions in his post, the recent breakout could signal that it is receiving enough demand to boost it towards higher targets. One of the biggest supply areas that it needs to take out would be around the 40 area, with the next one being its ATH level of 50.

FUNDAMENTAL STANDPOINT

PSE:SCC focuses mainly on coal production. With coal prices rising rapidly in the commodities market due to supply disruptions, PSE:SCC stands to benefit from increased margins as they will be able to sell their inventories at higher prices. Although the shift toward renewable energy has started, coal is expected to remain one of the sources of energy production for the next few years. It is forecasted that coal prices will stay elevated for a foreseeable future. 

What should be my next step?

As we have constantly been mentioning, the current market environment is not suitable for newbie traders. Even though PSE:SCC has been strong thus far, shareholders will still most likely experience a lot of volatility. There will be a lot more opportunities later on not just in this stock, but in others as well. However, should you want to trade PSE:SCC it would be more advisable to wait for retracements and to keep your positions light. Risk management becomes even more essential during bad market conditions like the one we are experiencing now. 

Once again, KUDOS to HULYO 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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How to Turn Back the Clock and Backtest Your Strategies

Whenever we close our trades, we will often think to ourselves – could I have taken more profits? Would there be a way for me to have a better entry? If I did this or that more consistently, would it have been better for my portfolio? 

There will always be things we can improve on, and asking these questions is a good first step. In order to really hone our edge and become traders, we have to take the next step and that is to backtest our system. Whether it be for missed trades or testing different approaches to your past trades, backtesting lets us test changes to our strategies. With the InvestaBacktest, we can simulate going back in time before any moves could have happened. 

Let’s take a look at how we can effectively use the InvestaBacktest to hone our trading systems.

  1. Choose a stock and date to go back to

There are two ways we can look for a stock and time period to test. The first way is to go back to trades we missed and see if our strategy is suited for catching those kinds of plays. 

Here we will just input the stock and the date before the move we missed so that we can simulate what the chart would look like before the move itself. Since we know how things will unfold, we have to be as objective as possible and really stick to the strategy we want to test. 

Another method could be selecting random stocks and picking specific market environments to trade in. Whenever we stress test our strategies, we should always be aware of what is happening to the market index as our strategies should naturally change whenever broad market conditions change. Even if, for example, we have a solid system for breakouts, it will most likely crumble if trades are forced during bear markets. Of course, there is merit in seeing how systems fail in bad environments, but we won’t be able to get any insights if we’re just randomly backtesting in an unknown environment. 

  1. Set the indicators for the strategy to be tested

Once we have the set of data we want to backtest, we then input the indicators that we would be using for the strategy to be tested. No extra fuss whatsoever, it will be exactly as if we went back in time when we see the chart.

  1. Trade as if we don’t know what will happen

When everything is all set and ready to go, we now just have to trade and see how we perform. The execution is simple, we can just click the “NEXT DAY” (shortcut: Q) button to go one candlestick forward, and click the “BUY/SELL” (shortcut: E) button to buy or sell. 

Although it might seem like a small thing, the InvestaBacktest’s feature of not knowing what will exactly happen with the next candle really helps us be more objective. Compare the above picture to the one below.

Again, we might already know what will happen, but being able to not see the exact movements lets us better fight biases, where we would trade more perfectly just because we already know what the next candle looks like

  1. Check how the strategy performs

Lastly, once we have backtested as much as we want, it’s now time to check our results. By clicking the “End Backtest” button, the test will be stopped and our trade history along with some statistics will be shown.

We can see how long our trades lasted, how much we gained per trade, what our total win rate is, and how much our total gain is.

One last thing that you should be wary about when backtesting is that there is such a thing called the optimization bias. Many traders want to have the perfect trading system, so while they build and backtest their system they keep on adding more and more complex rules or indicators to have the perfect entries and exits. Having an incredible system is good, but it is important to know that there is no holy grail in trading. All systems will be subject to losses, and if a system seems too perfect, it will likely have been subjected to lots of optimizations that make it unrealistic to trade with in real-time. The rule of thumb to remember is to keep things as simple as possible.

As you can see, it is really simple to use the InvestaBacktest as we wouldn’t need to know anything about coding as with what other programs use. We would only need an InvestaPrime+ subscription at the least along with our trading system to test. 

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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